It’s a fucking problem

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It's funny, I double majored in Poli-sci and English and I just started to enjoy reading again. It only took 11 years.

Stay humble. Stack sats. Starve the State.

We're watching the creation of programmable people through programmable money and Bürgergeld is just a test run. Give people free money, make them fully dependant on the state, introduce CBDC... tell them to go work at X,Y,Z or their free money will expire after the weekend.

The median income in Spain (2021 PPP intl $) is $11,800, while in Germany it's $16,900. That's a massive difference that, I assure you, does not make up for the hypothetical difference in cost of living.

We can't really say that the EU has failed in smoothing out the income differences between regions because in reality it was never designed to do that.

Yes, the bureaucracy pays lip service to that, but the actual institutional structure is not design to do that, but to subsidize corrupt politicians and their cronies in the South (and for the last couple of decades, the East), in exchange for a free market and cheap labor for German industrial exporters and of course, the German central bank (currently called "European Central Bank").

The useless, largely unsupervised subsidies are grossly and corruptly misused to capture votes and create crony networks while propping up inefficient, detrimental zombie sectors, keeping the recipient countries undeveloped and increasingly deindustrialized.

The main culprit historically speaking was France, of course, who sought to repeat another Treaty of Versailles of sorts making the Germans pay for its completely bloated agricultural and industrial sectors for decades. Then Germany wised up and decided to improve the deal getting cheap labor and large markets with the successive enlargements. Can't blame them at all for doing it.

The only way it could have ever worked out would have been without all those billions and billions of subsidies, letting every country compete and get better. But it was never about it.

I'm into precious metals - mostly 5.56mm, 9mm and .40.

Ironically, all have outperformed the actual price of gold and they have actual utility if shit hits the fan.

That’s correct.

I just don’t understand why everyone piles on people who say that we should do UBI. Most regular people are trapped under a mountain of debt and stuck in a debasing currency where the banks get bailouts, the military gets blank checks, and they barely get food stamps.

I know UBI is horrible economically, but I like it in the interest of fairness and with the goal of accelerating the transition to a system of sound money. And at least in theory, it would accomplish both.

But if you’re against all deficit spending and want to be against UBI too, that’s 100% valid. Just understand that centralized, corrupt spending of money usually funds wars, surveillance, and propaganda, while individual people usually purchase food, housing, and energy.

The other day I let my guard down while changing the Toddler Vader’s diaper.

I thought to myself “Why tf are we always in such a hurry to get another diaper on? I’m gonna let him roam free for a minute.”

Not 21 seconds later little dude helicopter sprayed the nursery.

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Me, highly strung?

Ummm I don’t think so 🤔

Do we really want to debate this here?

I much prefer to do this in person at some point in time.

Do you think the weight the horse can carry is the same for an ostrich?

I’m certainly not saying that he/she isn’t cared for all I am saying is that ostrich’s are not meant to be ridden - period.

As an animal activist I can assure you that to do this type of thing whether it’s a child or not riding it it is animal abuse. Ostrich’s are not horses.