Posted To Ellen Brown’s Substack Newsletter 07/12/2023

Debt itself is not the problem. It’s the monopolistic paradigm concept of Debt ONLY as the sole form and vehicle for the creation and distribution of new money and Debt ONLY as in the burden to repay that compels Debt’s inevitable build up and overwhelm of the system. As all new paradigm concepts have historically always been in complete conceptual opposition to the present paradigm that means the new paradigm concept is Gifting. Reciprocal Gifting at retail sale with a 50% discount/rebate will end inflation forever for everyone hence gaining the allegiance of the general populace and every enterprise except the problematic one (private finance) and thus enabling the political break through necessary to implement the entirety of the new paradigm’s policies.

Facilitate change, problem resolution (even those problems that appear to be aggravated by

monetary gifting like the need for de-growth, resource depletion and ecological sanity) and Wisdom which is always a mental and temporal thirdness greater oneness integration of opposites.

Posted To Ann Pettifor’s Substack Newsletter 07/12/2023

Ann,
I’m in complete agreement with your fears and your recognition of the primary area of the problem (finance and financialization). Please understand, my only problem with yourself and the other leading edge researchers like Keen, Hudson, MMTers and Ellen Brown is that your excellent, accurate and important work…still puts the cart before the horse in that, paradoxically, simplicity is the key to not only systemic change, but paradigm change in that paradigms are (Caps are for emphasis not yelling) SINGLE OPERANT APPLIED CONCEPTS that change the realities of ENTIRE complexities/patterns. Again, deciphering the complexities of the problematic area is great and necessary also, BUT, being fully conscious of the new IDEA guides, focuses and enables one to philosophically align and apply policy in the operant area in the most operant way.

New applied, operant ideas resolve problems because they’re the core of the core deepest problem. They are helio-centrism instead of geo-centrism, and Monetary Gifting integrated into the monopolistic Debt Only present paradigm.

Identifying Monetary Grace as in Gifting as the operant idea also enables one to apply it to resolve the other thorny aspects of finance/the economy like the Greedy Rule of Profit and Speculation in a way that enables such but resolves their present toxic effects. It enables a thirdness greater integrative oneness (think Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis) that is the signature of Wisdom.

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The key is understanding that paradigms are single concepts, that applied, change everything in entire system/pattern under analysis. System’s analysis is largely about finding problems which of course is good, but paradigm perception is recognizing THE RESOLVING applied concept. It’s the proper starting and guiding point. Its the difference between knowing data and completely understanding both its mental and temporal realities as well as how to resolve the system’s problems. It’s Wisdom, the true integrative third way past the conundrum of Duality, Scientific Reductionism and Unconscious Orthodoxy Only which is a hurdle instead of the proper tool. Wisdom resolves and progresses everything including religious and paradigmatic orthodoxy. Let us embrace Wisdom.

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LC: I look forward to reading your book Ann which I know will be well researched and referenced.

Yet, if we talk about dismantling Wall Street, surely you have to persuade those working there to work with you so they can dismantle their operations and rebuild their usefulness in the service of remedying the ecocide challenges, such as described in Barbados?

Cooperation with the banking sector to put them in service to our planet ‘for the benefit of all living things’ could be their mantra.

Me: Your motto is good, but I would suggest finding economic policies that strongly and directly benefit virtually everyone not directly in control of private finance…just in case private finance isn’t willing to cooperate with the effort. The 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale is one such policy because it is the very expression of the new paradigm of Direct and Reciprocal Monetary Gifting and it directly benefits everyone because everyone participates in retail sale…even Banking CEOs and their employees come to think of it…by doubling their purchasing power, ending inflation for them and potentially doubling demand for every enterprise’s goods and services. Such a policy with its universality of effect and integration of traditionally opposed self interests could result in what Marx expected, namely a revolt of the bourgeosie against Finance.

