Kings didn't need consumers, they needed peasants and servants. Coincidentally we're seeing the borders opened and millions of peasants and servants being welcomed.

Real estate property tax are "normal" already, and yes people lose their homes when they can't pay the tax, and if their house burns down or they sell it for less than they paid there is no question of a refund. Often there is no choice but to demolish homes because they have 10s of thousands of back taxes. Billionaires should be treated the same as the rest of us: like slaves.

You can be sure they also have a plan for when USA and EU collapse.

They don't want people on tourist visas to fill a local job that otherwise would go to a domestic tax slave, it's just bureaucracy to tax remote workers who are really more like tourists overspending foreign money and probably paying more in VAT in a month than a local pays in a year.

Was the culture different back when fertility was higher? The difference is probably the devaluation of wages and concentration of wealth that forced mothers into the workforce like in every banker-controlled country. Parasites like Buffet and Munger bragged about how they could borrow money for free in Japan and buy stocks for almost infinite profit; Japanese workers were forced to pay for that charity for foreign billionaires instead of diapers.

Subscription is like a dark pattern, if customers had to pay the bill each month they'd lose 90% of them.

Paid what exactly? $1 if you watch 1000 of their videos?

and supply and demand comes back to money printing. PPP "loans" were used to buy real estate, and as the supply of counterfeit dollars increased the price of construction also skyrocketed. Boomers are holding on their homes because they'll soon be worth millions of dollars.

Will they? Venezuela, Argentina, Turkey etc. have proven that hyperinflation is no threat to the status quo, and the USA is a more advanced police state. Yellen will still be rich and giving the same speeches if Americans are eating rats.

The primary purpose of gift cards is a scam. They are "the same as cash", except the cash is no longer yours? It's a shell game, with the money mostly stolen by Walmart, sometimes diverted to someone else, but there is no legitimate use.

You are talking like only income is taxed. We pay tax on a roll of toilet paper while Buffet can buy entire companies tax free (if not get some tax rebate). We pay tax on the market value of our home so we don't die of exposure while there is no tax on the market value of what Buffet owns (again he is probably getting some deductions). And when he does get cash from dividends or selling something the rate is much lower than the income tax on people who work just to live.

It's hoarding by underpaying employees. Is there a billionaire who doesn't have some employees/contractors who are on food stamps? Also the billionaires cash out, buying multiple homes, yachts etc. Fine, they earned it, but they could be taxed a lot more and still buy everything they want.

We'd need free energy, should be easy for AI to figure it out...

Will there be a need to teach most kids? Will there even be kids to teach? If you're right the AI will identify the smart kids and they will have one-on-one instruction.

Grandmother: Didn't complete high school, 3-10 children
Mother: High school graduate, 1-2 children
Utopian Woman: College degree, corporate job, 1-6 cats
Post-human female: Home schooled 2 months, 30-120 kittens