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  • confusedbytheBasicstomemesThe Ouroboros
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    8 days ago

    Yeah. Measured in USD the move was very well timed. Since moving it my goal has changed from protecting my assets to staving this system. Economic pressure seems to be the only thing this executive responds to at all. Are COMEX futures used for some kind of fractional lending scheme or similar? How can I make sure as much as possible is withheld from the system without literally buying gold and burying it in the forest?



  • confusedbytheBasicstomemesThe Ouroboros
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    9 days ago

    Thank you for writing all that up. I don’t understand most of it but it gives me a starting point.

    When TRUMPCOIN dropped right after Jan 20th I figured his goal was to break the economy so I just moved everything I was allowed to move into gold figuring it would be better to have gold than USD. So far that has paid off. I have several bond investments I’d have to take penalties to move so I left them alone. Given the state of things now I wish I’d gone ahead and done it.

    Did selling all my stocks and buying gold reduce market liquidity at all?




  • confusedbytheBasicstoFuck Carsanon discusses car dependence
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    25 days ago

    I lived next to a little natural grocery for a few years. Prices were about 20% higher than the ordinary grocery and maybe double what I’d pay at Costco. At first I was resistant because they seemed to be overcharging so much. Overtime I talked to the employees and realized the savings I made on time and not needing a car more than made up for the higher price. Plus they had to keep prices high because shoplifting was very common.

    I started figuring my time and car expenses into future shopping trips and now I don’t mind paying a bit more for the local co-op.









  • Thank again, Japan is the size of California. This is rural Japan not a suberb. And even many of the actual suberbs in California don’t have fiber to the home.

    This is about monopolies running rampant and misuse of public money not about the technical feasibility.

    Edit: These companies literally bought back their own stock to inflate their market cap instead of building out the infrastructure we funded.



  • We determined this would be less expensive than the current system in the USA. More than half the jobs in “health care” are insurance related. We would completely eliminate that overhead. Insurance analysts could be retrained for useful work like nursing.

    A single fraud investigator could monitor 100 doctors or more. Instead of each insurance claim needing to be reviewed by the practicing physician and an insurance company doctor we could have investigators watch for patterns and cite doctors who are overprescribing.

    We had some knowledgeable people on the team so I think we were likely correct.


  • In my future leaders program we decided it would be better not to have benefits tied to income at all. Everyone gets the benefit. No cliffs. No need to ween anyone off. Like the roads these benefits could be part of the social contract. This creates an actual safety net and removes the most negative incentives.