Brilliant.
How to jump-start the economy of the future back onto the rails:
Joe Biden signs an executive order creating a new cryptocurrency called Malarkey. Malarkey doesn’t have a physical form, the Treasury just loads it onto a card. (In 2021, everybody gets a card.) The Treasury disburses at least one load of Malarkey to all the people, for Inclusion.1 They give multiple loads to some of the people, for Equity. They put a portrait of some eminent journalist on the 100-Malarkey bill, for Diversity.
Malarkey fits easily into the 2021 global economy, because it works just like a lot of other things we’ve become familiar with. Once your card is loaded you can buy and sell Malarkey freely2 on a government-secured blockchained crypto-exchange — totally hacker-proof, like they used for the last election. Like whales from the north Atlantic (or shares of selected stocks,3)…
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Nice summary of the financial state of the West. The only thing missing is the fact that the US owes China a very large sum of malarkey, and someday they are going to call in the debt, one way or another.
I have reached new and special levels of having nothing useful to say.
And still, I am accomplishing more good in what I am saying than a fair number of more official spokesfolks.
Terrifying, isn’t it?
And ox figure that much out.
Working to not talk unless it’s useful…. being silent a lot….