To wonder why the economy, and people are struggling financially when the government could just.. ‘print’ more money to plow into it.

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I just find it absolutely bizarre that businesses, NHS, education, benefits, taxpayers struggle so hard when money is literally a man made concept that we print and just ‘decide’ how much to have? Just ‘print’ more, if we created money and let’s be honest it’s just numbers, numbers are infinite.. put more into the NHS.. put more into education..

There is absolutely no reason anyone should have to struggle with money at it just baffles me that the UK is the way that it is because of some shite we made up 🤣

Well, it's a technique the government uses under certain circumstances. It's called quantative easing and the previous government used it a fair bit. It's obviously not a great idea as it devalues the currency and lead to inflation.

Money is madey uppy.

That's it.

But lots of people believe in it. It may be the faith with most adherents worldwide.

Lots of people believe in lots of things that are made up. One one level money is no different.

When money was a proxy for gold, you could claim it had a foot in reality. But that hasn't been the case for a while now.

People do believe in many nebulous things, but loss of faith in money tends to cause problems.

Because some people prefer ‘personal’ explanations. Or a discussion. People ask stuff here all the time. Why join the thread if you just wanted to sneer and patronise? Does it give you a little kick to put others down?

Do you think that the leaders of the DPRK have the same lifestyle as those they rule?

All left wing people are automatically good? And everyone who has said what are you on about op is Russian?

Well you live and learn don't you.

I'm off to Google what defenestration is in Russian......

The Weimar Republic wants its economists back

ChatGPT?

Good Lord.

You can use it to explain concepts. I did it today to explain to me what modern monetary theory is

DPRK is not a commune

Where have we ever had a successful communist society in history where there were communes?

I think only really the Kibbutzim system in Israel and even then it only works because people volunteer to live there and then leave when they have done enough. There is also nothing stopping people selling their houses and buying a bit of farmland in remotest Wales or somewhere and living 'off grid'. They could grow and sell or barter produce or sell their labour (carpentry or farm work) to pay the council tax and they could do what they liked. Its not compulsory to buy things on Amazon. Why do you need the whole world to be communist? Just live on your own commune. Its almost as if they actually don't want to live like that- they just want to tell other people that they would love to live in a Communist society.

I don't understand your question. Communes and communist societies are two different things.

A commune is a small group of people who voluntarily live together (often also work together) and share their wealth. Generally they're organised as a housing co-op and a workers' co-op. They were a big thing in the 60s and 70s and some of them lasted several decades. There are probably a few still going today.

If your 'commune' has a leader with a gun and/or who takes all the best food then you're probably in a cult.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Maybe cause lots of us are so sick of hearing on here how anyone right leaning lacks critical thinking skills.

The OP just completely and utterly disproves this point

Remember folks-the OP can vote.

The redistribution of wealth is just redistribution of poverty and misery.

Communism/socialism doesn't work. It never has and it never will. Socialism is all well and good, until you run out of other people's money.

A lot of people who advocate for communism/marxism/socialism do so on the basis, "But it'll be different when we do it!"

But it won't. It comes in one recipe. There are no tweaks, no adjustments to the recipe and ingredients. So, it doesn't matter who is cooking it. It will fail on the fundamental basis that the recipe is rotten.

Now, people who are of the mindset that this is a wonderful system, can and do have the freedom to set up their own little commune and redistribute their own resources and wealth amongst each other. The willing participants. However, you don't get to decide that other people, unwilling in this venture, are forced to subsidise it for you.

I answered this question for my kids when they were this age. They got the full Weimar TED Talk 😂

Like it is in other Islamic countries?

Have you been to any of the countries in the United Arab Emirates? They are some of the safest, modern and progressive countries in the world. They certainly put this dump to shame.

Who do they 'employ' to build their new skyscrapers?

How much money do the rulers in the Emirates have?

How much money do the poorest in the Emirates have?

What are the salaries like for the 'help'?

Are you a Labour MP?

You change your view everyday.