Hey friends!

My name is max. I am a photographer. I love the ocean, the mountains, freedom, and capturing the abundant beauty of this life.

I had an account here a few months back and lost my key, so here is my second attempt. You guys were so welcoming the first time around, here’s to my second try here on nostr!

Here is a random assortment of surf photography for my first post back!

Good morning

Stay sovereign

God speed

Dude, that's Shaggy.

Left-Right statists will continue to perpetually vacillate between the State being their savior to the State being an enemy of the people – depending on who is in power – and they won't learn a thing. Have a good evening 😘✌️

This has been a fun day for so many reasons

These are such great spots! Zapped you 105k sats for these 5 signs 🫡

THIS 🫡

Well i just can’t stand Pomp’s scamming. He was the unofficial cheerleader of the last greed cycle collapse for me. FTX, Luna, Celsius, Blockfi which he was involved in and shouted get on board,to the moon and then it all went to shit

Are you saying there is some cost of government employees and contractors that’s not accounted for in the government budget? There are parts of the US government that make revenue from state owned businesses like Amtrak, the Tennessee Valley, and the Alaska oil field licensing. Others that could operate at a profit but choose to run a loss in order to subsidize parts of the economy like the national forest service which makes paper and lumber cheaper for housing and industry.

My point is that the government budget + debt sold pretty much does account for the fully encumbered cost of employees and materials. Some governments occupy about 15% of the economy, some do 50%. The US government spending is on the lower end of wealthy countries.

Does the US government spend its money well? Doesn’t seem like it, $900 billion a year on the military is just under half of all money spend on militaries by all governments. And the US is particularly bad at government contracting for infrastructure, spending much more than Asian and European countries for the same work. I just don’t see any politician wanting to reform that because the money goes to contractors who then fund the elections of those politicians.