[ExI] My review of Eliezer Yudkowsky's new book (UBI)

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Cc: Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com>

>...The folks in government are unwilling to cede control of America to whoever they're borrowing from...

Ja, and I want to them to cede control America to us, the lenders.  We lenders are CONTROL FREAKS man!  We lust for unlimited POWER!  Iron fisted CONTROL of government is all we ask.

>...The self-imposed limit is what they think they can get away with, without too much of that.  In their eyes, risking shutdown is better than risking giving up control.

Ah well said, thanks Adrian.

Jared Bernstein, the chair of the Council of Economic Advisors to the previous POTUS (cannot recall his name at the moment) gave an explanation of how it all works in a two-minute video below.  Do invest the time to be educated in how American economic theory operates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ew60nFhTlI

Adrian, don't you feel much smarter now?  So don't I.

spike