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Saturday, November 28, 2020

If I were to make money v.07

I like to watch CNBC, Bloomberg, RT, Yahoo, IDX for financial news and talks. Not that do that often, I should do that more often but when I wanted such information those are my go to channels. With RT in particular Keiser Report, they encourage the usage of bitcoin and they trash the fiat money (regular money). 

So I always said that money represents that the holder has helped and hasn't been helped back, or it should mean that. In this time of difficulty, some governments decided to take expansive policies, handing stimulus or giving out cash to people. From a point of view the policy is a relief for a lot of worries, however it is at the cost of the value of money. The same way if gold kept on being discovered or even created in a lab, then people would've wanted more of it in exchange for the same amounts of products/services they provide.

Bitcoin however, from what I concluded watching the Keiser Report, is not as liable to the degeneration of value as the fiat money, I don't want to give false information as to why, there are people out there who have dwelled more into this deeper than I, but bitcoin has increasingly become more interesting as an alternative currency as oppose to gold. 

Bitcoin itself is mined, why it became money is just out of thin air. Gold is like that, Fiat is like that as well. The generation of currencies has not been tied to solutions even though they ended up practically tied to solutions in day to day activities of the economy, for most people. So from there I think there's a room for improvement.

There is a room for improvement for the way we generate currency; conservatively the basic proper creation of money is when individuals issued promissory notes for their solver of problems. The notes act as guarantee to whoever later returned the note, that he/she would be provided with such and such amounts of goods and/or services. So I would start from there, that money should be able to complete a circle and be expired. 

I'm not a revolution type of guy, I'm an add-on type. I don't think replacing what is currently being (massively) used, using invasive regulatory means is good. But if before issuing money, you could specify the transaction that would expire it, that should reinforce the value of it enormously. Not mentioning the legitimization or the validation you could have in printing more and more of it, if you do it right. 
(If I were to make an example with this tiny glasses of mine, I would just going to stifle the creativity.)

Now I want to focus on the issue of deflation. Because if a currency were to experience deflation, then (if you've been in the Paul Krugman's masterclass you would know), people would be inclined to hold their spending, and as people hold off their spending, producers will think twice before producing, investors will not be investing, and the economy would stagnate. The reason, they expected that the value of their "money" would keep on increasing in the future. So they kept it as oppose to work it. 

In turn the consensus is this; a little bit of inflation is a good thing as it encourages people to go out and do stuff, it excites the economy as it incentivizes people to care about each other more.

For a long while I have been proposing this golden sticker idea, If you have the Golden Sticker system implemented, then the people would be incentivized to accumulate them, and to care for each other, and to appreciate each other. Psychologically that is a natural human being's reward mechanism, I say it is archetypal, and it is powerful. I say if you got this "Add-on" applied, you shouldn't have to worry about deflation anymore, and sometimes you could have deflation ever once in a while without worrying that people would stop contributing to the economy. Deflation itself should not be vilified especially if it comes as a result of innovation. In an innovative world, there would be strong pressure for deflation as new technologies drove prices down. I like it.  

In the end whether at macro level as a country or at cellular level as a part of a human body, the economy is not about the money, it's about solutions. It's not about the golden sticker, it's about the level of availability of mutual solutions in reality. 

What is the utility in having ever increasing value of your personal money when it actually means that the economy is in the process of undermining the efforts of the producers? What is the meaning of having a lot of non-renewables as reserves, if there were no vibrant economy to enjoy them. What is the meaning of being able to produce money in the economy, if they were not about problem solving? If they were not for the increase of the level of availability of mutual solutions in reality?

Dude, Justice is always number one





Tuesday, November 24, 2020

Positive and Negative Motivations

Firstly, I feel bad for posting the "Question is" post, so maybe this post' quality is going to be different than the others because its a "make amends" kind of post or "dodgy", but what else should I do?

So, there is the negative type of motivation, like that in the "Question is" post, 2 posts before this, and of course there is the positive type of motivation. Positive types are those that have been motoring the economy mainly. If you see policies that were made for the productivity of the economy, it is always about political stability and the availability of various kinds of resources. And above all that, Justice, the core of every policies. 

You might not be motivated if the place where people say you should go offered you none of your needs... but you would still help people more and more if you'd acquire money. Because with money, people would help you out in return. 

You might not be experiencing the negative type of motivation if you are comfortable at your current economic state.  But Greed is Good, is real. And wouldn't we prefer that to the negative types?

So, regarding money, we know that money is the product of the government. If the economy of the country is threatened, it is always the better idea to protect the money (the value of money) if you're living on top of it. But even more base than that is Justice, what is the strength of the economy if there were no Justice, what is a country without individual independence? Hell

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In the state of modesty we are somewhat more protected from depression. I don't know why, maybe because of the sense of solidarity with a lot of other people. It took a very bad traumatic experiences to produce the tastelessness of life aftertaste. On the other hand, if you're rich... just mere boredom could produce for you the tastelessness of life. And that's suicidal. 