Let us embrace Wisdom and Wisdom’s pinnacle concept the natural philosophical concept of grace as in love in personal action, and as policies are the actions of systems, systemic policy.

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I affirm anyone’s research and policy ideas so long as they represent and accomplish alignment with the new monetary, financial and economic paradigm of Gifting, the concept behind every historical new paradigm and the pinnacle concept of Wisdom, namely grace.

Ideas are basic and new paradigm concepts/paradigm changes are the most integrative, beneficial and powerful human phenomena humanity can experience. Start at the actual starting line…conceptual/paradigmatic analysis, and with the simple tool of logic and the beatific chains of the necessary human consideration known as ethics…you can thread the needle of resolution with any problem.

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AP: Got it Steve…But those ideas have to be written about and shared…no?

Me: Yes of course, I’m in no way opposed to research and education. Wisdom/the integrative intellectual impulse and process after all does not thrive without a full knowledge of the subject at hand. My plea is actually only that along with the education we recognize that an activist, awakening and ethically resolving thirdness should be our conscious goal and intention.

I just finished reading the last discussion between you, Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai on Michael’s site and along with the factual content it was delightful to see the intellectual interplay of agreements, disagreements and consensus that took place between you three. Thats Hegel’s trinity unity oneness dialectic in practice.

I also agree with you that fascism is a lingering problem for China and every major power because fascism is power with distorted or even the absence of ethics. The trinity of thought, action and humane ethics has been a neglected problem since we consciously emerged from the mere “ethic” of Survival Only by eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. And the solution to the problematic dualism of good and evil is the trinity of good, evil and ethics as the rational consideration of morals.

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LC: Is ‘everyone’ those who live in the US and in a position to participate in retail?

Me: Any country that has a currency…which is virtually every one of them.

Money and accounting, the latter of which is the means of approximately 97% of money’s creation by private banking and shadow banks, are among the greatest tools/inventions of humanity. Steve Keen taught me that. But he didn’t come up with the monetary paradigm changing policy of a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale, I did. Actually, a guy by the name of Clifford Hugh Douglas did back between the two world wars, but I innovated it from just an attempt to counter inflation into making it perform one of the signatures of historical paradigm changes which is the complete inversion of a problematic temporal universe reality into a beneficial one. That is changing chronic erosive inflation into beneficial price and asset deflation where you can now buy a $400k house for $200k and with my 50% debt jubilee policy at the point of loan signing you end up financing only $100k. With the equal and reciprocal debits and credits tool of accounting all merchants get their full price and the long neglected individual consumer benefits instead of gets stung.

I admire Steve Keen for his advocacy of “a modern debt jubilee”, but maybe because he hasn’t cognited on the fact that the effects of every historical paradigm change have always been an aspect or aspects of the natural philosophical concept of grace, like continual process and flow for instance, he didn’t think to integrate continuous debt jubilee into the economic process with such a policy. The benefits of conceptual/whole system/paradigmatic analysis as opposed to only reductionism make all the difference in the pace and quality of change.

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Nice posts Linda. And don’t forget that the only reason the US economy didn’t totally tank (not sure of the policies used by the UK) was the series of stimulus checks, i.e. monetary gifting that got distributed to those who lost their jobs.

What are fiscal deficits? Revenue Gifting to government contractors and employees. UBI? Direct monetary gifts to the individual. Debt jubilees? Monetary Gifting to reduce indebtedness. 50% discounts at retail sale? Monetary Gifting. Hint, hint, hint.

LC: How would this work if people need shelter, food, safety after suffering a devastating climate event? Is it a top down accounting arrangement? Are there obstacles to accessing funds if you have lost your ID proof as a result of the disaster? If you have no insurance due to living in a high risk area, are you excluded from funds?

