Comment on Not FC but probably true
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years agoYes, there are discrete pockets pf trannies in the developing world. Though arguably the smaller bodies and hips of SEAsians make them the most convincing.
I've walked past a 6'6" white idiot with a wig on and a miniskirt in the middle of the day in central Bangkok and wondered... Who is he trying to kid? Likely himself.
My point on money is a little different. Many people think we live in a capitalist economy, but we haven't for years. In a capitalist economy, you save up capital, and you spend capital. Gold, silver, and hard assets are capital. In a creditist economy, you use credit notes, called fiat currency, which are created out of thin air, as loans againsy the future. The transition from capitalism to creditism starts when goldsmiths start issuing credit notes for hard assets, and evolve into banks, then bonds, tgen credit cards, and then eventually as governments seek to spend money they don't have on furthering political agendas (e.g.: Nixon's cold war; China's recent expansion), the link to hard assets is gone, and all that's left is government promises to pay imaginary stored value in the future, e.g.: junk bonds; or corporate promises to pay dividends on non-existent earnings in the future, e.g.: bubbletech shares. All the while debasing value away, and manipulating the nominal prices of hard assets to the advantage of themselves and their corrupt clients.
By all means, get land deeds, and hope they are honoured, store precious metals somewhere, and hope you can access it. As we approach the cliff edge denouement of this global creditism experiment, its difficult to say what contracts will hold true. We may all be forced back to first principles.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
They are not like Ladyboys in Thai. Indian trannies are huge, the size of big men, with the faces of big men, but they dress and behave like women. Its going to freak foreigners out, but Indians are used to it. They don't wear wigs, they were trannies from birth and have natural long hair.
I see what you mean by crediticism. You mean Fiat and abstract "paper" assets. But Fiat and Credit are much older brothers of Capitalism. Ancient Egypt had Fiat and not just gold/grain. Rome had Credit, but not Fiat, using gold coins. Rome fell, Christianity grew. The Church banned "usury" or interest rates .... then the Jews came in, lol. Because they were not committing the "sin" of usury like Christians, they started making Abstract assets. They made futures, derivatives, high risk loans, insurance, you name it. They were trading Debt. Christian traders invented "loan insurance" to get around the usury/interest ban.
State sponsored Mercantilism came first. Then, the Industrial revolution created Capitalism of today with free markets. That happened in 1800s.
Historically, there was no capitalism without credit or abstract assets. I am trying to imagine such a system, but it doesn't seem like a "free market", because you would have to put many many restrictions to force people to act with physical assets and not fiat/credit.
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
There is not much capitalism in the developed world. If you pay in hard assets, that's capitalism; if you pay in fiat, that's Creditism. Fiat is a promise always broken.
The reason Nixon broke the convertability of dollar with gold was because European nations started asking Anerica to start paying up on their Cold War IOU notes.
The trannies you are describing are Eunuchs, which is a bit different from ladyboys of SEAsia. China and India had Eunuchs in ancient times to guard the harem.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Yeah, if you define Crediticism like that, its the core of Capitalism from the start. Barter of hard assets like grain and gold goes back to cavemen. But Capitalist private production, free from state interference, did not exist till Industrial revolution, 18th Century. Ooga and Booga could trade, but were subject to the King. Meanwhile, fiat existed in Ancient Egypt. Credit is way older, possibly back to cavemen. Abstract assets came in 13th Century.
Capitalism was born when these concepts were mature and practiced for centuries and millennia. Its necessarily tangled in them from birth. You can untangle them yourself and only trade hard assets. That is a subset of "Crediticism". A famous example were Ebayers who traded a pin all the way to a house.
I am sure Indian trannies cover intersex and transsex. Locally they are called Hijras or "6". I don't know if I saw a Eunuch, because I don't know how they look. China had royal Eunuchs, but AFAIK, Indian kingdoms did not have equivalents. The system makes sense, but it didn't catch on outside of China AFAIK.
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
You don't appear to understand what capitalism is.