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2026-04-28 12:41:22 UTC

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@nprofile…29az
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/482/379/994/690/424/original/596bbef69063b791.jpg

2026-04-20 16:45:23 UTC

How do capitalists print money?
(print = get fresh money by contributing to growing global private and/or public debt, which - since 2008 - doesnt require to be paid back)
Here Coca Cola:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_R_Q7cYLJgw
It doesnt need to get paid back, because currency loses value, hard assets gain value and for the profit, more money can be printed ad infinitum - we, the people, pay the bill though...

2026-03-28 09:37:47 UTC

₿ITCOIN
The open source money of peace to end capitalism and turn off the billionaire class privilege, the forever war machine and start inverting the growing wealth inequality trend.
There is a lot to unpack here and a lot more to share and discuss, so This is the toot thread to which i will add more in the future 🙂
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/306/111/020/597/270/original/8b8a862a1c461245.mp4

2026-03-25 23:05:14 UTC

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@nprofile…qyr2 @nprofile…a638
hm, i differentiate between a theoretical ideal and here i agree with you, and an observed reality.
in the US, look at trump and billionaires funding who rules and in the EU, its not that unsimilar. People can only vote for the candidates proposed and only every 4 years - parties internally are not democratic, so what options ppl can vote for is pre-selected and even then, lobbyists fund and politicians do the opposite of whata promised - most extreme recent example: Merz

2026-03-25 17:09:25 UTC

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@nprofile…qyr2 @nprofile…a638
now i can see a small elite or a new elite telling themselves that story to feel legitimized, but thata about it.

2026-03-25 17:08:44 UTC

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@nprofile…qyr2 @nprofile…a638
i dont think that is true.
i cant see it anywhere

2026-03-25 17:08:00 UTC

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@nprofile…j05z maybe program it and they will come 😁

2026-03-25 17:07:20 UTC

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@nprofile…j05z oh, i am working on one as well 🙂

2026-03-25 17:04:27 UTC

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@nprofile…59kg i am on android and had no problem so far

2026-03-25 06:20:39 UTC

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@nprofile…qyr2 @nprofile…a638
i agree, but i dont think the government will solve the problem. The government is the problem, especially since 2008. Its the means by which the wealthy get socialism for the rich
Voting is begging them to change - it wont work. We have to do it ourselves and while organizing is and must be an ongoing effort, supply chains at anonymous scale need some form of currency to organize and we must adopt something they cant print to prevent becoming socialism for the rich again

2026-03-24 22:23:02 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn
i know. i bitched about it from day1, especially because bsky CEO is or at least was a friend of mine ans worked full time on dat p2p ...but no money? before they got bired by jack dorsey into bsky which isnt p2p, but offered monies... and he is/was young and so he went 😁

2026-03-24 06:08:00 UTC

ABOUT: Capitalism, MMT & Money
1. Capitalism
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@serapath/113607225288347506
2. MMT (Modern Monetary Theory)
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@serapath/113607421128455205
3. Money
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@serapath/116282154706929289

2026-03-24 05:49:51 UTC

Toot sized & in a nutshel (for reference):
=> What is Money?
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@serapath/116282154706929289

2026-03-22 01:57:39 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq it will rise forever. and every time the economy grows everyone will get a dividend in the form of deflating prices- why? because if the economy grows at all there will always be more goods and services but never more bitcoin

2026-03-21 20:29:22 UTC

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@nprofile…x9tq house prices are inflation too. ...and this will NEVER be fixed until we all adopt bitcoin and end the printer class...
...we can ignore this, but it just means picking the side of the epstein fraudster class 🤷‍♀️...why would anyone do that?

