Zone1 why is artificial scarcity promoted and protected?

[Dekster]

Artificial scarcity? The only one that comes to mind is diamonds and even that is supposedly over. Or is it?

There was one after involving large banks and such after the great recession. I think Goldman Sachs was one of the ones that got stink-eyed for it. They were buying up aluminum as fast as they could get it and warehousing it to create shortages to inflate prices on the London Metals Exchange where they were also very active players. I recall reading an article in I think Rolling Stone several years ago while sitting at a garage about the different big finance companies who were doing similar things with metals because it was such a poorly regulated part of financial markets.

 

[Dayton3]

i just don't get it.
artificial scarcity only creates suffering and keeps the wealthiest 10% in superyachts and supercars, which they don't need.

Who are you (or anyone else) to determine exactly what the wealthiest "need"?

 

[peacefan]

Who are you (or anyone else) to determine exactly what the wealthiest "need"?

i am an impovrished citizen at the moment, and the wealthiest should try that lifestyle, before they judge me using freedom of speech to make such statements online.

 

[Dayton3]

i am an impovrished citizen at the moment, and the wealthiest should try that lifestyle, before they judge me using freedom of speech to make such statements online.

Why?

 

[peacefan]

There was one after involving large banks and such after the great recession. I think Goldman Sachs was one of the ones that got stink-eyed for it. They were buying up aluminum as fast as they could get it and warehousing it to create shortages to inflate prices on the London Metals Exchange where they were also very active players. I recall reading an article in I think Rolling Stone several years ago while sitting at a garage about the different big finance companies who were doing similar things with metals because it was such a poorly regulated part of financial markets.

ok, so maybe you two (ding and you) *are* using the newspapers dictionary definition for 'artificial scarcity', and it is me who is trying to stretch that definition..
i'm not afraid to admit it when i might be wrong about something.

but still, i find my 'expanded dictionary definition' of 'artificial scarcity' and my own examples of 'planetary-scale artificial scarcity' valid ones.
there. i even came up with 2 new acronyms for you all
(acronyms that sound like normal names/words when pronounced)

 

[peacefan]

Why?

because you gotta feel the pain of being impovrished before you can say you don't need a superyacht or supercar yourself!
gosh, i need a smoke now.
you people go to bed and sleep on this please.
we'll talk agains starting 7am Eastern 5th of January, ok

 

[peacefan]

better yet, since i have decided to quit all of my volunteer functions (see https://tinyurl .com/ID-Rene-AJM-Veerman, which points to a facebook post on my https://facebook .com/rene.veerman.90), i will be going silent for a considerable timespan,

while i develop new features for my website platform.
i *know* the illuminati and in fact all of the wealthiest 10% have my site on a blacklist of theirs.
that they prefer not to hear from me.
so i'll give you one last gift : total silence.

let's see how you deal with the onset of riots that the revelations that i made to the public..
you brought this onto yourselves, richest 10%!!!

 

[peacefan]

https://www.facebook .com/rene.veerman.90/posts/pfbid02U4RiB75J3pgZyApuJV3BfvB4yDi9mwUdnNFh9fSBJoepYfYPKUypio5HdEQs8cRXl

okay..
i know, i do a lot of flip-flopping each week.
some times even multiple times per day, on a single issue.
that's because i still got BIG puzzles about life on Earth to figure out.
i'm only 45..

so i didn't have my morning coffee yet this morning, because i'm in a hospital at the moment (for my sleep rythm issues basically, not coz i'm psychotic or confused)..

and after some social interaction in the garden of this hospital, some good strong coffee and then a latte mixed with left over strong coffee, i feel up to working again (surprise, surprise)..

i will be spending a little less time on social media though..
i find it currently (after a major Holiday session in western cultures) a bit infested with gold-diggers, beggars and even criminals..
that bother me with popup direct messages!

so i'll keep my original promises to the open source community, and restore my blogEditor component for my WebOS, upload the changes to github.com/NicerEnterprises/NicerApp-WebOS , and continue to monitor that important international news once or twice per week, and upload some interesting & important headlines to usmessageboard.com and my facebook timeline page.

<shameless-self-promotion>
and yes, i peacefan-at-usmessageboard-dot-com have my personal and corporate ID page currently at https://facebook .com/rene.veerman.90,
because i partner with the major tech companies,
and because i don't have social media features of any useable kind finished yet (just some blogging features at my https://said.by site, which suffers from a temporary HTTPS certificate expiration date problem that i'll fix as soon as i'm released from the hospital).
</shameless-self-promotion>

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

i just don't get it.
artificial scarcity only creates suffering and keeps the wealthiest 10% in superyachts and supercars, which they don't need.

