Apparently, debt is good.... Government debt is private wealth, so why do people want to get rid of it?
Funding the Future
Government debt is private wealth, so why do people want to get rid of it?
Every pound of so-called “government debt” is a private financial asset. When the government spends, it creates money that becomes your wealth....
*The system keeps telling ordinary people to save harder within a broken framework instead of rethinking money itself*
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Max Out Your Pension Savings, Plebs! (FT, Moira O'Neill) \ stacker news ~econ
Alright, here's a pretty standard run-of-the-mill take that's completeeeely insane, borderline immoral. It's a violation of fiduciary duties to you...
*Stop measuring in dollars and start measuring value against other scarce assets* View quoted note →
*One of the greatest tricks the government has ever pulled was keeping the apparent form factor of the currency media the same (coins, bills, etc.) but removing the money from it.* View quoted note →
*The real test of a revolutionary technology isn’t whether it excludes power structures. It’s whether it forces them to play by new rules they didn’t write and can’t rewrite* View quoted note →
A great achievement, Jordan. *We also have to set that example for little ones. They learn courage by watching courage, not by being told to be courageous* View quoted note →
*They have meetings. We have blocks. They have promises. We have proof. One architecture will survive the next century. The other will not.* View quoted note →
Flying cars for the masses in 2025? Best I can do is bury trees. How ‘Wood Vaulting’ Could Help Slow Climate Change | Scientific American
Scientific American
Can We Bury Enough Wood to Slow Climate Change?
Wood vaulting, a simple, low-tech approach to storing carbon, has the potential to remove 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere eve...
*Statism, centralisation and dependency infrastructures are mind viruses* View quoted note →
*There is a formula between decentralisation and the value secured by that decentralisation... Too much decentralisation is wasteful for no value, and too little is dangerous for too much value.* View quoted note →