2026-03-21 07:00:01 UTC

Do you know who George Orwell was?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKdWX5_j76s

2026-03-21 01:49:26 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn @nprofile…zeh9
ah i could probably find them again, but too lazy - i'm anyway done with bsky and i bookmarked the recent ones that show how crypto VCs are running the show - so enshittification is just a matter of time

2026-03-20 19:01:52 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn
just collecting stuff about bsky.
i wish 8 had pinned my own posts about what a crap bsky is. i shared them all in the earliest days and now they are sunken somehwre in my own timeline 🙂
anyway, here is another recent one - nothing new, but just happy to see others understand this too.
https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116261643591087595

2026-03-20 18:07:18 UTC

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@nprofile…j05z so how would you rephrase his into an artist likable way? 🙂

2026-03-20 17:41:49 UTC

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@nprofile…j05z the only answer is to build and adopt peer to peer based distributed operating ecosystem software.
so we can connect, share and even work with each other person to person with full co trol over out data.
this requires to include open hardware as well... the entire stack.
cant be done over night, but its the only way to ensure privacy without relying on politics mandating it or companies self regulating.
fediverse is gesture, but only full p2p will grt us there

2026-03-20 17:38:49 UTC

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@nprofile…j05z
yeah. we need a distributed operating ecosystem as soon as possible.

2026-03-20 08:20:59 UTC

I'm finding the insights fascinating.
"The Global Transition of Power"
This is such an interesting interview and I wish more people would join this discussion to add their informed perspective to it, because I can't find anything useful in mainstream media at all.
I recommend watching it - it can be done on 2x speed - and if anyone has their own take on this or other source, please share 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU2py056D9U

2026-03-20 05:00:49 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn
here some news about ATproto.
there we go again - the web3/crypto fraudsters and their VCs, silicon valley teaming up with wallstreet and microsoft. its all the same folks. its their counter revolution to reintroduce bitcoin, but this time as "crypto"
https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116257600186799092

2026-03-19 17:35:17 UTC

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@nprofile…j05z yes, i 100% agree 🙂

2026-03-19 17:29:36 UTC

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@nprofile…j05z the quality of what goes on inside real estate? ..in the UK most houses are old and moldy and 10x the price of what they were priced at in the 90s.
its because houses became money if we define money based on motive to buy something not to use/consume it or operate a business, but to park wealth with the sole purpose of eventually selling it to make more money or to buy something you actually want.
its ppl escaping from fiat inflation and park their money causing house price inflation

2026-03-19 07:30:11 UTC

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@nprofile…enmf @nprofile…h720
ja der artikel sagt aber bzw. fragt woran man eine verschwoerung erkennt... und sagt hauptsaechlich daran auch dass sie klein ist. grosse gibts nicht 😂

2026-03-19 07:24:44 UTC

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@nprofile…enmf @nprofile…h720
die epstein files sind aber weder vollkommen veroeffentlicht noch wurden konsequenzen gezogen oder irgendwer zur verantwortung gezogen. das ist alles nicht beendet und eine brandaktuelle verschwoerung die zu bkos kleinsten teilen jetzt oeffentlich ist.
...und die als klein zu bezeichnen ist schon irgendwie absurd

2026-03-19 07:09:30 UTC

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@nprofile…leg7 @nprofile…0phl
inflation always makes poor poorer, because as you say - the rich dont have money. they have assets and print money for us to buy those assets from us... the fruits of our labour and the means of production.
we are employees who opt out of ownership and save in money and paper...
...and all the toxic failed projects get dumped into pension funds or insolvwnt limite dliability companies get dumped on "the taxpayer".
its socialism for the rich. we live it 🙂

2026-03-19 07:07:24 UTC

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@nprofile…leg7
yeah, but it wont.
BTC is a sclose as you can get to UBI imho.
Elites will never do UBI unless they can still print and make the UBI worthless because inflation... just like wages never catch up... same with UBI so we all will complain until the end of time how you cant live from current UBI and we need more.
BTC would actually make ppl wealthy, because no matter how little you have, it keeps growing in value, thats a UBI too

2026-03-19 07:04:46 UTC

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@nprofile…leg7
covid was the biggest wealth transfer to the rich in history, including billionaires.
this is one of the worst examples.
in fact it was alos the biggest insolvency wave for small and medium sized businesses and big ones survived...
so literally the opposite of what you say was reality.

