Printing money does not create wealth but printing money and then spending it on public construction projects (like public transport) does create jobs and wealth for the general population.

That is not how economics work either.

Inflation is kinda irrelevant, what matters is the people’s buying power, i.e. how much they can afford to buy based on their wages.

And the wages are determined on the labor market based on supply and demand: If there’s high demand for human workers, wages are higher.

And demand for human workers largely depends on how much employment opportunities the state creates. Like, if the state just begins to randomly construct public transport and public infrastructure and more energy production sites and also clean water pipes and lots of other stuff, that creates construction jobs and drives up wages which means people can buy more stuff.

That has literally nothing to do with how much money the government prints, and it doesn’t really matter if the cost of bread is $2 or $20 as long as your wages rise just as quickly.

Money is fictional anyways. If they want to, Moscow can print literally arbitrary amounts of Rubels. There’s no way they’re gonna bankrupt.

What could be interesting, however, is see how the economic situation unfolds for everyday people.

four people disagreeing because they think if people’s place in society is not tied to their productivity, then all the lazy foreigners are gonna come in and take our spot. only our heroic (self-sacrificing) eternal push to increase our bosses’ pockets are enough of an excuse to consume oxygen and continue to eat (massive /s)

Mine even sold their nice old house to have a new smaller one

that’s exactly what my mother would do.

she has this mindset that we need constantly changing products. she says it’s like with clothing, if you always wear the same cloth, people will get tired of it and you need to buy new clothes all the time. she also says that spending a lot of money stimulates the economy. (she’s actually right about this, only that it’s her - no, our money that she’s spending and the rich peoples economy where it’s going to).

i hate these kind of people. in my experience, these are people who are unable to not buy unnecessary stuff and just be content with how things are today.

I imagine that’s how it is/was for a lot of rulers. The feudal lord doesn’t have to be smart, he’s just a representative. The priests and diplomats and businessmen in the background tell them what to do. It’s beneficial for both sides because you can have a lot of influence without actually having to expose yourself to the public.

My guess is that they didn’t really intend to keep it secret anyways. Probably many many people knew about it (at least many thousands!) because otherwise how did Epstein get his clients? His clients would have to have known about his business, and that means that even more people (who were not clients) had to know about it too.

My guess is everybody kinda knew it but nobody bothered to tell the public, because why would you burden the public with what happens at the nobility’s castles?

I think a better way might be that browsers can auto-decline all cookies.

Why would the user have to click on each cookie banner separately?

more like: every goddamn day the newspapers only report about the bad things that happen, because good things make no money.

well yeah in my personal environment, the people i talk to IRL, lots of people complain about the supposedly overly-strict GDPR rules and about the fact that it makes management quite a bit more challenging, because they have to be careful about what information to put/share where. Like, even if you make a public google sheets document as a calendar for a small company/school where a group of people can enter their email addresses, that’s already a GDPR violation, because personal data becomes accessible by other people. As a result, you theoretically would need very elaborate custom-forms, where only you can enter information but nobody else can see it. It’s a hell of a lot of work, IMHO. So yeah, people have semi-meaningfully complained about it.

oh yeah i’ve heard about it.

basically, people got pissed with cookie banners so much that they complained to the EU government about it.

the EU government said “well, if people don’t like the choice to allow or deny cookies, i guess we’ll un-do these regulations”.

I think this is a very good example how people are always complaining, no matter what the government does.

If the government makes a law, a group of people complain. If the government later removes that same law that people kept whining about, another group of people complains. What to do?

Btw, another nice example is worldwide free trade. When it was introduced starting in the 1970s, people were very loud about the fact that they didn’t like it because they feared competition from foreign markets, companies moving abroad (offshoring), and jobs at home being lost. That is largely exactly what happened (though free trade also had many positive sides like exchange of technology and culture). 50 years later, world governments (especially in the west) want to un-do free trade, and people complain again about it, citing a loss of free exchange of ideas as a reason. What to do.

thanks, i figured it out. i had multiple older versions of youtube-dlp and yt-dlp installed on my machine. once i removed them, it worked.

the contents of my ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf file is now:

script-opts=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=/home/user/.bin/yt-dlp

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Holy shit this sounds fantastic!

Only issue i have is mpv seems to use its built-in yt-dlp which is an old version that youtube is blocking now. I have a newer version of yt-dlp installed on my computer, but mpv does not seem to use that. What can i do?

As long as the market grows, it’s gonna take people to do the work implied by the growth.

When growth stops, jobs vanish. It’s like the market is the wind and jobs are the kinetic energy. When the wind stops blowing, the kinetic energy disappears.

depends on whether i find them attractive

Hey the french revolution was also about the fact that the government was a scandal ridden shitshow of petty internal politics and stupid interpersonal games.

tbf, most of nobility for centuries before that was a scandal ridden shitshow of petty internal politics and stupid interpersonal games. i quote 13th century italy as a nice example.

yet that didn’t lead to revolution.

so, in 18th century france, where’s the difference?

The Russian Revolution was to get rid of the tsars and make everything fair for everyone and instead they ended up with Stalin oppressing the shot out of everyone

I believe that if you allow people to get power who have killed lots of people to get there (i.e. killing all the nobility), then you’ve essentially made murderers your new rulers. That’s a big part of why Russia ended up with Stalinist terror.

Transfer of power needs to be peaceful. There must be no bloodshed during the next revolution.

Even our language has been perverted. When we like something, we call it good - a word that is derived from god: we put it in god’s vicinity. Therefore, it is instilled in us that everything we like must be close to god.

Satan isn’t close to god but i still like them. How do i convey that in a single word?

well i’ve seen cats breed just fine in “captivity” (i.e. living in a human environment). i think it’s a bit more complicated than that