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by risk000 5y ago
What if we don't want to be told by you where we can and can't have a discussion?
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by risk000 5y ago
Anti-vaxxer is a pejorative word, it lumps people together in ways that aren't fair. Many were just skeptical and wanted to discuss and debate the evidence, and that was ridiculed, as evident everywhere in this thread.
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by risk000 5y ago
I think you're kicking the can of personal responsibility down, or in this case up, the road. There are groupmind tendencies and competing groupthinks, as well as industrial corruption, in all of our scientific enterprises that I'
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by risk000 5y ago
Using the most extreme possible examples to justify a policy.
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by risk000 5y ago
Yeah, 30-40% of the population needs psychologists and propagandists to evaluate or re-educate them. I think this viewpoint you're espousing might be part of the problem.
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by risk000 5y ago
This is retold in musical form in quite a lovely way by Hedwig and the Angry Inch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJUNH-Fs4EA
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by risk000 5y ago
>The fundamental failure of this logic of trying to go somewhere and built a new city to escape the policy failures of the old city, is that those conflicts are intrinsic problems of large scale human organization. If you bring people, y
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by risk000 5y ago
Governments are not households. Using this metaphor only causes more misunderstandings.
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by risk000 5y ago
There are better and deeper ways of understanding money. You think fiscally sovereign nations need to borrow their own currency, and that isn't correct. You think government spending necessarily precipitates a currency crisis, and this
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by risk000 5y ago
This is beautifully put and very true!
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by risk000 5y ago
A lot of this boils down to emotions, which are not being fully processed in your system. When you recognize a strong feeling within yourself, you can work with it to find a balance in the following way. Find the 'negative' emotio
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by risk000 5y ago
>If $20k was just given to everyone, it’d have a massive inflationary effect. Forgive me if I ask - on what basis do you know this? The quantity theory of money and the theory of Ricardian equivalence are most likely wrong[0]. What else
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by risk000 5y ago
This may be true, but I'd take a slap in the face if it meant another person had a place to sleep at night. I can deal with slaps in the face. It's mostly an emotional feeling of being wronged. That's different than homelessn
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by risk000 5y ago
Money doesn't come from taxes and debt. It is created de novo within a computer system. It is conceptualized, according to intellectual paradigms, as originating as a 'debt' and being "paid back" by taxes. But this
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by risk000 5y ago
Publicly created money does not come from taxes. It's generated de novo within a computer system. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AyT9zftNrE
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by risk000 5y ago
They're not being 'rewarded'. They're being saved.
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by risk000 5y ago
In this case we're pitting this theoretical family's feeling of being wronged, against the actual needs for shelter and economic solvency of another block of the population.
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by risk000 5y ago
This is one of the reasons why the brilliant and unconventional economics professor Steve Keen recommends a debt jubilee for all citizens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBbXwQTvl_g It circumvents the moral hazard you ment
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by risk000 5y ago
You make a really beautiful point here, thanks for that.
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by risk000 5y ago
>The real loser here is the future of the US dollar. This presumes that the quantity theory of money (and/or the theory of Ricardian equivalence) is correct, which it most likely is not[0]. Money printing does not cause hyper-inflat
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by risk000 5y ago
How are the most responsible people being hurt by this though? They continue to live in the same world they did prior to the rent being paid for the others. It's simply, in my view, that someone else received an advantage and they did
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by risk000 5y ago
Dear Tech Blog Writer I hope that your career flourishes and you write many attention grabbing pieces which predict, Cassandra-like, the future of our beloved industry. But whenever that future arrives, I will be there, slinging Python code
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by risk000 5y ago
The liminal nature of the phenomenon is the calling card of a higher intelligence, seeking to fulfill/manifest it's understanding of metaphysical principles. The primary metaphysical principle which, in my understanding, is seekin
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by risk000 5y ago
People who want to tell the old Austrian story about money will always find supporting evidence to do this. If you are seeking to view everything as a nascent currency crisis, because thats the only economic narrative that appeals, then the
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by risk000 5y ago
You are referring to a very specific asset market in which essentially millions of people participate in legal, open, price-fixing conspiracies. There are potentially whole armies of people whose job is to keep those prices high, and to rai
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by risk000 5y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/mmt_economics/comments/mi2jl0/thoug...
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by risk000 5y ago
>A major boom takes more than just stimulus from the government, otherwise, they'd just constantly be printing money. I disagree. Massive, massive investment in beneficial projects is what causes booms. The last great booms we saw i
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by risk000 5y ago
Money printing is not a helpful term. We need publicly created money because all money is ultimately publicly created - all the money any of us earns was created by the US government. "Printing money with impunity" is a loaded phr
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by risk000 6y ago
I like the optimism in your comment. I'm glad that we can appreciate things like this, the flexing of mental muscles in pursuit of a productive task.
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by risk000 6y ago
Andrew Basiago claims to have time-travelled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr_qHl9dWRU Pretty amazing, if its true.

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