Comments by "Gen Ohmni" (@KingOhmni) on "Stoic Finance"
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Break up monopolies, encourage SMEs over Corporates like Amazon (MCAP tied, not employment numbers or profits that Bezos can legalese his way out of but your local owned store can't), outlaw or make very bloody difficult the Lobbyists that wine and dine politicians to get regulations that benefit them passed. EG a person has a 3 bedroom house and decides to rent a bedroom. They must make their entire home disabled compliant otherewise they would fall foul of anti discrimination laws here in the UK.
That kind of expectation should be made of a corporate or even a private landlord with a portfolio but a person just seeking to leverage some extra income from unused bedrooms? No. But having them subject to such redtape benefits the larger institutions by making it harder for eeveryday people to enter the market which in turn protects a large chunk of market share for the banks/institutions etc. Also while some may find it objectionable reduce the tax thresholds or dare I say do away with the so called progressive tax code. If all pay 10% tax then a person earning 10k a year pays less tax than someone earning 100k. That alone would grow the middle class and even allow us peons to nibble at the feet of the upper class whilst at the same time dening bloated governments budgets their lifeblood. "Government has no money but your money." In the words of Maggie Thatcher and it's about bloody time politicians started using taxes more responsibly.
And if some think doing away with a progressive tax scale (one of the 4 planks of communism as laid out by Karl Marx btw...just pointing that out for all the muh hyper late stage capitalists, we anit had that since, what, creation of the FED? Anyway.) Is a tad beyond the pale then get this idea.
You want more affordable housing enmass to break the rental destiny being laid out for us? Stop letting politicians insist only triple A energy rated, Kyoto Protocol, Paris Accord, Agenda 2030 complient housing be built. Kinda artifically pushing up the cost of housing is it not. But the climate crisis! Meh, ever heard of a Hegelian dialectic? Anyway. Countries need to be building a bunch of low spec, not dog shit, but not stuffed full of smart tech, triple glazing and solar panels etc, housing. But they are not. They are just offering cheap debt to get first timer buyers into a market that one could argue is in a bubble. Same here in UK but it's more everything being bought either by foriegn investors and banks or being turned into student accomodation that is taken up by the influx of illegal economic migrants that Frau Merkel helped usher into the EU since 2015.
It really has been a shitshow the past 2 decades and since 2016 I've been saying to myself. The next year can't be more crazy than the last. Surely... All the best dude and a merry christmas.
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@Son37Lumiere Too easy. I've never read any Ayn Rand as I consider her a fart huffer. I mean, she wrote a book about how nobody gives a shit and then got depressed when nobody gave a shit. Derp indeed. Now how did the Rubber Barons amass that wealth? Or even Standard OIl and the forces behind the various companies it was broken up into? Your oh so shiny government allowed them to becasue government is full of fallible humans. So the smaller the government the less scope for absolute corruption. But you are arguing for the biggest scope of government there could be.
So if we want to solve modern problems then more government is not the answer if you give a hoot about corruption and the ability of the everyday person to get on in life.
Now if there was validity in your claim surrounding the barons then why is Bezos Bezos right now? Because of Governments the world over jumping into bed with him and it did not take an army of lobbyists (something that should be outlawed in it's entirety but how could I, a capitalist, possiblly support that!). The model you espouse encourages this kind of state and governemnt meshing and. Well. Ibjectively speaking fascism can best be described as a joint venture between state and corporation. So careful what you wish for eh...
And you think government will save the day? Last I checked it was governments who created most problems through most of history. Great Depression? Fault of the FED, they even admitted as such some years back so don't go denying it by blaming a roaring 20s style market. 2007 crash? Governments forcing banks to give cheap mortages to people who could not possibly pay them in a month of sundays while also allowing and encouraging the casino arms of banks to live on Fractional Reserve Banking debt.
Besdies there's something intrisically disgusting, to me anyway, to the premise that only the government can safely and effectivewly enforce standards, morality, determine profits, ownership etc etc as it means the everyday person must be fallen beyond redemption.
Oh and anudda strawman. " Do you understand what creates pollution" I'll think you'll finnd a system with planned obsolensecne (something that could only routinely appear when compeition over marketshare is abandoned fyi and how does a small start up compete with a top 100 listed Co, again. YOu can thank politicians and governments for that situation) outlawed and everyone is using electric this and that you will still have pollution. Dude. YOu are better than that shitty talking point. And believe it or not but this filthy capitalist spijon actually agrees with you re planned obsolescence, I just don't agree with how it came about however let us part ways agreeing to do what we can to push a rejection of the use once and throw away culture.
PS. You ducked my profit driven farmer point. Booooo. But still, all the best. Have a good day etc etc.
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