You were taking @TylerAbeoJordan to task for his distrust of big government, but just like you he also was not stating it as a fact but as a personal opinion backed up with a reasonable self-guide to wait and see:
Then you wrote a pretty good argument about how conspiracies are perpetuated and defended. I pointed out that we are all susceptible to it, and used an example of one that you yourself posted by an ex central banker, that in your personal opinion found “best”:
The data if you do ever dig into it, is definitive. This is a particularly insidious conspiracy almost everything that ex central banker is writing about is backwards from a current and historical basis… but does serve a certain slither of society quite nicely. A true monetary policy conspiracy and one that has brought untold amounts of suffering/death to populations around the world and enriched a very small cohort. Don’t take my word for it though…
Yes, that describes most monetary policy pretty well, more than occasionally. The good thing about this particular monetary policy conspiracy is that there is a load of evidence and hard economic stats to show it for what it is, and a small but growing list of professionals calling it out.
Well here is the rub. Unless you actually work in or near this field (and even then) you most likely will have a hard job just stumbling randomly on the other side of the monetary policy conspiracy. Almost the entirety of the financial press is omits to examine it**, as do the central bankers most of the time, or most economists who want to be published in high impact journals or come/go to a “good” economic universities. Economists do not learn monetary history as part of the course, concepts like “banks” and “money” are in no econometric model used today to set central bank policy. Why is that? You almost never see “rebel” economists like Steve Keen and the few others like him invited to mainstream financial media to give the other side of the story (despite them quoting from him often enough, usually in a negative light).
Out of massive frustration there is a worldwide economist student protest movement trying to bring the sort of data I am referencing into the light and change the whole profession from the inside, with little effect so far because the economics profession sometimes advances one funeral at a time***. Mostly its plain falsehoods just continue to serve elites well, no need to ask questions.
No, all these groups are all not self censoring in some weird coordinated conspiracy like you see in a movie. As Noam Chomsky succinctly points out, to get to a position of influence and power: If they believed something different, they wouldn’t been sitting where they are sitting. There are public cracks in the ranks all the time, dozens to cite and explore. Quickly papered over… and the large conspiracy at societies expense marches on another decade.
So no like most laypersons you are unlikely to stumble upon it casually.
I did take the time to post it to inform and help though…
I don’t care much for the flowery concepts like how someone “presents their argument”, or whether or not the “strength of someone’s conviction” sways me to even consider it. Personally I prefer: Show Me The Data. It keeps things simpler and easier to navigate. Less emotion.
There are words for the style of argument your presenting directly above: Ad hominem. You label me a poor thinker so any idea or data I present is not even worth considering (“I’m not going to sample your videos”/links). If that does not fit the pure definition of censoring of ideas from your personal consideration, I do not know what will. I know you can be better than that. If your still not interested in the worldwide student movement behind this, or the assortment of places I curated for you that make the case with oodles of data to back it up… because you don’t like how I dress my messages (or not), is no skin off my nose. Someone else may find it useful so it is still worth making the effort.
The links I have presented are very relevant to the Safe Network. I wrote some years ago touching on it here and @oetyng found some value in it. IIRC he is now in charge of SN economic policy… no easy nut to crack as at its heart the problem is us humans: hoarding ever more desperately in times of stress when free flowing medium of exchange is required the most, and vice versa. With a limited view of the overall economy how can you hit the breaks, or step on the gas, and in what proportion. Tying into this there is a lot of misconception about “hard money” in the cryptocurrency sphere like it can only be a good thing, yet many historical examples going back centuries have shown that hard fixed supply money will eventually grind a relatively closed economic system like the SN to a halt for the majority without countermeasures. Absolutely nothing like a central bank does however (who surprisingly do not actually do money - hence our 12 odd years of worldwide but uneven economic stagnation, coined “The silent depression”). Bitcoin does not have the problem as it is not a whole monetary system to serve itself like the SN will be. There is a lot of insight, knowledge and historic examples buried in the links I have posted in the last few posts if anyone is interested in digging further and learning. You will not be disappointed.
** Except for a few small oasis here and and there like a minority of FT Alphaville contributors. UK editor interviewed in episodes 58a/b/c
*** Notice where that video was published… hard to get any mainstream financial press airtime here.