Probably worth a watch, and whether you agree with him or not, being aware of the economic situation here at the moment is probably prudent
Big fan of Gary, he’s often spot on.
Note: as Lemmy is a link aggregator, try and add it to the relevant field when posting.
He’s pretty unbiased, and explains it all really well for those of us with no knowledge of how that world works.
Can you explain the link aggregator business once again for the heard of thinking? I’m not sure what you mean, but I’m assuming it’s something I’ve either completely ignored or misunderstood
He’s pretty unbiased, and explains it all really well for those of us with no knowledge of how that world works.
From my, admittedly limited, knowledge of high finance, he seems to know the score and be able to talk about it clearly and without being biased towards it.
Can you explain the link aggregator business once again for the heard of thinking? I’m not sure what you mean, but I’m assuming it’s something I’ve either completely ignored or misunderstood
Like Digg and Reddit, Lemmy is like earlier discussion forum software but set to favour the new post over a new comment and the key is the link, especially on Lemmy. So if I post the same link as someone else has done it will automatically add a link to that post too. It’s also why we prefer people post archive links in.the body of the post and the original link as the main one.
How should I have formatted it to achieve this?
When you go to “create post” there is a field labeled “URL”, the main link goes in there.
Ah, I think that might be the app I’m using. Mlem just has “title” and then “post”
On Mlem you can add a link by tapping the link icon at the top of the post editor and tapping “paste” (with the link copied to clipboard, of course). We’re aware that this isn’t the most obvious UI, and are improving it in the next version.
Well that was really rather easy, I’ve edited it, thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Brokesit
Why is this post being downvoted?
I think that people who are dogmatic about politics, from either camp, find his stuff hard to swallow. We’re here because of Tory corruption and incompetence, which alienates conservatives, and it’s being made worse by weak fiscal policy and the ignoring the several elephants in the room of labour, which offends the middle-lefties
It’s also a clickbait title though. That’s not how national economys work. You cannot equate governmental spending to the budget systems of companies, doing so is intellectually dishonest.
Countries can’t go bankrupt… anyone who puts that in their title is full of shit.
I’d rather see comments that challenge the title rather than just blindingly downvoting it.
I don’t know much about government finances, but surely there has to be a point where the government is unable to actually pay for any services because it’s servicing an insane level of debt, and it cannot continue to borrow more?
That’s the point at which they default.
You’d rather see nonsense then. You can’t dissolve a country. A country doesn’t go bust, stop trading, wrap things up and shut down. It may have hyper inflation and gain a poor populace but it cannot shut down. It can always leverage for credit because it will always exist. The terms of credit may be awful but the ability to raise funds somehow is always there. Literally printing money, bonds, government takeover of private institutes, whatever, there’s many many many more levers available to a government than other entities.
A country cannot go bankrupt. Therefore the title is bollocks, therefore a downvote and move on is warranted. Even if the content is good, they’ve spoiled any respectability with the title.
This is exactly why the new lemmy.world rules where moderators should challenge everything instead of removing bad content is bonkers because it encourages nonsense and misinformation.
I’d rather people call out - like you have done - why it’s bollocks and try and get the title changed. If the content was also bullshit then I think the downvotes would be warranted.