2026-03-19 07:01:56 UTC

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@nprofile…leg7
lol... its a justification for the establishment to print money ... why not UBI?
...because ppl would spend it on nonsense, experts have more information and make wiser decisions.
c'mon - this argument would be the first and it isnt even about whether its true or not, but elites will claim it to keep printers for themselves like since always.
there wont ever be UBI. if there will be, then inflation will make it useless because they print even more.
the closest you get to UBI is BTC

2026-03-19 06:26:29 UTC

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@nprofile…h720
also trump ist soweit ich weiss aktuell president and biden nicht und sehen ja auch die epstein files... was ist denn daran bitte klein?
trump ist im mächtigsten amt der welt und started einen krieg und die epstein files ziehen alles was rang und namen hat in ihren kreis und waren organisiert.
Ist dieser Artikel eine Verharmlosung oder soll zusätzlich zum Iran Krieg davon ablenken wieder zurück auf die Epstein Files zu schauen?
pfff.. Es geht hier ja auch nicht mehr um "Theorie"

2026-03-14 23:08:09 UTC

Can True Communism and Employment conceptually co-exist?

2026-03-10 17:49:23 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
Great, seems like we caught up on all of each others messages.
So we seem to agree on goals and many observations. Interesting.
Now somehow suprisingly we differ around the perspective what a solution looks like and where people have power or why.
I can share some thoughts around UBI and Bitcoin, but i'd appreciate to learn more about why or how you see people having the power to change anything through getting people into power who will do UBI & other things you see as solutions?

2026-03-10 17:09:14 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn
I dont get paid a dime to promote dat sadly.
I am a member of the dat-ecosystem consortium and that is unpaid as well.
It is all volunteering work and doing something else elsewhere might actually pay something, but it's just personal conviction that keeps me around dat.
I do have a company and am paying ppl from my the little savings i managed to build in the past to help out working towards `datweb`.
Let me know what kind of disclosure you have in mind or what you want to know

2026-03-10 11:11:23 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
one unrelated thing i want to say is i envy you for your mastodon client and wish my instance would allow long replies, then i wouldnt need to split it over so many messages 🙂

2026-03-10 10:56:01 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
Okay, i read all of your linked articles now too. I agree with all of them but with 1.5 :P
A. The .5 is about UBI, not because i wouldnt want it, but rather i dont see a way to get there without "totalitarian surveillance" so i cant figure out how it can work.
B. the article about bitcoin is so flawed i dont even know where to start - i think a lot needs to be said here, but i'll wait to first settle all the "dust" from our back and forth, because it seems we agree on a lot

2026-03-10 10:49:54 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
I'm not saying we dont need politics and all that, but we need to change the game first to remove the bad incentives.
Imho the core incentive is the elite printing money for their billionaire friends and thus they dont need to give a fuck about us as people
We can keep fiat printers on and imagine we can somehow use them for good (there is no evidence and no expressed strategy how to get there afaik) - or we turn the printers off, which we can do without asking for permission. viable

2026-03-10 10:48:05 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
While climate change makes large-scale coordination needed, an interesting question is how that looks in practice.
Is it us as people doing it in new ways.
Or is it through the "political systems" we have? ...maybe its the political systems, but we need to change something dramatically and we as ppl cannot expect "them" (the politicians, and billionaire class) to help us at all, so how are we gonna do it? 🙂

2026-03-10 10:46:12 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
I guess we should discuss that one then :P

2026-03-10 10:45:45 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
And regarding bitcoin, you named it.
Trump does "cRyPtO" regulations and does meme coins and NFT stuff, because he is a total scammer and fraudster and they all say bitcoin and web3/crypto is the same, but its not. Its all shitcion apart from bitocoin and "shitcoins" were and are literally the counter movement to bitcoin and started by silicon valley teaming up with wall street to fight it
Inside they fight bitcoin with everything they can, but outside they make it all appear the same

2026-03-10 10:43:10 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
This wasnt even about markets.
How do you derive from that we need "out-of-band" mitigations - not saying we dont, but you say we need fiat because it can help, when in practice we came here because of fiat money printing by corrupt elites for themselves. Keeping fiat alive means they continue doing that, but using fiat for what you claim it should be used has no realistic path towards happening.
We the people have no power to change what fiat is used for, but we the ppl can end it.

