• Corelli_III@midwest.social
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    1 month ago

    it’s going to be pretty cool when the USD is annihilated by this

    they really boned themselves by concentrating all of it among themselves and basing its value off of fake proof of work factories

    • CatsPajamas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      If the USD is annihilated the great depression will look like nothing. Breton Woods ended but America is still smack dab in the middle of everybody’s economy. It’s why no one is calling in their debt, but keep buying it. It’s a fucking global ponzi scheme.

      Edit: I just looked it up and 88% of global currency trades involve the dollar.

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        Its the reserve currency of the world. The only thing that could replace it today is the yuan, which China is absolutely prepared for when that day comes.

        The euro could also replace it, but would need additional changes from the governing body of the EU first as its meant to be an amalgamated currency and cant produce enough to be a reserve currency at the moment.

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      How will we crash if the White House controls the Fed? This is gonna be a different kind of financial catastrophe.

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        you can maintain make-believe “all good nothing to see here” for only so long until the reality becomes undeniable. given that cost of living crisis is already running roughshod through the economy - it’s not a good sign and it will get worse.

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          That’s what I’m saying, it’s probably not going to be a crash, just the cost of living crisis on steroids. My moneys still on mass hunger riots next year

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            Even last year I would’ve said “hold ya horses, pardner” but these days I think you’re onto something. The way big tech keeps on screwing everybody while other parts of the economy actively sink is concerning.

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              This is the “planned economy” also known as a dreaded “communism”(1950-1989). We all know how it works. Some unqualified persons make choices on how to use the nations resources and all the sudden food and energy stop showing up.

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                my country went through it - i don’t remember energy shortages but the food shortages were real. That systemic mismanagement over decades with fudged performance figures up and down piled up so high it’s a miracle things weren’t worse. Took a solid decade just to clean this mess

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                  Many such cases!! It’s pretty well studied ant this point. We designed the world economy around food security for the last 80 years. It was a tragically flawed system and was slowly perverted, but the rapid destruction of these supply chains is certainly not going to end well for some.

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    I read through the non paywalled link and I couldn’t find any info on if this analysis adjusts for inflation or not. 17 times larger (before inflation possibly) seems so ripe for cherry picked data points in the name of sensationalism, that I wanted to confirm this one idea, and I didn’t. Did anyone else find anything like that?

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      Ever ask why there is so much yellow journalism around this subject? Who benefits and why so much effort? Lemmy acts like it’s totally normal because they agree with it. But r/the_donald would say the same about republican media’s headlines regarding immigration.

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    And yet, the MBAs continue to pump money into it like AI doesn’t fail to provide any value in 80% of their shoehorned implementations.