1. Money doesn’t actually exist 2. Government issue bonds for sale base on a promise to buy these back at a given amount on a given date. 3. Government gets money for bonds and spends it to create revenue 4. The promise to pay is then called government debt 5. Governments can issue moreContinue reading “Money as a construct”
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Haters
People hate because it makes them feel superior, a totally unwarranted but none the less real boost to the ego. People that hate also tend to have lower IQ, lower EQs and are generally poorer, less educated and much more averse to change. Is also the reason why “hate politics” is so successful, people voteContinue reading “Haters”
Laughing behind the news
Not quite getting the context behind the subtext, reading things into things that are not actually there (das ding an nich sich (sic)), having trouble figuring out how many races one one actually won. Introducing the idiots guide to the noumenal world for first time users, the field guide bringing your fingertips almost within the graspContinue reading “Laughing behind the news”
Apples for courses
Got this crazy Chinese doctor following me around, wasn’t sure at first, but the Dongfeng parked outside the cafe where I supplement my addictions surely didn’t belong to any but a member of our version of the Medicare card swiping class and the order for a ristretto macchiato on low fat fermented mares milk sureContinue reading “Apples for courses”
Bugs
i cannot use my right hand On which a bug has alighted perhaps feeding on my detritus looking for a place to spend the winter or simply testing my patience i hope to regain its use in the spring
Ornamental book special
More tangibly real than a digital copy of a real book. Create your own story within one of our beautiful covers in every color of an extremely dour rainbow. Ever wish you were Charles Darwin in another life, his actual life or perhaps the life of someone else that thought they were Charles Darwin inContinue reading “Ornamental book special”
Sin
We, the sellers of “sin stocks”, the military industrial pharmaceutical complex, the purveyors of guns, sex, money, and/or drugs invite you to share the profit from the reluctance of the majority to be associated with “sin” by entering the market for the time-sharing of sins. Following the successful incorporation of sin with an objectively artificially limited useful life,Continue reading “Sin”
An unparalleled correspondence
For free; free books, who doesn’t love a free book, free books abound in the digital ether, written by authors no longer living and transcribed often by those who might rather also be dead, or just dying inside as well as out, or just so so good at typing with a strong benificent streak. LargeContinue reading “An unparalleled correspondence”
Infrastructure
Without constant energy input, money embedded in concrete, glass and steel can only show a return if more money (energy) is constantly added to resist the ultimate certainty of entropy.
Probability
where probabilities exist as a function of consciousness but are separate from “reality” – is consciousness “quantum”? Everything physical is determinable as such a result excepting consciousness Which observing that any outcome is possible assigns to each probabilities which can never exist
Ceteris Paribus 