Topic: Economic Devastation - page 79. (Read 504811 times)

Very true, though they may last long they always fail.

State capitalism is not the best social system.
The West foolishly thought to exploit the rest of the planet without the others react.
First Asia then South America and Africa,what matters is the geopolitics.
Empires always fall, is nature.

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In honor (really!) of CoinCube, I started a thread on a similar topic: "Economic Totalitarianism" nearby.

My intention for practical ideas that many/most of us can actually DO at a personal level to defend ourselves against the War on CA$H, ZIRP/NIRP, etc.

My intention and hope is for practical ideas that anyone (or almost anyone) can do, and to avoid esoterica found here ("Marxism") that is difficult for me to even understand...



I (we all) already know that our pals at .gov are trying to steal all they can from us by almost any means necessary.  So let´s share some ideas and tools...

At the risk of sounding trite, a Knowledge Age does not have to be just about programming. Sites like Etsy show a demonstrable demand for personalised products. Yes it's hard to make a living that way, but the convulsions from automation are one of many headwinds facing society. Many unskilled jobs have been protected by the state for years- at the expense of those more productive. I've retaken the Jung/Myers Briggs personality test and apparently I'm INFJ/INTJ so I understand your concern for people but there doesn't seem to be a pretty way to resolve any of this. It may be best to give society less pity (part of the reason we are in this mess) and let it try and repair itself without top-down measures. For example the state getting out of the way here is now referred to as a 'miracle'. Perhaps not entirely appropriate, but I see some similarities.

Hmmph can't believe that I am sticking up for TPTB (must be my ego) but he is right on this one. If automation is more productive then it can not be turned off or never built just to keep people working. Automation is what gave us a lot of what makes society more comfortable. Automation is allowing us to communicate right now.

If unemployment is caused because of automation then so be it. Get trained to work on the components of automation building and/or maintenance otherwise step aside and retire and/or die.

Are you literally brain dead? We are heading towards increased perpetual unemployment due automation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU

It doesn't take rocket science PhD levels of intellect to see how we are headed towards a dead end within the current system.
And no, not everyone is going to be able to magically become programmers. Me for example, im unable to program, my brain is just not wired that way. You are legitimately delusional if you think all we need is making all those factory workers, taxi drivers, and the long list becoming programmers, just lol. And lol if you think all those simple tier programmers aren't going to get automated as well.

Taxes are for little people, as well as consequences.

The Gang Banksters blew a bubble and siphoned off all the mass murder technology they could ever desire, if their desires could be limited, and now it is time to save the remaining resources for themselves...  and out of hands like yours (and mine).

It is similar in the UK. Except the loans are government (tax payer) backed. Fees have at least tripled in ten years, probably quadrupled (I haven't checked recently). Though the repayments are automatic (depending on your income/tax) it's less burdensome in terms of repayment and interest  than the US, but has still warped the educational institutions. I think anyone giving it a few minutes of thought understands it's a cynical government program to prevent unemployment numbers from growing as fast as they would without somewhere to funnel unwitting students.
To say that 10% of my peers (out of 5-700) gained employment commensurate with their area of study would be very generous.

edit: google 'project hero student loans' for some truly nauseating scheming by the authority to milk those indebted by retroactively changing their terms of the loan to raise the interest (UK), I don't think this would stand in court but it would not surprise me to see similar initiatives on the horizon.

"If you practice you can win every battle." - Manny Pacquiao   

Yet the debt still won't be discharged, thus the youth will be indentured servants to the US federal govt. Think Hillary Clinton's "Little Village" of make-work fascist, communism coming...

Fourth Reich is rising.

This was probably the most thread-relevant post today. Apologies for commenting to it last. I first was dumping my thoughts from yesterday's boxing megamatch to clear my mind of what I had retained.

My stance is that all licensed professions are a scam on society. They are the means by which a smaller group parasites on the society.

I believe these professions will die with the one-world reserve currency in the Knowledge Age. They will be replaced by free market solutions which perform much better.

Already IBM's Watson is outperforming human doctors at lung cancer diagnosis.

There is so much specialized knowledge that human doctors miss, such as the high dose vitamin D3 cure for my Multiple Sclerosis.

I think it is inevitable that the Western medical systems will turn into a eugenics systems after 2020 or so (Weimar Germany proved this what happens with socialized medicine). The Asian medical systems will be much more frugal and self-responsibility oriented.

The smartest will go into the Knowledge Age and find more efficient means of education than the university.

Manny said he was willing to give it all to charity if Floyd would too. I heard some say they expected Manny to give up to half of his $100 million stake to charity. Manny spends most of his money on his large entourage of followers, not only himself.

