asciilifeform: (ignores the turkey-rationing aspect)
asciilifeform: anyone who bothered to think for five minutes. and yes, 'basic money' appealed to me as a student, because 'what can it possibly cost to feed maxint folks like me, almost nothing' but this is a classic partial differentiation mistake
asciilifeform: aha i recall that one. but i don't think anybody is thinking of ~it~ when he wants 'basic...'
asciilifeform: until then i'll slowly kill myself working like the other working folk
asciilifeform: wake me up when basic roquefort, basic country house, and basic electron microscope.
asciilifeform: i do wonder, do the 'basic income' folks simply not understand the hierarchical role of money? or think that it can be magicked away? or do not, but lie about it ?☟︎
asciilifeform: he only response will be an echo, as tumbleweeds blow across the abandoned oil fields.'
asciilifeform: 'A similar problem exists with the biggest futures market in the world: in crude oil. Here, traders have been having a merry old time taking advantage of a notional glut, driving the price of crude lower and lower. They could drive it as low as $1 a barrel, but then what? The problem is, nobody on earth can produce oil that cheaply, and so a day will come when somebody will demand delivery on their $1/bbl crude contract, and t
asciilifeform: farmer - knows how to deal with the bull.
asciilifeform: any more than stampeding bulls are partizans on a farm.
asciilifeform: but in point of fact there are no partizans in usa.
asciilifeform: (even the urban black gangs are better candidates...)
asciilifeform: i know that mircea_popescu gotta have his 'tough, resourceful partizans vs cowardly, blundering polizei' narrative. but look for it elsewhere.
asciilifeform: as demonstrated by every single interaction between them and usg, ever, to date.
asciilifeform: they are the full intellectual equals of the new york death ray schmuck
asciilifeform: usaschwitz 'militia' folk are not pashtuns. they come from the same broken culture as everybody else.
asciilifeform dreamed that the only type of meat now permitted was: worm, and was touring a former sausage factory, where they still made sausages, but never sold'em - only hung them up in specially-made racks to be infested by worms and converted entirely to them, before shipment
