Just trying to get by on this bitch of an Earth

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023
  • BonesawIsReady@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why is inflation desirable?
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    3 days ago

    “The idea that money will be worth less in the future, incentives people to spend in the present.”

    Why is this preferred tho?

    Forget about taxes and interest and credit fees or how much money actually goes to a cashier or server for this example, I just want to communicate the idea here.

    Imagine someone spends $100 at a local restaurant. The server gets paid $50 from that, who then goes to a diner and spends that money on a meal. The server there gets $20, who then gets gas after work. The cashier there gets $5 from that and spends all $5 on an energy drink after work.

    That same $100 was actually able to generate $175 in “economic value”. As opposed to just sitting in a bank account where it’s still only $100.

    Again the real world wouldn’t have such clean whole numbers, and employees get a much, much smaller percentage of money spent, I just want to communicate the idea of “the velocity of money”.

  • BonesawIsReady@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What dream job would you have wanted to do in your life, but can't?
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    3 days ago

    I’d love to be a philosopher, but the only job you can really get is teaching philosophy. Which is more of a teacher job and not really a philosophy job ironically enough.

    I work in a metal fabrication shop so I’m usually tired when I get home most days so it would be hard to try and start a YouTube channel or something, and I’m not charismatic enough to just talk openly to a camera and have people watch.

    I still read up on old thinkers, i just don’t get money for it. Kierkegaard is an older one i like. Idk if Alan Watts is considered one but he’s my favorite modern “thinker”, he gave me the most beautiful idea I’ve ever encountered so he’ll always be in my top 3.

    Occultism/Natural Law/Hermeticism also have some interesting ideas.

    Have to wade thru a lot of shit tho, especially in older books. My favorite was someone legitimately believing if you boiled piss for 5 years it would turn into the philosophers stone lolol. And if the temperature changes even 1° at any point in the 5 years you have to start over. And that’s why philosopher stones don’t exist anymore. I think the alchemists would say he had the “gold fever” as alchemy was more about turning a person as worthless as lead, into someone as valuable as gold. And there’s a clue to finding the actual “philosophers stone” in its name.