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Re: The Economic Collapse
« Reply #100 on: Mon, 10 August 2026, 12:30:39 »
Watching smart econo people arguing over the notion, is this going to be a recession or a depression.

LOLOL.. it don't matter what you call it..   You turn off the gas, EVERYTHING STOPS.

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Re: The Economic Collapse
« Reply #101 on: Sun, 16 August 2026, 09:42:18 »
People fail to understand that ALL MONEY SYSTEMS are Ponzi-Schemes.

It HAS to be this way, because Human-Beings are ****ty accountants.


The same reason behind why EMPIRES always fall.

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Re: The Economic Collapse
« Reply #102 on: Sun, 16 August 2026, 15:22:43 »
Ok... so..

We're seeing the talking heads now saying,  Long Gold, Long Hard Assets.

Mmmm.. Ok...... yes and Nooo!.


Think about it this way, IN the APOCALYPSE, what are you going to do with gold, trade it? Maybe in a mini-pocalypse, where fiats scale down, and gold being the original pokemon card, is the "trusted-older-better" fiat.

But in the REALpocalypse, GOLD is useless, people would rather own SHOES, CANNED SOUP.  The GOLD equivalent would be is CANNED PORK,  the Diamond equivalent would be CANNED PINEAPPLES, Iron Salt batteries.


So, yes on Hard Assets, be it oil, dirt, sand, something physical.


But GOLD?   

The risk here is, is it a mini-pocalypse, or a REAL-pocalypse.



Tp4 would lean harder on this-Wave being Realpocalypse.   So what are the HARD assets.  Where do people actually INTERACT with the "Stuff."

The billionaire investor class, interacts on the paper lvl, so he could indeed put bets on Material Inputs.

For general civilian,  they interact with material itself, they wear the actual shoes they can afford.


So, Hard assets may be 9070xts for a normal person.

For the mid-investor class, Hard assets is wholly characterized by what ?

RMB, why,  that's the gateway of exchange of REAL STUFF.



Grimini is going hard on Panda bonds, AND ANDDDDD, their bank has professed hard pivot on being the European corridor TO the RMB marketplace.



This doesn't mean any civilian should go out and buy RMB, you can't buy enough, and you can't take the risk, You're better off stacking Bags of rice, and 9070xts.

The normal civilian will be poor forever, and in an Energy-sparse world, it's only going to get worse.

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Re: The Economic Collapse
« Reply #103 on: Mon, 17 August 2026, 08:43:24 »
Investing in war-torn vkrin.

So, there are some hairbrain ideas out there,  you take out a few million in loans,  Go to Carkivh,  buy a soviet apartment building.


Each apartment go for 20k-60k, so yea, you can indeed buy a whole building.


The issue here is,  the way exlpozivs work, there's shockwave, and while a building might not look damaged, just a few broken windows,  cement internals may have cracks,  and the building would have to be demolished upon inspection.


The BET, here would be,  now that vrkin is deplete of MEN,  lots of average unimportant western skilled workers, could go in, and have a slightly elevated social status, and trade up in women.


Tp4 suspects this is somewhat of a long bet,  since in reality, the dearth in, in-demand skilled men exist in every country.


There is no lack of people to dig ditches.   And if you filled up the whole place with them, it's not an economic boon.

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Re: The Economic Collapse
« Reply #104 on: Sat, 22 August 2026, 18:38:19 »
What is PROFIT.

Profit is , you make the difference between what IT cost you, vs what you sell IT for.

So, really it's an informational difference, gatekeeping.

Functionally, it's no different than organized theft.


But theft is inaccurate, because in reality, you don't own anything, you only claim that you do.

Theft is then not wrong, as morality does not exist absent artificial structure.


Theft, like any other endeavor, is merely the actuation of the perceived path of survival, as a necessity.


Then we're left with, anything goes. 

BUT Where then can you cleave good from evil.


Limited by the act of cognition, we only process some frames of reality,  if the frames are large enough in scope (feed the hungry), crossing a chosen threshold,  we call it Good,  if the frames are unusually small in scope (steal computer mouse),  we call it EVIL. 


That's it,  how good you can be is merely the breadth of your empathy,   how evil you are is merely the narrowness of any pursuit.


All attributes, the size of stone or human personality are genetically cast across the spectrum between dualities.


And it is only via the searching does the "semblance" of "sustained reality" come about.




We're in a bind, because if we never got into binds, we'd never know which sharp rock one should not attempt to sleep on.



Optimists see that collapse MAY lead to renneissance.

Pessimists see that collapse MAY merely flame out.


The universe, Tp4 suspects does all things, for without which it would be bored.

In that Great Mess, is our silly civilization, an experiment perhaps, more likely only 1 color of the universe's set of pastels.