2026-03-10 10:36:23 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
I'm still not getting it. I said:
> 1. you are NOT on board that MMT is a good discussion baseline to talk about WHY fiat is broken and you draw the opposite conclusion (=fiat is great?)
> 2. you agree policy system is corrupt since hundreds of years of skewed incentives to reward & excacerbate bad things
And you said its squared by:
> ...the way money works has NOTHING to do with markets.
> money printing is outside of markets
taxes are also outside of markets

2026-03-10 10:33:10 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
> Naw, the problem is the throne, not just who’s in it. So talk to the hand about all this elites stuff, I’m not jumping onboard with that.
Yeah i agree - i'm talking about whoever are the current elites - its systemic. The system or game rules or incentives filters for elites. Its not evil individuals or a conspiracy of a particular group.
I'm more bringing it up regarding a strategy for how to change things - its not gonna work through the system we have is what i want to say.

2026-03-10 10:30:50 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
Come on.
International law is worth nothing.
Laws get made or ignored as it fits the powerful.
Rules get bent and people get pardoned.
Banks get bailed out.
The rules don't apply to the elites - they are only a theather and somewhat apply to regular people - whether its snowden revealing surveilance and scandal after scandal or illegal wars - it doesnt really matter.
Large-scale coordination happens by the powerful for themselves and the rest of us doesnt matter unless we find ways

2026-03-10 10:28:04 UTC

okay, just to clarify, i'm not saying obama wakes up to be a real darth vader - but that the governance system we learn about in school is NOT the real governance system - it's just a fairytale to keep us in line.
"The elites" - you see them listed in epstein papers. You can look them up as the familys that inherit wealth for generations already. In other places its royals. All of these people know each other, because they meet in the same shareholder meetings and have shared interests.

2026-03-10 10:22:51 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
> Politics does not care about better voting mechanisms.
Politics does not care about “political science” and how to properly structure politics.
To me politics is a theater of the powerful epstein class and "political science" and so on is allowed as a narrative and to take place to some degree to give the system "credibility" in the eye of the public and "plausible deniability" when accused of systemic corruption, just like economists are not hired based on merit but on publicity

2026-03-10 10:20:18 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
1. agree ignorance wrecks planet
2. agree capitalism is utterly broken, lets "patch the bugs or replace it with better" 🙂
3. agree i'm in the replace camp as well, not patch it - imho cant be patched.
5. i'm okay with patches in parallel - why not - but i dont think its possible or realistic anyway, so imho wasted effort, but i'm not against it.
6. agree legislative framework is broken and imho patching wont work or at least not for as long as epstein class prints money.

2026-03-10 09:39:30 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn every feature in keet requires considerations and new modules that use the p2p core building blocks underneath of course - to make those happen ...and the more advanced keet becomes the more of those are needed.
And then those that stabelize get open sourced as well.
Some recent ones are for example:
1. blind-pairing
2. blind-peering
3. blind-relay
some p2p schemas and codecs and many more details.
dat does not give you a "multi device identity" out of the box, so thats another one

2026-03-10 09:34:56 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn
Yes, thats correct, maybe a minor correction:
`dat.foundation` is now https://dat-ecosystem.org as the evolution of the foundation (it's still a 501c3 non profit public good company, that didnt change), but it grew large and nobody wanted a "centralized foundation" in the center, also because "Conways law" 🙂
Also - you can build "dat apps" without pear and "pear apps" which dont use dat.

2026-03-10 09:30:44 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
Lastly - epstein is just part of the systemic brokenness.
The elites figured out - playing the games of hundreds of years of skewed incentives, that using "epstein blackmail operations" is the winning move.
find the thing that is universally condemned and make sure anyone you let in power is taped doing those things, so that exposing it can demolish the reputation in front of the public to legitimize removal and thus keep elites in line.