Me: Every merchant with two brain cells would register with the FED or other monetary authority to opt into the rebate aspect of the policy so that they got their full price after discounting their price to the consumer by 50%. They would have to pledge not to inflate their prices in order to qualify for the rebate. If they broke their pledge any revenue they garnered from such inflation would be taxed at a rate of 100% and if they continued to inflate they’d lose their rebate privileges altogether which means they’d have to get 100% of their price from the consumer which would mean they’d basically go out of business because their competitors who abided by the gracious rules of the new paradigm would only have to get 50% of their price from consumers. Every business gets an account at the central bank which could quickly be accomplished and commerce proceeds as usual except every individual and commercial agent benefits wildly…except finance of course, but then they ARE the problem afterall.

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LC:

We live in possibly end game times. There is no time for experimenting. Whatever the solution it has to be perfect first time. I have not seen any proposed plan that would rescue people from impossible situations of crippling national and personal debt; or routes to escape the increasing perils caused by climate change and conflict.

Me: We do live in perilous times, but one must adhere to a motto expressed by Antonio Gramscii of “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” Grace is love in action. This is why any new economics must be aligned with grace. There is no perfection in life only gamble and adventure, but the best possible way to personally live life and insure our systems are as ethical and robust as possible is by self-actualizing/implementing policies that align with, the aspects of grace all of which are the integrative thirdnesses of Wisdom.

Absolutely Spot On, Wonderful and Stellar Post By Michael Hudson and I Really Mean That…Except For One Thing

Its chock full of accurate historical insight and all it needs is to become fully conscious of the natural philosophical and ethical concept of grace which is:

  1. the new applied monetary concept/paradigm and
  2. also, the new zeitgeist/ethic of the age/next evolutionary progressive phenomenon for the human species.

Philosophy, the love of ideas and their ethical consideration is the king of human intellectual disciplines (science is the queen) and is synonymous with Wisdom. Grace/graciousness is philosophy’s/Wisdom’s pinnacle concept, humanity’s highest experience, and its philosophical aspects are the key effects of every historical paradigm change and, again, the concept of the new ethic of the age.

For instance the present zeitgeist, which has been in effect since humanity ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil/emerged from the rest of the animal kingdom is Power, Profit and Control. The new zeitgeist is Redemptive (aspect of grace) Power, Profit and Control.

The world must embrace the beatific chains of the concept/experience of grace.

Posted to RWER 07/10/2023

Private Finance Capitalism basically has to go and be replaced by a profit-making economic system that encourages innovation, competition and actual ethics as opposed to the mere economic ethic of profit (which of course includes profit).

As the very intellectual process of integrating opposites in order to find thirdness greater onenesses of truth and workability AKA Wisdom, the only way to do this is to formulate a Wisdomics-Gracenomics by first recognizing the core of the core problem (the current monopolistic paradigm of private finance AKA Debt Only) and integrating its opposite concept Monetary Gifting strategically into the economic process.

Great Past Posts

Libertarians and damned near everyone else these days are so dip shittedly hypnotized by orthodoxy of one stripe or another you’d think there was a church on every door step instead of every block or so. Do I advocate for only science? Hell no, science is almost as afflicted with orthodoxy as anyone and everything else.What about the thirdness of Wisdom and the oneness of its pinnacle concept of grace though? Do I advocate for religion? Oh Jesus no, one obsessively contending duality is no better than any other. But if we contemplated the philosophical concept of grace, some of the aspects of which are the essence of tolerance of other people’s beingness, opinions and culture, a personal mental freedom and a kind and ethical rationality; ….and if applied to our economic system abundance, stability and sustained free flowingness….maybe we’d be a little less asshole opinionated, prosperous and peaceful.

Wisdomics-Gracenomics: The New Integrative Economic Theory

It isn’t the state that will “wither away”, it’s the dominance of Finance. And that is why the natural philosophical concept of grace as in monetary and economic Gifting is the new paradigm necessary to be integrated into the debt based money and digital pricing systems. And of course all of the other aspects of that concept will apply to and will need to be aligned with every other facet of economic theory and regulation thereof….as has always been the case with a paradigm change, i.e. everything adapts to the new paradigm…not the other way around.

