• regul [any]@hexbear.net
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    70
    ·
    1 month ago

    My new strategy for eliminating the national deficit is doing insider trading, but with the profits going to the government.

        • SchillMenaker [he/him]@hexbear.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          1 month ago

          The direct currency manipulation stuff is one thing, I’m more talking about stocks and weirdo derivative assets. The government should be snapping up rents so that capitalists actually have to produce or die.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        1 month ago

        i’m going further. imagine as the state becomes increasingly impotent, dependent on “AI”, with nobody understanding a single function anymore

        until a group of leftists (who are still maintaining deep technical knowledge through the power of knee socks and cat ears) basically just finds an exploit in the entire U.S. market economy and interwoven remnant government structures

        just take control of the military and police’s paychecks. nobody in power knows even how to effectively “reboot” the decrepit systems or stop this because everything is intangible now