We've hit an unexpected tough patch, and while the past was imperfect, returning to it will be an improvement. As such, to ensure security, to achieve full equality and total stability, for the duration of high inflation:
1. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment.
2. Every establishment, concern, corporation or person engaged in production of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth produce the same amount of goods per year as it, they or he produced during the previous year, no more and no less.
3. Every person of any age, sex, class or income, shall henceforth spend the same amount of money on the purchase of goods per year as he or she spent during the Basic Year, no more and no less.
4. All wages, prices, salaries, dividends, profits, interest rates and forms of income of any nature whatsoever, shall be frozen at their present figures.
I just recently had a discussion with family about peak oil...notice how oil, relative to inflation, isn't increased in price, despite the world using much much more.
And if they cared to think at all, they should ask themselves what a government will do with money when its use cannot be proved or disproved - would they actually spend it per the people's wishes?
Adam Sanders
>it's bad to have industry 30M people with tons of trees and oil...we literally do need more people to help mine it.
Any Eastern leaf or burger with dual citizenship could make 100k their first year...150k if you have a 1a licence.
Benjamin Garcia
Paul Ehrlich lost the bet, because he picked a bad time to bet when all commodities he bet the price to increase copper, chromium, nickel, tin, and tungsten was consumed in China using cheap labor and increasing automation/industrialization.
So what seemed like reducing prices of commodities was due to increasing trust between which led to globalization, increased worldwide industrialization to accelerate resource consumption, reducing interest rates which reduced capital expenditures, and increasing money supply.
Not to mention "spot prices" at which these commodities were traded were mostly cash settled contracts for difference and require very little physical commodity delivery. Spot prices had very little liquidity too. In other words the prices were not real. They were imaginary prices at which no real material was available.
Now that global inter-national trust has reduced, there will be more blockades and sanctions on trades of commodities so prices will go up. But that is a symptom rather than the cause of resource shortage.
I appreciate the thought you put into this, if it's indeed your own.
Regarding Galt's motor, I believe it is meant to represent human inventiveness.
Andrew Price
> human inventiveness
We need this to the max especially in terms of cheap forms of energy e.g. fusion
Call all Satoshi Nakamotos and John Galts out there to do their magic.
I am just an Eddie Willers.
Oliver Perez
>fusion Sadly, there is a desire to return tot he primitive. And while I don't believe that it's a sanction of the victim, I'd say that we are paying protection money to terrorists (statists)...which is simply most of us choosing to live, with a certain comfort, with a slow poison in our lives.
I doubt that a surface SOL couild be achieved tehre. >575 Private Bunkers With Space For Thousands In One Of North America's Safest Locations Quite small, even if "the size of a city." This is no gultch.
Carson Sanchez
You replace the flat rates used to set the minimum wage with the following equation: (Poverty Wage [AKA What you need to earn in order to avoid living in poverty] ) x (Average National Household Size) = (Minimum Wage) For everyone in the US, this would give us a little over $15/hour. Yes, we deserve that and a bit more to flip a burger now.
Jack Price
>deserve No such thing in a free market. >I don't like free markets Then you will achieve far less than even now. >but why do I earn so little now Spending. You get more now than before. >but people before had cars Our cars are now race cars. >well, I don't need that It's what your fellow citizens demand of the market...do you want them to have MORE power?...
Grayson Watson
I’m NEET. So, sounds like a good plan.
Jaxon Ross
It's a good plan, fren. All the bureaucrats think so as well!
Nolan Brown
I stand by what I said. Raise it or post a better idea.
Isaac Cox
>what do Stand back. Get out of the way. CHOO CHOO CHOOOOOO >you won't
