I love ๐บ๐ธ Bitcoin is Peace A moderate diet and regular exercise are the biggest controllable risk factors for many chronic conditions. Matthew 5:9
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A moderate, well-balanced, diet and regular exercise are the most important steps one can take to lessen one's risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and other chronic conditions.
#BodyPositivity
The quickest way to get on to your feet is still to get off your ass.
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You can abolish profit and loss on paper, but you cannot abolish scarcity, waste, pollution, or consequences.
Profit and loss provide incentives to conserve resources, minimize waste, and produce more value with less.
Of course, profit doesn't justify pollution that violates others' rights. Property rights also establish ownership, responsibility, and liability.
But when production is collectively controlled, who bears the losses from wasteful decisions? Who compensates the victims of pollution? And who holds the collective accountable when the collective itself is responsible?
The environment doesn't care about your intentions, your ideology, or whether you call something a public good.
The environmental costs remain real, even when your economic system obscures who must answer for them.
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what if people vote for economic prosperity
and the economists say "okay if that's the goal then your economy should be run by private property and free enterprise"
You want more and better things than were available in 1940
EXPLAIN THIS TO ME LIKE IโM FIVE
The federal 40-hour work limit was signed into law back in 1940.
Since then, weโve invented laptops, smartphones, AI, and automation - making the average worker over 300% more productive than someone in the 1940s.
Yet somehow, 86 years later, we are still chained to the exact same 40-hour grind.
If tech was supposed to save us time and streamline our lives, why did all that extra efficiency go straight to corporate profits while our working hours stayed completely frozen in the 1940s?
Make it make sense.
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The IRS also looted $940,000 from a Navy veteranโs gun store without ever charging him with a crime.
When Andrew Clyde deposited cash under $10,000 because his insurance only covered that amount on hand, the IRS similarly accused him of โstructuringโ and froze the account.
After he spent over $100,000 fighting them, they kept $50,000 in a settlement.
Before that, this IRS tactic targeted 2,500+ cases and pulled more than $242 million between 2005 and 2012.
A 2017 Treasury review later found that in 91% of the seizures they could trace, the money had been earned legally.
Only after Congress passed a law partly named for Clyde did the practice stop, and voters sent him to the House the next year.
The IRS seized a dairy farmerโs $29,500 bank account in 2012 for depositing his own legal cash in the โwrongโ size chunks, never charging him with a crime.
Randy Sowers put farmers market earnings in the bank under $10,000 so heโd avoid all the extra paperwork.
The IRS called it โstructuringโ, took the money in 2012 with no warrant and no trial, and he spent years trying to get it back.
The $10,000 line became a confiscation tool until a lawsuit, a NYT article, and public anger in 2014 made the IRS announce theyโll only chase structuring cases when the source of the money is illegal.
That's not how prices work for anything. Prices are set by market conditions not your expenses or cost basis. If the units can't be rented above expenses that's a reason to sell the property. Having low expenses means you can invest more into the property and set aside reserves because real estate is cyclical. It just means you can hold on through a downturn unlike your leveraged peers
The Labor Theory of Value was refuted more than a century ago. The amount of physical labor to produce a finished product is orthogonal to its value for sale.
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If the government could not violate your rights, it wouldn't matter who got elected
Throughout their history they have spread their faith through violence and coercion not through rhetoric or reason. When they come knocking it's not to evangelize it's heavily armed and the choice convert or ๐ that's the pitch
Which Democrats will be the new Smoot and Hawley?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%โฆ
That's the neat part about markets supply and demand always intersects at a price that will clear the market.
Between Boomers dying as time catches up (executators of their estates are more inclined to sell to wrap up the estate) and the long term debt cycle (interest rates aren't going back down any time soon) will both put a ceiling on prices that hasn't been there for a long time.
That doesn't mean that prices are going down anytime soon in nominal terms, but when you consider that the government is trying to liquidate the real value of its debt inflation is also going to eat the value of these houses since the those headwinds impair their use as an inflation hedge.
A corporation can't do violence, abduct, or kill people with impunity. The government however can do just that.
If you don't like a corporation you don't have to buy its products or services. It may be expensive or inconvenient but you can.
Giving a deceptive name to an agency is among the government's favorite ways to lie. Then again journalists are spook adjacent so one could also read this more cynically...
Taxation is theft. As a wage earner you exchange days of your life (the most finite resource of all) for wages that the government takes a rake on before you even get it (payroll taxes).
Similarly as a business the government takes a rake on your sales even on days you're not in profit.
Also your premise that it's free issue stocks or bonds is false. Issuing stock requires diluting the ownership of current owners.
Bonds similarly can't be issued without limit because eventually creditors will demand higher and higher yield that the company won't be able to service.
TLDR the government taking money from you under treat of violence is no different than some thug accosting you on the sidewalk.
Taxes are not "theft."
Negotiable instruments can be manufactured in seconds.
It would be like someone breathing in front of my face then me saying they are "stealing my air." Theft is only possible when finite amounts are present.
If you had a handful of sand and you were at the beach and someone ran up to you and "stole" a bit of the sand in your hand, would you be upset and flip out over how "them taking my sand is theft"?
No, and that's exactly how ridiculous the "taxes are theft" argument is.
It's always harder to sell reality than a fantasy. Leftists will tell you you're suffering and need their authoritarian policies when in fact this is the most comfortable and advanced time in all of human history. In the last century capitalism lifted billions of people out of subsistence poverty, and delivered technology that sci-fi didn't even dream of, but it feels good to pretend to care about people, even if the ideology you're pushing killed and tortured countless people, many through starvation in just part of the 20th century.
