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Population, Resources, and Wealth

Thoughts on demographic collapse and the economy

Short clip explaining why "inflows" don't determine price. https://www.veed.io/view/789570fa-f16b-4e61-8962-24a3513ac816?panel=showcase For a more in-depth explanation of why "inflows" are a faulty financial metric, check out my article below.

Money Doesn't Really "Flow Into" Anything

Clarifying another confusing financial concept

#memes #zapathon

#zapathon

Happy Friday frens, won't be long now...

This is how hedge funds provide value to the world 🤣 totally not just a huge deliberately opaque Ponzi gambling scam

“Now, we see excess capacity building in new industries like solar, EVs, and lithium-ion batteries,” Ms. Yellen said during a visit to a solar module plant in Georgia that was shut down due to cheap Chinese imports. “We have raised overcapacity in previous discussions with China, and I plan to make it a key issue in discussions during my next trip there,” she said. “I will press my Chinese counterparts to take necessary steps to address this issue.” According to a renewable energy forecast report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) in January, China nearly doubled solar panel manufacturing capabilities in 2023, creating what the agency called a “global supply gut,” while reducing its solar module prices by almost 50 percent. Okay, let's do a little thought experiment here. Imagine you truly believe that man made climate change is the biggest existential threat facing the planet, and that the solution to that threat is huge amounts of solar panels powering the electric grid. Imagine you find out China just doubled its solar panel manufacturing capacity in a single year and cut prices almost in half. How do you respond? Then imagine you don't believe climate change is a serious threat to the planet at all, but if you convince everyone it is, the government will print billions of dollars to subsidize solar panels, your cronies will start companies to manufacture those panels, they'll collect the newly printed money, and they'll reward you with some fat kickbacks. Then imagine you find out China just doubled its solar panel manufacturing capacity in a single year and cut prices almost in half. How do you respond? Do I need to say more? Could anything be more obvious? Source here:

ZeroHedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Some days at work...😡 So you have a building with 30 interior doors. The doorway rough opening can be anywhere between 84 1/2" and 86" high. HOW DO YOU AS A FRAMING CARPENTER GO 2 FOR 30 AT GETTING THEM WITHIN AN INCH AND A HALF, AND THE OTHER 28 I HAVE TO EITHER ADD FRAMING OR CUT THE HEADER OUT??? How do you not even make them all the same, get some too low and some too high? How do you keep doing that poor quality work and still have a job??? All I know is more people should get into framing carpentry, because you can be the world's worst wood butcher, still get paid big money, and the dumb finish carpenter will keep polishing your turds every time 🤣😡🤷🏼‍♂️ Literally this is the stuff I have to deal with every day 🙄

FREE ⚡SAT⚡ GIVEAWAY, PLEASE SHARE! I recently started a Substack newsletter and I've been brainstorming ways to bootstrap my subscriber list. I don't use social media outside of Nostr, and I'd like to keep it that way. I have a theory that Nostr+zaps could open up a different type of "advertising" model. Typically with paid ads, you're paying the centralized social media company to show your content to a bunch of people in hopes that they'll view it. Why not pay the viewers directly and cut out the middleman? That way they're getting some value regardless whether they like your product or not, and it's just a more elegant system overall. So I'm going to run an experiment myself and see how this works. I recently wrote an article about Bitcoin and money inspired by a comment @Odell made on a recent Citadel Dispatch episode. If you're interested in the philosophy of money and banking, you might enjoy it. I'm going to link the article below. It's about a 20 minute read. So the first 10 people who read the article and leave a thoughtful response, commentary, or criticism as a reply to this note will get zapped 15,000 sats each. I think that's fair for 20 minutes of your time. After the first ten replies, I'll zap each additional reader 1,500 sats as long as my funds hold out. And if you find the content valuable enough that you feel you don't need the sats, just zap it back to me and I'll pass it along to the next person. Thanks in advance!

Money As Equity

We use debt as money, but is that really the best system?...

I've had zero social media outside Telegram meme channels and using TikTok for a business venture, an experience I despised to my core. Started a Substack recently and decided there's no choice but to bite the bullet and sign up for Elon's X in order to have a shot at getting enough readers to make it worthwhile. My experience signing up... -download X -requests phone number, select "use email instead", nice 😏 -answer a few more questions, requests phone number again. now impossible to click past -enter burner phone number -"unable to register account with this number, please try again" -grit teeth, cringe, enter personal cell number I've had for 15 years -"unable to register account with this number, please try again" -😡😡😡 -delete app Don't know if it's possible to grow an audience exclusively on decentralized platforms, but that's where I'm at. A pox on centralized social media, and on the executives who make using it a living hell. Nostr only for me, I'll give it a fair shot before passing judgement.