Of course there are many issues with the ‘normalcy’, but it was more predictable. For example not having to watch your back for your best, longest standing loyal ally to do the stupidest shit imaginable to your own country… I mainly meant it in the international politics, diplomacy sense.

I think even both teddybears and soap are quite regulated markets in EU, could probably require a capital to enter the market a lot larger than you would think, to get anywhere beyond the local flea market level of sales.

It’s not just one dude anymore, system as a whole is shifting drastically, his death is in no way a guaranteed return towards normalcy in international politics. His death could usher in even more uncertainty.

Lol Volkswagen, the company that actively rigged diesel cars to pass the tests… ? Dieselgate. The German car manufacturers are hopelessly late at EV because they wanted to drain every last penny out of their ICE. The EU setback to extend ICE is after German car manufacturers lobbied… They are killing themselves in the long run, for bit more production in the short run. They saw this all coming decades ago and made wrong choices. Now they’re fucked. The Volkswagen id (EV) sales numbers are so disappointing they had to lower production and make employees stay home.

Maybe the best solution is to build a Truman show like simulated world and contain the Trump problem in there.

Deflation is bad. Then people stop spending, postpone all purchases, economy grinds to a halt, people lose jobs and companies go bankrupt.

Hyperinflation is bad. Then people spend money like toilet paper: money becomes worthless. No one has anything left to invest or to save for pension or a big plan or dream.

The general goal of aiming for about 2% inflation is basically just there to try to prevent those two worst case scenarios from happening. It’s the least bad of all evils: money sort of keeps it’s value, evolution of product prices are rather predictable, people know what they will be able to buy with their wages. Inflation is not inherently tied to capitalism only. Socialist/communist economic experiments experience very similar phenomena.

TIL “I’m not mad” is a death threat

it will become like many appliances… You want a dumb tv? Possible, but it will cost you more than a smart one. You want a dumb fridge? Fine, but soon it will cost you more than a ‘smart’ one you can’t even turn on without making an account somewhere and registering your email and phone

You mean as server? I’m looking for os on TV box, server is already running dietpi with jellyfin and works rather well

There is a vast difference between communism the theory and communism the real world application as it occured in 20th century.