@sim
We resist talking about expertise but we have learned all manner of design techniques. We spend a time communicating difficult but important topics like #exponentialGrowth, #populationGrowth and #overconsumption, which can typically be a bit dry and attract poor behaviors from some. So we try to relay info in nuanced ways.

In recent years our focus is on #UBI, #hardCurrency (bitcoin) and #bankerCrimes as we have identified these as integral to solving above.

Why do you ask?

@hj

The price of #oil fluctuates and yet its usable — not politically (due to climate/peakOil) but physically, its usable.

The same applies to CCs (#cryptocurrencies).

The political issue with CCs is they are slowly making the defense about actual defence. Under a #hardCurrency, wars cause real wealth loss, as opposed to just paper, re-printable wealth.

Good news for most — but not for those involved in the #MICIMATT (M.I.Congress.Intel.Media #Academia #ThinkTank) Complex.

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@Br0m3x
Its as if ppl needed an excuse to drop the #uselessJobs.

An out.

They couldn't just tell the boss "this isn't really worth the inputs"? Could this be how we reach sustainability? The problem they think a #moneyPump will solve this but all that does is increase #inequality. Thus likely to have the reverse effect?

Imagine if fiat became the #lifeSupport for the terminally stupid.

There were two parallel #economies, #hardCurrency and the #inflatingMess.

@openrisk@mastodon.green
Without watching it sounds like what Prof. #SteveKeen has been pushing for over a year now? The main problem with them that we see is they require, de-anonomising ppl in terms of when and what they do.

The actual remedy is moving to a #hardCurrency. There should be no way to stoke bubbles in an #economy, because it always leads to great #inequality with some ppl getting more help than others.

Taxing #consumption evenly based on #embeddedEnergy is best, and a #UBI.
@douginamug

@rysiek
Q: What would #MargaretThatcher support today to continue the #neoliberalOrder?

A: An #NFTOwningDemocracy

You know where this ultimately goes if left unchecked, and linked to a CentralBankDigitalCurrency (#CBDC). It means #LandTitles on a blockchain and #cronyists close to the moneyPrinting being able to print themselves into #landOwnership *that can never be challenged by any government*.

Yes, it's very dangerous and we need to ensure NFT never gain #legitimacy above #hardCurrency.

"Look we #printedMoney just for you. Now, give us those #landRegistries!!"

Add this to the list of reasons why we despise the #debtBasedPonzi, aka #fiatCurrency, and #centralBanks.

#whyBitcoin #hardCurrency #hardMoralFibre

@strypey
But over the last 100 years of (effective) #moneyprinting for the well-connected, the #MICIMAT have funded forever wars.

Would you trust the MICIMAT to print money for wars? That's really the zero sum of it. Govt need to be #limited so they #serve, and lead with #morals and #fairTrade, not #might.

In a #hardCurrency world, govts can't just print cash. Only the #warhawks will fund the wars. Thus they will lose support from #mercentilists (who are the vast majority).

@abeorch

@alcinnz @bob @Shufei
This is why we say the system is so far gone that the only way we see to bring things back is by using #hardCurrency (#gold and #bitcoin, the latter is easier and more liquid, #transportable, etc).

Yes, at the start of the bitcoin game some oligarchs might have a lot of it, but over time they have no choice but to spend it and thus their power will dilute. We think their power will dilute quickly.

Then #quality and #justice can succeed.

It won't be easy, just better.

@abeorch
The button appeared. Perhaps we had to reset #Fedilab.

#CarbonTax is okay. #CarbonTradingScheme etc.

To avoid #financialisation though. These instruments should be implemented over a #hardCurrency layer - not #fiatCurrency.
@strypey

@abeorch @strypey
There is literally nothing "modern" about #ModernMonetaryTheory.

Its also an #environmentalDisaster.

#Bankers have been doing MMT since they could print-money, that power was centralised circa 1913 and the effects are self-evident in the explosion of extreme #consumption, #wars (where both sides were oft' funded by the same banker), and the increasing inequality, especially since 1971 (when all links to a #hardCurrency were severed).

This is why we support #bitcoin/#landTax.