Mad Max Economic Pragmatism
tag > Economics
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How close humanity is to understanding that their governments are organized criminals.
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"Never Interfere With an Enemy While He’s in the Process of Destroying Himself” - Napoleon
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Rize.io - "an intelligent time tracker that improves your focus"
#Comment: This app represents late capitalism tech design at its finest. It helps you to meticulously track, surveil, measure and analyze every millisecond - cause "time is money and efficiency is paramount". The philosophy the app embodies is frankly nauseating and insane. The app's developers and users should take a very, very long break and ask themself "Save Time? Who for?, what is the value of laziness and productivity? What is the nature of being and time?
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Today in "the fall of western civilization" news: BlackRock’s assets surged to a record $9.5 trillion in Q2, up from less then $5 trillion six years ago.
We are in the middle of the greatest wealth transfer in history: The 0.0001%'s coup d'état
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Gnome DeCentral Bank (GDB)
The "European Central Bank" (ECB) and similar organizations are a horribly unimaginative, dysfunctional lot. But despite all their very noisy machinations, they are absolutely inconsequential. The real power on this planet is still negotiated in organizations such as the "Gnome DeCentral Bank" (GDB) and related forums, that quietly operate in the belly of nature.
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How 37 US banks merged into 4 over the years:
How the oligarchic finance monopoly is doing:
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Henry Ford on the monetary system
"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." - Henry Ford
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Enthusiasm for new terminal on New Silk Road
The new Dostyk TransTerminal at the China-Kazakhstan border crossing is proving to be successful. The volumes of traffic on the New Silk Road are growing tremendously.
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Reflections on witnessing the latest PR events from sillycon valley players
The sillycon valley players (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, etc.) seem to be stuck in a collective hallucination that makes them believe in a heavily sanitized version of "reality", that is 99% surface gloss and 1% essentials. Their focus is on delivering nice-to-have "consumer experience conveniences" coupled with ever increasing surveillance and control - instead of meeting the urgent needs of real people. Most poignantly, sillycon valley innovations are almost excursively catering to a ultra niche "WEIRD" audience ("Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich & Democratic") that makes up only 12% of global population. As a result of all this, the next four billion people coming online are predominantly adopting technology solutions from incumbent non-weird players. It's time for sillycon valley to really "think different", or perish.
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The US Dollar will be gone soon. It's time to say bye to the funny money...
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Things that make a lot more sense, when labeled "fiction": News as taught by the mainstream channels. History as taught in schools. Science and Economics as taught in Universities. And more..
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Comedy of the day: European Central Bank Can Better Protect Digital Payment Privacy, Exec Board Member Says (coindesk.com)
In an interview with the Financial Times on June 14 and published Sunday, Fabio Panetta said his institution had no commercial interest in storing, managing or monetizing user data. The issue over privacy in the digital euro is a focal point for Europeans as are concerns of security, according to a recent survey by the ECB. "If the central bank gets involved in digital payments, privacy is going to be better protected," said Panetta. "We're not like private companies." The banker also said people felt safer when their information was handled by a public institution, adding the bank would do a better job. "There are many ways in which we can protect confidential data while allowing the checks foreseen by law to avoid illicit transactions, such as those linked to money laundering, the financing of terrorism or tax evasion," said Panetta.
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A good representation of the state of western societies: Wile E. Coyote about to fall down