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Re: The Economic Collapse
« Reply #105 on: Sat, 22 August 2026, 18:50:00 »
I'm a year behind on rent and bills teetering on being kicked out, have just enough food to get through today and tomorrow, and bank account is overdrawn.
The American dream?
I feel like I should be more stressed about my situation, but it is so far removed from my control it feels like a slow motion car crash.

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Re: The Economic Collapse
« Reply #106 on: Sat, 22 August 2026, 19:43:12 »
The way the economy works is,  it must grow, EXPONENTIALLY,  or it collapses.

That's just in the nature of the existing accounting system.


Now that we have a global energy shortage of nearing 15-20% for what looks like indefinitely,

That system can't grow, and therefore, it MUST collapse.


So, here comes the CREATIVE_Accounting, to change the rules.   But we're creating new claims for the same 20% LESS of everything.


Which is to say, INFLATION+++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Re: The Economic Collapse
« Reply #107 on: Sat, 22 August 2026, 19:49:31 »
No society can survive without a sustainable working class. AI is just accelerating the elimination of lower and middle income households. They won't end up with an indentured slave class like they think.

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Re: The Economic Collapse
« Reply #108 on: Sun, 23 August 2026, 07:03:17 »
So, ur00p peeps may be wondering,

Why is my gobamnt so bad, why are they this delusional, and EVEN FACING OBVIOUS collapse, they chooose nonsense which would be detrimental to themselves.


Ah.... so you see, that gobamnt doesn't represent you, and YOU DON"T HAVE DEMOCRACY.

In peace time, this ALWAYS happens, the economi guys buy out everything, and profit is maximized, until everything fails.

The "alleged" leaders,  are defacto/for-rell powerless, BECASUE,  they use the banking system.  So, whoever owns the bank,  THEY run it all.  What they say goes.

All wars are bankers wars.  Old adage,  Always true.   


Xept Jahyna,
they actually have banks subordinate to the State, and they accel at every damn thing, there's still corruption of course,  but in every metric that matters,  they've got a better system.

You can't replicate it in the US / ur00p / the west, because we don't have the ethics/ culture/ education lvl to do it.

Most 'mooririkns  are functionally illiterate, is the bulk of the problem, this was deliberate, similar with most ur00pns.




Are things moving in the righ direction for ur00p,  honestly no.  Tp4 doesn't believe nethn short of (i _VL war would help the average citizen (long term)..

short term,  if you can get a farm n sum'gunz, get a farm n sum'gunz.

You need at least 100-200 competent people on the farm for adequate defence, social structure, job distribution.

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Re: The Economic Collapse
« Reply #109 on: Sun, 23 August 2026, 07:10:52 »
https://whattheythink.com/articles/129229-surge-functional-illiteracy-signals-trouble-ahead-us/


We can't compete in globalization, WITH THIS. __^^^^^^^^^^^^

If the plan is to end globalization, well that's not a solution, we literally produce nothing of daily use, from coat-hangers to laptops. 



THE IDEA WAS,  well, we need bodies for the meat grindr,  so at the very worst,  we'll have people we can send into that.

MILITARY industrial money money money.


Ok,   TURNS OUT,   they were right about having PEOPLE to put into it,  they were WRONG about what constitutes A MILITARY   in the 2020s.


Now, those meat bags are useless.  The INDUSTRIAL-Base is the only thing that matters,  can you churn out Massive long-range-stand-off munitions, ON TIME,  AT LOW COST,  OF Sufficient-Quality.

The answer is no,  we can't do that,  we don't have everything at the front of that chain.


F35 = trash tier in modern war, they're nearly useless.  The program posts a fantastic 25% readiness.

If you buy 4 planes, only 1 works at any one time.  That's how **** tier it is.   Which is why they still mostly roll the F16s

Soldiers = trash tier in modern war,   they're nearly useless.  Dronz blow them up.


So, we're in a situation,
where our MOST expensive, and, LEAST expensive military expense are BOTH USELSS> !!



So if it's all down to the dronz,  and you have NO MANUFACTURING BASE,   what is the outcome.


Financialization is our downfall.  Making money Out-Of   Money, because CapEX is HARD.  Apparently Too-Hard.


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Re: The Economic Collapse
« Reply #110 on: Sun, 23 August 2026, 09:20:06 »
Monetary interventions.


It's just kicking the can on the numbers.


If you have 5 loaves of bread in the world, and NOW, you have 4.


It doens't matter how much you print or un-print  MONEY,    you HAVE whatever pile of money pursuing the same FEWER loaves of bread.


THE TRICK IS,   for a WHILE,  a short WHILE,   we were able to TAKE THAT BREAD BY FORCE.


Now we're not able to do that.    WHAT's the Plan ??


This is where they want to use nv(lr wepns,

---GIVE US THE BREAD,  or WE BLOW IT UP.


PROBLEM,  THEY can also blwo up the bread...   so if at this junction YOU SPEND MORE, on the BLOWing UP,  you STILL DON"T GET THE BREAD.


That bread never belonged to us.  We're not sitting on it.   That's just how it works.