Don’t forget debt. I have to have an emergency fund but you just print money and spend it like there’s no tomorrow for years on end?
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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That's because macroeconomics actually do work differently than microeconomics. The idea that a country should be run like a household is fallacy.
Maybe, in a perverse way, they aren't all that different in the extreme. If I were a billionaire, I can take loans out against my securities basically forever. Governments can sustain a growing debt load forever if it grows more slowly than GDP.
Alas, I am not a billionaire.
A responsible company would have a 6 month emergency fund... Failure to plan ahead should not be my emergency
I'd argue that a responsible country should have something like a 10 year emergency fund. You never know when some natural disaster might come along and cripple a critical segment of your country's production.
Instead they'll just print more money and rob the poor and middle class through inflation... which drives stock prices up keeping the wealth of the wealthy fairly protected while the poors stay at the same level of income and have less proportional assets.
What’s the difference between $10 billion in printed money sitting in the federal reserve for such a fund and printing $10 billion dollars on the spot? Neither is affecting the economy until it leaves the federal reserve.
You clearly don't know what taxes are for.
That's to keep money flowing to the people sponsoring the politicans to keep them in power. It's one big circlejerk.
Why do you think we have all these private prisons in the south? It isn't helping crime rates... it's getting the owners paid... and since they're mostly black and brown people the locals LOVE it. Tough on crime... so long as it's not wealthy people crime.
Tell me you know nothing about economics without telling me you know nothing about economics.
Taxes are an anti-inflationary measure that are implemented at the end of the federal governmental fiscal year. Where they get implemented is where politics comes in, but taxes are just money that is collected and deleted. We literally used to burn the collected currency, but since most of our currency these days is digital, we just zero out a line in the federal government's accounting ledger.
Taxes never have, never will, and never can pay for anything when talking about a sovereign currency. That's a conservative zero sum lie that people that don't understand economics fall for.
Um, do you have any sources for that? Wikipedia says it's illegal to burn money in the US under Article 18/333.
It's illegal for citizens to do, not the FED
Tell me you don't know anything about economics without telling me you know nothing about economics.
Tbf, this post is a shower thought comparing governments to parents. Governments aren't individuals.
Admittedly you have a point since parents are individuals in most of the US where I am from.
That hasn't been true historically, nor does it need to continue just because we have done it that way for a few generations. Historically, parents are an entire community of adults raising the children as a group, which does map onto what a government is supposed to be fairly accurately.
Not all government. Government is actually really good and useful. In the hands of psychopaths and grifters it becomes an edifice to tear down because it offers protections and rules.
Anyone who says "government is the problem" fundamentally does not understand the role of government in society.
The reason I said governments in general was I didn't want to single out any particular country when lots of countries are like this. I agree that government isn't inherently bad if done right.
Anyone who thinks a consistently good government that works in the benefit of the vast majority of a large population is possible fundamentally does not understand the role of psychopathy in leadership.
Have you considered all the invisible slavery and oppression a "good government" turns a blind eye against? They seem to emerge in places that stole the reat of the world blind some way or another until recently.
Some problems have no solution.
i mean the people are also kind of like voting for this actively... (depending on location ofc)
First-past-the-post: I will elect out of touch politicians with only 39% of the vote.
Then the people will eat up all the poor excuses from the rich from implementing real democratic proportional representation.
More like we don't have a choice, and the math wasn't done to prove that we wouldn't have a choice for another 65-75 years after we set up the first modern democracy based on 6 Nations philosophy, but go ahead, go off.
Maybe someday the majority understands that they gain nothing if they just blindly obey.
Buddy, I hate to tell you this......but thats not in human nature.
What I have seen time and time again, is people are herded like sheep. A select few will take advantage of this, and herd the masses to their control.
Been like this for thousands of years.