Fundamentally it all comes down to unemployment. There is a certain point in a thermodynamic way that even the most brainwashed slaves stop becoming productive. If you don’t have a safe and private place to sleep, it’s enormously taxing on your motivation, if you can’t afford nutrients, you will be physically tired and your body will scream at you to avoid any type of damage to itself, greatly lowerering your productivity that even a mostly post scarcity and automated economy can’t even support you, even if you work 60 hours a week for meager wages.
For bubbles, they exist mostly to make rich people richer, but come at the cost of workers getting more inflation and weaker purchasing power for their wages. Every so often bubbles have to pop, so the rich can buy up all the property they sold back, at a discount and start the process over. One of the many scams of international capitalism.
So the bubble really pops when people are unable to work for the dropping wages. It’s really just a physics question in a way. Not really a choice they make, because people who work often tie their entire identity into working and being a “good working citizen” as the media conditions them to think. It’s just physics. The bubble popping is the reality of things like markets correcting themselves.
What comes after is often a die off of workers causing their value to go up, since human sacrifice is the only way they can collectively bargain anymore. Then an eventual resettling with lower wages after prices are forced to not track inflation. This is why a house is 30% cheaper then it was in the 70s in gold price, but people need on average 10+ years wages to buy one. The prices of houses gradually came down over time as the workers made less money in real value(gold, silver, minerals, commodities), year after year for decades. The market is forced to lower the prices of houses just enough to get some suckers to buy them. Again, workers can’t just make money magically appear like the rich can, so there is a physical limit to how much a worker can pay before they quite literally starve, or develop severe health issues from eating potatoes for decades.
So the two poles of American style economics is physical constraints of reality, like the workers bodies ability to survive on potatoes and bread and sugar, and not having a mental breakdown because they live on a couch, and the greed of the rich who are completely self centered and want boats and mansions and most importantly, to be seen as valuable via their status and access to wealth and resources. These two poles form the tension in which the economy operates. The really sad part is, that this is probably an improvement over most of human history. Technology has made the lives of the average worker much better, despite capitalism taking every opportunity it can to try to squeeze more out of them, or keep them too miserable to resist.
i can only think of ‘folkhögskolor’, a nordic phenomena where formerly peasants and now workers since a hundred years raise eachother to learn what gymnasiums and universities don’t and at no cost.
i appreciate you being online bringing knowledge around. got any recommended reading for economy, or a blog where you post more?
Thank you, that is very kind of you. I love that word. That is a very cynical take from me and I should probably be a bit more fair, but it’s not that far off from the truth.
The people who run these scams don’t necessarily realize they are doing it. They do to some extent, but even billionaires believe in capitalism in that kind of way.
I thought about writing little essays or making YouTube videos to kind of share what I consider to be lost knowledge and lost sciences. I should probably do that some day. Like actually write it out in more theoretical ways in a more compiled form.
these began without allowance from state. originally barns on ‘bondgårdar’ were dedicated to this purpose seasonally by ‘bönder’, so there was direct source of food and space given on “private property”. these days all ‘folkhögskolor’ have long-courses — spanning a year (august to june) with some for permaculture and other agrarian purposes starting in january — and short-courses, spanning a week. these days most ‘folkhögskolor’ act as hostels and conference halls too in addition to gymnasiums for teens who y’know hate being in state gymnasium. (edit: the oldest students i’ve met are retired 60 year olds. no age restriction on folkhögskolor.) sympathic way forward, my life would’ve been better had i gone this route sooner than later.
i would suggest finding private property owners who can provide a kitchen, showers and space to house people (bunkbeds can be a start before finding everyone a separate room.) maybe you who read this are one such private property owner? /rhetorical question
i would also suggest finding ‘studieförbund’ like ABF, NBV, IOGT-NTO etc. equivalents for funding and mostly as these are a short-cut through paperwork to legitimize the endeavour as an education with legal right to endow grades and certifications. like reading up school grades, becoming a certified plumber, et al.
regardless of if these two are known to you or anyone today i strongly recommend everyone to just travel here on a study visa ASAP. our government hates ‘folkhögskolor’ and are aggressively defunding these. it’s also more and more real-life hidden lore to know of ‘folkhögskolor’. how our entire wellfare comes from educating the marginalized in society at ‘folkhögskolor’. we have 155 still right now, something like one in every city. most are never full because people don’t know they exist these days: so you and anyone have good chances to get in. on the one i am at right now i met with an english citizen, a german citizen, an austrian citizen, an irish citizen and many refugees from war-torn countries coming here to learn swedish. think of this as a boarding school with cheap prices and no barriers to entry. everyone wants you to succeed here.
i would be glad to keep talking of this, compiling & translating & sharing hard-to-discover knowledge on a sub dedicated to ‘folkhögskolor’ and in direct messages- whether here on the FediVerse or 1-on-1 over chatmail (an E2EE email evolution. see the free libre open source DeltaChat & it’s twin project ArcaneChat.)
Fundamentally it all comes down to unemployment. There is a certain point in a thermodynamic way that even the most brainwashed slaves stop becoming productive. If you don’t have a safe and private place to sleep, it’s enormously taxing on your motivation, if you can’t afford nutrients, you will be physically tired and your body will scream at you to avoid any type of damage to itself, greatly lowerering your productivity that even a mostly post scarcity and automated economy can’t even support you, even if you work 60 hours a week for meager wages.
