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I didn’t necessarily mean best for Americans, any way you put it they’re cooked.

But ya, logistically it’s extremely unlikely, that being said California is already talking about secession. So if it did happen it’d likely be certain states (California, Texas, etc.) And not all of them along state lines.

People don’t usually think about the long term effects of decisions like this when making them, too.

Yaaa…

I was thinking one of the best things that could come out of this is if the US split into multiple countries

This definitely helped answer my question, thanks yall!

Has China given an indication they’re allied with the US? This is an earnest question.

Getting it sugared is slightly less painful!

Alternatively, as a weird kid that grew up to be an autustic adult, he could --through this weird behaviour – potentially find other kids of his ilk (hell, it only takes one close friend) and they can blunder through together.

Shout out to my best friend of 20-some years, with whom I once dressed up as a Monty python and the holy grail character and skipped around the park carrying coconuts and shouting weird things about shrubberies.

Not if you dry them!

That’s completely relative. Literally anything will change your life, or nothing, it depends on your perspective.

Saying “it wouldn’t change my life” means literally fuck all to the people whose lives it would change.

Like good for you, I guess?

Not always, but often, yes. It depends on what your alternative potential uses for the money are.

Paying that large of a chunk of a mortgage would absolutely reduce your future interest costs though.

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You hit the nail on the head with that one.

Definitely a fun philosophical and semantic thought experiment!

Yes exactly. This is why I find it funny when they use two different, yet contradictory reasons to justify the sin tax:

• it prevents people from using it because they’ll choose not to use it (the thing they’re addicted to) if it gets too expensive; and,
• the demand is very inelastic which means the government will make more revenue

When really they’re primarily taxing the things poor people are addicted to.

Idk, I’m generalizing, I’m just kind of pointing out how a lot of the supports capitalism rests on are weird little opaque excuses to convince the masses that exploitation is what’s best for us

So many economists are stuck in a box of what our society has been, they can’t think past our current rules and regulations to what could be, because they think that the rules and trends they learn in school are the only possibility, or that profit must be king.

Definitely not. The rules behind supply and demand hinge on some extremely flimsy assumptions, namely:

• that people always act in their own best interest (they fucking don’t)
• that people can actually choose not to buy the product

For things like food, housing, medicine, etc. People don’t get the luxury of voting with their wallets, and this is why the free market cannot allocate resources effectively.

Just because I went to school for economics does not mean I am a free market capitalist. I’m definitely not.

To be fair i was being hyperbolic. Money has the power we give it. And we gave it too much.

We print money through increasing interest rates, increasing divide between rich and poor requiring the working class to take out loan after loan after loan.

Some may say interest is the cost of borrowing money, but it is money value that comes out of nothing, it’s made out of thin air and reduces the value of our dollar.

One of the main things I learned during my economics degree is that money is fake.

Directly. Yes.

Or motherlode