2026-03-10 09:28:43 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
Question: because i dont understand what you are saying:
1. you are NOT on board that MMT is a good discussion baseline to talk about WHY fiat is broken and you draw the opposite conclusion (=fiat is great?)
2. you agree policy system is corrupt since hundreds of years of skewed incentives to reward & excacerbate bad things
How do you square that? 😅
Side comment: i don't believe trump is pro bitcoin - that's lip service and elites know its untrue, but ppl avoid BTC because of it

2026-03-10 09:24:14 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
I agree with what you say about trump, but i dont see anyone else before him would be any better - instead they just were politically correct. Deporatitions under obama were brutal as under trump. Guantanamo existed before. Dubious war mongering also since forever.
The big difference is that under trump all that what happens in reality is all of a sudden also openly shared in the media and thats why everyone is so upset and outraged - before that elites imho did the same, but quietly.

2026-03-10 09:20:39 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
The exact mechanisms that brought us toe divide between rich and poor and all the problems was caused by something that has nothing to do with markets.
Now not saying "markets will fix it", because we are talking about the platform on top of which "markets" exist. Without money there are no markets.
But if you have a market AND elites print all the money then they decide what is happening, and not the "market". If you dont have elites who print, then you might finally observe markets

2026-03-10 09:15:47 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
Of course it is important to understand the problem, but just because popular economists have been promoted/selected for NOT talking about MMT, so they can better hide how the system works, doesnt mean there arent tons of people who understand how the monetary system works for a long time already.
But one thing should be clear - the way money works has NOTHING to do with markets.
1. money printing is outside of markets
2. taxes are also outside of markets

2026-03-10 09:12:23 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
So when you talk about "physics", thats misleading.
For all we know and assume, physics is the way it is whether we like it or not.
Money isnt. The money we currently have works as MMT describes, but we can change it. Either the elites can - but they wont, because it works for them - or we change it, but if we do, we have to think about it in terms of what we can do given our power - the power of the masses.
And no - protesting (=begging) is not a power. its yielding

2026-03-10 09:10:47 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
Why am i reacting like this?
Because even without MMT - people have been saying since forever: TAX THE RICH.
It doesn't happen!
So if you want to wait and beg - that is what "prescription/recommendations" are, then nothing will change - instead WE, THE PEOPLE - have to change the system and actively peacefully take the power away from those elites and that requires a different monetary system, one which WE control 🙂
...that, or this misery will continue forever

2026-03-10 09:08:56 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
Now you are saying, the elites in charge...
... which can and do print the money and can also tax us ... the putin's, the trump's ...and imho the fucked up european elite just as well - they are not different but they think - just like the others too, but the divide between rich and poor continues regardless.
...those elites **should** tax only the rich (basically themselves & their friends) and probably should print money less recklessly - LOL 😅

2026-03-10 09:06:36 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
MMT says the elites can print money to take away from us ...and if they fucked up ...and they easily will, because if you can print money you dont have too much personal incentive to get it right, ...THEN you continue with taxes to suck up money from the economy to keep prices stable taking away from the masses again.
We all get ripped of twice. Great 🙂
In theory you should print & use money for productive causes to benefit everyone and tax it from the rich... none of this happens

2026-03-10 09:03:46 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
I don't know what to say.
"prescriptive" is irrelevant, because power doesnt care.
Science knows a lot of things but power and politics does not care.
Politics does not care about better voting mechanisms. Politics does not care about "political science" and how to properly structure politics.
The financial system does not care about MMT insights or how to structure the economy properly
MMT describes our current monetary system, but we can change it. It doesnt have to work this way

2026-03-10 08:57:41 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn @nprofile…pta8
fair enough.
i am just sharing the official narrative.
i do trust mathias aka mafintoshbto some degree that this might be true, but i agree that i only truly believe it when i see it.
luckily the p2p stack as such is open source and the runtimes too - only the keet app isnt.
a few students i'm working with managed to build a basic p2p chat app with video conferencing in a matter of weeks with part time effort.
...but generally thats why i personaly focus on datweb

2026-03-10 08:09:17 UTC

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@nprofile…gtu5
in the early days of nodejs we saw "nodeschool" events ...self initiative and ppl organizing small local meetings to learn nodejs.
we also saw many unconferences... small meeting organized by motivated open source folks and others to join for free and things were recorded and published. dialog was possible and everyone could do it, because it was low effort and everyone can record a presentation.
no need for cinematic style mega events ... it doesnt make the content better

2026-03-10 08:06:52 UTC

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@nprofile…gtu5
i think conferences are not needed, inherently centralized and elitist/exclusive and only benefit the few privileged folks
instead we need small meetings in many places where ppl present to whoever shows up and record and publish online to share. other small groups do the same.
the internet and publishing allows this form to be an effective and way more efficient replacement.
big conferences are not needed.

