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>The old doesn't always want the same thing, they do not always go for rent, they also go for stocks or gold or other stuff that could help, they could even get bitcoin, that is what I am doing right now for example I am buying bitcoin for my future, I would like to retire so that bitcoin could take care of me, it is not that others should work hard and take care of me, it is that I made a smart investment and in my old age I want that to take care of me.
plenty of people are waiting for govt handout to save the day, pension fund for the old man retiree couldn’t stopped, I’m not entire sure how do you made it, however you could be the minority who can be independent, but many people are living a life of depending on each other, mutually supporting each other, they would be in deep trouble when that relationship ended unexpectedly.
>However what this piece is missing is that when those old people die, if they have a ton of stuff they could leave that to their children and they could leave it to their children which creates a class conflict because some people are richer by birth while others have to work really hard to take care of them. Walton family did NOTHING to provide anything to the world, but they are one of the richest families ever because their father created Walmart.
inheritance is also another form of rent seeking practice, although it has never failed generation after generations, it added more reason into why rent seeking is itself very bad, shouldn’t be encouraged
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>In past eras of human history, it was possible to start out in an entry level position. Work your way up the corporate ladder learning the business. Until eventually you were running the entire company.
that’s possible before the market is fully free, without any human made manipulation, when everything else is starting off new, everybody could work in a common ground, and share the same goal. But greed kick in and thing begin to turn soar, it start off as bank begin to provide loan to feed the greedy minority, and eventually bank runs occurred and the banker take the money out of the supposedly fair market and run into another regime, which stir the equation to a point, many bank depositors money vanished into thin air, and riot followed, although it was later the govt intervene to reimburse the depositors money in form of IOU, and... the failure continue until today.
>There was a shift in format where a college degree became an essential requirement for leadership and executive positions.
It is not gonna change, hey would add more requirement to stop people from getting the job, because rent seeking behaviour clearly exhibited on the job market.
>Elon Musk recently criticized this trend to a limited degree. When he said there are too many MBAs in corporate america.
yup, I’m not gonna lie, people are getting MBA in hope to stand a chance to get a decent job opportunity, which is coping too hard in my opinion.
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>There is a question as to what the real value of higher education is in this day and age IMO. Is it worth college students selling themselves into debt.
everything has to root back to the time gold standard was lifted, govt used of fascist yet, reckless kool aid fiscal policy to stimulate the artificial market growth, the side effects is well observed today, but many people would dismiss the claim, they’re not even literate enough to understand them, it’s undoubtedly student are the victims of this failures, they’re forced to pay the high price of the debt cycle, which is left over by the old men.
>While the student loan bubble looms over our standard of living and economy? Perhaps restructuring and reform is something people can support?
The economy has failed, they wouldn’t stop dismiss the failure, there would be no great reset, there would be no turning back because the govt wouldn’t stop manipulating the data, to indoctrinate public into believing the artificial market growth. But it’s possible to reverse the govt effort, slowly and modular, one step by one step, by using the same approach to what the govt did, with a little twisted into the approach that make it sound like it’s something else, I think bitcoin well suit the narrative.
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>So, from what cave did you emerge?
gender role is one thing that’s determining the one who could have been hard monetary wealth than the other. Although there is a minority exceptions, some of the strong women trying to reverse the bias, they didn’t succeed, they just give rise to the feminist movement but not fixing the actual issues, the wealth disparity. Nope, not gonna change my mind even with more number and data, it’s genetically determined hard reality, no amount of manipulation would change it.
>Again one of those theories that the evil ones holding the wealth are increasing it without giving a dime to the poor people, and they are only motivated by greed and are evil and are leading to the destruction of the nations and we need to do something about them and the most important thing in this plan is to grab their money.
is it still just a theory? I’m reluctant to conclude it’s not conspiracy, it’s organised in some form, of course the profit from doing so, is itself the motivation to keep working on this theory. People are migrating on the wake of frustrating the inevitable (rent seeker behaviour) before them, nope they didn’t destruct the nation, they just force peasant to migrate.
>If you're so much against people who make money out of nothing how does this match your love with bitcoin, you do nothing but hold an asset and your wealth increases exponentially while the wealth of others working all day long is not budging, all their hard work is just helping them get over the next day. Sounds like a bit of hypocrisy, doesn't it?
I’m not intrigued that someone would equal bitcoin to rent seeking, I’m not gonna lie it does give me a feel that it definitely exhibit some of the properties of a rent seeking. But I don’t wish to equal bitcoin to some form of rent seeking money. To say that bitcoin hashpower that can pull off 150 exahash of computing power, is a waste of power, is a zero risk endeavour, is not really a work, is not really a contribution, is not benefiting to society as a whole, is equal to rent seeking, is an insult to the proof of work reputation. Bitcoin start off itself as a donation currency, it didn’t have anything to do with rent seeking, it’s the proof of work that isolate crypto itself from being one form of rent seeking money, although there might be a time, thing might change, proof of stake sound closely resemble to rent seeking money. Being hypocrisy, on perceived bitcoin as a form of rent seeking? Nope, bitcoin is not entirely a completely leech, I don’t believe bitcoin itself is entitled, bitcoin also didn’t owe the world any form of debt. It’s not fair to equal bitcoin to self entitled, rent seeker money. It’s also not fair to cherry picking investing in bitcoin is the same form of rent seeking practice, although it tick a few of the checkboxes.
>Everyone ignores data they don't like. The same narrative:
You could buy a meal with 1$ a hundred years ago, the economy is down the drain, the average worker is worked to death by the evil corporations..
yeah your dollar is getting devalued, everybody talk about one bitcoin is one bitcoin, one gold coin is one gold coin no matter what year it’s. They often failed to realise, one dollar is not one dollar today, your one dollar that got you one BigMac in 19XX are getting you a quarter of BigMac today, because one dollar is being stolen indirectly. Yeah don’t believe me, yeah prove me wrong all your want, yeah your one dollar is still one dollar, keep living in denial.
>Nobody is saying a word of what that wage 100 years go could buy you, nobody says a word that life expectancy is going up, illiteracy has been eradicated, things that were unaffordable luxuries then are common as slippers now. We want highways, we want parks, we want services, and we want this for free as fuck logic, we deserve it. Let's look at what you had in 1800? The right to fuck off?
you still didn’t afford the same luxuries that’s dated to 100 years ago, is the mansion a luxury? Yes, what you get today is just a deceived form of studio apartment that’s hardly resemble mansion, but you can boosting your ego by calling whatever suit your narrative. Also many luxuries in the past remain luxuries today, because they’re built with solid, high value chemical composition. Yes, toilet paper is also luxury today that’s also luxury in the past.