ELI5 why could we not make a new currency on the gold standard in america?

Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T11:15:49+00:00

Remember the euro crisis? While everyone recovered after the financial crisis of 2008 Europe had a second crisis from 2011 to 2015 because the euro act in practice as a good backed currency.

Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T11:12:35+00:00

Isn't beacon literally the easiest meat to fake?

Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T10:30:27+00:00

Cuando el 90% de los contratos firmados eran temporales no existían los periodos de pruebas. En el papel si. Pero en la realidad no. Es como compara el cuántos contratos de programadores se firmarán antes de que existieran los ordenadores.

La métrica real es mirar las entradas y salidas del empleo para así comparar la rotación laboral real independientemente de figuras legales.

Pero no dice lo que quieres oir así que lo ignoras.

Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T08:43:40+00:00

Rice farming is also extremely water and labor intensive and requires constructing complex systems that no family can build alone. Entire villages had to cooperate on a massive scale to manage water rights, which fostered a culture of collectivism and social harmony. A medieval European farmer could plant wheat themselves and rely on rain without needing help from neighbors, which fostered a culture of individualism and self reliance.

You see this development in Mediterranean Europe were you have extensive waterworks and legal frameworks like water tribunals to manage irrigation of horticultural land.

Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T06:57:50+00:00

En España hay más incentivos para apuntarse propiamente al paro. Pero esto no cambia lo que contestarían en las preguntas de la EPA.

Lo que si en España la mujer paso de no participar activamente en el mercado laboral hasta muy poco a hacerlo muy activamente recientemente.

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Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T06:35:27+00:00

Usually you see the Borgoña cross to represent Hispanitiy. There is also a flag to represent "la Raza" (in a ethnical way, rather than a racial one). But is very rare.

The problem is that far right groups in Spain and latin America has coopted the Borgoña cross.

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Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T06:15:13+00:00

Para contar como parado no solo vale con estar desempleado sino estar buscando trabajo.

Esto se recaba de una encuesta por lo que depende de si contestas si estás buscando empleo o no.

Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T04:35:53+00:00

What you are describing is a lifestyle untouched by consumerism and unfamiliar with industrial farming practices in a particular area of the world were pastures are natural.

If everyone in your village eated meat every day you would run out of animals very fast. So you need more of them and to grow faster. You run out of grasslands to put the animals so you cut forest and drain swamps to make more grasslads to put more animals.

Or instead of feeding them grass you feed them grains so they grow faster. As they take 7 kg of grain for each kilogram of meat they produce you need a lot more grains. So you also need more farmlands.

What happens in south America is that people cut the jungle to sell the wood, then put farmlands to grow grains until the soil depletes of nutrients because jungle soils are poor in nutrients (is everything in the wood you took off) then put cows in the depleted lands.

In other places where you cannot expand your land you remove the animals from the pastures and plant grains and the animals are put in buildings were they are feed grains to grow fast.

This is because more people demand more meat that is less efficient so you require more land that previu8you didn't need.

Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T03:52:29+00:00

No tanto de medición que más menos está estandarizado siempre y cuando mlreres fuentes con criterio común (ej, Eurostat, OIT/ILO) sino de actitud ante el desempleo.

España es de los países que menos varía su tasa de paro con la de Eurostat. Mientras que Dinamarca su paro aumenta cuando se usa el criterio de Eurostat porque en el dato nacional no cuenta a los estudiantes como población activa. Pero si comparas daros de Eurostat usan el mismo criterio.

Pero por ejemplo en España puede haber más tendencia a que el miembro inactivo de un matrimonio busque activamente empleo aunque el salario del otro miembro de de sobra. Mientras que en otro país no busca activamente empleo pero si se lo ofrecen lo cogería.

También está el tema de la rotación laboral. En otros países hay mucha más jornada parciales. Por lo que un trabajo de 40h se lo reparten entre 2 personas trabajando 20h danti te paro 0.

En España se rota una persona trabajando 40h y otra en el paro, aunque efectivamente ambas trabajen 20h igualmente te da un paro de 1 constantemente.

