The concept of a patent has mutated from one of compensation for the time and energy it took a man to create a thing, to the development of a legal monopoly that will enrich the owner for as long as possible.

Do you take Bitcoin and accept anon reservations on Nostr?

I find it frustrating to have finished my coffee already, and then to open Nostr where I see a bunch of beautiful coffee photos.

This sounds like part of Nietzche’s message in Beyond Good and Evil. He believed that perspectives really stem from unconscious desires, and that philosophers…or anybody…create systems that answer to their unconscious needs, and then invent reasons after the fact which justify the “truth” they think they have discovered. People don’t discover truth; they invent new interpretations of if. Truth claims should be seen for what they are…perspectives that have been justified.

Who wants to make a video with me featuring Robin-da-hood, an agent of the finance/real-estate/insurance/government consortium who comes up with creative ways to shift value away from the poor, and to keep them forever in a state of fear, poverty, and anxiety?

I’d much rather discuss ideas than have them packaged for me as permissible or disallowed ideologies. To dismiss any idea as “socialist” because you’re told that it should be packaged thus, or “capitalist” because you are told that it must be packaged thus, not only removes you from any meaningful discourse, but enslaves you to the rhetorical tricks of the powerful classes that benefit from your complicity.

Because I’d rather pay FedEx 10x to deliver a letter that the Post Office will deliver for 52c. Post Office problems exist because competing industries lobby to eviscerate it. Privatization doesn’t improve efficiency unless the 30% profit margin that they extract is used to lobby against public services that our government is supposed to provide. This is the basis for financial capitalism…convince the people that everything related to government is “bad,” and that shifting profit into the hands of corporations is somehow better for the people. Because no corporation ever exploited their social responsibility.

Are you capable of serving the interests of the finance/real estate/insurance sectors, while efficiently shifting resources from third-world countries back to the pockets of US corporations in exchange for the export of inflation?

Sounds like a worthy president 👍

Steal from the poor and give to the rich. Robin-da-hood

#regressive sales tax

This is a good comment. The reason I am bullish on BRICS is because the rest of the world is acutely aware of the abuses they have received from the US over the last 70 years. When polled about which countries were perceived as the greatest threats to world peace and stability, the rest of the world overwhelmingly chose the United States. A distant second and third were Pakistan and Israel. Our country routinely votes as an island in UN affairs and wields veto power over any issue deemed unsatisfactory to our corporations. Foreign governments know very well that the US uses its reserve currency status to export inflation to countries that have no choice but to borrow in dollars or have their purchasing power diminished when purchasing food and fuel from abroad. Countries know who the bully is, and their unity is the answer.

A debt receipt is only if value to a man who can make sure that it may be reframed.

The dollar is as real as any IOU. But that IOU is signed by somebody that you don’t know, by somebody who can dilute the value of that IOU at their leisure, and by somebody who can take that IOU back from you in several ways.

BRICS countries have twice the population as dollar-obligate countries. Once they establish their currency based on proportional contributions of each member’s currencies, and are able to make loans denominated in that currency, then debt denominated in dollars will lose all that luster that you find alluring. We’re already well down the road toward that point where treasury notes held by foreign entireties will be dumped, and the corporate debt accounting for the 40% of the value of the S+P owned by foreign governments and business will be sold off. The fact that “everybody uses the dollar” is an observation, not an appreciation of the the world’s trajectory.

Inflation resulting from the “printing” of 2 trillion over the last three years is a drop in the bucket compared to the potential inflation that may result from the devaluation of the 45 trillion dollar bond market.

Anonymity of one’s message is self-sacrifice. Satoshi died on a cross for us by sacrificing fame and wealth for the betterment of mankind.

Many who find fault with the financial system have a habit of quoting and promoting ideas put forth by its greatest advocates and defenders. Bankers, billionaires, and fund managers are not disparaging government policies because they love you. They disparage regulation because it impedes their ability to shift value from the masses into their own pockets. Let’s quote people who have something to say.

Technology breeds order, efficiency, and improvement. Not growth. The drive for growth is a remnant of inflationary currency, and of the myths pushed by men who have learned how to use growth to take what you have already produced.

If you only ever read one book, there is little chance that it will turn out to have been the right book.

Well somebody has to pay for all those systems and servers that collect and store your information. It’s not like they can just print the money…

"From the laws of thermodynamics there can be no escape, for they rule the whole of our universe and we know of no other. In such a context it is all too easy to accept as inevitable the use of nuclear weapons and other lethal products of technology in the absurd and truly tragic battles between tribal groups. The battles are waged under cover of such high sounding slogans as justice, liberation, or national self-determination, which serve only to cover the true motivations of greed, power, and envy.”

James Lovelock. Gaia

Being born into an obligatory social contract, that you can neither read nor amend, written by men 200 years ago…