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I'm 'not' for people not going to jail because they smoke weed, and 'for' people going to jail for tax evasion. The kind of straw manning that reveals itself h

I'm 'not' for people not going to jail because they smoke weed, and 'for' people going to jail for tax evasion. The kind of straw manning that reveals itself here due to the complete lack of civic thinking in some circles is really disturbing. There is no necessity for mass energy usage for crypto, there are any number of ways to distribute new units of currency. Again the use of the term 'necessary' here is a hint at the false understanding of currency through the lens of a particular form of crypto. Crytpo, at least today, is a dystopia. Go and live for a few weeks in a country with weak civic institutions and see for yourself. This joke is less and less funny as time goes on, the experiment, in it's current form, has run it's course, it's long since over.

reedjosh 5y ago
> the complete lack of civic thinking in some circles is really disturbing. I used to love the idea of the government fixing societies' woes. Unfortunately in my lifetime I've seen several business cycles wherein the rich get bailouts and the rest of us lose our shirts. My country has entered wars I didn't then, and don't now support. I've seen 3 letter agencies topple foreign governments, and I'm watching China leverage its social credit system and implementing CBDCs. I've seen the infrastructure in my country become dilapidated and homelessness skyrocket. I voted for 'change' and got none. I am civic minded, and to me the government is starting to look like the problem. As such, I support any peaceful alternative. There is no such thing as consent of the governed, and I plan continue believing what I see with my lying eyes.
- imtringued 5y ago
  >I used to love the idea of the government fixing societies' woes. Tax the damn land and do negative interest rates on cash and use the negative interest to pay for the deposit insurance. That's it. Bonus: Get rid of other regressive taxes. Lower income tax, corporate income tax, capital gains tax, sales tax, VAT and so on. Rather than redistributing incomes redistribute jobs. In a world where economic rents are eliminated, income = spending is true on an individual and country level and jobs are fairly allocated there is no need for charity and welfare. It would be one small step closer to utopia yet it will not happen because nobody will recognize it as a "free market" that is supposedly the be and end all of economics even though it would be free-er than anything the capitalists will come up with. Yes, here is the homework: If the solution is so simple how come there are so many people wanting to keep the system unfair and rigged? Here is my answer: It's because the rich need to trick people into believing that the source of inequality is fair and morally justifiable. After all, if inequality has no place in a moral framework then any source of inequality would be tackled immediately. https://youtu.be/Qe4x2Fv9to4 https://youtu.be/Qe4x2Fv9to4

reedjosh 5y ago

> the complete lack of civic thinking in some circles is really disturbing. I used to love the idea of the government fixing societies' woes. Unfortunately in my lifetime I've seen several business cycles wherein the rich get bailouts and the rest of us lose our shirts. My country has entered wars I didn't then, and don't now support. I've seen 3 letter agencies topple foreign governments, and I'm watching China leverage its social credit system and implementing CBDCs. I've seen the infrastructure in my country become dilapidated and homelessness skyrocket. I voted for 'change' and got none. I am civic minded, and to me the government is starting to look like the problem. As such, I support any peaceful alternative. There is no such thing as consent of the governed, and I plan continue believing what I see with my lying eyes.

imtringued 5y ago
>I used to love the idea of the government fixing societies' woes. Tax the damn land and do negative interest rates on cash and use the negative interest to pay for the deposit insurance. That's it. Bonus: Get rid of other regressive taxes. Lower income tax, corporate income tax, capital gains tax, sales tax, VAT and so on. Rather than redistributing incomes redistribute jobs. In a world where economic rents are eliminated, income = spending is true on an individual and country level and jobs are fairly allocated there is no need for charity and welfare. It would be one small step closer to utopia yet it will not happen because nobody will recognize it as a "free market" that is supposedly the be and end all of economics even though it would be free-er than anything the capitalists will come up with. Yes, here is the homework: If the solution is so simple how come there are so many people wanting to keep the system unfair and rigged? Here is my answer: It's because the rich need to trick people into believing that the source of inequality is fair and morally justifiable. After all, if inequality has no place in a moral framework then any source of inequality would be tackled immediately. https://youtu.be/Qe4x2Fv9to4 https://youtu.be/Qe4x2Fv9to4