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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TobagoJack who wrote (162651)	9/16/2020 4:51:05 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Recommended By 3bar fred woodall Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 218005

I don't often laugh reading SI these days, but that drew an actual black humour laugh from me: The authorities doing QE / MMT / Inflation-targeting / UBI / Jubilee all very helpful to bum-rush us towards serfdom. It's an unresolved and tragic paradox for me that even while people think they are doing a good thing, they might actually be making big mistakes, or paving roads with good intentions, or mistakenly doing wet work that they believe to be on the side of the Angels, or actively killing themselves in the mistaken belief that they are doing a good thing. So the authorities are doubtless thinking themselves the harbingers of peace, light, harmony, happiness, health, prosperity, longevity, fun and love when they do as you wrote, while they are sending us to serfdom, all for our own good and personal safety, well-being and happiness of course. Hence my gallows laugh. I just realized it is years since I used my peace, light, harmony ...etc... expression. My hopes and dreams were rudely interrupted, mugged by terrible reality. I sort of expect that was just a taste test of more to come, so at least I won't be shocked no matter what comes to pass. Though even that could be wishful thinking as the unknown unknowns which might be lying in wait for me could yet become reality. People actually do think those various things you mentioned would be a good thing. Advocates and operators of them even fancy themselves as cognitive elites doing esoteric financial relativity theory high IQ econometrics beyond the intellectual horsepower of regular humans, when they are really no better or different from assignat creators or Zimbabwe dilutionistas. I do think Tradable Citizenship would be an excellent idea, and a well-run country could pay dividends to citizens, but that's a totally different thing from a ubi but it would in fact be a cash payment to registered current owners of a TC so it might look the same. But my TC would be income tax-free, making profits from rent from public assets such as congestion road tolls, spectrum, water, mining, geothermal, tariffs, tourist fees, etc. Also from selling TCs in limited numbers to newbies. Countries that figure it out will be highly desirable. The serfdom places not so much. Judging by people movements, house prices, NZ$, and cash flows, New Zealand is very desirable. I guess lots of Hong Kong people are making the move more permanent to escape China. Loads of expat Kiwis are moving back. Rich Americans are buying a bolt hole here. The wide open spaces of Kiwiland seem likely to be much more attractive than vertically stacked human hordes when push comes to shove and breathing uninfected air without jackboots is desirable. Or, it might be that the bosses do actually just want a lot of slaves/serfs. Kim the Fatter sure does. Others do to a greater or lesser extent. Emperor Pooh Xi doesn't want serfs escaping to Taiwan. Or Taiwanese escaping to freedom. Americans are owned by USA wherever they live but they can abrogate citizenship if they like. I wonder what happens in NZ if I get in a yacht, head north, and just keep going? I doubt anyone would care. I can't imagine a capture. Arriving is a different story - they keep an eye on vessels trying to sneak in. Mqurice