Because the system under which wealth concentrate privately, called the free market, results in a steady increase of wealth, improving health, steady reduction in hunger and privation generally.
The system under which wealth concentrates socially, ie is controlled and redistributed by the government, tends to produce mass starvation. It is also associated with government controlled labor camps where political purge victims toil away until their own deaths, or are outright executed en masse.
These outcomes are, ultimately, a reflection of the fact that the former system is based on consent and the latter is based on forcing people into economic relationships they wouldn’t otherwise choose.
Under our current free market system, billionaires get their billions one consensual purchase at a time. Under socialism, the government gets is billions by wielding power at the end of a gun.
The title isn’t accurate, so I can’t assume it is.
Fiat currency works precisely because the planet is finite. What you’re thinking of is a currency that’s tied to a finite resource, like a gold standard. Fiat currency works precisely because monetary supply is able to be increased to keep pace with both the population and economic growth. Likewise, fiat currency can be removed from the economy when the economy shrinks (although this hasn’t happened before).
Gold isn’t finite, its supply increases every year and is the main reason for the stability in prices. Obviously this can’t continue forever, hence the finite resources on the planet
Two things you’re assuming is fiat can be evenly distributed with population growth and at some point the issuing body will reduce excess supply, neither of these things are common practices and rarely happen
I don’t know how to think about this, if a Victoria’s Secret catalog arrives in our mailbox, I hand it to my husband to peruse. Like extremely softcore porn? I don’t think it’s for me.
So if you are asking about menswear for a female gaze? Hmm. Maybe the athletic wear catalogs. So like Under Armour website has all these hot male athletes as models, someplace like that.
No not sure what you mean but they probably mean stores that sell clothes for men that are similar or equivalent to the clothes that Victoria’s Secret sells to women.
Something similar would not be equivalent though. I can’t claim to speak for all of womankind, but I don’t know personally any woman who finds fancy underwear sexy on men. I was thinking the point of Victoria’s Secret is underwear men find sexy on women, that’s kind of their whole schtick.
The issue here is we actually don’t know how much inflation there is because we can’t measure the quantity of fiat, which is why there are dozens of “inflation measures” which just study different baskets
But yeah, if inflation could be measured correctly and everything automatically updated (wages, costs, etc) then I’m not seeing an issue logically. But at that point it’s just a fixed supply of money and prices adjust up and down, irregardless of currency type. That sound reasonable?
I don’t think the question is worth a ban personally unless you’re asking for travel advice with intent.
I don’t technically know for sure, but murder is still murder and vigilante justice makes us no better than them. Ok, maybe still better, but we are better than that. Or need to start being.
Lol. The reason I ask is my dad could note stand nazi’s or neo nazis or white supremanists or whatever. He was in WW2 and said he loved to kill them after he saw his first concertration camp. Then he loved…I think it was COD so he could relive it. And today with the polital clliment it seems to be nazis everywhere. I would post a video of him playing video games but he uses slurs that were ok back in the day but not today.
If you ever saw my dad play video games you would disagree. He was in the top ten on KD ratio. And after he played he was fine. If he ever got pissed off for some reason he would play it and about an hour later would be happy.
He was in WW2 I did not believe him either but then we got sent a flag by the younger George Bush thanking him for his service and that he will always be remembered.
I’ll second this. Prometheus + Grafana is what I’m using now, but you can definitely add more extensions/monitors to get far more detail, like Loki which was suggested above.
Grafana is just the frontend, its a dashboard for your different data sources Prometheus is the “database”, it scrapes data from your endpoints over http
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