To reject Wisdomics-Gracenomics is to have absent or incomplete mental integrations likely on several subjects/bodies of knowledge. Sorry, grace is complete integration and continuous integrating, and the rational consideration of morals, i.e. ethics.

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The “Perennial Philosophy”

The world is beset by pandering to power on the left and on the right, cynicism in the middle and an unconscious religious scientism that overlays the entirety of modernity. The wisdom of the “perennial philosophy” of Love and Grace has always been the answer and is more relevant now than ever before. It is time that this confederation of dunces sits down, shuts up and contemplates that philosophy. Sorry, there IS a rational end to patience.

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You see the problem with macro-economists is they look through a glass darkly. Steve Keen correctly observed several years ago that economists could get their PhDs in economics without so much as taking an elementary course in accounting. I complimented him on that insight and directed him to look at the subset of double entry bookkeeping, cost accounting, and also at the digital natures of the debt, money, and accounting systems, but apparently he neglected to do so. Hence I see that he is still trying to solve the real monetary problem of the economy (scarcity of aggregate individual income) by referencing the velocity of money on his patreon site. Of course the velocity of money is a circuit of money whose relevance to adding aggregate individual income is zero to nil. Why? Because:

1) the classical illustration of the velocity of money is false because it shows businessmen treating business revenue as if it were their individual income which a) it is not b) it is accounting fraud to treat it as such and c) if you do it only a little bit you end up having to stiff your vendors which both wrecks your business and also ultimately bankrupts you.

2) no matter how much money is circulating/re-circulating within the economy is again by definition business revenue….it doesn’t create any additional individual purchasing power…because increased business revenue doesn’t one for one or even at all translate into the vast majority of labor’s income going up.

So if economists would instead look at the facts/realities in my post above this one, they’d be able to discover policies that indeed WOULD increase aggregate individual incomes directly and business revenue reciprocally….and poof! A large component of macro-economic figure-figure would dissipate and the new paradigm would become apparent to them.

Talk To Businessmen/Students (Update This)

Show of hands…how many times have you gone to Fry’s or Wal Mart or wherever and bought say $100 worth of groceries, paid your tax and when you got home you got a call from the retail grocer and they said, “Sorry we have to have another $40-50 for those groceries you just bought.” No one, right? Why? Because the point of retail sale is the terminal ending point of the entire economic/productive process. It’s where production becomes consumption. And if possession is 90% of the law, I guarantee you consumption is 99.999% of economics, and the above fact demonstrates the economic significance of what I refer to as the triple power point of retail sale.

Virtually all economists are off in three times removed from present time reality, abstract theorizing about the economy. Consequently they have not focused on the day to day operations of commerce and hence have missed some simple but utterly significant truths about the economic process.

I’m here to enlighten you about those overlooked truths and show you how a simple…but not simplistic…and elegantly powerful set of policies accomplishes a paradigm change in finance, money systems and economics.

Lets call this the economy, the economic process. It starts here with ore being taken out of the ground to produce something, or a service business starts. There are all manner of business models on this process or adjacent to it (point around line) which nudge the process along and add their costs and prices to whatever is produced and finally sold here, the point of retail sale.  Now there is a convention in cost accounting which is always enforced and that convention is that all costs must go into price. So that means that retail sale, which is the terminal ending point for every consumer item or service, must also be the terminal summing point for total costs and prices including capital costs, depreciation and profit….for all consumer items and services. By definition of it being the ending point of the entire economic process it must also be the terminal expression point for all forms of inflation. In other words after you purchase an everyday consumer item there can be no more further inflation of its price as I helped you see at the start of this talk. Retail sale is where production becomes consumption. It’s the ending, summing and terminal expression point for all economic factors. That’s why I call it the triple power point of retail sale. It’s an ending, fulcrum and pivoting point from which the entire monetary, financial and economic systems can be moved into and accomplish the new paradigm by the correct policy, and that policy is a 50% discount/rebate at retail sale. Now I’m sure many of you are already saying, “What if the businesses along the entire economic process inflate their prices? Okay, but consider this:

#1 What if that businesses’ competitors are smarter than they are and do not inflate? Rapidly it’s bye-bye market share. Not to mention the sanctions the inflating business will face with the correct and understandable new regulations that the new paradigm and any theory requires…because the world is not an entirely rational or ethical place.