2026-03-10 02:01:21 UTC

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@nprofile…l5ay
https://www.wired.com/story/signal-operating-costs/

2026-03-10 02:01:11 UTC

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@nprofile…l5ay
Enshittification will happen, the question was never IF, only WHEN.
Why?
1. because signal supposedly will and cant sell your data because its encrypted and also in the closed source server side filter part, no data that goes through can be used to analyze and monetize it
2. because signal does not show ads
3. because signal doesnt charge money
BUT:
Signal pays millions yearly to big tech, e.g. Amazon/AWS big tech to be operational.
AND: Investors must recover costs!
1+1=2

2026-03-10 01:55:56 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
The only "part of a solution" i can see in MMT is finally having a baseline for a discussion of WHY fiat is so broken and unfixable
The proponents actually believe that given the ultimate power of MMT, the rulers will print wisely and politicians will help the people and for some weird reason they couldnt until now - its not because they are corrupt, epsteined or never had good intentions in the first place - but its just there were higher forces and with MMT it will finally be solved

2026-03-10 01:53:17 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
Until now, "taxes" have NOT been taxing the rich - the dvide between poor and rich ever more increases and thinking about this would change once you call things a new name (e.g. MMT) is kinda naive imho.
Keynsian economics is money printing for the rich but a story that it helps the poor, so things have a good name and continue to make things ever more worse.
Thats what the past up to now has been about.
"sovereign fiat" means ultimate power to governments - hope we never get a trump

2026-03-10 01:50:09 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl MMT doesnt change anything about how shitty things are because they have been EXACTLY working like MMT tells it, just that nobody was describing it as cleanly as MMT does - but that doesnt make it better at all - it's still as shitty as it is now.
Successful economists are always mainstreamers who justify and sell the system to the masses - economists who are critical fringe "heterodox/whatever" wont be let into influential important position, because the powerful want sales folks.

2026-03-10 01:47:38 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
I think there is a bit of wishful thinking here.
1. IF the printers causing inflation would be invested wisely the masses could benefit, but in practice, as you say, it does not happen.
2. likewise, IF taxation did take from the richest it could mitigate, but again, in practice, as you dont say, it does not happen.
yes - MMT does finally admit reality - thus allows macro economic thought to be simplified - but at the same time tries to give it a "positive spin", even nothing changes

2026-03-09 21:06:05 UTC

The Oil Crisis After the Closure of the Strait of Hormuz and it's implications:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWABI3ZDl0o
Sounds quite plausible - sadly.
1. Will everyone just become dependent on either the USA or on Russia?
2. What can europe do?
3. What can anyone else do?
Looks like this will get worse and worse now and probably pretty quickly.

2026-03-09 20:51:17 UTC

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@nprofile…l7vu @nprofile…ugpy
Yeah, they are actually imho way more subject ot folly than any of us, because their money printers means they always print more to solve their problems which shields them from being in touch with reality. It shields them from any feedback. It shields them from learning. They have to all "imagine" things in the abstract.
The masses feel the consequences personally and thus learn a lot more much faster, because they have to.
Lets stop their money printers! 🙂

2026-03-09 20:48:53 UTC

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@nprofile…6ywt @nprofile…hgfz @nprofile…ugpy
Great - the rich get their wealth from the money printer - unlike popular stories which want to make you believe it is because they are exceptionally witty, wise, smart, hard working, you name it.
We all work for, demand and get paid in their money (they can print it).
They use it to payroll us all, to buy the lion share of the fruits of our labour and consolidate the means of production into their hands.
Lets start using new open source money they cant print

