SHOwnsYou
Joined 16 years ago
Joined 16 years ago
This is playing musical chairs with money while at the same time using leverage to do it. The poor get way poorer because what few dollars they do have will be worth less. The rich get way richer because there are more dollars to go into their coffers. The poor don't get many new dollars in their coffers because they have no extra money to play musical chairs with, so they never join the capital pool in proportion nor do they receive its investment dollars.
While economics is basically voodoo, it appears you've stumbled onto a fast track to derailing the country.
The federal reserve flipping $600 capital into $5400 of capital also creates $5400 of debt. Possibly more over time as interest weighs of the $5400. The way banks "flip" assets into higher amounts via fractional banking is by loaning it out. It doesn't just become 9x'd on their books magically. Someone has to take on the debt.
I'm not seeing how this is self-financing anything; it looks more like refinancing while causing gigantic inflation of the money supply by 9x. A $1 today is worth $0.10 after this. This is circular investment with leverage, backed by an increasingly unstable government.
Can you explain more on this actually works in practice? Where is any upside? Current debt goes away, but is replaced by 9x as much debt held by the federal reserve or swf?
What do you think about the possibility that this is similar to rates of other diseases "rising", where really it may be an artifact of access to new populations?
This is hardly a cure all, but has certainly proven to be effective in other cancers (couldn't find references to gliablastoma) and conditions with compromised immune systems.
This is a summary of usage and safety profile: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7747025/#:~:tex....
You may have some difficulty initially locating it. It may technically be illegal - the FDA banned many peptides recently. It is still findable by searching for clinic that supports the use of peptides (they would have sourcing figured out).
I see two frequent problems.
The first is people with a full cart of items. Without the lazy susan of bags, scanning and bagging takes a long time. Not to mention checkers presumably have some training regarding grouping like items and other tricks of the trade Walmart has gleaned over the billions of transactions in their history.
The second is people that are not confident using the software - I hate to generalize, but usually it's older people. Someone unfamiliar or inefficient with the software can slow down the customer flow significantly, even if their cart size is small.
I love it not only because as a millennial that works in software, using the self check and adapting to unfamiliar situations comes easier to me, but also I rarely check out with more than 5-10 items because I go shopping 3-5 times per week rather than once per week.
My first year of undergrad was by far the hardest. Weed-out classes are a real thing. It will get easier after year 1.
Taking adderall a few times is hardly abuse, but taking it when you don't need it is definitely a bad habit to begin during university.
I don't each much meat anyway, but the meat that I do eat is grass fed & finished and raised semi-locally. I prefer the path closer to nature than to the lab.
What is an ethical limit and who decides where the line is drawn?
There is no where to look. This is a fraudulent scheme. There is no way this works in any capacity when coupled with fractional reserve banking to increase the capital amount.
Th core of the idea that could maybe work is allow individual citizens to invest into a SWF and get some kind of priority as an early investor. This could allow some alignment of incentives.
But it's not real. A bigger problem emerges. Investors expect returns (especially if you offered favorable terms to jump start the fund), making it not really sovereign anymore. It comes under the whims of investors, which will all be proportionally high earners. Leaving the bottom earners poorer relatively.
Then you need to consider how it's managed, which investments are made, how are investment decisions made in terms of preferred vendors, vendor a vs vendor b. Becomes a nightmare logistically and really just becomes a target for corporate raiders via regulatory capture or even just kickbacks and hush money.
All of this just becomes redistribution with questionable chances for returns with high risks of fraud due to, among other items listed above, extreme moral hazard of the borrowers.