Taxes Expired. Fees are non-refundable —… | by umair haque | November, 2022 | Rare Techy

Fees are non-refundable — Because the Bill is long overdue for free living

My lovely wife and I started buying some simple things for the house. There are blinds for the windows. A little tool for my music studio. Some movement. Nothing big, nothing fancy – just the ordinary things of life.

As it turned out, this turned out to be a lot more difficult than we thought. Supply chains immediately supported. And even if it doesn’t, the prices are close doubled for some of the things we looked at.

So don’t cry at me. I’d rather be without all of this. But it’s a small example of a larger trend that has been affecting us all for years now. Global inflation is expected to hit 9.5%. Central banks are raising interest rates, making life more difficult for the average person, who is already struggling to make ends meet. The prices of basic things have reached the ceiling – the price of products, for example, has doubled. So we’re still in denial about it, but it’s the Age of Reality is close to closing.

Think about how you grew up. If you are in a rich west, there are few things. Absolutely little. What kind of thing? All kinds of things. Weather, furniture, clothes, shoes. Anything and everything is “customer friendly.” You can walk into a mega-store the size of a warehouse that is stocked sky high with cheap, expensive items.

It doesn’t make sense alive just a little. At the same time, the costs of basic things – medicine, health care, education, retirement – have become increasingly expensive and unaffordable, which has led Americans to borrow more, more, and more. them, and now they are a group of useful people. they are very rich. This time, we focus on the Age of Virtual Reality.

When you walk into your local supermarket, you will find a global economy. In the past created. Who was it created for, by whom, and for what? It was created for the American “Consumer”, by the American elite, to make consumption the primary driver of the economy.

The US economy is 80% collect. The a really negative level. It’s like spending 80% of your life, I don’t know, eating Doritos. But so is the world, because American leaders have created the global economy to reflect their Platonic ideal of economic nature.

It might look nerdy and out of place, so I’ll have to fix it.

It’s not that things are cheap. Is artificial little. The real costs were “outside,” which is economic talk for “leaving it up to someone else to pay.” Who? Well, let’s talk about some of these. Labor costs are low because American companies are paid for “offshoring” jobs to countries where things like unions and basic human rights do not exist. Carbon prices, however, were not paid in all. Then there are toxic effects on the natural world, whether it’s a body of water, species or oceans. Who paid those fees? Well, in a very real sense, the oceans, which are covered in plastic, the fish, which are suffocating in that plastic, the animals, which are lost in a very big way.

“External” costs mean that someone outside the “market system” pays them, or there is no one pay them. Either way, the bill is adding up. For those fees that have not yet been paid or for fees they are taking elsewhere in the system.

I’ll be back at the End of the Year Beauty Salon. You might think that these two things are not connected — very cheap things, and “externalities,” costs that other parties have to pay. This is the opinion of American economists and leaders. They thought the Age of Cheap Stuff would go on forever. As in literally forever. It’s the “end of history” if you ask American intellectuals like Francis Fukuyama, and the entire DC establishment reading the theories of these cracks from the sky.

For America’s elite, the Age of Cheap Stuff goes on forever as a quasi-faith. One thing they believed in with a certain amount of faith was their own version of paradise here on earth. So, the reason why American leaders haven’t worked hard to rebuild their own economy, or the global economy, is 80% consumption and only 20% investment, because the fact that in the 2010s, the world, culture Americain a way that consumes many planet pay for things.

America’s leaders bought this dream of the ongoing Age of Cheap Stuff, a planetary paradise on earth, because, because it kept power, like little dreams do it’s for politicians. But like most ambitions, it’s the same good to be honest.

The first paid set back home? Well, the working class of America woke up one day and found themselves paying for the Age of Cheap Stuff. By losing their jobs, income, and livelihood. Yes, it’s cheaper to hire people in China and Vietnam and Bangladesh and so on – Wall St calls it “job arbitrage.” In fact, those people have almost no power. Goods did not become cheaper because their hands worked faster, or they consumed less food, because they were good. worked to the bone without carereally.