#2 Even if they do inflate, garden variety price inflation must remain in the low single digits because competition thankfully is still a reality within and between business models. Hence the discount/rebate policy will still increase everyone’s purchasing power by a large percentage and also still “miraculously” integrate price deflation beneficially into profit making systems…because the discount/rebate policy is 50%. And by the way, hyperinflations do not occur without specific and disastrous circumstances occurring first like almost total destruction of the means of production by a total war and compliant and unethical central and private banks leveraging up speculators who then attempt to short the currency. The former has not occurred here and can be avoided, and the latter will not be allowed to happen with the regulations of the new paradigm declaring any attempt to do so “null and void”.

Now, along with the discount/rebate policy at retail sale that beneficially integrates price deflation into profit making systems there is another policy that will be implemented, and that is a universal dividend of $1000/mo. from the time one turns 18 and continuing until the end of one’s life.

Businessmen, listen up. The combination of these two policies will enable all transfer taxation for welfare, un-employment insurance and even quite quickly for social security to be eliminated. Why? Because if everyone 18 and older is guaranteed at least $2000/mo., that is $1000 plus at least a 50% discount at retail sale which comes out to $2000/mo. of potential purchasing power…all such transfer taxes immediately become redundant and un-necessary. And of course, individuals who pay these taxes as well will have a very nice raise when they are eliminated.

So you have a more than doubling of incomes, a potential of more than a doubling of business revenue plus the cost savings from the elimination of transfer/re-distributive taxes.

Now I want to give you some numbers that show exactly how beneficial these policies will be for all agents individual and commercial.

Individually everyone 18 and old will have at least $2000/mo. of potential purchasing power or $24,000/yr. guaranteed. That immediately ends poverty AND the need for almost the entirety of the welfare bureaucracy. A two adult household will make $48,000/yr. If both adults have only part time jobs making $20,000/yr. that is $40,000 plus with the 50% discount at retail sale is $80,000 from employment and $48,000 from the dividend or $128,000/yr. of potential purchasing power. Not bad huh? With full time jobs of course that final number goes up considerably more.

Students? You get $24,000/yr while you’re going to school. Get a part time job of 16 hrs./week at $8/hr. and you’ll have another $1016/mo. of income and so another $2032 potential purchasing power or $4032/mo. That would enable you to go to all but the most expensive schools, make a monthly payment for tuition (and remember tuition will be discounted at least 50%) rent an apartment, and support yourself and not have 50-$75,000 of student debt hanging around your neck for the next 10-15 years before you can get on with your lives. These policies are all upside.

Businessmen? When was the last time any economist or politician was able to more than double the available business revenue for your goods or services…with a single policy? Who ever totally eliminated your transfer taxes and greatly reduced your redistributive income tax costs with only two policies?

The third major aspect of Wisdomics-Gracenomics is creating a publicly administered national banking system that enables loans at 0% interest and a central bank that creates all new money. Finally, the point of note signing becomes the new terminal ending point of the economic process for home mortgages, autos, especially battery powered and hybrid vehicles, furnishings, battery and solar energy systems and other “big ticket” green purchases and thus a 50% discount/rebate can reduce such purchases even further. For instance a $400K house reduced by 50% at retail sale to $200K is reduced another 50% to $100K at note signing. Wisdomics-Gracenomics frees us from the money system’s enslaving paradigm and makes it serve humanity.