2026-03-09 19:55:38 UTC

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@nprofile…pta8 @nprofile…3eqn
that said, its currently around 8 ppl working on it and thats 8x10-20 workdays.
but yeah. some of the ppl working on it live in war zones or have hard times in other ways. Everyone keeps their lifes together using ducktape and shoestrings and moving forward.
...good thing is, regarding conways law, that shpuld result in something really awesome, bad things - its quite adversarial conditions, thus ...the slow speed 😁
sadly dat-ecosystem doesnt have "holepunchto" luxury

2026-03-09 19:52:13 UTC

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@nprofile…pta8 @nprofile…3eqn
regarding datweb - nope its not yet ready for "prime time" sadly.
main bottleneck is its all based on volunteers, so progress is slow, because ppl also have lives and bills to pay thus need to earn money somewhere.
...i think this is the main blocker 😅
...if ppl where working on it full time it wpuld have been released ten times over, but yeah.
i would say its 10-20 regular workdays away from being released, which could be a month, but there are weeks without work so 🤷‍♀️

2026-03-09 19:48:21 UTC

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@nprofile…pta8 @nprofile…3eqn
100% agree.
official statement from mathias is keet will be open sourced eventually.
reasons why it is not:
1. prevent crypto fraudsters from copying and offering cheap knock offs easily and then marketing it to their victims
2. to stabelize p2p primitives before they get open sourced, with thebpurpose to prevent ppl building on top of experimental still quickly changing primitives that will later be deprecated and abandoned, which might cause unpleasant experience to users

2026-03-09 18:54:12 UTC

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@nprofile…59kg
i think that is actually a dope idea 🙂
...maybe it could be combined with ideas from overlay networks to reduce/prevent the heavy broadcasting needs in IPX and make routing smarter ...everything else seems to be already better in the IPX/SPX stack

2026-03-09 18:44:14 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn
imho thr only mature battle tested p2p stack out there is `dat`, because it is still improved full steam ahead and has been since 2013.
SSB started in parallel and communities overlapped big time and as already said, dominic tarr is a good friend of the ppl who started dat, they are both implemented in JS and both follow extreme modularity as a cultural value.
dominic tarr retired and until soapdog started picking up ssb, my impression was ppl moved on into web3 & startups doing p2p

2026-03-09 18:38:35 UTC

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@nprofile…0phl
yes, fair point, but this is just complementary to what i said.
The biggest issue is
1. taxation takes from ppl
2. inflation takes from ppl
Humans on top always spend to big projects who trickle down tontheir employees and direct suppliers, but the further away anyone is in this "hierarchy" from the money printer the less they get and end up with only losing all the time compare to those close to the source.
MMT is explaining and justifying what is already reality for a long time 🤷‍♀️

2026-03-09 08:09:27 UTC

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@nprofile…j05z
i think landlord is pretty accurate.
that's what i am using.
swrvwrs and clouds are "digital landlords"
...and imho in cloud environments the technical term for users is actually often "tennant" ....quite fitting.
But this also means the fediverse is still digital landlords 🤷‍♀️

2026-03-08 11:21:49 UTC

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@nprofile…59kg
entirely agree with that.
that is how dat works by design, and it has an option to opt into or opt out of push too.

2026-03-08 08:37:12 UTC

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@nprofile…snmr @nprofile…77c5
😂🤪 Die EU ist undemokratisch - so ist das nunmal, hab ich mir ja nicht ausgedacht.
...Interessengruppe suchen ändert dass auch nicht.

2026-03-08 07:16:56 UTC

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@nprofile…77c5
was fuer checks und balances?
in der EU kommen sowieso die regeln von der EU. Die EU hat kein parlament was was zusagen haette sondern nur die undemokratische komission und seit 2008 ist angefangen mit dem EMF da noch viel weniger demokratie und die haben auch imunität usw.
also es wurde schlechter und schlechter ueber die zeit.
Und mit CBDC (central bank digital currency) wirds absolut totalitär - ein falscher machthaber in der zukunft hat absolute power dann.

