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by reedjosh 5y ago
Taxes are practically irrelevant in the US. The gov just goes to the Fed and and increases it's balance. The real issue is that those in power don't actually want to lift up those that are struggling. I'm not saying there are
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by reedjosh 5y ago
For detractors... Social Security in the US is one example. It literally depends on having a larger input base than the output. The expectation of GDP growth is another, but without population growth, it's unlikely to be realized perpe
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by reedjosh 5y ago
At the very least, ditch ad funded media. When you're not the product, you'll get more truth.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> Australian government bailed out the economy as a whole through economic stimulus in 2008 and prevented the spread of the GFC to here How was this bailout done? In the US, the bailout was done primarily by giving funds to over leverage
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I think this misses the nuance that makes BTC so great. BTC has a limited supply. It's designed to hold value. Zimbabwe's currency was used to print it's way out of debts. With BTC you don't have to worry about someone s
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> Bitcoin's average annual inflation over the past 5 years is around 3,000%. I think you meant deflation? If you held Zimbabwe's currency then you became poor. If you held BTC over the past 5 years you became rich. These are tw
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Jailing people would generate backlash far quicker than transaction blocking and fund holding. As a tool of control it can't be used as liberally, so I'd still argue crypto is a net benefit here. I'm not saying privacy isn&#x
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Even if someone could _see_ the transaction and identify the user behind the wallets, at least a crypto still prevents fund holding and transaction blocking.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
But if it were just crypto, nobody would be able to hold your funds. I don't think transferring the power to an even more inscrutable bureaucracy makes this problem any better. Most people already acknowledge that the little guy doesn&
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Arrr or Pirate is Zcash, but with always on privacy BTW. I like it a lot, but it's relatively new. Also, the ZKSnark method that provides the privacy requires that the devs threw away their initial PKs. If you trust they did, then it&#
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Yes, I did read those. My point is basically that there's still emerging science, and seeing as I don't trust the government, medical industry (which stands to profit greatly), the media (which have pushed the vaccine like crazy),
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Regarding (1)... I would feel better, but I would still not get the vaccine having had COVID myself, and I would still be completely against any form of restriction of those without the vaccine. I believe my views will be contrarian as long
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> I assume you stop at red lights This paints me in a somewhat negative light--in the spirit of honesty--prior to flashing left turn signals, I often didn't. Well, I probably stopped and looked both ways, but I didn't necessar
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by reedjosh 5y ago
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/emerge... Sure, fair as well. It's under emergency use authorization--not technically experimental. Experimental may be strong, but it at least somewhat a
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> the brazen nature of you tribalism What tribe am I in? Am I republican? Christian? Anti-science? Anti-vax? I'm actually neither of those. What tribalism are you assuming of me? Could it be that I just have some contrarian viewpoin
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> Try to be more compassionate of others and assume better intent. Again, that's a fair point and I will do so, but that's completely missing how people on my side of things are being driven to this. I can't say something
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by reedjosh 5y ago
> not everyone who thinks vaccinating right now is a good idea is "pro government control". Absolutely, but on a Venn diagram, it's a very large crossover. > what wouldn't be virtue signaling in your mind? Just not
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Fair. I guess when your world view is so different from the norm, and your opinions are actively censored by powerful companies https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/may/29/facebook-whis... It's e
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Yeah, maybe an upper-middler, but not an elite.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
It's boastful among those on the pro government control side of things (so most of HN according to the downvotes). It's signaling your virtue. It's saying aren't I a good citizen for listening to the _science_. Isn'
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I'll admit we're nearer to elite than most, but billionaires and politicians would privately mock this statement. I think we should all acknowledged there's well to do peasants (us), and then there's true elites. There a
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Because many people read it as the following sarcastic virtue signal. "I was such an obedient shut in, and now that it's okay with the government and there's an experimental vaccine in me, I'm going back out."
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I don't understand how resilience could be grouped under compassion. Resilience it's about an individual's ability to get back up. Compassion is typically about understanding between two people.
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I think this is the case. Otherwise, you could just input your zip and see quotes. Also, if this were hurting prices overall, then I should be able to routinely just click on `Other Sellers` and find price+shipping to be less than prime. Us
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Is this not terrifying?
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I like CGP Grey on this issue. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo I completely agree as far as voting methods are concerned and do think it would be a better system, but I still don't like giving a group of pe
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by reedjosh 5y ago
And what of the wars?
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by reedjosh 5y ago
UN, WHO, WEF, WTO, and more... Where will you shop to as these unelected organizations gradually ascend?
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by reedjosh 5y ago
I do not believe this true. War over the past 20 years has been overwhelmingly unpopular. Have we in the US been able to stop that? What then also of the minority that lives under these laws? I never once consented to them, and yet must sub
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by reedjosh 5y ago
Non-aggression and property rights are the only laws that truly matter. Natural rights stem from these principals. > women's suffrage If a government doesn't have a monopoly of force, nobody needs to vote or even acknowledge th

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