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Is government by currency the only measurements Nope. Currency is actually more-or-less just an enabler of transactions. As long as you have something that can be exchanged that has no intrinsic value, but which people value, you have a currency. If a forum has a reputation system where users can e...

CrypticMirror wrote: ↑Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:40 pm Marvel works because they remembered to have fun and put colour in their movies.

The Green Lantern movie was fun and colorful.

I submit it's a tad more complex.

Fair question, lets go by the ACTUAL definitions. Communism: A theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs. Capitalism: An economic and political system in which a country's tra...

As a small investor with a personal investment account, a retirement IRA, and nearly a decade of experience in both traditional stock and crypto trading there is so much wrong with this. Firstly the price of a stock going up is absolutely a benefit to the company that issued it. If the share price ...

Then does the sTock market do? That's a great question! And the answer is move money into the hands of those with money, and increase the amount of money in existence by expanding M2. See, wealth and capital aren't easy to create. They require labor, materials, etc. But money? Money is just a numbe...

I mean even before the rioters, the Democrats are clearly more pro-democracy. More people voting should be good for Democracy, because it's literally the founding principle.

Republican survival hinges on being anti-democracy.

That's like saying "if I drop my money in the gutter and it streams down the sewage drain, then where is the value in that as a commodity." Gamestop is recognized as a bubble and the stock market is going to patch some holes in the form of more efficient trading provision via the SEC policy etc. In...

The 25 people that are designing the factory are still providing labor in a way that say a land lord is not. The idea of labor being the predominant source of commercial value makes much more sense for the factory economy, or it's much more attractive at least, much for the reasoning that GreyICE i...

Investors do own things. They might have abstracted which things in particular they own by the way of modern finance, but that is still ownership of the productive materials. If you examine it closely, it's really not. The ownership of bonds? Maybe, sure. Bonds are an alternative bank loan. But the...

All labor requires some skill. The distinction of the PMC is not their knowledge but their credential. An artist, chef, or musician might have a greater volume of knowledge about their field than someone with a certification in auto repair or web design, but the certification is what is changing th...