What is progressive taxation?
It concentrates the burden on those whose wealth comes from rents, and minimizes the burden on those who labor.
Rents from assets are the same as Etherium managers siphoning off value just because they own. Bitcoin is a progressive system that does not reward anyone unless they put in work. The US tax system should also be.
#The Way of the Superior Man
-David Deida
This book may interest you based on your statement. It is about balancing the masculine and feminine essences of men and womenâs nature, and improving relationships with women by amplifying this balance
AhâŚnew cars.
Borrow money at interestâŚ
To buy an asset that requires maintenanceâŚ
And that depreciates rapidly over the first few years.
Sounds like a winning financial decision. Iâll stick with my beater.
ââŚfreedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility for every human being to bring to full development all the power, capacities, and talents with which nature has endowed him, and turn them to social account. The less this natural development of man is influenced by ecclesiastical or political guardianship, the more efficient and harmonious will human personality become, the more will it become the measure of the intellectual culture of the society in which it has grown.â
Daniel Guerin
Anarchism
The only art form that we ever created and perfected was the television commercial. We have nothing else to our credit as a civilization. To try and persuade people to buy things they donât need that are probably bad for them and may blow up in their face⌠why not sell the next president in the same way and make him just as phony as detergent?
Gore Vidal. Interview with Paul Jay
đ Too many examples.
Imperialism with a moral justification for economic motivations is the norm, not the exception.
Nostr is probably the wrong market for airdrop shitcoineryâŚ
A few days until Block 800,000.
Whereâs the party? đżđđđ
The Romans conquered the Middle East to âcivilize the barbariansâ
The British conquered the world to âspread Christianityâ
The Nazis conquered Europe to âspread German ethnicityâ
The Americans conquered the world to âspread democracyâ
We conquer for money and resources. If you think youâre on the moral side of imperialism, think again.
Shitcoiners fall victim to the same logical fallacy.
You have your work cut out for you đ Teach those children
Well, you are a math teacher. A 25% chance of breaking even on slot machines actually means something to you. Other people make decisions based on emotion and the imagined feeling of winning.
If youâre trying to flee your country, KYC vs Non-KYC could be the difference between safe emigration and indefinite holding in a cell until capital-gains is paid.
For those doxed on an exchange whose records are hacked, the difference could be anonymous existence vs. a burglar showing up at your door with a hammer.
There may not be a big difference at the moment in the US, but Bitcoin exists for the people around the world who need freedom of movement and freedom from oppression. Telling people that you have access to a tool will partly negate the value of that toolâŚby putting you at risk
Always love a rodent-themed post
I donât go to psychics, and I donât entertain PlanBâs endless forecasting about future values.
Exciting predictions bring in likes on YouTubeâŚbut provide no value to an asset that needs to be appreciated by its users. Irrational exuberance doesnât help Bitcoin.
âThe core of anarchist tradition is that power is always illegitimate, until it proves itself to be legitimateâŚ
âŚIt is the responsibility of those who exercise power to show that somehow itâs legitimate. Itâs not the responsibility of anyone else to show that itâs illegitimate. Itâs illegitimate by assumptionâŚ
Harry Kreisler interview with Noam Chomsky
âAlthough various rationales were given for these wars, each was undertaken primarily to expand worldwide US military hegemony by gaining permanent American military bases in these countries. The delusionary impetus of these costly and destructive enterprises is captured by the definition of the philosophical phrase reductio AB absurdum: "a method of proving the falsity of a premise by showing that its logical consequences is absurd or contradictory."â
BRICS countries have twice the population as dollar-obligate countries. Once they establish their currency based on proportional contributions of each memberâs 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. Weâre 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 âeverybody uses the dollarâ is an observation, not an appreciation of the the worldâs trajectory.
Inflation resulting from the âprintingâ 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.
Bank bailouts do not stabilize the economy as billionaires would have us believe. They shift liabilities onto taxpayers. The financial class who yell âfree marketâ are precisely those who designed a legal system that protects the rich at the expense of the poor.
Debates about the quality of human nature seldom take into account the contribution that basic needs play in decision making.
Itâs easy to be âgoodâ if you arenât hungry, stressed, at risk of losing your house, and are safe.