Why do you think ISPs have anything resembling a market based incentive? The vast majority of Americans live in an area where we dont have multiple (comparable) options for high speed residential internet service. The reality for most Americans is that the ISP is a giant monopoly that knowingly and wantingly wants to monitor and police the traffic going through their routers.

In all fairness even though I get your point that its a dumb short sighted idea, the root of the problem is that free market economics cant work as the value of labor drops towards zero and the value of capital skyrockets due to inflation. Automation is going to make a large underclass of people with nothing to offer or provide to the economy, and then to stave off social unrest and upheaval the govt will continue printing money to keep the consumers consuming in response, which further devalues the currency and raises the value of capital, especially capital that produces value with little to no labor input.

This is a big problem that upsets the balance, and some would argue is a key reason for communism in some form. Instead of govt handing out checks, maybe they should be providing out capital. Instead of sending a check so they can buy plastic junk, they should provide 3D printers to people so they can make their own plastic junk? Maybe instead of cash they should supply dividend paying stocks? Or a struggling Tyson chicken farmer with his own land to work? Encourage people to nurture and foster the means for their own production.

If the people of your country are so stupid as to believe unverified reddit posts with links to strange sources over information provided by long established institutions with integrity and backed by peer reviewed scientific research, then maybe you deserve to lose and fail. The Visigoths and Huns btw were actually pretty damn smart, considering how many times they were able to sack Rome.

Romes problems werent that they werent fascist enough and didnt censor barbarians enough. Their problems were decadance, lack of education, laziness, greed, and lack of personal integrity. These same anti-qualities carried through into leadership and led to the decline and eventual failing of the empire. Barbarians were a symptom and not a cause. Just as Antivax is a symptom of a problem in our society. Any student of history could tell you that empires didnt recover by trying to sweep problems under the rug, which is what censorship is.

There is no "outside" reason when public discourse only accepts debate from the lens of two schools of thought. You either view everything from the Conservative lens or from the Liberal lens. Any information either falls into one of these two camps so there is no such outside rationale when your bias favors you to the fact or threatens your bias. Of course this isnt naturally true, but if you want to eliminate reason in society then you do your best to form a viewpoint for literally every topic imaginable as a dichotomy of two schools of thought.

Did we read the same book? It is dismaying to me that this was your takeaway. Nothing about propaganda requires it to be disinformation. It can actually be facts if convenient. Propaganda is apathetic to the truth. The Ministry of Truth was not out there to spread misinformation so much as they were out to prosecute and silence dissent to the propaganda. It was not about the content, it was about the power and control and exercising that power for total subjugation.

The entire subprime mortgage crisis in the 2000s was caused by the desire to increase minority home ownership.

Stopped reading right there. This Republican propaganda was designed by a think tank to try and distract the conservative half of the population from the fact that these same Republicans were also voting to bail out the banks from their own greed, avarice and stupidity, in a collosal deviation from their stated political positions of non-interventionism in the "Free Market". Nope, dont pay attention to the man behind the green curtain, repeat after me... LIBERALS BAD!!! STUPID AMORAL BROWN PEOPLES!!!

This is preposterously wrong to assert that just printing dollars doesnt put them into circulation. This completely ignores that for most of human civilization going back to the invention of coinage that currency was not based in debt. Ancient kingdoms created coins of low value metals to fund things they needed, like raising armies. The incentive for people to accept the coins as having value as an exchange of economic value was that these kingdoms would require their taxes and tributes be paid in coins. Everybody in the kingdom would require these coins at this point so they suddenly had value.

Ignoring the history of currency, it is not even completely accurate for the US today. The Federal Reserve does not even have a monopoly on the introduction of new currency into the economy. The US Mint is perfectly capable of creating new currency in the form of coins that are legal tender, and can be used to pay taxes, debts, and even be directly spent by the US government.

