SwingingKoala

SwingingKoala, 3 days ago

Famous libertarian Friedrich Hayek supported universal basic income

That’s a lie people love to repeat. Hayek was in favor of helping people who needed help, he explicitly was against money for freeloaders.

SwingingKoala, 3 hours ago

Die Inflation ist in Wahrheit viel viel höher. Aber halt bei den Assets so wie Aktien und Häusern.

Nee, überall. Unsere Inflationszahlen gehen ja davon aus dass Preise eigentlich stabil sind, also werden nur Preiserhöhungen berücksichtigt. In Wahrheit müsste alles ständig billiger werden, durch Fortschritte in den Produktionsprozessen etc. Auf die offiziellen Zahlen kann man also beruhigt noch ein paar Prozente drauf schlagen, auch bei nicht-assets. Und die Hedonische Bewertungsmethode gibt es ja auch noch zum schönrechnen.

SwingingKoala, 5 hours ago

Vor allem die Entwicklung der Löhne dürfe dafür sorgen, dass die Teuerung auch in den kommenden Monaten weiterhin auf hohem Niveau verharren werde, prognostiziert der Ökonom.

Ach ja, das Problem ist natürlich dass Arbeiter und Angestellte Geld bekommen dass es bereits gab. Dass die Geldmenge im Euroraum seit Jahrzenten fast kontinuierlich gestiegen ist hat damit nichts zu tun!

SwingingKoala, 10 hours ago

I find it more believable than that politicians work for the good of the people.

SwingingKoala, 16 hours ago

A global elite led by the CIA had been planning for years to use a pandemic to end democracy and impose totalitarian control on the entire world.

Ok, that’s all the article has. As far as conspiracy theories go that’s pretty mild.

SwingingKoala, 16 hours ago

Good for you! How did you end up in that place?

SwingingKoala, 2 days ago

You’re exactly right, in a free market of currencies people would naturally end up using the best money. This is what has happened historically and we had a gold standard. The current financial system forces us to use a specific currency and forbids competition.

SwingingKoala, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

How is the situation today different than it was back then?

Historically people used all kinds of money, like feathers, shells, stones, and ended up with silver and gold. The reason for this is that silver and gold are the hardest to produce. Every time somebody can inflate the money supply they can extract value from everybody who uses that money. Europeans did this in many colonies for example, e.g. by manufacturing glass beads that were used as local currency.

The dollar was backed by gold in the past (Bretton Woods), but Nixon did a rugpull and refused to give other countries gold for their dollars. Since then the US keeps printing more and more dollars, now adding a trillion every three months while the first trillion took like a century.

So, the difference between then and now is that the dollar used to be strong, and now it is weak. It’s still strong enough to be the world reserve currency, but there are cracks in the system and they grow.

SwingingKoala, 2 days ago

Decentralizing stuff is good!

Maybe we can do money next.

SwingingKoala, 8 days ago

Cool! More clean energy is good for humanity.

SwingingKoala, 2 days ago

Which films have 20 minute trailers?

SwingingKoala, 2 days ago

You tell me, you started to talk about films.

SwingingKoala, 2 days ago

None?

Look what I found for you: www.imdb.com/list/ls031139166/ Happy to educate you, you’re welcome.

SwingingKoala, 2 days ago

Don’t know about debunking, it seems to be more about entertaining people than educating them. Anyway, only made it to the 20 minute mark, back to work.