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I wanna add one more thing to what Kevlar said:
“Stimulating the economy” should be taken as an insult. But the fact is governments (proxies for banks, politicians, think tanks, and corporations) know something we don’t want to admit. They have trained us to be passive quiet little robots. As long as we are passive, we buy instead of build and we sell assemblies of new products instead of innovating with old materials. In other words, as long as we are passive we don’t compete against our masters. So they stimulate the economy by dangling green carrots in front of our faces. We should be stimulating our own economies by innovating, but that would threaten the nice cushy lifestyle governments have given to those they proxy for. So next time you hear a government proxy salesman talking about stimulating the economy, tell him you are already or could be doing that and you’d appreciate them staying out of your way.
The idea of communities rather than rewards stimulating the economy is a long shot, but that seems to be what this community is good at.
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Oh and governments are doing back flips trying to regulate and they just can’t and this infuriates them to no end. And the banks are in the same situation. If they just embrace this technology it would benefit them and us, but they can’t because as you pointed out, it’s not about money, it’s about power. Power over your life, power over your productivity, power, power, power. They could care less about the value of money when the threat of incarceration is a more powerful motivator.