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Bitpower · 3d
The need to convince the public to go to war is the only ethical and necessary negotiation that has to take place. If the public agrees they will pay their taxes or buy war bonds. If not, there can be...
lifeisjustreplication profile picture
Agree.

Convincing the public that some war is "justified/necessary" has worked far too often.

Don't you think?

Why? Because A, states/war lobbyists intentionally escalate. And B, they come up with very well crafted narratives.

Separation of money and state is necessary and would go a long way.

But I'm afraid it's far from enough to prevent "unnecessary" wars.

Government would IMO also need to be more transparent and function with much more simple principles so that the public is actually in control, instead of just being made spectators of a well crafted theatre play with the purpose of simulating public influence on policy.
Sirius · 1w
Nostr running android phones could detect each other via BLE and automatically sync events with random nearby peers over Wifi Aware? Sneaker network. When the internet is turned off, you could sync yo...
lifeisjustreplication profile picture
Sounds like noble intentions.

Yet, I very much doubt that governments would allow widespread adoption of hardly controllable p2p/adhoc WIFI networking solutions.

Also, if you look at the members list, those are all the big players that will do everything but play outside government rules: https://www.wi-fi.org/member-companies
Hu₿ertus the Austrian · 3d
Sure, there are quite a few things to agree with Prof. Werner. My main difference with him is not in banking, the need to limit bank loans to production not speculation, or in decentralisation of ba...
lifeisjustreplication profile picture
All reasonable .. but won't this nice strict isolation of money from the state fall over easily as soon as some state "needs"/wants to go to war?

War needs large amounts of money and if a state that is heavily indebted already just borrows more, it's credit rating especially when going to war will suffer and the debt would become too large to handle.

If that were to happen, the state would immediately propose to allow financing by the central bank again.

All they'd (the state) need to do is "convince"/propagandize the public that all this is necessary because this war is imperative/"forced upon us by the enemy" .. which unfortunately works too often.
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Bitpower · 3d
The need to convince the public to go to war is the only ethical and necessary negotiation that has to take place. If the public agrees they will pay their taxes or buy war bonds. If not, there can be no war. This is exactly why separation between money and state is needed.
Zaikaboy · 4d
There's your problem
Zaikaboy · 5d
Did you try to cross your legs?
Born To Be Free · 5d
Everyone has their opinion but we eat raw cheese almost daily.
Hoshi · 1w
if the aliens look good you might find volunteers to try nevertheless
Papa Figos · 2w
for me it became basically unusable after an app upgrade, to this day.
S!ayer · 3w
It's possible especially if Iran was close to assassinating him. I think it's reused footage, where it was 2020 or something given all the masks. They reused the footage and remade the content. Also they have access to high level AI, so it's not Will Smith eating spaghetti but actually good l, w...