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  • It would be so easy to tackle the offshoring of US tax funds.

    1. Implement better tax laws.
    2. Billionaires attempt to leave the country with their ill-gotten booty.
    3. Send Seal Team Six after them like Bin Laden. Drop bombs if you have to. The word “billionaire” should be synonymous with “terrorist.”
    4. Problem solved.

    The fun part is we can’t even fuck up our image on the world stage because Trump already did that.

















  • Sure, that’s one practical aspect of money that lends itself to superficial quantitative analysis. But it’s not the whole picture. Money is fundamentally about the power to get people to do things for you. That’s what it represents. With money I can force people to give me things and do things for me, almost like magic.

    Now the origins of money is rooted in debt (and power). When a ruling body exercises a monopoly on violence over a region, it can offer promissory notes (IOUs) that others value, because they have faith that this ruling body can force its citizens to work by extracting taxes from them.

    Check out “Debt: The Last 5000 Years,” or similar anthropological work on the origins of money.