Subj : Re: New to this
To   : Arelor
From : boraxman
Date : Mon Apr 21 2025 12:06 am

On 20 Apr 2025 at 06:15a, Arelor pondered and said...
 
 Ar>   Re: Re: New to this
 Ar>   By: boraxman to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Apr 19 2025 12:10 pm
 Ar> 
 Ar>  > It seems to me, the best solution for young people is forced wealth
 Ar>  > redistribution.  More effective, and a better return on investment on t
 Ar>  > and effort.
 Ar> 
 Ar> I am among that millenial poor-as-rats generation.
 Ar> 
 Ar> The problem with wealth-redistribution, aka. stealing from a sector of
 Ar> the population in order to give to another sector of the population, is
 Ar> that it covers up the symthomps but not the problem.
 Ar> 
 Ar> Governments have tried lots of tricks manipulating monetary mass in
 Ar> order to ease purchasing power from certain sectors of the population,
 Ar> but the problem is that for money to be worth anything it needs to be
 Ar> backed by something. If I inject 10 million Fictional Spanish Dollar in
 Ar> a household, it won't do any good if the country does not produce stuff
 Ar> you can buy with those FSD. It won't do any good for purchasing stuff
 Ar> from foreign suppliers because nobody outside will want FSD unless they
 Ar> can buy stuff from Spain.
 Ar> 
 Ar> The general problem in Western countries these days is they aren't built
 Ar> in a sustainable way. For any given industry there is a high amount of
 Ar> employees that exist without generating any value, and the whole system
 Ar> survives because of the efforts of a dwinling number of 50 year old
 Ar> workers. The population does not get to see this because Western
 Ar> countries have been surviving on their inertia and past glories for a
 Ar> number of years already, so there is still enough bread and circus to
 Ar> survive by. However, cracks are starting to show in subtle ways, such as
 Ar> companies reaching a market value lower than their book value and being
 Ar> purchased by foreigner investors for cheap.
 Ar> 
 Ar> TL;DR western countries are collapsing under the weight of their own
 Ar> inefficiencies, which is causing them to quickly deflate in value as a
 Ar> whole, which allows international agents to buy the remains and then
 Ar> squeeze.
 Ar> 

Spot on.  If you don't offer good solutions, people will grab at the bad ones made available.  Thats what worries me.

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