And yet we never hear about toxic femininity, it sure feels pretty biased, especially when in this case it’s literally a woman that’s making a guys life miserable… And yet toxic masculinity 🤷‍♂️

See I’d tend to think that founding a company has to be more than just registering a name. Like maybe that’s the dictionary definition, but it seems a bit weak if that’s it.

Where did I say we should be protecting billionaires? We’re on the same page for the most part (I think).

I’m just not for throwing the baby out with the bath water, which your first post about giving a hundred thousand people a million dollars seems like it might do, especially if done wrong… I live in a small city of 120k people, I can’t imagine almost everyone here becoming millionaires overnight would be good for the local economy, especially for the 20k that got nothing. But hey I’m not an Economist 🤷‍♂️

I’d put my hand up to try that! (And then crash into the nearest tree because I put my hand up to try that 😉).

So much fun 😊 and don’t forget the vroooom

Huh? People that use steering wheel and peddles for racing games have a serious advantage, it’s far more accurate, I have no idea what makes you think it’s too slow or what that’s even supposed to mean.

Most people use a controller for racing games because there’s no setup or space requirements and it’s what they’re used to. Plus a basic decent steering wheel setup is about three to four times the cost of a standard Xbox or PlayStation controller.

I did state at the beginning that I’m “no economist” but I guess you didn’t catch that 🤷‍♂️

Also looking back at what you wrote you weren’t suggesting giving everyone a million dollars, but a hundred thousand people a million dollars. I would still think that would have some negative consequences for inflation, although it’d depend where we’re doing this, what country, town city etc.

I don’t understand how releasing that much money wouldn’t count as an increase in money supply (even though it would be a temporary increase… Is that where you make the distinction?), but I guess even that much would be a drop in the ocean in most larger Western countries.

On top of all that as far as I’m aware the US and probably many other countries have been “borrowing” crazy amounts of money, to the point where I’m surprised the world economy hasn’t completely collapsed by now, prices are certainly rising more rapidly than I’ve ever seen.

Other than the money give away I agree with what you’ve said in your last post for the most part.

Solutions, for where? The whole world? Honestly Western countries are mostly doing ok in the great scheme of things, could things be better, sure, but it seems a bit spoiled brat like to complain when the average world income is less than $10,000 a year.

One thing that I think would make a big difference worldwide (but will never happen) would be if people and companies weren’t allowed to hoard real-estate and houses, or at least strong disincentives to limit such behaviour.

Being stuck renting especially with how rents are getting less and less affordable is pretty horrible, as is having to mortgage yourself up to the gills just to get a basic dwelling…

But yeah, no solutions here, as even good ideas need to be executed, and how are we going to do that???

If you’re going to just dump the money back into the system then you may as well be printing it. Money really isn’t the issue here, it’s the availability of resources. Money won’t fix shit if the goods aren’t available.

If the wealthy own everything what good do you think giving the poor a bunch of inherently worthless bunch of paper notes will do?

Yeah but if you flood the economy with money by giving everyone a million dollars then you’ll have hyper inflation and the money will become effectively worthless and nobody will be better off.

This is one of the ways billionaires can control countries. They have so much money they can literally affect the value of those countries currency by buying and selling vast quantities of it.

As a bus driver myself I couldn’t agree more, and thank you.

I’m pretty sure it’d have the opposite effect but I’m no economist 🤷‍♂️

Always the but… 😏