I don’t know where you are. But in the US or most of Europe it’s roughly the price a single lunch. A cheap fast food lunch. If you have a hard time affording fast food once a month, I get it. But I’d easily skip one meal a month for a better internet.

It’s not expensive. For the price of a single cheap lunch. Your main gateway to the internet is no longer trying to use you to make money from advertisers. It has the largest most capable feature set of any search provider. Again for the price of a single cheap lunch. It would be the last subscription I cancel.

It’s totally worth it. And you hit the major reason for me also. “Ranking” results is fantastic. And lenses, narrowing down results to academic sources is too useful anytime you want real info.

I started with the 300mo. I was able to keep under the limit without too much effort. But eventually I upgraded and it’s nice to not think about it anymore.

This article cites a meta study of 4 others.

Your saying they aren’t arrogant assholes?

Do people expect the price to go down?
I’m confused

A Dr. providing compassionate euthanasia assistance.

Hubris is un-earned arrogance. Or arrogance from ignorance.
Some people are appropriately arrogant. It’s annoying as fuck, but you can’t argue with their results.

People need to be okay paying for things online.

Communick is a paid fediverse provider.
I pay $30/year because I believe it’s worth paying for.

It makes sense for different servers to have different financing models. Ads I’m sure will have their place. But I imagine they won’t be popular.

Can you see me?
Which one am I?

NO TAXES!?!
I never said anything close to no taxes! I said the opposite of no taxes!

I said the purpose of taxes isn’t what people think it is.
Governments don’t need to take money so they have money to spend.

That doesn’t remotely mean I don’t want taxes, or taxes aren’t necessary.
Taxes are absolutely necessary!
Taxes are the flip side of government spending.

The government spends into the economy with one hand, and taxes out of the economy with the other hand. Taxes are the real inflation control.

99% of that is correct. That is exactly what governments do. You understand exactly what I’m saying also.

The one part that’s wrong is tiny, but absolutely foundational to what I’m saying,

What governments do, doesn’t necessarily correlate with how things work. What they do, and have done for centuries, could be wrong.

I’m arguing that it is wrong. I’m saying that everyone has been running their economies and making monetary policy decisions based on wrong ideas, since fiat currencies were invented.

No. Live traffic data is too much server overhead for an un-monetized service.
Also, someone would have to be tracking where everyone is.

I guess if you want to define the term that way, you can.
Seems an odd choice of phrase.

If you export something, you don’t have it domestically any more.
But this doesn’t work that way.

Diluting is a better term. But diluting isn’t exporting.

But still, that’s nothing to do with what I was saying.
Which is why I’m not sure you understood what I was saying.

Yah… That’s econ 101 stuff I’m not and haven’t been confused about that. Not sure how that’s ‘exporting’ inflation.

I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
I’m not sure you understand what I’m trying to say.

I don’t understand.

exporting it’s inflation globally

Do you mean inflation as increasing prices?
Or increasing money supply?

I’m not sure either matters realy, as the USD is the global currency. Foreign and domestic together, are a single economy from point of view of the USD.

That’s the old economic model that treats a government like any other organization in the economy. It’s not.

Taxes aren’t loans. Banks aren’t governments. Completely different and uncomparable.

The difference is banks don’t control their own currency. That single difference changes everything.

I refuse to use any of these.
Instead I like to come up with my own new ones.

Like when someone comes back in right away after forgetting something.
I’m like: “Finally! Do you know how worried I’ve been?”

I’m absolutely going to trust a site making money shilling for gold and silver, on the solvency of a government controlling the world’s reserve fiat currency. There’s no way they’d lie about that to help their own interests.

It really is how this works.
It’s just that nobody realised until the last couple decades. And now we have a century of inertia behind economic theories that say otherwise. A century of economic theory that’s been horrible at predicting the real economy by the way.

But it’s not difficult to understand.
If a government can make money out of nothing to pay for anything it needs to (the definition of fiat currency), then it doesn’t need to collect taxes to pay for things. If it doesn’t need to taxes to pay for things, then what do taxes do? Taxes remove money from the economy, offsetting the money added by government spending from nothing. This is direct inflation control.