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Well, thank goodness Joe Bidet has a plan to make sure he gets his fair share of anything they might make.
Maybe, but I doubt scaling up pure currency speculation and garage sales will support national economies, even with techy interfaces. And these are not the kind of enterprises that changed the world from peasant-agrarian to middle-class modern.
Agreed. Financialization decoupled from the material economy is not a recipe for durable prosperity. At some point these things need to have a tangible benefit for the people building and growing things.
Something I'd like to study more: the impact that the explosion of crypto has on global and US inflation. The CW seems to be that they function as an inflation hedge like gold, but as cash substitutes it may make sense to view them as unaccounted expansions of the money supply.
false meme. there is no inflation.
Same lie as in 2012 to cover for Obamanomics and skyrocketing prices when INFLATION was at a record LOW.
- When the government give out free money, some people will sit at home rather than work. They will (presumably) go back to work when the free money runs out.
- When the government and/or media terrorize people about disease risks, some people will stay "safe" at home. They will (again, presumably) go back to work when they either overcome their fear or the baseless terrorizing stops.
- When the government makes it unnecessarily hard to go out, some people will stay home. They will presumably go back when the mandates are lifted.
- Some people got used to living on less and learned that it's not so bad. Those people may not go back.
Crypto-investing is just like traditional investing. To be reliably successful over time takes a lot of research and hard work. Some people will do little work and get lucky. Many more people will do little work and lose their shirts. The existence of the lucky few does not make crypto-investing a replacement for traditional employment. Gig work, on the other hand, is a replacement for traditional employment - and one that, again, requires actual work for long-term success.
The future climate mandates have something to do with it. I want a new vehicle, a nice SUV perhaps. The planned obsolescence of fossil fuels, refrigerants and any product associated with them(pretty much everything) creates disinvestment from and inflation shockwaves. Making what used to be an easy purchase or investment, such as the SUV or real estate rentals in cities, has much higher risk associated. Mandates, Bans and price controls make economic activity stop. The crime anarchy chaos in cities and air travel is another topic.
Not if you value human dignity.
"Not if you value human dignity."

Maybe freedom isn't your thing. 
PPP loans. Small businesd bailouts for popsicle and coffee stands to stay in business and repo/ eviction moratoriums.
Kicking the Can down the Road means its in much worse shape than before, in fact, useless.
 And the ripple effects from that spreads like a turd in a punchbowl.
Why work? We are all rich now, thanks to SleepyJoe.
Well, we will be rich once we tax all the rich people.
The moron Governor of New Jersey actually said it..”If you don’t like taxes, New Jersey’s not for you”.
Gov-Guns =/= Wealth. Never has; never will.
More navel-gazing to avoid the culpability of bad voting propoganda...
Yes! An anthem heard round the world... Well maybe not the world but at NASCAR races.
I'm sorry but Trump would have presided over the same shitshow. Or do you subscribe to the fantasy that the office of the Presidency has turned into a do-nothing job and all of the important questions have already been decided well beforehand by the Deep State & Organized Capital.
I believe that Trump would have vetoed the COVID bailout that was passed in March (after the economy was already starting to recover). I also do not believe that Trump would have attempted to create a national vaccine mandate. He also would not have made oil/gas exploration and transportation more difficult.
It is also more speculative, but I do wonder if the Fed would have felt compelled to keep its QE going for as long under Trump as it has under Biden (the knowledge that Trump would badmouth the taper would make them feel more tempted to do it). Finally, I note that all the new vaccines were authorized while Trump was in office or shortly thereafter. Perhaps the issue with AstraZeneca and NovaVax were insurmountable for any administration. However, it is certainly possible to wonder whether the administration that took apart the successful Project Warpspeed, believes that bringing in any former pharma executive to run things is a conflict of interest, and been advocating for the revocation of vaccine IP might not have the best handle on how to bring new vaccines to market.
 I lay the blame for forcibly closing the economy and throwing away money hand over fist to have people not work at the feet of those in power; Brandon and the Dims.
"I'm sorry but Trump would have presided over the same shitshow..."

Why would anyone assume that the average couch-surfing twenty-something, or even thirty-something, has more to offer an employer than the average teen? I would rather hire a younger person with less experience than some "adult" with delusional expectations and poor life habits.
This is exactly my thinking when hiring entry level positions.
Me too. I’d rather hire a young person who entered the workforce voluntarily than an experienced asshole who is reentering only because his welfare ran out.
We also know that many people will vote for politicians that promise them free stuff, and consider democracy as a substitute for work.
Yep. Democracies last as long as it takes people to realize they can vote for their own raises. Republics take a bit longer.
Free markets are simply broken when it comes to workers. Teens and the usually call to increase immigration and worker visas - ie H1-B - are on order as you will see again. Wage charts over the last few 35 years shows rising wages are the last resort IF AT ALL.
DECADEs of rampant corporate wage suppression which has killed the motivation to skill up and enter many occupations, the resulting pipelines of skilled workers are running dry. Its been decades since USA REWARDED hard work.. the CODDLED investor-class walks away with the vast share of wealth.
At many companies, the money available for salaries has been eaten up by increased benefits and other employee payments that are mostly invisible to the employee. Just like with government, the benefit ratchet usually goes in one direction - more, more, more.

You say this like wages are just supposed to go up. 

"Free markets are simply broken when it comes to workers..."

And where do you think "CODDLED investor-class" came from??? Or motivation to skill-up went....
I'd say the Federal Reserve ('fiat' games), Commie-Education and Oppressive Employment Regulation where 100% responsible.
 That doesn't even make sense.... If you don't like the wage there isn't a SINGLE FORCE making you be there. Go start a Corporation; Nothing is stopping you.... (oh; wait, except Oppressive Regulation).
All these whinging crybabies that can't command a decent salary think running a business is all about squeezing work out of employees and keeping the fruit of their labor yet none of them ever try to run their own business.
Mayhap they couldn't get beyond the first paragraph of the IRS paperwork to even get started on one.
Interesting. Never thought about it but pre-pandemic the person at the drive thru was some spinster, and over the last year or two I've been seeing more teenagers.
Oldsters will be taking these jobs instead of retiring.
"Flipping burgers? 

This is true. I used to flip burger, pour the drinks, and expedite orders.  I'm the only person in the joint, five people working behind the counter, and it still takes me fifteen minutes to get my order.
I hope he's not doing it in that order.
Except now they just want to play video games and trade crypto and meme stocks.
How many American teens are actually employable?
For the longest time, college grads acted like they didn't want to work. During this pandemic they all dropped out and refused to go back to work. Must be nice being the kid of an affluent coastal liberal elite.
So the fast food places around me are staffed by older immigrants. No one younger than thirty. It's crazy.
What scares the shit out of me is that the screaming for more and more minimum wage hikes comes at the same time the screaming has started for a basic minimum income. We get both and we're screwed. I know owners of some small shops who are barely keeping it together with help from their kids and nephews and nieces, but then 'tards with degrees saying that they need to pay more. 
Twenty bucks an hour. Get that up to twenty five (just a couple of years down the road) and I'll take a second part time job for the extra income. Kids (including college educated kids) can't compete with us boomers with experience. We'll soon see all the stores staffed by retirees and kids complaining that there are no jobs for them. It's what happens when you let the kids run everything.
No get off my lawn!
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