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This is unrelated, but they mention The Great Financial Crisis which made me remember the Recession of my youth. It devastated my family. My father was in cons
by erikpukinskis 8y ago
This is unrelated, but they mention The Great Financial Crisis which made me remember the Recession of my youth.
It devastated my family. My father was in construction. That market seriously ebbs.
I remember a faint feeling I had back then: resentment towards families who happened to be in industries that weren’t hit.
Not because I thought it was unfair that we were hit, I just resented that they didn’t even have to notice what was happening.
And I just had to check myself about this Great Financials Crisis. Lucky timing, I have been pretty employable the last 20 years. The “crisis” was always a political skirmish to me. I cared about it, but it seemed small compared to past crises.
Just now it occurred to me though, that whatever millions of people are going through exactly what I did, their families collapsing.
And I’m the one can not notice that.
I’d like to securitize those families.
- plankers 8y agoFamilICO -- pegged to the net worth of the world's poor. Not sure I'd buy that coin.
- erikpukinskis 8y agoIf BLM and the feminists are right, the coin is undervalued. What is the probability that they are right?
- ben_w 8y agoAs Google can’t find it, I’d say NaN percent. Even if the coin did exist economists do actually know how poor the poor are, and so would include racist and sexist pay policies in the coin price (assuming cryptocurrencies can even be tied like that); and even if they didn’t know that neither BLM nor feminists are claiming their pay turned out to be Monopoly money or chocolate coins. BLM started as a result of black people being treated like their lives didn’t matter, hence the name, not their poverty not mattering.
- sgt101 8y agoFeminist here. I have a plan : we will make money by paying a significant percentage of western government officials in the new "poor coin".
- Xuper 8y agoInteresting thing is feminism is also winning skirmishes but loosing the metagame. Unless having less children but with more disorders born in fractured families is the goal. Something to ponder.
- dEnigma 8y agoI'm not sure I understand. How is feminism leading to children with more disorders and fractured families?
- InitialLastName 8y agoIt's the classic "family values" propagandist's argument. As soon as you acknowledge that women aren't property, it's a slippery slope to children born late out of wedlock.
- DFHippie 8y agoI think you're mixing disparate phenomena to make a political point. There are places where feminism had a strong impact on culture. There are fractured families. There are families with fewer children (whether this is a good or a bad thing is debatable and a matter of perspective and opinion). But the places where the effect of feminism on the equality of opportunity, power, and so forth are most strongly expressed tend to be the ones with smaller, more stable families. Two of your phenomena anti-correlate. As for the prevalence of disorders, that's a pretty big bag, diagnostic criteria change, and diagnosis itself is iffy. I doubt anyone can make a very strong claim.
- 80386 8y ago> But the places where the effect of feminism on the equality of opportunity, power, and so forth are most strongly expressed tend to be the ones with smaller, more stable families. Yes, that's what winning skirmishes and losing the metagame looks like. If a meme's host population has a low fertility rate, it'll need to be very strong in recruiting. How strong is this particular meme in recruiting, and what's the delta?
- w_t_payne 8y agoBut I would make options on that coin a mandatory part of the compensation package of leaders in both the public and private sector. It is all about finding the right sort of incentive. :-)
- antishatter 8y agoOptions are the right to buy not the mandate to buy. Thus the name "option". I don't know that I follow your point?
- virgilp 8y agoIf they aren't exercised, part of the compensation is nullified
- pjmorris 8y agoReminds me of what I've heard called a Czech fable: A poor farmer whose livestock is a single dairy cow goes to the field one morning to milk the cow and discovers that she's dead. He falls to his knees and looks skyward, shaking his fists and cursing God for his misfortune. Suddenly a voice is heard from the heavens: "Your cries have reached me, my son. Tell me what you would like me to do." The farmer gazes upward and says to God, "Please, Lord, kill my neighbor's cow."
- Noumenon72 8y agoIt actually is unfair. The Fed's means of control over the economy is interest rates. This affects construction more than most other industries. So construction workers get thrown out of work so the rest of us can have a smooth ride.
- pjmorris 8y agoI'm intrigued by your phrase 'securitize those families.' What do you have in mind?