Jesse @kingannoy@octodon.social

I'm not sure I trust this book

I'm at an academic party again

@edwinb i fix

Here’s a bit of a track, in progress. I’ve been experimenting using #tidalcycles as a sequencer/sampler, #vcvrack as a sound generator along with my diy #modular synth. I love making music with text! #techno #trap #experimental

@kingannoy @phryk ─ which is to say, the real limit is not "how much money do we have in circulation", because that's something the government actually decides. The real limit is "how much additional work can be performed given the workforce, machinery, etc available in the country". Implications: Full employment is a policy decision. Tax distribution is purely political. School, hospital, etc quality is a pure political decision. And if they're not top notch, somebody decided that.

@kingannoy @phryk 3) I didn't say taxation isn't necessary, just that it doesn't do what most people say it does. Specifically, there is no such thing as the government "spending taxpayer dollars". The implications of this "flipping" of the model are massive. For one, governments can spend literally as much as they want to as long as they can (through taxes, securitization, or whatever) keep inflation in check. And this makes sense: the only *real* limitation is the productive capacity.

@kingannoy @phryk So...
1) Law of aggregate demand is explained well and debunked in Steve Keen's "Debunking Economics". See also: https://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/2011/12/10/debunking-macroeconomics/
... short version of the law is that "people want more of X when the price of X falls" ─ which is only true in certain edge cases and can be proven to not apply generally or under any simple set of conditions, except in the case where there is only one item in the entire makret.

never not astounding to me when fantasy writers can imagine a world with unique magic and competing intricate factionalism but can't imagine a world without homophobia

outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. inside of a dog is the radius squared times the constant 3.14159

@vantablack my dumbass had to look at the caption to figure out what was wrong

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Set up http://www.aidungeon.io/ locally and am really enjoying how it yes-ands whatever you type.

people seemed to like these so i’m posting them and making them boostable

posters with theoretical situations about what the abolition of police would look like