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People are more controllable when they are afraid.






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[peacefan]

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People are more controllable when they are afraid.






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you speak in riddles...

care to explain this one into plain polite english?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

you speak in riddles...

care to explain this one into plain polite english?

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That's as plain as I can make it.

I can't reach into your brain and turn your understanding knob up.

I find that you are the one who speaks in riddles, but I don't bitch about it.




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[badger2]

That the State is fundamentally terrorist means that when the American gestapo took away pay telephone booths, introducing lack where everywhere there was nothing but abundance, this artificial scarcity would evolve to see the prisoners staring into screens in the palms of their hands.
See Apollon's essay, A Lasting Heresy, in Jacques Lacan, Politics, Aesthetics.

 

[peacefan]

That the State is fundamentally terrorist means that when the American gestapo took away pay telephone booths, introducing lack where everywhere there was nothing but abundance, this artificial scarcity would evolve to see the prisoners staring into screens in the palms of their hands.
See Apollon's essay, A Lasting Heresy, in Jacques Lacan, Politics, Aesthetics.

i think payphones were no longer profitable as everyone preferred the next evolution of the phones : mobile phones, then smartphones.
and i do not think that that is a gestapo type deal at all.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

i think payphones were no longer profitable as everyone preferred the next evolution of the phones : mobile phones, then smartphones.
and i do not think that that is a gestapo type deal at all.

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The disappearance of pay phones brought the disappearance of privacy.




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[badger2]

i think payphones were no longer profitable as everyone preferred the next evolution of the phones : mobile phones, then smartphones.
and i do not think that that is a gestapo type deal at all.

You are not well educated on the founding of Facebook, or the internet, which is an invention of the military. American citizens had already solved the telephone problem, which was not good enough for the Gestapo Pimp: you paid for the phone only when wanted or needed. Time has radically entered altered Being, where even Trac phones are timed out with 30-day cards. So the number of minutes on the card contradicts, on purpose, the Pimp's directive.

 

[badger2]

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The disappearance of pay phones brought the disappearance of privacy.




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We'll post a pertinent video to your post when it's found again on Twitter.

 

[ClaireH]

You know full well how it works.
Until you have the results the boss wants, your experiments go on.

Yes. Also very much connected to funding and future funding, and how data must be presented to be an accepted paper to receive such funding. A real scam still going on, leading to more false data by researchers and corrupt medical - AMA needs a shake down.

I wonder if the American health journal ever dropped that extra “special” layer of critiquing any paper pre-peer review for covid only papers? We’re not talking about screening and still allowing for peer review to take place, no, they did this intentionally to support the false narrative. They prevented other specialists and researchers from seeing factual data. Many at the top guilty of fraud, medical negligence leading to deaths. They’ll have a little more trouble wiggling their way out of that one.

 

[Indeependent]

Yes. Also very much connected to funding and future funding, and how data must be presented to be an accepted paper to receive such funding. A real scam still going on, leading to more false data by researchers and corrupt medical AMA needs a shake down.

I wonder if the American health journal ever drop that extra “special” layer of critiquing any paper pre-peer review, were not talking about screening and still allowing for peer review to take place nope …they did this intentionally to support the false narrative. Many at the top guilty of fraud, medical negligence leading to deaths. They’ll have a little more trouble wiggling their way out of that one.

I’ve met more than quite a few medical professionals who were advised to change the population of the study and when I informed them why, they were rather depressed knowing the truth.

 

[ClaireH]

I’ve met more than quite a few medical professionals who were advised to change the population of the study and when I informed them why, they were rather depressed knowing the truth.

Yes. Honest researchers trapped in the middle. Most don’t have the means to conduct independent research and rely on grants and direct funding. Many still under corruptive overlords ….that’s where we need double our mass of concerned citizens against corrupt authoritarian rule.

There’s never been a better time for the right independent candidate to break the ice! Unfortunately, maybe more chaos (another 5 years) is needed to wake up sleepy non-voters from the largest segment-the middle. I truly hope not, because I don’t know where the country will be if an authoritarian Leftist is elected in 2024. Using myopic vision, our country needs an independent candidate to win in 2024.

I don’t see any Republican shining stars rearing their heads. Out with the old guard that doesn’t have a shot. A couple of reps nominating potential speakers yesterday could be potential runners just based upon having a presidential demeanor and respected by their cohorts, voting records would help determine either consistency or a record of horse trading.

 

[peacefan]

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The disappearance of pay phones brought the disappearance of privacy.




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in exchange for a *ton* of improvements to modern life.
stop nagging already.