davetapley
@davetapley@lemmy.world
- Comment on Why The Government Has Infinite Money 1 year ago:
Dare I ask where he is hiding this, and what bonkers evil regimes you are referring to?
- Comment on Why The Government Has Infinite Money 1 year ago:
Why “never support”?
- Comment on Why The Government Has Infinite Money 1 year ago:
Amazing summary, and I’m glad you mentioned landlords. I am having such a struggle lately when people tell me about their ‘side hustle’ as a landlord, and how they make so much passive income. I just wanna scream “so you feel good about making money doing basically nothing while there are so many people unsheltered, and living paycheck to paycheck?”.
- Comment on Why The Government Has Infinite Money 1 year ago:
So, what hadn’t clicked until I watch this video, is that federal taxes don’t ‘pay for things’, they just the mechanism by which federal government ensures the currency has value: They can compel us to pay taxes (via courts, police, etc.) and those taxes must be paid in the same currency, and so we have to do work to acquire that currency, and so it has value.
- Comment on Why The Government Has Infinite Money 1 year ago:
[This other video](youtu.be/75udjh6hkOs?si=F6XZ6w8eTRqNeO74&t=17…] at 29:43 also blew my mind, I just never thought about tax in that way, and it’s embarrassing.
- Submitted 1 year ago to workreform@lemmy.world | 93 comments
- Comment on Why isn't there a "Spotify premium" for news? 1 year ago:
This seems like a direction ground.news could go in.
- Comment on Why isn't there a "Spotify premium" for news? 1 year ago:
It could be set up in a way that the publications get paid per view of their articles
This is idea behind the BAT token and the Brave Browser¹. Unfortunately it won’t break through paywalls, but ad blocking is pretty good and in theory is less guilt.
¹ although, there is this