No one should treat the US as a serious or mature entity until they can prove they’re capable of holding another legitimate election.

Economics is the social control mechanism that filled the void vacated by religion after the enlightenment.

Finance replaced mythology. Banks and financial institutions replaced churches and cathedrals. Economists replaced the clergy. GDP replaced God.

Mathematics is the foundation of reality, accounting is a selective subset of mathematics.

Economics is functionally religion that wears a tattered robe of finance which is patched with parts of accounting that economists find useful to support the doctrine of their particular model.

Like religion, economics can prove useful for a society, but similarly it has no intrinsic legitimacy imposing influence on or over those who don’t willingly and non-coercively subscribe to its narrative.

Where’s the flaw in my comment?

Economics, as an intellectual discipline, is closer to theology than physics. Its power is proportional to the belief it commands.

Finance is an arbitrary subset of mathematics, cherry picked by the owning class, and applied as their supporting mythology.

It’s entirely imaginary, which means alternatives are only ever a conjuring away.

Financial obesity is neurotoxic, an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

This is exactly why economics, or any discipline, should not be permitted to dictate the function or structure of a system in a domain outside of its area of expertise.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Microsoft has always been a law firm in a full body silicon merkin.

Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.

White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.

A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.

They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

The US has been on the losing side of every armed conflict it’s been involved with for the past 80 years.

Its current “leadership” believes that streak is at least twice that.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but trillionaires should be forced to transition into billionaires, and billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.

Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.

Affordability is a function of an economic environment, which makes it an intrinsically imaginary problem.

All governments have a unique ability, through policy, to require the provision of a base load of subsistence resources before extraction is tolerated, not doing so is literally a choice.

Tolerating the concept of affordable housing creates an unnecessary, and debasing, stratification.

To rephrase my original assertion, the first 100% of primary residence demand should just be understood to be housing. Secondary, short stay, premium, and other use cases should only be tolerated in the stock beyond that initial 100%.

The first 100% of primary residence demand should never be anything other than affordable. Any other category of housing should only be tolerated in the stock beyond that threshold.

The normalisation of affordable housing as a legitimate concept is one of the most carcinogenic social infections.

The US has been a nation no-one should treat as a serious entity since 2024-11-05, and can not be again until they can prove their ability to hold another legitimate election, and concluded the Nuremberg-a-Lago trials.

Authoritarianism is an admission of abject weakness.

White supremacists are the weakest and most brittle snowflakes.

Politics couldn’t use religion in this way if it wasn’t normalised and tolerated to force it on those who don’t share their beliefs.