mandibles chapter one
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All true. Sad. Beware tik tok videos getting pumped by CCP algorithm to demoralize the West.
But unfortunately we are doing all the heavy lifting on that front…
Inflation? Man, fuck, shit! If only there was a hardcapped currenc- oh wait I just woke up like 5 seconds ago and forgot bitcoin exists for a moment, got me spooked! Forgive my aneurysm
At some point, might be cheaper to subscribe to a 247 sleep programme?
Wasn't there a recent book or movie where a character was saving up for a 247 sleep service?
Amen my brother amen. This is exactly how I feel
My fear is young people may blame Capitalism, even though we should blame Crony Capitalism. Which is what we have today.
They already are.
I like to call it corporatism + socialism for the rich. Feels very far from functional capitalism so I take out the word altogether
Kleptocracy is to blame. It's not only us (unwillingly) having to support dozens of people we'll never meet in real life, it's the government who shamelessly steals from us. We need to become ungovernable.
Managerial socialism, yes
The remnants of capitalism are all that's keeping us afloat
I you want to hit all correct targets, statism is to blame. In the west it's specifically socially democratic regimes that are to blame.
Despite agreeing, that capitalism itself is not at fault here, the term crony capitalism is often thrown in to defend the game (status quo) and blame the player. (whoever managed to use the state to enrich himself on everybody else's expense.)
One very interesting part of these clips, is that they are recording tthem in the Chinese spying app that plays with the algos. how ironic? there is another one of a Canadian lady Crying because even with a job she can’t keep up. https://twitter.com/wallstreetsilv/status/1691437012983689216
They should just pull themselves up by their forgiven PPP loan
half of these ppl are fat and the ‘$100 of food’ bloke is showing 4hrs of work can feed you for days.
living in the west gets easier every decade
Last few decades not so much
wtfhappenedin1971.com
But the real criticism is they're all in cars - USA is adapted to abundance, not real poverty
When people are living in tenements and walking/cycling to work and still can't afford food, then guillotines come out
Delayed gratification is awesome.
These are perhaps the conditions where adoption of a decentralised sound money may grow and thus increase in price
Buckle and stack up! It's gonna get alot worse until it eventually gets better.
Eventually people will have lost everything, and then they will get off their couches and fight back. Too late
The left has been warning about this for the last decade and all we got was “stop buying avocado toast”. Sound money doesn’t fix unequal distribution of opportunity and economic power.
It's not avocado toast. It's Avocado toast, multiple streaming services, taxis, expensive trips, excessive psychoactive substance use (including alcohol), overpriced coffee, fast fashion...
However yes, sound money doesn't fix unequal distribution of opportunities and power. That's because that is not the thing to fix, because that is the natural way of how things are and have to be. (unless you take drastic measures to bring down the better equipped, more motivated etc.)
Sound money is a tool to fix the cleptocrats from stealing from everybody under the hood via inflation (of the monetary supply), to only allow them to steal openly through taxation.
The left had been saying a lot of good and necessary things for decades or even centuries. Economic issues were never any part of that.
The part where you blame millennials for enjoying literally anything: DISAGREE
In fact, inflationary money compels any holder who is lacking in a gross excess of cash (to afford things like stocks and real estate) to SPEND because the money cannot be saved with any real confidence. And when people cannot spend on things that hold value, they will spend on things that make their lives less crushing. It is also the case that inflation has and is stealing the vast majority of productivity gains that should otherwise be being enjoyed be society.
Because of this, many Gen X and Millennials are pushed into situations of working more to receive less, rather than the other way around if productivity gains were distributed properly across society.
Everything else tho: BIG AGREE. We should be seeking an equitable money system (that this results in a far more equitable distribution of money in society) but this will never and should never be and even or “equal” distribution.
I am not saying people shouldn't enjoy anything. I qm saying they shouldn't zhrow away money on ALL of the unnecessary things and then proceed to cry they have no money.
Noone is poor, because they have an avocado toast every now and then. or because they buy a piece of clothing they fancy. Some people just don't seem to be able to figure out. thst expenses add up and that if you spend a little all the time, it adds up to a lot over time. That is what I am saying.
Regarding your second paragraph, I have a major issue with your assumption, that you need a lot of excess liquidity to make it work. You can start trading with $50. Literally anybody including kids can save that much relatively easily. Starting your own business or investing into real estate do require several orders of magnitude more money (not always, but mostly yes, but stocks, indexes, crypto, or forex are all quite cheap to enter and each and every one of them is likely cheaper to enter than a typical millenial in the 1st or 2nd world spend on unneccessary things every single month. By this point, this is likely to applyto gen Z as well.
I’ve heard you recommend this book several times. Just bought the audio book. 🤙
Reminds me of in When Money Dies when everyone consistently talks to each other about how expensive everything is getting week after week and in hindsight you don’t understand how they can’t see that it is the currency not the cost of living
Shout out to the king that said we don’t give a fuck about aliens lmao
This is sadly becoming even more commonplace. My tiny town of 12K people now has 3 food pantries around town that were started by random citizens. These spring up over the past two years. It's getting very hard out there for a lot of people.
The so called third-world has been living this life for generations. What are you even talking about!
Be Willing.
I'd feel more sadness for those in the video if I wasn't living in the UK presently.
£1600 energy bill for 3 months during last winter was the norm. £120 for a full tank of gas. Weekly food bill is out of control. I'm a relatively lucky pleb who found bitcoin in the right year. Most people I know are screwed.