Rebuttals to mistaken/irrelevant critiques

Everybody Will Become Lazy

#1 Don’t let those who profit greatly from the monopolistic power to create money snow you…money itself isn’t going to make you either happy or unhappy. Happiness is ENTIRELY A SEPARATE PROCESS THAT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY NO MATTER HOW MUCH MONEY YOU MAKE OR DO NOT MAKE.

The real question you need to ask yourself is: Would I rather have a secure level of income and the time to work on being a good and happy individual, or would I rather be continually stressed largely because I didn’t have that secure level of income…and still have to make myself a good and happy individual?

There are a lot of unhappy wealthy people and way too many unhappy unwealthy people. So don’t be stupid and not make your self happy…..and whatever you do don’t fall for the self interested nonsense of the financial elite that more money will make you unhappy. MONEY HAS NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH YOUR UNHAPPINESS….ONLY YOU DO. 

So instead be wise, embrace guaranteed relative wealth with Wisdomics-Gracenomics that will enable you to fill your expanded leisure time with positive and constructive purposes….which is the key to both personal virtue and personal happiness.

You’re Just Changing From Private To Public Problems

#2 Yes, public control of money creating power is also corruptible….unless that money system and economy is guided and regulated by an unimpeachable ethical concept like grace as in benevolence and gifting. And with that guiding concept it is simply Occam’s Razor to have a single national monetary agent to deal with rather than a herd of conflicted private enterprises with a monopoly on credit creation and a paradigm of Debt/Additional Cost/Burden to Repay ONLY.

It’s inflationary

#3 It cannot be inflationary because the policy is only implemented at the very end of the economic process and only when a sale actually takes place.  Also, garden variety inflation is forced to be a smallish single digit percentage by competition and the high costs of modern economies, and hyper-inflation can only happen under certain drastic circumstances like the destruction of productive ability by war and an unethical central bank that allows currency speculators to leverage up and short the currency, and both of those can be avoided by good planning and diplomacy and common sense ethical regulation.

How do you know it’s a new paradigm?

#4 A paradigm change progresses and transforms everything, but at the same time fits seamlessly within all but obviously destructive or conflicting present structures in the area within which the paradigm takes place.

Show how it accomplishes the signatures of paradigm change.

The Banks and Monied Interests will never let it happen.

That’s just dramatizing the great Japanese military strategist’s most insightful observation: Convince the enemy (you) that they cannot possibly win….and you’ll never have to go to war.

My Wisdomics-Gracenomics integrates and completes the cutting edge heterodox reseach and theories of Steve Keen, Michael Hudson, MMT and Social Credit. It accomplishes the new paradigm with its policies, structural changes and regulations. It greatly benefits all agents individual and commercial. It IS the answer, finally, in the economy and money system.

Please join with me in the mass movement to create this new paradigm. Tell others about this good news, make this video go viral and please go to my ebook site for plain language explanations and illustrations of these policies, and please also go to my Patreon and Substack sites and pledge a dollar or ten to enable me to give these free talks and make this incredibly beneficial new paradigm a reality for us all.

Thank you.

Be Here Now…And Now…And Now

Present Time, the Place Spirituality Has Always Said….

where God/enlightenment exists is never actually attained by the orthodox who regurgitating only what some “authority” said and/or their belief therein….either never actually look at, at all or only look at “through a glass darkly.”

So it is with economics.

Likewise you’ll likely never get to a theoretical Valhalla merely by dint of iconoclasm because objective truth and full consciousness free of bias and orthodoxy….can only be discerned by being in present time.

This is why way back in 2012 with my first book Money and Wisdom: The Way Out, The Way Home when I referred to my theory as Monetary and Economic Spiritual Synthesis Theory (MESST) ….I was spot on. Now I refer to it as Wisdomics-Gracenomics mostly because I thought it was a little more “catchy” and slightly less likely to be rejected by the modern religion of scientific orthodoxy and economic pretensions to same. Not much better though.

Man is increasingly less in present time, and that is why he does not know wisdom, switches from one incomplete reactionary orthodoxy to the other without resolving anything and also cannot extricate himself from his own dilemma.

