That is awesome and disgusting. On a tangent, it reminds me of the 'US Govt making money from federal reserve profits' talking point. Yeah sure, just as one would gain reward points by growing a credit card balance... you're not the one making the real profit (Goldman Sachs).
BitBucket killed any inclination in me to pay github a penny. And I will stick with them when my team grows because everything is there anyway and the pricing is better. Github tools are really not there to justify the huge sticker price.
only true if money they had actually represents real work that somebody created then transferred as money to them.
The current status quo is that a bank creates money out of thin air, which they can then profit off. This money they create _might_ represent value, but only after the loanee does some work for the debt. Therefore, all interest payment on such created money are essentially a "tax" the banks leeches off the people who did the real work.
Correct, but that's been the case for a very long time. Banknotes and fractional reserve lending have been around the block many times, even under a 'gold standard'. It's a banker's world; we just live in it.
"Gold is money. Everything else is credit". - J.P. Morgan
Money is simply a manipulation of language backed up by force. The paper coerces sharing (whether fairly or unfairly) of resources (whether labor or physical resources like trees and oil) in a way that does not spontaneously happen without the paper.
A simple example would be without money you barter which is also a manipulation of language expressed through physical items. You need this I need that so we exchange. With money the equation becomes you need something, and you can buy it with money, here is some money, now give me what I want. The intermediary form of this was gold, because people can agree that gold is reliable. We replace that with simple language backed up by force, a dollar. A piece of paper that initially will stand in for gold to establish its value, but eventually will stand in for itself. Eventually we replace this with something like Bitcoin, no coercion simply an agreement in language justified through a market.
Anyone with money would suffice (and pretty much anyone would be willing to provide the service for a song considering there is no risk to them even if they mess up, FB anyone) when floating a stock. Instead banks get to do their retarded song and dance that no one needs or wants and they collect millions for that which enriches their managers for nothing.
Interest rates is why there is always more debt in the system than money, and why capitalism as a whole can be more likened to cancer than anything else. But don't take my word for it, wait until the host dies.
If the US wants "freedom" on the internet and no internet nationalism (which just means that non-citizens get rights too), it should grant online citizenship to all people of the world. They can all be members of the empire and actually get representation rather than just the tyranny of US foreign policy.
In other news psychiatry is bullshit and I would say psychology is not far behind. The whole point of society is that we don't assume people are a certain way until they harm someone. If we no longer do that we're no different from any of the other totalitarian regimes and religions that prescribe their own flawed dogma about what constitutes a flawed person deserving to be punished. Any such civilization should be overthrown because it runs counter to all ideals of the enlightenment.
