(03-19-2026, 08:14 PM)sahgwa Wrote: The only thing propping up the dollar though , with all that debt, is our military and our logistics and cultural reach.
It's like the mafia. That's partly why we are in Iran, it is largely about oil and markets.
If we can't militarily enforce our economic choices then it's all over.
So that's also what makes it interseting.
Also when other countries decide to stop 'buying our debt' , like China dumping bonds etc.
Very interesting times.
When they can't make the corrupt system work anymore, then they change the rules .
I dont think I will like the new game very much, if they are able to get it started. (digital shits)
My personal plan for the "digital economy" is to immediately upon receiving any form of digital hoodoo, to take the digital hoodoo and convert it into hard assets that can be held in MY hand, used for trade, and/or buried and/or hidden in various caves here... before the bastards can "revoke" it with their "programmable money" bullshit.
I've already got my own "renewable" means for hunting should they try to truncate my ability to, for example, buy meat with their digital hoodoo, and woe betide any dumbass that thinks it might be a good idea to come into the woods after me for hunting. I'll leave 'em where they lay for the critters to eat, cause critters gotta eat, too.
As time goes by, and as circumstances warrant, I'll find or develop other workarounds for their digital bullshit, too. A stagnant mind sinks, and only sheep follow where their Master leads them.
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“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake
― Gordon R. Dickson, Tactics of Mistake