It’s a beautiful time to be alive and educated

Your Story ^ | January 2, 2015 | Vivek Wadhwa

[Axenolith]

Another aspect of that, straight in this "investment" bankers face, is that the monetary institution is currently skewed 180 degrees from the natural order of productivity.

For the current banking system to work (and probably not much longer) it has to inflate the monetary base and claim that that "growth" is the result of economic productivity.

The era of Moore's Law creates jumps in productivity and reduction in costs that pepper the economic structure rapidly with deflationary forces which is death to unrestrained reserve banking.

Even before the current digital revolution, the tendency over time has been for costs to fall as people inventively find ways to provide goods and services to others at prices lower than their competition. Long term shortages and rises in prices are almost always due to organizations mucking up the free market or manipulating it to facilitate their goals.

[familyop]

"I grew up into a world filled with hunger, poverty, and disease" because of the corruption in foreign philosophies, governments and businesses.

Yes. We're seeing an increase of that rot in the U.S.A. It's been coming from foreign minds with much political, business and media influence.

[Sergio]

A common thread in most science fiction and futurist visions of utopia is that it came about after a worldwide cataclysmic event. Nuclear war, pandemic, giant asteroid, etc. It almost seems like these writers and thinkers are saying that what we currently have cannot be fixed. We need to start over to make a utopia happen.

These writers seem to forget that the closest instance of utopia on this planet was here in the USA, where a moral people, using the moral guidance of our constitution, had the fastest and greatest period of growth in industry, education, health care, science, personal freedom and wealth, that the world has ever seen.

What has slowed us down? Immoral people in the decision making process that inject collectivist “solutions” to any and every issue. Interesting that we have examples of what works and doesn’t work with regards to real world governance, and yet without fail, those in charge always pick the way demonstrated not to work.

So, it’s not that we can’t make it work, we have the directions and examples right in front of us, the real challenge is putting people in charge that will follow the directions and examples. I wish I had a solution for that problem.

[familyop]

"That's back to the Liberal idea that if one has more another necessarily has to have less."

Agreed! Sadly, though, all political sides now subscribe to that belief in practice (see local bipartisan fears of overpopulation, local NIMBY-regulator partnerships, using regulatory offices to prevent competition, bipartisan love of federal pork to state and local offices, bipartisan emergency-rescue regime, impact fees, etc.). Some deny it in political speech.

"Make the 'pie' bigger and there is more than enough to go around."

That's been outlawed in many ways in nearly every local, yocal locale for new, small manufacturing starts in rural areas. Property values...pristine views, appearances, you know. Local nouveaux riche commie gangs--government employees, former contractors, government-linked business and pensioners that they are--will ride the contemporary socialist beast right into bond collapse and repudiation of debt.

I wouldn't touch a stinking local political club with someone else's finger.

I'll watch the funny picture show, until they're done, then help to start a more free society in a more free and beautifully hard working and grubby community, part by part.

Build something ugly and useful. Starve the B.

[backwoods-engineer]

Nice Devo reference.

[equaviator]

I saw it listed for approx. $600 or maybe it was 800...I wasn’t wearing my squinting glasses at the time.

[publius911]

Please tell us where you found this 500 GB SD card? I want one and am willing to pay.

I would take a really wild guess and go to the Sandisk web site...

[Celtic Conservative]

Thanks. I thought it was apropos.

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