I know the cure for that, which is giving thanks to the people that have helped you. When you accepted or adopted the idea that there's capital in everything that is good. You'd reach out to the contributors and you'll find, how much more that you could do for your life... oops how much more that you could do for their life, same thing. And that would rejuvenate your sense of meaning. 

Life is about problems and solutions, Justice is about problems and solutions, Money is about problems and solutions, Depression too is about problems and solutions. You might think that your life means nothing, but by just being there, you've contributed to Justice. How? by being a human being. Human beings are creatures of just, we are here in order to just. Evil people stops adhering to Justice, but the existence of others will Just them. It is in my interest for you to be alive.

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I read or watched somewhere that negative persuasions are more effective than the positive ones for adults, and I think to myself what an unfortunate reality. But then let us asked, what is the cost of invoking these negative persuasions? Because what you do to others will influence your serotonin system. Even if positive motivations are "less effective" but it is actually cheaper. It is cheaper in the way that it is less impactful to our long run, it may not be less impractical, but it is definitely more scalable for time's sake. 

When we are talking about public policies or the law, culture, and religion... negative persuasions have been prescribed as emergency measures by the most of them. Why is it that in practice we accept those as regular life? We would never end our sorrows if we kept on living like that. 

So the best public policies that would accommodate everyone's life are be thankful, be joyful, be greedy, be diversified, be just, be critical, be Truthful, be yourself, be the solver of problems, be Love, be alive.

Sunday, November 22, 2020

To Excite Spending

In the time of the pandemic, a lot of people saved up their money and this might increase the dragging down of the economy, as businesses' sales will decrease and prices will also decrease below decent sustainable level of profitability. 

So when people spend their money, identifiable by the transfer of VAT or PPN in Indonesia, the central bank and the banking system could acknowledge them. Something like:

"Thank you, your spending has contributed to the recovery of the economy"

Notifications like that should feel good, and maybe another facility like loyalty stamps, after certain amounts and/or frequencies of spending, the bank account would receive a badge. The badge facilitates the holder with the possibility of cheaper credit rates, or cheaper down payments rates. (So maybe don't instantly, universally lower the interest rates. Pick and choose, incentivize). 

Maybe the loyalty stamps could apply for tax rates, or discounts at government owned businesses. And also for certain goods/services provided by the debtors of the bank, etc.

Saturday, November 21, 2020

The Question is v.03

I was thinking about two different temperaments and how it is a bit complicated to figure out policies or set ups that should be implemented in the career world for them. 

The Serenity types vs The Intimate types

The Serenity types' pinnacle of life would be to not worry about things, such as poverty. The Intimate types would want to be remembered, cherished, and cared, maybe even revered to. 

Having these two types together would have these implications...

If you want to keep the serene people modest, you would ignore them as much as you can while they are modest. Then their motivation to become richer and more powerful would be significantly less. 

If you want to keep the intimate people modest, while they are modest you cared about them, glorify their modesty, and keep giving them attention... then they'll lose a large drive to become richer. 

Another way of achieving the same would be,

To keep the rich and powerful people of the serene occupied, and to leave the rich and powerful people of the intimate alone. Then people would lose even more reason to become richer. 

So if you want to achieve the opposite, do the opposite of those things. Sure, but notice that if you wanted to create a universal system for both, it is not straight-forward. On one hand, if you are rich and powerful you could pay or spend for your intellectually intimate needs, on the other hand you might feel a bit unfair that the serene types need not to spend anything to stay rich and powerful and enjoying their lives. 

The reality is, due to one reason or the other, jealousy is a real force and the rich and powerful serenes always, always spend more for their serenity. This might seem fair, but actually, if you left out the jealousy and you leave the serene people alone all the time, they would face a bigger monster which is the reluctance to change with time, to innovate. So we don't need jealousy to "Correct God" or whatever it is. 

Money would be used to buy attention and reverence, it would also be used to buy serenity. For attention the media is official, but for serenity, what? It is always illegal. Now if you treat an innocent people as a thief, he would have to learn the ways of the so called thieves to survive in the community. If you stigmatized certain characteristics of people as characteristics of bad people, blanket judgement, it would be harder for them to found their way to contribute in the light. When would they ever going to gain their well deserving role in the light, if they kept on being forced to live in the dark?

Well darkness is not always all bad, but, when would people ever going to move forward?

Ok now, what is the answer to official tributes to Serenity? 

Reputation management technology such as "The Golden Sticker" could be the answer. Or a patreon/kickstarter type of sites where people could use their money to finance official projects, to finance veterans and heroes such as COVID medical front liners. 

The Question is... what if like most people... sometimes you are intimate, and sometimes you are a loner? Then missing one of the element of the solution would be detrimental as a whole right?

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Damn, hallo me when I'm a dictator right? 

Be artificiality scarcing up the world for poor people and sh#t. Be hating on rich people. 

How did I became, when did this came to be? I've been inhaling too much toxin maybe, I'm Sorry 

This is hateful, I was hating so don't take this to heart. Please T_T I'm Sorry







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