Comment on In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?

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rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

You can escape inflation by substituting goods, and you only lose from inflation if 1. you have too much cash, or 2. your income rises slower than inflation.

If you have enough cash for it to grow faster than inflation, you win and those who have less lose compared to you. So your relative power grows.

Inflation makes the poor poorer faster than it makes the rich poorer, actually it doesn’t do that.

And by “inflation” specifically people usually mean devaluation of money due to growth of monetary mass, which itself is a result of closing budget holes with emission.

So UBI is a massive economic/prosperity boost above and beyond inflation. Eliminates poverty and crime, reduces the need for savings,

Eliminates small crime. Superprofits from selling cocaine working together with corrupt officials will not really change with UBI.

Politicians can no longer lie their way past even an idiocracy that understands “I like money”.

There’s never enough money.

More program cuts means higher UBI.

Only if politicians act as you want them to.

It would be treason if your AI suggests the empire is not pure good, and Israel has done something wrong, and contradicts the CIA/media disinformation plan.

The problem here is not with what you are describing, but that you are seriously considering treating a computer program as an oracle, that can ask questions about good and evil.

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