The Dollar being the worlds reserve currency has been absolutely terrible for most developing nations and most people in the USA and civilization as a whole.
It operates as planetary economic empire, its a big part of the reason that almost all developing countries in Africa are a NET CAPITAL EXPORTER TO THE WEST despite being developing nations and its played a big role in the de-diversification of the US economy, the intense geographic and market concentrations of the US economic, and the in-general financialization of the US economy.
I can bring strong arguments to that effect and also to a lot more effects. And I'm capable of debating the issue, in most places, down to a granular level, and I'm willing to debate you publicly on this matter. And if we do it in front of a large and neutral audience, I'm highly likely to "win".
It usually takes just a wee little bit longer to get to the "debate me you coward!" stage. Please go away. Future comments by you will be deleted on sight.
We've reached a point where there may very well be multiple billions of human beings around the world that believe that you and the rest of your socio-professional group are cruel and, in the colloquial definition of the term, psychotic propagandists for what is effectively a transnational mafia state. And along the way you all refuse to engage with a single critic or alternative point of view or defend even a single disagreement between you and multiple billions of others. Bat that trick may soon not working any more because your con is largely exposed and the equilibrium of special interests groups in global and Western economies that empowers your evil is fraying.
"Penguin paperbacks, along with those old Gollancz yellow hardcovers, are what I grew up thinking was The Good Stuff"
Me too! Except that I also included the Dover paperbacks, which I esteemed as much for their physical properties as for their contents. Those sewn signatures and that beautiful paper made a deep impression on me! And I still possess 40 year old Dovers that are perfectly usable, whereas the Penguins, printed on what is nearly newsprint, are crumbling to pieces.
Anyway, all of your points are well taken, and I should have thought obvious. And yet ... when I point out that if you want someone to *pay* you USD (say, to buy your product), they have to *have* USD, and in order to have USD, they ultimately have to *sell* something to America, because only America has the power to create USD, and that the effect of tariffs is to reduce sales to America ... the chain of reasoning is apparently too recondite to follow.
Holland yellow covers. They had a monopoly on hardback SF back in the day. And that's how I erroneously picked up in the library a book by Christmas Humphreys on Zen. Same jacket. I wonder if the same thing happened to Van Morrison?
The issue it seems to me is not that you're wrong but how to get voters to act on these complicated shenanigans
The Dollar being the worlds reserve currency has been absolutely terrible for most developing nations and most people in the USA and civilization as a whole.
It operates as planetary economic empire, its a big part of the reason that almost all developing countries in Africa are a NET CAPITAL EXPORTER TO THE WEST despite being developing nations and its played a big role in the de-diversification of the US economy, the intense geographic and market concentrations of the US economic, and the in-general financialization of the US economy.
I can bring strong arguments to that effect and also to a lot more effects. And I'm capable of debating the issue, in most places, down to a granular level, and I'm willing to debate you publicly on this matter. And if we do it in front of a large and neutral audience, I'm highly likely to "win".
It usually takes just a wee little bit longer to get to the "debate me you coward!" stage. Please go away. Future comments by you will be deleted on sight.
We've reached a point where there may very well be multiple billions of human beings around the world that believe that you and the rest of your socio-professional group are cruel and, in the colloquial definition of the term, psychotic propagandists for what is effectively a transnational mafia state. And along the way you all refuse to engage with a single critic or alternative point of view or defend even a single disagreement between you and multiple billions of others. Bat that trick may soon not working any more because your con is largely exposed and the equilibrium of special interests groups in global and Western economies that empowers your evil is fraying.
"Penguin paperbacks, along with those old Gollancz yellow hardcovers, are what I grew up thinking was The Good Stuff"
Me too! Except that I also included the Dover paperbacks, which I esteemed as much for their physical properties as for their contents. Those sewn signatures and that beautiful paper made a deep impression on me! And I still possess 40 year old Dovers that are perfectly usable, whereas the Penguins, printed on what is nearly newsprint, are crumbling to pieces.
Anyway, all of your points are well taken, and I should have thought obvious. And yet ... when I point out that if you want someone to *pay* you USD (say, to buy your product), they have to *have* USD, and in order to have USD, they ultimately have to *sell* something to America, because only America has the power to create USD, and that the effect of tariffs is to reduce sales to America ... the chain of reasoning is apparently too recondite to follow.
Holland yellow covers. They had a monopoly on hardback SF back in the day. And that's how I erroneously picked up in the library a book by Christmas Humphreys on Zen. Same jacket. I wonder if the same thing happened to Van Morrison?
Thank you autocorrect. Gollancz.
Penguin! The mark of quality!