Only item that is cheap is #bitcoin 😬
I feel sad for everyone. I heard the UK energy bills are out of control from alot of people
Everyone dreading a sustained cold winter for sure. So far it's been a wet summer and people are praying for an Indian (late) summer. Currently I'm on the continent for a few months and the bonus of saving thousands on energy make long trips away viable. You can live cheaper just being on holiday which sounds ludicrous but true.
Energy corps posting record profits in the meantime 🖕
To afford a housing cost of $1500/month in America, your income should be over $72000/year if single.
Stated another way, take your annual gross income and divide by 48. The degree to which your rent or mortgage is above that number is going to equate to financial challenges and inability to have luxuries like cars, pets, vacations, new clothes, video subscriptions, game systems etc.
Is a car considered a luxury?
As with all things. .. depends.
Many people (a majority) buy (or worse, lease) vehicles above their income level and needs for the seretonin boost and status portrayal. That aspect is clearly luxury.
But most people also need reliable transportation because the socialist government they live under isnt providing, and/or they live in suburbia where a trip to the store is miles away and not realistically viable for grocery shopping, and other routine aspects of life.
IMHO, reasonable average monthly transportation costs (including insurance, fuel, maintenance) is around gross income / 128. Using the $72000 figure for annual salary, that works out to $562/month. I know some peoples whose insurance alone will exceed that.
Yes, agreed that certain vehicles are a luxury but simply having a car is not.
FWIW, my vehicle (shared between my gf and me) costs less than half of that figure per month.
Most would consider it a luxury vehicle but it’s a 2008, which I bought for $16k, fully paid off, and our sole vehicle for our 2-person household.
I bought this particular vehicle (Lexus GX470) for its reliability, longevity, and off-road capability - and because it was 10-15% cheaper than its equivalent non-luxury model (Toyota 4-Runner) when I was buying.
Hmmm, so westerners are filling what rest of the world is feeling for decades. Welcome to the shitshow. Enjoy.
CCP Algos and CBDC or UBI pushes aside these are hard facts today. I feel people should always push back harder, invest more time and energy, and do their best not to fall into emotional and mental black holes- even though these struggles we all face are so common and widespread. I had a thought during the video where I pictured the people from the early 1900s who survived during the great depression, or the expansion into the west. Those people basically had nothing as well. Yes a Dollar was worth much more, but it was also harder to obtain. There have been people who are now dead and gone, who literally spent their entire life working their hands to the bone- just to leave something for their children to have to give them a better life than they had. Even though I'm technically just like some of these people from the video, I found solace in Bitcoin, and I refuse to cave in. I came from the generation of missing parents (1980's) and there are many of us that never received a proper start in life, and we're now paying those consequences. You can always work SMARTER, and work HARDER. If you're a sincere and valued person, you will have friends to help you through, which is a core reason I love NOSTR so much, because it promotes open and genuine conversation, value for value, and in that social structure you can and will find some of the best friends you will ever make. So stack sats, stay humble, keep it real and keep on pushing.
No thanks to all you people that votefor the cultural Marxist Democrats and liberals. Socialism and Communism make everyone equal . . equally poor. Leftist "equity" means equal poverty. Poverty at levels much worse than poverty under true capitalism, not this crony capitalism that we have today. Crony Capitalism the marriage of government and private business, which is the very definition of fascism.
Republicans are almost as bad. Only thing that will fix this is voting for parties that promote less government, and zero government merger with private businesses, such asv the Libertarian Party. Say no to public private partnerships (PPPs). Those put all the wealth in the hands of business owners, CEO's, and politicians.
The World Economic Forumn is the non-elected globalist organization using PPPs to grab all the wealth and power in the world and focus it into the hands of a few CEOs and politicians.
The real issue is those who knowingly push the agenda do not care about the poorest among us but only themselves.
They feign empathy as a tactic to getting votes and marketing their products.
Red tape keeps out competition and doesn't protect consumers.
The money system is set up to profit the financiers, not promote the common good. (Why does fractional reserve lending exist? For the customer?)
The hospital system, health insurance, regulators, and pharmaceutical companies work together to extract as much money as possible from individuals who don't have the power to protect themselves against them.
And big data help keep the powerful in power in exchange for financial and political favors through censorship and propaganda curation.
Fix the money and mass communication, fix the world.
“When money dies”. Right after everyone in Weimar thought they were getting rich.
Mandibles is a hairy read
I had the same thought when I saw it this morning. Although chapter one is a very long chapter. 😂
if america is killing you, wait until you see what not america is going through... buckle up
I wanna be self sufficient by this time next year. Hopefully before but I'm working on it!
am I missing something, is there a book that's called "Mandibles"
Yes. The Mandibles is a great book.
#bookstr
Genuinely not sure if it's just the echo chamber, but the air is full of insurrectionist sentiment. I think it's why Oliver Anthorny went viral, are people finally starting to wake up? Just opt out already.
Nooo! You on that app now!? Tiktok bad for privacy Matt 😜
slumber time
I would be interesting to see this type of montage from other parts of the world.
thanks for introducing me to the book
Has to be a way to get rhe message across a better way. I agree with the message and things are getting more expensive but we should note that the US is still pretty well off. The people in the videos are filming from their phones, in their cars or apartments, look pretty well fed and dressed but complaining about how they can’t do or buy as much as they used to.
Inflation is real. Fix the money, fix the world.
It's amazing. I have a family of four, and we live far from extravagantly. We have a good deal on rent, but my 65k/yr day job last year was only about 7-9% more than we absolutely needs to survive, and that's while student loans are still on hold.
Absofuckingly right.
This is what slow #DeathbyFiat looks like! 😔😔😔
