It's gonna be a hell of lot easier to manage than the colossal amount of greenhouse gases we've already pumped into the atmosphere.

We have free and fast direct bank transfers in the UK too, some (mostly Asian) restaurants only accept cash or let you transfer the amount directly to their account presumably to avoid the visa/mastercard fees!

All that's needed is a open, universal way to do this more streamlined and the Indian UPI thing sounds like just the ticket!

Aside: Why is a digital currency needed--it's completely unnecessary and unrelated to creating a competing payments network:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Payments_Initiative

45+ years of neoliberalism, privatisation, mostly-Tory and right-wing labour governments deliberately starving the NHS of resources and selling it off for parts for a quick buck have caused the problems. Not an increase in the population. This is a common strategy, deliberately starve public services of resources then claim that the "state is failing" and private companies with their profit-greedy owners are asked to step in to "do it better"

An increase in the population naturally gives you more bloody workers for the NHS! So it shouldn't matter at all.

(as for the cost of more workers, serious economic analysis has always shown for every £1 spent on the NHS we get around £4 worth of economic value into the economy)

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https://jech.bmj.com/content/7...

Nah not at all! Oversurveillance and Authoritarian tendencies are not Orwellian. The rewriting of history. denial of obvious facts and gaslighting of the masses is en route to Orwellian, and that's really kicking off across the pond.

There's some stupid, unenforceable legislation in place in the UK. This has primarily been pushed behind the scenes by American interest groups and money as it's easier than trying to do the whole US at once. We're basically a guinea pig for American Christofascist interests at the moment, and this was entirely predicted as an obvious outcome of Brexit.

Sad times, glad I'm getting the fuck out of here :)

If you think that's the reason for the war in any way, you are staggeringly uninformed.

I don't see a third option and I hope I'm dead before the worst of it.

I suspect that the third option that is only really viable one left in the USA and other neoliberal shitholes like here in the UK involves guillotines and dragging the 1,000 or so monsters responsible for the downturn since the 1980s out of their penthouses, boardrooms & political buildings and getting rid of them.

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This is handy, thanks!

What the hell does the market cap have to do with whether they're struggling? Do they make a profit or not?

sounds like you're talking about the USA, which doesn't really have a left. Just center-right.

left groups across the ocean are very much alive and still anti-establishment.

This whole thing was the exact plot of Altered Carbon (the TV programme and the books)

That sounds like designers are doing terrible work already if everything out there is crap! ;P

(disclaimer: i hate all this AI and slop stuff too)

So if you run a casino, and every time someone loses you give them a lollipop--then it's no longer gambling?

Without regulation, even the weak shit in the USA, Linux would've been crushed by Microsoft very early on. The USA's own antitrust trials against MS probably made them cautious of any moves like that...

The only reason that other governments are turning fascist is because of the USA. Over there you let absolute bellends get mega-wealthy and have a culture that pushes people to the right and far-right.

They then turn their huge, ill-gotten gains on the rest of the world to drag them down with you. They're afraid, all the time, of most things--and the idea of an alternative system flourishing anywhere else that erodes their wealth and power terrifies them most of all.

It'd just be pathetic if it wasn't so destructive.

This is mental, I live in the UK (itself, falling apart) and just paid £40 for a good concert ticket to see a contemporary band!

I had some American friends fly over to Sweden for a week to see Taylor Swift there. That whole trip (flights, hotels, concert tickets etc.) was cheaper than just the tickets to see her in the USA.

I do feel bad for you all.