Present Time Spirituality….the thing Man has always required, both personally and systemically, and declares he most desires, but rarely gets around to until its too late.

Posted To Mish Shedlock’s Blog 07/02/2023

Me: Taxation of Income and to fund government is Hand Written Communication Only before the invention of Guttenberg Moveable Printing.

When you realize that we are a monetarily sovereign government, that the new monetary paradigm is Gifting instead of Debt Only and that a 50% Discount/Rebate policy at retail sale (and several other innovative and stabilizing policies) end inflation forever…then there will basically be only one necessary reason to tax at all and that is to inhibit/put out of business anti-social a$$holes who cannot recognize the beatific chains of ethics and of the new monetary paradigm.

Employment is fine as a purpose, but there are many, many, many more positive and constructive purposes other than employment…and many more options for employment when we reduce the costs of the parasitical and illegitimate business model of private finance.

AI will just be another problematic anomaly in a long list of same that we will puzzle over…until we recognize the most underlying solution to our monetary, financial and economic problems, namely the new monetary paradigm of Gifting.

TC:

I am a software contractor with 30+ years of experience in high tech. I was so impressed by ChatGPT’s coding skills when I first tried it that I billed my company 120 hours testing the envelope of its capabilities. Mind you, this is the first public release and I think it has doubled my productivity. Because I have invested the time I can tell you what few others are saying right now: ChatGPT interfacing is a learned skill, much like working with a petulant genius child. It is an interactive process and the more you know about programming the faster you can spot BS and, importantly, properly instruct the child how to change its behavior.

IF you are looking for a Buck Rogers Dr. Theopolis, ChatGPT is not it. Not today. But that will come far sooner than most people think. The rate of improvement will far surpass Moore’s law which was a doubling of transistor density every 18 months. Whatever significant metric of goodness that you want to track, it will double every 8 months. If that doesn’t impress you, nothing will. I wrote this in 2011:

http://economati.blogspot.com/2011/02/modern-day-john-henry-tale.html

Me: You’re right. However, AI will still be hamstrung even by instruction if it is not instruction in the superlative intellectual discipline AKA Wisdom which is the willingness and ability to ethically integrate seeming opposites into thirdness greater onenesses and which contains the entire set of the intellectual discipline of science.

Furthermore, AI needs to be programmed to consider the highest human ethic and experience, namely grace as in love in personal action, and as policies are the actions of systems, systemic policy.

AI, if it is programmed to consider ethics, might tell us to wake up and die right by throwing off the domination and economic sabotage of the parasitical, illegitimate and non-economic/productive business model of private finance.

Depth of thought and understanding is much more valuable than mere content.

Posted To Steve Keen’s Substack Podcast 07/01/2023

You’re getting closer to realizing that finacialization and private banking has to basically end in favor of a publcly administered non-profit banking system. Even the problem of necessary de-growth is solved by the new paradigm of gifting if you implement a sliding scale percentage of required investment of gifted money into eco-bonds at 5% that will simultaneously curb consumption and add to the already liberated ability of the government to create money inflation free (with the 50% Discount/Rebate policy and a non-profit banking system) in order to rationally fund the mega-projects necessary to research and apply planetary and extra-terrestrial energy production.

In essence we’d have ASD (Abundant and Secure De-Growth) which would win the minds and allegiance of the general populace away from the current paradigm of Debt Only, private finance and greedy enslavement and lunatic financialization (GELF). And its even a decent Adam Douglas acromyn/usage.

Posted To Mish Shedlock’s Blog 06/30/2023

All the more reason to broadcast the new monetary paradigm of Gifting to the masses in order to insure the victory of politicians who want to avoid economic collapse via its virtually universal benefits. Even libertarians will not be able to personally resist its benefits and, if they’re philosophically honest, they’ll have to agree that a monopoly paradigm that private banks enjoy…cannot be defended.