America’s working class has been cut off from its jobs, lives, communities, and cities, as the dream of the Age of Cheap Stuff perpetuates. Then he got angry. But the owners didn’t get it. The anger grew and grew, until it boiled over into the national frenzy of Trumpism. Trump came to power on a fascist wave – America for real Americans. A big part of it is frustration with “globalization,” which is the broken fantasy of the Age of Cheap Stuff. America didn’t buy the lie. They responded to the lie in anger and jealousy and anger, Trump urged the President. And becoming President, Trump did what nationals do – defense.

So the first way the year of Cheap Stuff ends is political. If the dream of infinite smallness means “no work, no work,” it means that it provokes national backlash. And the value of the property is higher when the property is owned. That is true in America, Brexit Britain, India, around the world now. The dream of Cheap Stuff is dying worldwide.

But that’s the small part of the explanation, and you may be wondering a lot. What’s really lowering the barriers on the Age of Cheap Stuff? Our planet can’t handle it. Support it. Our country cannot afford our addiction to small things. Trying to get an intervention.

To understand, consider how the year of Covid has affected supply chains. Left behind by the whip, we are still feeling the aftershocks. Demand fell, so orders fell, many suppliers went bankrupt, and the system is still struggling to put itself back together.

That’s what an epidemic does.

Now imagine what climate change would do. All areas of homes and businesses are no longer insurable. Try buying Napa Valley winery insurance today. But if you can’t insure, you can’t produce. Bang — failure.

The temperature is already boiling until the whole country spends the summer fighting wildfires. Now fast forward a few years. Do you really think that distribution networks designed for a sustainable planet will survive global warming? Are you the one driving that truck in the megafire? Megadrought? MegaFoo? Will you pilot that plane or navigate that ship through a mega hurricane?

Maybe you’ll get my speed. Let me have more power.

The threats of the 21st century are now accelerating. Meaning: the worse it gets, the faster it gets. Just think about global warming and the last few years. That trend is also true when it comes to mass extinction and ecological decline as well as political polarization.

Now let’s go formally through the parts of the economy’s value chain, and how each one can be disruptive. There will be big, big shocks – it means that it cannot be produced, because there are no raw materials, like insurance, like factories and regions that go up in smoke or drown. There will be a lot of panic in distribution, because the world will refuse to go to the other side and it will be more and more expensive and difficult, whether it is due to natural disaster, or because of the political people, because of the epidemic. . All of this will affect the trade – there will be many shortages, always, in the store, because the megastore is now almost a thing of the past. And without access to utilities, such as water, medicine, food, and housing, they are most vulnerable to disease, sinking into poverty and unavailability.

See the picture I’m trying to paint? The Age of Small Things stop. The beginning is a mirage. It’s a fantasy bought by American leaders – not least the sharpest tools in the arsenal – to cling to power. A proud person might say: to use it to rule the world. Our economies and our political systems and our societies have been destroyed by our dispersal to the poor, destroyed by nationalism and fascism and stupidity. The planet cannot allow us to be alone with small things, and it will do everything it can to prevent us now from degrading and hurting us with abandonment, such as punish us with all kinds of mega damage possible.

If we really think about the Age of Cheap Stuff for a moment, maybe the most astonishing defeat in human history. How long is it? From the 1960s to the 2010s — for half a century. And in that half century, the seeds were sown for temperatures to rise to heights not seen for three million years, for mass extinctions on a scale not seen for 300 million, without learning from each other. and medicine and washing and clean water, like all children, rich people – who have only lived for 300,000 years – get on top of each other for other fake little things.

It looks bad, it looks bad. The Age of Artificially Cheap Stuff has, in the end, consumed our world, life on it, democracy, our minds, our societies, creating a world we can all live in, our children , and our world. It is the biggest mistake in human history by a long way. History does not like to look at the idiots, American scholars, economists, politicians, activists, who sell this myth as a new Eden. Again, they don’t care, never. I think you will be left with me.

Umair
November 2022