Manny loves people. Well I do too, but difference I hate socialism and Manny (and many filipinos these days) seems caught up in idolizing it. I see that as his downfall. Individual initiative is what makes greatness, not groupthink. Manny believes he can make a better country and wants to run for Senator (or maybe this is just about money but it appears to be ideological and it could be he lying to himself but he puts on a very convincing show of sincere ideology).

I been noticing a trend away from filipino tribalism towards nationalism. I was very happy with this loss of Manny to douse some of that nationalistic mayonnaise that is festering in the Philippines. Originally I was sort of pulling for Manny to win because I admire his power and ferociousness, but then as the socialistic mayonnaise has been going ad nauseum every day for the past months, I came to accept that Manny had destroyed himself.

I detest groupthink and political correctness. Makes me want to puke.

We need lots of autonomous nodes (individuals or small groups) competing to find the best fits to nature's dynamic constraints. The only known mathematical system that can solve (converge and optimize) a dynamic system of constraints (equations) is the dynamic free market. Dynamic means a priori information is unavailable. The universe is relavistic, there is no absolute point to measure from. This is root of CoinCube's myopia.

CoinCube has an impossible job of rebutting me. I await his failed attempt in 2 days.

Yes I do have high arches. I don't know if it is innate or from training.

If your problem is mechanical, then vitamin D3 may do nothing. But if it is a change as you've aged, maybe it is hormonal and in that case perhaps vitamin D3 might have an effect and would be a long shot experiment. VitD3 is related to bone health, and there are many small bones in our feet.

I do tend to train more for power than for endurance. I do some endurance yet I always mix in some power activities such as sprinting, weight lifting, power-drives in basketball, boxing, etc.. Power breeds power and testosterone. Our hormone levels are vital to feelings of well being and health.

I did try DHEA in the past (sparingly) and although is gives a boost, I find it very deleterious overall and very detrimental. I never took anabolic steroids.

I tend to guess your problem is hormonal, not innate mechanical.

They both knew what the fight was really about. MONEY. They both had moeny on their mind the whole time and i wouldn't doubt it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_D#Signs_and_symptoms



So far only after 1 month, I have all the opposite symptoms and I am taking up to 70,000 IU daily. I have increased appetite, more serene demeanor, looser bowel movements, incredible energy, and renewed intense muscle strength.

You know I was nearly completely debilitated by Multiple Sclerosis in that I couldn't concentrate, I was in the bed every other hour with chronic fatigue, my muscle weakness was getting progressively worse, etc. And now after 1 month I am back to being aggressively athletic! Amazing.

P.S. my experience thus far is the vitamin D3 seems to be a libido booster (and for women too!). In my numerous tests, it also seems to reduce or eliminate menstruation pain.

Info to be aware of if you are taking high levels of vitamin D supplements for a prolonged period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_D

I am now giving people vitamin D3 for everything that ails them, and it seems to work. (but not high doses, only 5,000 - 10,000 IU daily for general illness)

Seems most of our illness and injuries are immune system related. Also vitamin D3 affects 2500 signals in the body. It is metabolized in the liver to a hormone.

Drinking 2.5L of water a day is apparently very important when treating with high dose vitD3 to avoid hypocalcaema. And frequent kidney panels would be advised. Some people might have a problem with serum calcium already (perhaps caused a rice grain sized malfunctioning parathyroid gland in the neck that needs to be surgically removed), so they would need to be more cautious.

Like you I used to have very strong legs. But for the last 8 months, I've had pain in the knee joint.  I think i have eversion of the foot (aka ankle pronation). I've tried nearly everything. Including orthoptics and barefoot running. I dont really know what do to now. Whenever I walk, my arch collapses. If you run fast, you must have very high arches. Were you born like that or did you train in a particular way ?

PS: thank you for replying on my bitcoin question.

The circus and games of the Americans are peaking now with the peaking of the society. Just like Rome, it will collapse.

This $400 million for a boring defensive boxing match is probably the peak of boxing as a spectator, money sport. Many people who paid are unsatisfied. They wanted to see Manny (David) slay Goliath with sufficient violence to hurt Mayweather for all his transgressions against political correctness and socialism. Floyd was booed so loudly after the scorecard was announced, his post-fight ring interview couldn't be heard clearly.

Floyd is milking the system very opportunistically.

Manny is a conflicted person with his religious bullshit[1] and socialistic lies to himself and then wanting to extract maximum violence, yet justifying that is the sport of boxing yet then complaining about the sport of boxing being points based.

[1] Even if you believe the Bible, it doesn't promise the sort of things Pacman believes such as that God wants him to punish Mayweather for having domestic violence case. The Bible specifically says to let God do the judging and to be forgiving. It was clear that Pacman had lost his direction and was looking for motivation but he obviously didn't find it in that lie to himself.

They do it for money thats all.