UraniumBlazer

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I have a fantasy where Western governments decide to invest heavily in public transit to spite Chinese EV manufacturers or something

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Nobody knows rlly.

Worst case scenario: More war between SNA, HST and SDF

Less worse scenario: Iran like country

Better case scenario: Iraq ("Democracy", but not rlly)

Best case fantasy scenario: Elections are called. A government forms that is organised something like AANES. Oil resources are exploited, due to which wealth goes into public hands rather than a few capitalists. Everybody lives happily ever after.

Why're people downvoting you?

Ooo someone really likes bunnies, huh

That makes ur body take a screenshot

Looks like someone needs to give this fellow a bunny too, eh?

I'm sure you would be willing to pay op for commissioning a human artist, no?

Fuck the Chinese State, but this is absolutely amazing! Open source model weights are a step towards public ownership over this new means of production.

Isn't it possible with a VAT-like system, where a collecting agency returns the collected money to the central bank?

Yes, but it would be much more impractical compared to the existing interest rate system, where all the central bank has to do is change the interest rate. What about businesses that sneakily avoid this changing VAT tax? You would need a much stronger tax collection system for this. There are just too many problems associated with this, when compared to the current interest rate system.

This actually doesn't seem too bad. Most points of sale are digital.

What about small businesses operated by old people who aren't well versed with tech? What about furry artists who are getting like 5 dollars for their art? Do they have to incorporate a point of sale system now? Also, another huge disadvantage of a hybrid currency is the inability to calculate the amount of money being actively exchanged at a given unit of time. If all currency were online, you would be able to calculate exactly how much money was exchanged this minute.

Instead of changing it daily, only change it monthly/quarterly/...

Well that's how the current system already works. The central banks are constantly reviewing the economy to make these decisions. It's just that after a decision is made, it takes a lot of time for its effect to actually show in the economy (banks review the central bank's rates, change their own rates, people take more/less loans, deposit the money in some account, money multiplier effect happens accordingly and the amount of money actively being exchanged changes and so on).

The point is, for such long gaps, the current interest rates system just is a lot more practical. However, again, the big ping difference means that economic issues can go unaddressed for longer, causing more damage.

If we had an online only currency, we would have a crazily efficient system where the boom bust cycle for the valuation of our currency would be a lot more muted. However, with hybrid currency, the most efficient way is the interest rate method that we currently use.

No. VAT is what you would consider to be fiscal policy. It would be a tax that the government imposes on you. The transaction fees would be money that ends up in the government's coffers, which the government would put to use somewhere. Increasing/decreasing VAT wouldn't decrease/increase the amount of money in circulation. It would just increase/decrease the amount of money that is in the government's control.

The transaction fees that I'm proposing here would be monetary policy. There would be huge tanks of money that noone uses. They would be filled up/emptied depending upon how above/below the current amount of money in circulation is from the target.

More money in circulation? Transaction fees increase, more money gets pulled out from circulation and gets put in the tank. Less money in circulation? Transaction fees get lowered (mostly negative) to get money from the tank into the economy.

This is possible only using an online only currency with a predefined algorithm controlling the transaction fees.

Doing this with hybrid currency (like we have now) would be an absolute bureaucratic nightmare. Imagine having to pay 1.00023 dollars every time you get a bag of chips. Imagine being a business where you have to manually input, document and pay the daily changing VAT to the government. The current system of changing interest rates for the federal reserve funds reserves this tedious calculation to the banks instead of all businesses.

Changes in transaction fees wouldn't be so drastic though. As you can make tens of thousands of corrections per year (compared to a couple in the current system), changes wouldn't affect you so much.