> What you're describing is social credit,
I know, which means I'm actually trying to imply that cash being gone means social credit has been implemented in the USA
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kill me tomorrow.....
because today I fight with my life for my future
I know, which means I'm actually trying to imply that cash being gone means social credit has been implemented in the USA
to say that it "bites" subtly implies that inflation may be targeted at this or that specific profession. but inflation works across the board, all of money is affected.
at least with money as it works now, when there is still cash, it's not possible to target professions; but I have no doubt that some future techno-currency scheme could be made that could serve as currency AND change its value depending on who is holding it.
the submissions: yes, absolutely yes. I agree 100%.
but not for the comments, after all comments are literally the "inner workings" of the HN culture (some people call this "hive mind")
if anything I'll admit that it took me way to long to really grasp how taxes "close the circuit" of the money cycle (or as you say: "Taxes is the only way that the government can create demand for their worthless money, so that's why you have them.")
But I'm considering some additional (very empirical/pragmatic things): the multiple-fold dipping of "energy" is why it's all fractional reserve banking systems (fractions, or quotients, or rational numbers up until Euler's constant and financial calculi... but I say this to tell about the depth at which I'm trying to think about this)
I suppose my larger point is that given that the main act of creation from nothing ("financial alchemy"?) should suffice for well run states (i.e. governments but I can talk still more precisely about this) to get all their energetic needs (i.e. monetary i.e.cash and currencies) but because complex reasons (but mostly due to corruption in various forms?) it doesn't work and taxes are needed
as good and fair as any bigger and more powerful forces coming at you and demanding a cut of whatever it is you do... lest you're breaking the law
but this is very normalized, but ultimately is a legacy of imperialism and other kinds of centralizing powers: give your rulers some freebies or get harassed until you do
an alternative perspective is that we all need to contribute some money (and/or energy) to the public systems which do things for "all of us" as the public at large
when this is 'mandatory', like it is now (you can always not do it, but there will be consequences), we call it taxes and fees, to do this voluntarily is the now obsolete tithe (even the quantity matches 10%).
the real problem I have with this setup is that money (but I actually mean currency) is made up and controlled by governments in collab with banking corporations; which means they have ways to use this system to move some of said "energy" from us to them; this leads me to conclude that then, regular taxes like VAT are double dipping on our energy as we 1: get taxed so to give money to the government/public entities and institutions; and 2: they make up currency and extract money/energy from all of us automatically (them theories about how money is debt, combined with QE and the new quantitative tightening, are all parts of how this whole hidden system works);
arguably this way to take advantage of the currency/monetary system is only being used by private financiers (big banking) not governments which really do need the taxes to function at least for now but I already ranted too much
making games (and also a bit on money on the side)
making money (and having to make some video games so the money will come)
they're looking busy but are actually idle?
this smells like fraud but I ain't cooking so why do I speak of smells?
truth is that the Apache Software Foundation is a software graveyard; this is known but not really "seriously" acknowledged.
going straight away from the topic: why our culture does this? so many things are like this: there's a reality (ASF is a graveyard) but it's like rough or impolite to be upfront about it (but nooo, it's just 'stable' software... which may be in some cases but also it also may be dead and unused, people lie)
clearly in the ASF somebody is getting paid for 'maintaining' Apache's version of star office, but clearly somebody is doing a bit of a fraud....
sure, why not. and while we're on this deluded train: Julian Assange's legal problems are not political persecution
because in retrospect we know it to have been "because fraud" ahahha
(more precisely you might be saying how it happens that which I'm asking if that's what you're saying happens.... I mean I'm asking my question because I'm a bit confounded)
but politics is just what happens when power interacts in a social context!
...and everything IS social
he's projecting his own reality outwardly. I'm saying he's saying this because it describes his own subconscious perspective of his own life: he's had it too easy.
but I'm not sure if I'm referring to WB's CFO or to the editors making the headlines
and there are no 'frameworks' with which to think about this in a good way that doesn't result in a few having advantage over everybody else. but this is a philosophical and political issue, not a technical one
see also: crimes of the future movies
which spiraled into "black(smiths) go away" lol
it's about timing, letting the culture soak up the ideas, then release at the time of biggest likelihood of great profit...
consider why has disney+ removed so much content? so they can time it, to sell it at a higher value in the future, once the nostalgia has set in....?
that or they're just too stupid to understand how culture works and are destroying their own value? both of these completely unlikely. but I'm just ranting/guessing online....
it is expected that we pay to know things, this is what is ultimately being reasserted.
this comes with the same techniques that all piracy, DRM, IPTV takedowns, and dynamic dns seizures and traffic blocking... because it's all the same on the computer level.
the erosion of our purported freedoms is but collateral; maybe we should forget what the internet could have been and embrace the pay-to-click world that is incoming.
it's strange that we will be able to pay with likes 'reddit karma points' and Retweets/boosts that we receive.