For bubbles, they exist mostly to make rich people richer, but come at the cost of workers getting more inflation and weaker purchasing power for their wages. Every so often bubbles have to pop, so the rich can buy up all the property they sold back, at a discount and start the process over. One of the many scams of international capitalism.
So the bubble really pops when people are unable to work for the dropping wages. It’s really just a physics question in a way. Not really a choice they make, because people who work often tie their entire identity into working and being a “good working citizen” as the media conditions them to think. It’s just physics. The bubble popping is the reality of things like markets correcting themselves.
What comes after is often a die off of workers causing their value to go up, since human sacrifice is the only way they can collectively bargain anymore. Then an eventual resettling with lower wages after prices are forced to not track inflation. This is why a house is 30% cheaper then it was in the 70s in gold price, but people need on average 10+ years wages to buy one. The prices of houses gradually came down over time as the workers made less money in real value(gold, silver, minerals, commodities), year after year for decades. The market is forced to lower the prices of houses just enough to get some suckers to buy them. Again, workers can’t just make money magically appear like the rich can, so there is a physical limit to how much a worker can pay before they quite literally starve, or develop severe health issues from eating potatoes for decades.
So the two poles of American style economics is physical constraints of reality, like the workers bodies ability to survive on potatoes and bread and sugar, and not having a mental breakdown because they live on a couch, and the greed of the rich who are completely self centered and want boats and mansions and most importantly, to be seen as valuable via their status and access to wealth and resources. These two poles form the tension in which the economy operates. The really sad part is, that this is probably an improvement over most of human history. Technology has made the lives of the average worker much better, despite capitalism taking every opportunity it can to try to squeeze more out of them, or keep them too miserable to resist.
appreciate you writing that out
Thxs I try to teach real economics when I can because people can’t learn this in universities or anything.
i can only think of ‘folkhögskolor’, a nordic phenomena where formerly peasants and now workers since a hundred years raise eachother to learn what gymnasiums and universities don’t and at no cost.
i appreciate you being online bringing knowledge around. got any recommended reading for economy, or a blog where you post more?
Thank you, that is very kind of you. I love that word. That is a very cynical take from me and I should probably be a bit more fair, but it’s not that far off from the truth.
The people who run these scams don’t necessarily realize they are doing it. They do to some extent, but even billionaires believe in capitalism in that kind of way.
I thought about writing little essays or making YouTube videos to kind of share what I consider to be lost knowledge and lost sciences. I should probably do that some day. Like actually write it out in more theoretical ways in a more compiled form.
i’ve been meaning to report on the state of nordic countries alot more. now i did a bit
i encourage you to compose some and share some!
Ooh, that’s fascinating, how could we implement those elsewhere, eg in the rest of Europe?
these began without allowance from state. originally barns on ‘bondgårdar’ were dedicated to this purpose seasonally by ‘bönder’, so there was direct source of food and space given on “private property”. these days all ‘folkhögskolor’ have long-courses — spanning a year (august to june) with some for permaculture and other agrarian purposes starting in january — and short-courses, spanning a week. these days most ‘folkhögskolor’ act as hostels and conference halls too in addition to gymnasiums for teens who y’know hate being in state gymnasium. (edit: the oldest students i’ve met are retired 60 year olds. no age restriction on folkhögskolor.) sympathic way forward, my life would’ve been better had i gone this route sooner than later.
i would suggest finding private property owners who can provide a kitchen, showers and space to house people (bunkbeds can be a start before finding everyone a separate room.) maybe you who read this are one such private property owner? /rhetorical question
i would also suggest finding ‘studieförbund’ like ABF, NBV, IOGT-NTO etc. equivalents for funding and mostly as these are a short-cut through paperwork to legitimize the endeavour as an education with legal right to endow grades and certifications. like reading up school grades, becoming a certified plumber, et al.
regardless of if these two are known to you or anyone today i strongly recommend everyone to just travel here on a study visa ASAP. our government hates ‘folkhögskolor’ and are aggressively defunding these. it’s also more and more real-life hidden lore to know of ‘folkhögskolor’. how our entire wellfare comes from educating the marginalized in society at ‘folkhögskolor’. we have 155 still right now, something like one in every city. most are never full because people don’t know they exist these days: so you and anyone have good chances to get in. on the one i am at right now i met with an english citizen, a german citizen, an austrian citizen, an irish citizen and many refugees from war-torn countries coming here to learn swedish. think of this as a boarding school with cheap prices and no barriers to entry. everyone wants you to succeed here.
i would be glad to keep talking of this, compiling & translating & sharing hard-to-discover knowledge on a sub dedicated to ‘folkhögskolor’ and in direct messages- whether here on the FediVerse or 1-on-1 over chatmail (an E2EE email evolution. see the free libre open source DeltaChat & it’s twin project ArcaneChat.)
Contact me on ArcaneChat:
https://i.delta.chat/#992AB3B1F0583AE4098AF213844A867C0BCD1F79=&a=cwt7u93s7%40arcanechat.me&n=bluemoon&i=hUw4EPwhDYp5dwp9GuZGlYZs&s=I_EGeOzvWKqA6ZZ-2nZiZfh5