It’s not really abstract, it’s pretty close to how advanced economies already work in practice. Fiat currency is the proxy by which goods and services are valued and exchanged. It is the underlying goods and services themselves which actually have intrinsic value, and printing money doesn’t actually change that. Deficits are inflationary and surpluses are deflationary. Growth is deflationary and recessions are inflationary. Governments in these economies will always run deficits because you can’t have both growth and a surplus at the same time. At the end of the day macroeconomics isn’t balancing a spreadsheet as much as it is about balancing the money supply and economic activity.

This is also why something resembling capitalism is pretty much inevitable in an advanced economy where scarcity is a factor governing economic behavior. If you are using a fiat proxy to mediate economic inputs and outputs, you will end up with market forces. Pretending you can centrally plan around that is naive, which is why harm reduction is the right strategy.

I’m starting to think this person isn’t just trolling…

The conspiracy theory that Russia is the belligerent in a war against Europe and is actively engaged in cyber espionage?

God could end this any time she wants in a thousand different ways.

This broke just from me looking at it.

Nah man there are certain things you don’t fuck with. For all we know they did give him a talking to and his response to that is what got him fired.

What you have described is form of anti vax conspiracy. The “vaccine schedule” nonsense is one of the ways they pull people like you into the fold. You are literally demonstrating how this process works and why it is so dangerous.

I will say it again. Children are not property. Using them as a way to manifest insane medical conspiracies is not a protected right. Every child should be vaccinated.

It should be 100% illegal to deny children basic healthcare like vaccines without medical necessity. I can’t believe I have to type that out, but here we are, I guess.

Fuck that children are not property

He’s right though. I get shot, mugged and raped at least three times per week in DC. And I’m not even from Florida.

That’s the insidious part of all this - the government will set up captive portals which require you to verify yourself to get outside the federal network. It will start with porn, then it will be VPNs, and so on. This is just a very convenient excuse to establish the infrastructure and process framework which will eventually be used to kill the open internet by a million cuts.

Hey, you forgot being the world’s slowest payment processor

And you think the solution to that is to force me to use a government porn tracking service?

How about you be responsible for your kids, and I’ll be responsible for mine. I do not care what your kids do on the internet.

Does anyone else feel like dyed clothing is a complete waste of money?

Does anyone else feel like adding salt to food is a complete waste of money?

Oi mate! Wankin loicense! Give it here. Noi!

That’s just the multipolar world kicking in

This is a headline

That’s not what they ruled at all. They said there was immunity for official acts, specifically citing constitutional powers like appointing judges, commanding the military and recognizing foreign states. That was honestly never in question. A lot of people are reading this wrong. This was a massive punt, which basically opens up the door for a jury to decide what constitutes an official act.

I demand that Biden solve the climate crisis by personally eating ten babies every day.