Why central.banks are stuck.printing money
Yanis Varoufakis on the death of capitalism, Starmer and the tyranny of big tech
https://youtu.be/Q9lJQONTC7Y
@2a48eef0 The many kingdoms and empires of europe and the middle east all faired for quite a long time, freely mixing territories and populations. Racist nationalism arose only because the bourgeois found it useful to conduct wars against each other
@1b150101
> If you're willing to ignore the fact, that these rich people are rich, because of government contracts
They aren't. Capital attracts capital, as having a larger starting capital enables to perform larger investiments and obtain larger returns than those who have less money. The goverment is but another client in this regard, and like all other consumers, it can be compelled to spend money.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_accumulation
> that are predicated on a condition, that the recipient sends the money back
You state that, but the fact that that the money flows mostly from the bourgeois to politics, with the bourgeois holding the largest amount of money, says otherwise.
@1b150101
> There is no free market. Especially for people who print money.
> You cannot buy someone with a money printer. That shouldn't be a hard concept.
Nonsense
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_pulitehttps://www.statista.com/statistics/257368/total-lobbying-expenses-in-the-us-by-sector/
> Do you remember all the "my dad is bigger then yours" arguments on playground? Well, this is the same case. The politicians can go "my bank account is bigger then yours", and they WILL BE CORRECT.
You seem to willingly confuse the public admin's budget with the personal account of elected politicians. Your " They can say my bank account is bigger then yours" falls apart just by checking who are the richest people on the planet: all of them are bourgeois entrepreneurs, who casually invest a lot in lobbying.
This establishes the rich bourgeois as the ones holding power, while the state is on the downstream side of this relationship.
@1b150101
> Yes. They steal from everyone. That makes it even less fair. I ilustrated an example, where the taxed population was 1, because I wanted to simplify it. 🤦♂️
Because of capital's influence over the state.
> Yes... That is called a magic tric. Do you seriously think your dad stole your nose? The mere fact, that they spend your money in a longer process doesn't mean it didn't happen.
I'm not even sure what' you're trying to point to here. Of course money will be spent from the pool of resources, and those ought to be to the benefit of the community, which, with capital around, isn't the case.
> thus bound to their electorate
> They provide NOTHING to me. They cannot even make sure to keep the fucking inflation down.
Roads, police, sewerage, military defense, welfare as an "insurance" to those who are showed into the reserve army of labour, cleaning of public land, emergency services and so on. Could more of that be directed to the public good? Of course yes, but the reason that doesn't happen is due to capital's influnce over society, not because for some magic reason politicians are completely different from elected member of private company boards.
> They instead spend some of the money on campaigns designed to hurt me through DEI programs. So yes, it would be more accurate to say, that they stole my money to buy an ammo to shoot me with.
Last time I checked you don't live in america
@1b150101
A) I didn't make 500 dollars via work, I produced more than that value, but the owner curtails a large chunk of it (surplus value) and keeps it as profit.
If I didn't make him more value than the wage he pays me he wouldn't have a profit, or reason to hire me.
With that said 300 is only minor part of the total value I made, and is to bs put in a pool of resources whose objective is to serve the community as whole (because it's more efficient than each paying their own, see healthcare Italy vs US).
Politicians aren't unlike board members, one elected by the populace, one by the investors, and thus bound to their electorate. The issue is that politics are influenced by capital (lobby, elector campaigns, etc...), as the wealthy have an interest to expand their markets, limiting public services and route as much money as they can towards their pockets.
Your example is also a bad one because my momey goes to the public pool of money, not directly to the pockets of someone, and can only be spent via budget allocations et all.
@1b150101 With 999 already stolen, it changes little, expecially when the one pointing at the migrant for being a supposed thief is the one who stole the 999 cookies
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