Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@moffintosh @icedquinn https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost

@icedquinn @moffintosh there is literally no better choice though. The way they work should be fixed/improved, especially the shitty state it's in in the USA, but throwing out the entire form of managing resources has the problem that what're you gonna replace it with?
The answers are always combinations of:
- same shit but we try to do it better this time
- let's leave the management of everything in the economy to politicians, what could go wrong?
- neither, we'll sort it out without the need for authorities and it'll work out (it won't)

@icedquinn @moffintosh
>the usurist inputs nothing
the usurist inputs their risk judgement and the risk they'll lose their money. Because of the fact they're personally affected by the results and this ability belongs to people who were smart enough to earn it at best and not stupid enough to lose it all at worst, this results in miles better resource management than any half-baked gov official using their two brain cells to try to decide what people should be doing. They're a necessary evil.

The combination of risk and management effort warranties big pay for anyone to be willing to do it, and most of the people whining about not having the ability to do it wouldn't want to do it anyway. They just want to slave away for stable comfortable life, in a world where the people they're envious of slave away alongside them.