And obamacare/ACA is still here. Trump didn’t get rid of it. Nobody is going to get rid of it just like nobody is gonna get rid of the migrant workers. It’s all hot air and always has been.
Joe Lieberman stopped the single payer option which would of made Obamacare universal healthcare instead of the health insurance company handout clusterfuck it is.
No, we don’t have universal healthcare because of JOE FUCKING LIEBERMAN.
Who was a democrat. And a convenient SPOILER. There’s always a democrat spoiler when legislation goes even the slightest bit left.
Learn your history and learn why America is fucking fed up with the democrats and their bullshit. Too many broken empty promises. They can blame republicans all they want, and the uneducated who don’t know any better drink it up hook line and sinker. It was JOE FUCKING LIEBERMAN THE SPOILER.
My roommate in college was deathly allergic to bananas, our first conversation was her telling me that absolutely no circumstances could there be bananas in the room. Apparently even the off gassing of a ripening banana will send her into anaphylactic shock.
You have a child like understanding of economics if you think the current way of doing things is working and somehow won’t lead to an economic crash. We already had an economic crash not long ago. And we’re about to go into another.
Hi 2008 called and wants it’s fiat money back. Guess you weren’t alive for that market crash?
You’re clearly a child or young adult who didn’t live through that as an adult or you’d know how easy it is to manipulate an economy and crash it so the 1% of the 1% can consolidate even more power. I see based on your defense of truly pointless jobs that you’re a worker of the laptop class, I’m sure your marketing or business degree is really important to making the world work. Not.
The limitations are innate because there’s finite resources on a finite planet. If we’re able to come up with infinite renewable resources then we can get the luxury gay space communism we all want.
The way (some) crypto works is by making even more complex mathematical calculations that require more and more computing power. Limit the computing power by limiting resources (finite planet, remember?) and there’s your regulation.
Of course, this isn’t a perfect world, and tech companies will do anything in their power to get a leg up on their competitors and will go through all the energy on this earth to make a quick buck (looks at the AI companies)
The limitations would be innate. Especially if it were tied to renewable resources, there’s a finite amount of resources on the planet even with renewables which can’t be 100% renewable by default.
People work because they have an innate drive to do so. Look at firefighters and search and rescue for example. Most are volunteer (at least where I am) and they run into burning buildings to rescue people for no money. Or they’re hiking into remote wilderness in awful conditions (deep snow, -20F outside, high winds, miles from civilization, huge cliffs to fall off of and die) to rescue lost skiers and hikers. Hell there’s plenty of rich people who could retire yesterday and live their lives out drinking Mai tais on the beach without a care in the world and yet for some reason they still show up to work, because they want to.
I doubt people would be doing stupid pointless jobs pushing papers around in circles if they weren’t financially manipulated to do so.
You’re talking to an anarchist, so anarchy isn’t a problem to me. I want less control by government not more. More control = more opportunity for corruption. More centralized = more government power. More decentralized = more power to the people.
To me the problem with crypto is that it’s really easy for people who currently have power to consolidate their power even further by buying vast amounts of crypto in hopes that crypto will take over fiat money worldwide.
I don’t have a solution for stopping bad actors, and that is one of many reasons why I’m not a crypto bro.
But in a perfect world it would make a great abstraction of trading on computing power. And unlike the petrodollar it could be backed by only renewable resources and climate friendly. But again, perfect world.
I wanna preface what I’m about to say by saying I’m not a crypto bro. At any given time I’ve owned less than $500 in crypto, and currently I own none.
But this makes a great argument for crypto, or at least the idea of some forms of it.
Up until the past few decades oil ran the world because you couldn’t make or ship products without it. Oil touches almost everything, from fertilizer to farm tractors to shipping produce across a country, let alone all the gizmos and gadgets that eventually end up in a trash heap.
For the past few decades that’s being surpassed by tech and electricity. Tech runs the world now, and it needs electricity to function. (Hence all the geopolitical posturing around Taiwan, as TSMC is located there and they’re the only ones making computer chips to that level). Oil is still important, and we are a long way from getting rid of its importance, but it is being overtaken by computing power and electrical output.
Crypto is to computing and electrical output what the USD is to oil. Crypto requires vast computing and electric resources to make it secure and to me crypto backed money is an abstraction of the change we’re seeing in society as electrical output’s importance is starting to surpass oil output.
As a snowboarder I always thought it was …peculiar… that our modern monetary system was agreed upon behind closed doors at a remote ski area.
Ski areas have some of the shadiest people at them, I swear. The amount of money laundering going on by the wealthy in supporting their pet causes and “investing” in property is mind blowing.
The US is going to collapse because of the poly crisis. So is the rest of the world. Climate change, late stage capitalism, authoritarian right wing governments getting elected worldwide. Having real skills will soon becoming in handy.
You need to be in vermont to understand how feasible these places are. The work required for any deals is usually major and getting the labor to do it is a long waiting list.
There had to be some kind of intel for the shooter to find the guy. If it was this easy to hunt CEOs there’d be a lot more people bagging them.
I vote for open season on health insurance CEOs. Seems like an efficient crowd sourced way to drain the swamp.