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So, I notice the government is still thinking of economic stimulus in terms of let’s keep those dollars circulating. This makes sense because if all the dollars end up in the hands of the billionares, the dollars are suddenly worth nothing at all and the ( Read more... )

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So, one of the problems I keep running into with $COMPANY is that they are making decisions which make short term profit at the cost of long term profit. They keep encouraging their employees to sell .. with increased commissions.. while not having ( Read more... )

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So, as I’ve talked about before, money is a pointer in the C sense of the word. It isn’t the actual value, it’s a token that represents the value. If you missed that part, go back to the top of http ( Read more... )

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So, one of the things I’ve been saying is that one of the necessary ingredients for a successful collectivist system is good computers and fast networks - and also a *lot* of software designed to protect against corruption and against dictatorship. I could ( Read more... )

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So, For a long time, I thought I liked communism. Then I learned that communism means the state owns all the resources, and doles them out only to the people it likes. I’ve not yet met a state that I trust with the lives of all my fellow citizens - not ( Read more... )

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So, I was discussing how large the outstanding money supply is with a friend of mine. His best estimate is there is $20T outstanding, or just about $65k per person currently here.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I see this as likely to be a problem.

We ( Read more... )

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The most impressive - and disruptive - technology that we could possibly come up with would be neurological. If we could load software on our minds the way we do on computers, we could give the experience of unlimited wealth to all of us, for virtually no ( Read more... )

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TL;DR=Treating intellectual property as a resource that has a maximum ROI in real world dollars could prevent some of the IP-related failures our current system has

One possible solution for solving the very real issue that intellectual property presents ( Read more... )

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TL;DR=Go slow, be careful, don’t break it trying to fix it. Do not reassign all the wealth to your new system - any worthwhile system can compete with existing ones and win.

There is something I want to make abundantly clear here.

Some people seem to be ( Read more... )

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TL;DR=Humans work as a group - entitlement programs are a reflection of that reality and most are in the best interests of all of us

So, on facebook, someone had stated “the only reason anyone would vote democrat is the expectation of a welfare check”. I ( Read more... )