2026-03-05 05:00:25 UTC

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@nprofile…l7vu
i think the only way out is to create alternative open hardware and make ppl buy it... do what linux did and is doing to macos and windows ...to all hardware.
it took a lot of effort and when things started out itnlooked like a futile endeavour, but eventually linux won and is still winning (even though you still have later adopters or leggards.
...anyway, open hardware isnthe only way out i can realistically see. we cant beg our way out

2026-03-04 10:35:18 UTC

How much fun the world could be if all the monsters we are dealing with currently would already be gone - but currently its monsters time - anyway, take a glimpse into the future and enjoy 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbTUzCP6IUY

2026-03-03 23:20:12 UTC

https://on.soundcloud.com/AENGs4jBBvyjEfws8r
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/116/167/766/209/816/005/original/bffbfa7121fe1ff3.mp4

2026-03-03 18:34:20 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn
i mean, all of p2panda, willow & iroh grew out of ethereum/ipfs venture backed developer ecosystem and fhey are all new and not as battle tested and not at all production ready.
imho the core building blocks alao dont make them suitable for generalnpurpose high performance p2p application, especially not an Open Data or Open Web infrastructure

2026-03-03 01:39:24 UTC

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@nprofile…lh9e i mean - i'm trying, because how else can we prevent getting lost in translation in the age of memes? 😅

2026-03-03 01:25:19 UTC

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@nprofile…lh9e
the debt based money printers for the elite cantillionaires is what buys them the lion share of the fruits of our labour and payrolls us all to do what they want and allows them to buy/consolidate the means of production into their monopolies.
having so much wealth needs constant upkeep and operating it inefficiently makes losses, but printing money allows them to stay on top and socialise all losses... "socialism for the rich" a.k.a "crony capitalism" 🫠

2026-03-03 01:22:03 UTC

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@nprofile…lh9e
so if e.g. bitcoin is a "proof of work" network, then the US dollar is a "proof of weapons" network.
the money printer a.k.a fiat currencies, here USD is funding and protected by the "proof of weapons" network
fiat money is inherently violence based.
the strongest military captures the money printer, forces it onto others ans protects it 🤷‍♀️

2026-03-03 01:04:17 UTC

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@nprofile…j05z wen JS? 🙂

2026-03-02 08:58:01 UTC

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@nprofile…j05z regulation

2026-03-02 01:13:14 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn
younknow whats not experimental?
dat. dat works. its the oldest and most advanced and mature p2p system out there since bittorrent 🤷‍♀️

2026-03-02 00:38:09 UTC

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@nprofile…ahvu they get their money on our cost from the debt based momey printer. we can defund the cantillionaire class by adopting money they cant print. their wealth costs and payrolling us too - if they cant print they bleed out fast

2026-03-01 19:01:49 UTC

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@nprofile…j05z i think all good politicians are on strike already - you now see who we are left with 😄

2026-03-01 00:12:30 UTC

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@nprofile…3kqn we sliced them and made french fries

2026-03-01 00:12:15 UTC

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@nprofile…3kqn yes. its on my radar at the moment, because it was or is a thing on every corner in oregon/portland and now in vancouver too for some reason and a friend who we are living with here has it in their fridge too, so i used it with the potatos today 🙂

2026-02-28 23:39:36 UTC

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@nprofile…3kqn
french fries with cholula sauce

2026-02-28 20:29:12 UTC

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@nprofile…ljc3 interesting.
i heard some other args as well:
A) lightning payments make it easy
B) mining is net cost after all rewards are mined, so why would they continue? thus few miners for entire network are enough, most listen and only mine to fix fraud (= temporary immune response)
C)
its only about money not all institutions unlike fraudulent scammy thiels funded web3 which wants to replace govs
D) does bitcoin change it?
E) govs seize & btc is FOSS & transparent unlike offshore shadow banks

2026-02-27 20:27:43 UTC

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@nprofile…j05z hmmm... a new invention or something that already exists? ...and is it a good thing or not? 🙂

2026-02-27 19:54:47 UTC

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@nprofile…ljc3 dont really dare to ask - but what is the issue with bitcoin?