Randomgal

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[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Fixing their living conditions? Nah, just make it so they they can suffer even worse.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a bit more complex than this.

Debt at the national level is less about "money we have to pay" and more about the "money that moves through the economy".

G7 countries aren't really expected to pay their debt some day, that's what Trump gets wrong.

Debt represents how much their economy is valued by others, the more debt you can comand, the more trust and the more cash you have available. As long as you make 1% more in yearly income than you pay in debt, you never have to pay your debt, you can just keep borrowing and growing. That's the "ideal" world.

And that's the problem. Reality isn't looked that. If instead of using that money for growth you use it for bullshit, like lobbying politicians, you make it harder and harder to make more income flow than you have to pay out, and then you spiral into crisis because each time you need to make more and more money, but you look less and less reliable, and so on.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Gotta be real easy to talk like this if you're not old enough to pay taxes.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

But the lesson you're taking from it is that they are still not worth it, rather than maybe it's important to listen to people you don't agree with on everything, because people are complex?

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

More like Texas I've heard.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

I think once all their former allies have gathered their bearings, the US is goo g to discover that nations all over the world have their own martial and combative ways.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

But Cybertruck owners? Nah fuck 'em.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Of marketing agents. It's good for marketing too.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Isn't this true of all insecurities?

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago

Exactly. They aren't lying, they are completing the objective. Like machines... Because that's what they are, they don't "talk" or "think". They do what you tell them to do.

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