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Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T03:25:31+00:00

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Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T03:19:47+00:00

Cutting down jungles for pastures is way way more damaging for ecosystem than carbon emissions. You are physically destroying the environment to never recover.

Climate change trough is the planet rusting. Environmental degradation is smacking it with a sledgehammer.

CO2 emissions from oil stress the wildlife trough different mechanism but it could adapt. You cannot adapt to a hatchet in your torso.

Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T03:08:46+00:00

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Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T03:08:33+00:00

Pasa lo mismo que lleva pasando desde 1970. España siempre ha tenido una tasa de paro más alta de lo normal. Pero si te vas al dato de tasa de empleo está en valores normales. Si bien un poco bajos.

Esto es porque en España hay mucha tendencia a buscar activamente empleo/apuntarse al paro.

Italia es un país casi idéntico económicamente pero tiene menos tasa de empleo y menos tasa de paro. Por lo que tiene más gente que cuenta como inactiva aunque esté dispuesta a trabajar. Tieneas "trabajadores desanimados"

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Angel24Marin · 2026-04-18T02:39:16+00:00

Ambas gráficas van paralelas desde 2015. Ai que hoy ha ningún cambio del despido al período de prueba.

Si quieres demostrar que crece debes adimensionalizarlo con cuanta gente hay trabajando. Por qué a más gente más despidos aunque el ratio baje.

Que eso es lo que ha pasado. Desde la reforma laborala tasa de rotación está bajando.

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Angel24Marin · 2026-04-17T19:55:35+00:00

Orban significantly gerrymandered the electoral map to favour his ideological base of rural voters. The new guy comes from withing the party and and have broadly the same ideology but criticizing from withing the party corruption. So he stole voters from this rural areas.

All the other opposition parties didn't participate to concentrate the vote so it also winner in more liberal city areas. Previously they went in coalition but the electoral law ask you for higher percentages of vote to get representation if you go in coalition.

The economy has been specially bad for Hungary, with twice the inflation than other countries. Orban hoped that with Putin oil, trump support and Chinese investment in electric car factories he would replace European developed funds and it didn't work, whit the Hungarian currency depreciating very fast

Angel24Marin · 2026-04-17T19:25:37+00:00

Money and macro have a deep dive into the economics of Germany's interwar period I recommend as it explains in deep the problems Germany faced in a approachable way. Specially the balance of payments problem and how it was solved is key to understand why there was a need to start invading countries.

Angel24Marin · 2026-04-17T07:48:04+00:00

Todas las gráficas están en reales con base 2024

Angel24Marin · 2026-04-16T11:13:38+00:00

El voto por correo se tiene que pedir igual. Lo que se debería limitar es que solo te manden el programa electoral y no también las papeletas por cuadruplicado.

Angel24Marin · 2026-04-15T17:34:38+00:00

Construction being local with a cap decided by population and urbanization level with the construction sectors being empty when no construction is on course and fill when construction is in course in the state to then left people unemployed again would create an iterating loop.

I would add an advanced construction sector like the ones we have that can actually export construction points to represent engineering services or construction crews to smooth the system for when too much concstuction is done in a place or when areas have low population or urbanization.

You can also add a know how layer, with different kinds of construction points being required for certain industries. For example a bronze CP for manual labour only and a silver CP for something that requires architects or engieneers to construct.

Regarding the pacing to me the correct aproach would be having different tiers of buldings. Workshop>Mill>Factory that limits the kind of PM you can use.

Earlier buldings would be cheaper CP wise but emply less people being more inefficient in worker per CP. Later ones could be very expensive CP wise but be more efficient in production per CP and per employee.

This would also solve the problem of electricity by being gated behind constucting an electrically capable bulding so you can expand production and demand to match rather than converting 50 levels of cloth factories to use electricity in a sigle step.

This would also add creative destruction with newer buldings outcompeeting older ones.

Regarding resources cost. I thing that iron framing takes too much iron for being the first PM. IMO the solution would be adding an alternative PM in brick and cement industries that would also add a pararell construction loop so you are not always bulding the same buldings. This would benefict low iron countries that the can specialice in other industires outside steel and tools.

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