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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20h

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 21h

support the trade.
In that transaction the TU has lost half its per unit buying power.

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Discuss?

Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 21h

If the trade value(TV) of Product A(P-A) is 1 unit of currency(1u), and sellers increase the price to 2u that means the buying power(BP) of that Trade Unit(TU) falls in relation. If the COGS has not changed and P-A's base TV hasn't changed.

So the change from 1u to 2u takes power from TUs to

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 21h

authority, the tender of the currency would also be able to keep the flow of trade steady by limiting the amount THEY will guarantee payment.

By paying more it lowers the buying per of the currency across the markets.

This allows the currency to hold or maintain its buying per.

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 21h

or should, be limited by the relative market it lives in.

Based on an index of common goods or services that should encompass the largest possible percentage of sellers and buyers across multiple industries the objective trade value of each trade unit (money) is established.

As the intermediary

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 21h

Thoughts:
A tool is an item or idea that allows us to do something we couldn't do, or is too exhaustive to do without.

Currency is a tool - This tool functions as a trade intermediary with a promise of payment by a third party of sufficient authority (government... Typically)

Its "value" is..

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 1d

It's really any fanatical obsession with the superiority of one group over another, especially if it's your own group.

Furthermore, highlighted by the identifiers of that group are not within the control of the individuals of that group.

The belief that being born a certain way classifies you.

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 2d

Worst still, too many Americans support it.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 2d

If Prince Andrew used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

If Bill Clinton used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

If Donald Trump used Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should go to jail.

That wasn’t so difficult, was it?

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 2d

If a person would die without something, and the only one that possessed opts to charge for it.

Seeing as the buyer has a choice.
Give money, or die.

Is that money given, or taken?

Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 2d

It's a collective public resource.

The pool of currency is a "Commons" of sorts, and needs careful trending to ensure that the whole has equitable access to, without taking from others.

(See "Tragedy of the Commons")

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to have to stop here because I have to go to work...

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 2d

to re-implement those policies. Policies that did cause direct harm in the name of profitable business.

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Short form social media is stupid.. these are complex issues and they cannot be talked about or discussed in a realistic manner with limited characters per post. 🤕

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 2d

Even " good" businesses are effectively unable to make the right decisions even if they wanted to. If that decision would adversely affect the stock value.

The UHC board had refers some policies after the CEO was shot.. this caused their stock to get to drop and they were sued by investors

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 2d

sheet for some of the things they need. Then in a quarter or two they then go back and rehire as many of those people as they need to.

This three-card Monty of assets is required, not because it's a good business practice, but because it's used as a safety shield against investors.

So with this

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 2d

From even their own investment opportunities in their people and research and development in anything that does not show immediate growth of that business with the intent of having the investors benefit their dividends.

We have businesses that will fire thousands of people just even out the balance

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 2d

Because cash is King in financing.
Businesses then can't reinvest large amounts of cash in their own businesses without potentially having the ire of the stockholders because spending that cash tips your assets and liabilities ratio, which can affect the stock.

So businesses are starved

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 2d

this because of things like the fiduciary responsibility of publicly owned companies to place stockholders return higher than shareholder value.

Shareholders being customers, employees, and business to business contracts. (Etc)

They hoard Capital because it looks good on their balance sheets,

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 2d

and generating economic activity the whole of the system is deprived.

They use qualitative easing to print money into the economy to offset the horded assets. We've been doing that since like, the 90s.
Little by little, instead of forcing recirculation we dilute the pool.

We are stuck doing

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 2d

Finite comes in many forms.

Money is finite, from my knowledge, because you can't just "print money" whenever you need it. Doing so causes inflation and generally destabilizes markets depending on how much you print.

But we have this issue with wealth hording, since that money isn't circulating

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 3d

This feels like extortion every time I read a story about this...

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 3d

Too bad my quest is illegal in this day and age.

I really think the "No vigilante justice" and "no ordering hits on evil people" laws are really just there to keep evil people safe from good people that have had enough of their shit. (IMHO)

We're not civilized, civilized people wouldn't take this.

Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 3d

Depends on your dragon.

I'm talking about the Dragons that hoard resources, destroy communities, and demand to rule over all those they see as lesser creatures.

Those Dragons are bad.
Should be slain to protect the whole from its evil.

#Smaugwasabadguy

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 3d

And every time that happens that money being funneled away from public interests into private interests hurts everybody except for those private interests.

You want to know why so many people in the United States are struggling. This is why.

Money is a finite resource.
Dragons are bad.

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Forest @fbos.bsky.social · 4d

None of it matters anyway, it's all bullshit.