Sure you can argue that the denominations are so small and the costs of minting are comparatively high to printing that the effects of this on inflation are negligible, but you forget that by law the US Mint is able to create new coins of any arbitrary denomination at their discretion. A decade ago, Obama considered briefly a plan to fund the governments activities during the budget stalemate in congress by comissioning a new platinum coin through the US Mint that would have a denomination value of $1 trillion dollars, that could be placed into a vault in the Treasury so that funding the government could occur without needing to float bonds to the Federal Reserve.

Its not one or the other. Market incentives could in fact solve this as long as government is given enough power to prevent market actors from externalizing pollution costs onto society in general. Once the true cost of damage and clean up is factored into the price of something like a plastic bottle or ICE vehicle then the problem solves itself.

Anti-Science and to a lesser extent conservatism in general has been a history of gradual acceptance towards the uncomfortable truth. The conservatives of today were the liberals of 50 years ago. So basically conservative and anti science folks have been historically wrong for all of human existence.

I dont know the reason why but I strongly suspect it is not because they fear American carrier groups. If I could venture a guess I might say they are afraid of world wide economic sanctions.

Carrier groups are not an effective means to carry out modern warfare against a country with a technically modern and capable military like Russia or China. Both of these countries have rocket guided missles on a scale that would easily and effectively dispatch a carrier by overwhelming anti aircraft and anti missle defenses. It is highly probable as well that Russia even has kinetic missle technology that would be able to drop directly on top of a carrier from orbit. Thats quite an expensive military investment for something that is a sitting duck target against a capable military force. So why would the US have 10+ of these groups when other countries barely keep a single one?

The only real reason why is that it is a psychological deterrent against countries that oppose US interests and are incapable of fighting back. Want to pressure a small country to not nationalize US corporate owned resources or put pressure on the countries generals to stage a coup against a democratically elected socialist? How about blockade a countries port city? Send a carrier group about 20 miles from their coast to "keep the peace" and be assured that US interests will be considered.

Keeping the peace basically means bullying small countries into complying with US interests.

I agree somewhat with the sentiment of what was going through your head when asked such questions, however if I was interviewing you and you acted and said the following things to me I would not want to work with you. You come across as arrogant and superior. I have worked with guys like you in the past and I generally did not enjoy it.

You know as well as anybody in this field that questions about fibonacci sequence are not practical in the utilitarian sense, buy are perfectly practical to weed out people who cant use logic and have no problem solving skills. They ask these questions of necessity because the IT field is riddled with people that are less than useless, and degrees are less valuable than toilet paper to determine that. So maybe be more understanding the next time you are asked a question that is beneath you before being unprofessional about it. I have worked at complete horror shows in tech and non tech industry companies thay do not ask such questions.

I would mod you up if I could.

Another benefit of these guilds is that they can often enforce that doctors cannot be supervised by non doctors in practicing medicine. Further, Law firms are owned and operated by Lawyers. They can hire employees but a non Lawyer cannot be a partner.

This solves the Dilbert problem as well.

Read up on Tragedy of the Commons for an understanding of human psychology and why acting in a self interested way with common goods can lead to disasterous consequences for all. The environment and dumping of greenhouse gases is The Commons here. It is cheaper for people to pollute The Commons than to use renewables or clean up their mess. This is pretty much why you need laws to enforce that people arent abusing the common assets.

There are always going to be ways to manipulate rules and hide income, and frankly it is a gross invasion of privacy that you must share all of your financial information with the government anway. Beyond fines and tarrifs, I just dont understand why the US government doesnt just do away with all of these income and cap gain taxes entirely and just print money for large expenditures?

Ultimately with income and sales based taxes, the government is dipping into the proceeds of economic activity to fund necessary government functions. The government can do this in an indirect yet simple way by just printing money. In fact it is probably the most fair form of flat tax possible. Every dollar the government creates devalues every other dollar out there equally. The only abuse I can see is if wealthy people start bartering or using other currencies to exchange for gooda but i am sure that can be solved.