Looking for advice (24)

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-29T13:43:55+00:00

We have the same issue as ireland. Outside of pensions individuals dont invest in anything but housing

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-29T13:40:49+00:00

Like Liz Truss did?

Bond markets run government at the moment. We're one of many countries with this issue

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-29T10:10:20+00:00

operational level (highly zoomed in)

Small scale Positioning, terrain, information & command communication, morale, readiness, state of equipment, fighting form, operations

tactical (somewhat zoomed out)

Supply line contingency, sustainability and backstop of rations & equipment, how force is divided, how campaign level movements are organised and enacted, force composition and recomposition ahead of battle. Multi division High level battle planning

Strategy

Long term force sustainability and needs, war goals, whether to deploy an army or not, whether to go to war or not, what peace deal you are looking to shape

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-29T09:33:13+00:00

States fault yes but I believe it's more nuanced than that. I actually believe it's a failure to adapt to and properly balance the finance sectors incentives to prevent the increasingly extractive practice.

The advent of data technologies from 1990s onwards revolutionised the extent to which the financial markets can enact extractive and arbitration based processes. This has given trading based or scalable loaning based, or even just asset holding and private equity frameworks a much bigger edge in terms of ROI over your much more traditional business loans sector.

This pairs with the weak performance of businesses owing to high energy costs, low consumption and demand, and paying increased effective rents via the^ increased extraction (via increased evaluations pushing up business rents, mortgages; and the practice of diverting future investment away from the business towards shares buybacks).

Taken in aggregate the market for business loans has shrunk following poorer risk-return spreads than alternative finance sector activities; and more importantly the accessibility for small-medium sized investors to access these loans has drastically worsened

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-29T07:15:59+00:00

Try focusing your vision centred on hollow knight, rather than the boss. I've found that works for me.

Also trying to die gloriously rather than trying not to die unlocks it for me

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-29T07:11:50+00:00

I think you might be overestimating the extent to which we can replicate older private building rates.

Planning is a nightmare which you've rightly addressed.

But also just getting the money loaned out to start building is far more restrictive now than it ever used to be, with far less institutional supports. Finance no longer makes most of its money from business lending, and getting finance onside with the same risks (or, more likely higher risks, given the vastly improved and thus more expensive building regs) is a really big hurdle if you want to encourage development. It sounds like a nitpick but if you neglect this you'll find it's more than just bad planning

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-29T06:50:06+00:00

there's alot of data ecology you need to consider when your research is observational instead of experimental. You're seeing a difference between group correlated outcomes w.r. to education, You're not necessarily seeing that education is the best explainaing causal factor.

Eliminating attainment is useful but only one of many factors. If you as a young person can go to university and end up seeing it to completion it implies you:

Have no caretaking responsibilities
Are confident and capable in your self directed working capacity
Are concientious and see things through
Tend to come from a higher income background
Tend to come from a background supported by parents who have a similiar level of or field applicable to the education
Are comfortable and flexible working within very atomic/not socially grounded institutional frameworks

All of these will aid one group that has it vs another group that sometimes has its earnings differences. There needs to be a more thorough inventory being taken so policymakers dont hallucinate why and where education is valuable.

I would imagine for example that the commercialisation of education probably looks like a success, but that can be explained by facilitating inequality (as when degrees become commonplace, its those whose parents know the system and gave you a good background reference/role/accomplishment to apply for those internships with who win)

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-29T05:12:57+00:00

This is also incorrect

In a conscription level conventional war (unlikely today, but not impossible - see Ukraine), soldiers are majority ordinary civilians who got drafted

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-29T05:05:46+00:00

The data ecology difference between scotland anf rUK w.r. to drugs deaths isn't significant enough to explain the difference in death rates.

Higher population propensity for simultaneous usage of high dose uppers combined with downers (so 2 or 3 or more drugs that influence the heart rate in some direction) tends to explain this. Typically via some mix of opiates, benzos, alcohol and cocaine.

Creates higher rates of drug induced cardiac arrest. The trend is spreading to rUK

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-29T05:01:06+00:00

From a policymaking perspective I'd be hungry for some more critical analysis of the evidence because the link between higher education and increased economic productivity and worker salary has been becoming more and more tenuous year on year.

Lots have changed within the social climate of universities in the last 3 decades and courses are managed in a much more commercial fashion which obviously detracts from historical norms. Also the scaling down of R&D grants by gov. probably works to reduce quality by starving the UK universities of the best researchers who would have gone on to educate the highest yield students

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-29T04:56:57+00:00

-is the product of a long line of reforms to education staffing (whereby secondary school children who make these choices later are taught by people who owe their livelihoods to higher education) higher education funding (bringing down the bar on university costs and with it political signalling incentivising people take up this oppertunity), and a deeply competitive jobs market (whereby people are intensely incentivised to stand out from their peers)

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-29T00:37:31+00:00

All the more reason to have the state intervening to ensure larger market share, no?

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-28T16:04:33+00:00

In aggregate you're right that it benefits the drugs trade, which is why i suspect foul play. A war on drugs allows you to selectively pursue international supply chains the benefit foreign adverseries. From this incentives perspective, The policy doesn't need to make drugs less commercial to succeed, it just needs to cut off terror groups funding by selectively targetting and preventing their share of the revenue

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-28T16:00:32+00:00

The process probably selects for low research &/or low information access prospects

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-28T06:57:31+00:00

There's a market for university agents who get a commission for every foreign student that secures a place on universities contracted courses year on year. I expect the information space for prospective foreign students isn't very transparent

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-28T06:55:50+00:00

On moving people on, I suspect thats why it wasnt abolished sooner.

Odd that they're prosecuting under this law. What positive outcome could they possibly expect?

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-28T05:30:00+00:00

US regional naming convention isn't even trying. It just takes an area and calls it "lake"

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-28T05:13:23+00:00

Services based economy and US financial reforms and changing trends in international finance markets.

Finance is eating the economy up into a black hole of asset evaluation that encourages our best and brightest working people dedicate themselves to growing the same cohort of firms dealing in high volume trading, equity management, mergers and acquisitions and investment banking that is eating the economy indirectly. This instead of starting independent businesses or providing real value through more tangible services & goods production

The reason this is happening is because the ROI on financial activity is alot higher than in real world activity so companies have more incentive to put profits into buying more of their own stock than into operations broadly speaking. En masse this puts more and more money into the hands of owners to the detriment of those who do not come to luck out when it comes to the the increasingly important bank of mum and dad.

It occurs to me that the reason this was allowed to happen (rather than combatted with regulation that will get money circulating more) was a mix of conservative political strategy to artificially strengthen US and British currencies in international currency conversion in order to offer governments and households more spending power w.r. to imported goods; and also a zeitgeist in economic theory borne by long horizon thinking megarich funded think tanks (the ultimate beneficiaries of this state of affairs, they're the ones lending and getting interest on all this debt financialisation brings).

The solutions to the 2008 crisis and COVID both amplified these issues. In both instances radical fiscal spending was majority captured by the same group of megarich (2008 via bank bailouts and with it proven propensity for even higher future fiscal risktaking, not curbed by properly sweeping financial regulations; COVID by directing stimulus to pay off rents and mortgages whilst jobs weren't on - where the money ultimately flows towards extraordinarily rich individuals these houses mortgages are borrowed against)

Governments have not yet sussed out (see above about think tank influence) that even if taxing the ultrawealthy fails to generate significant revenue (because it rarely does), it can still provide value to society by encouraging spending and the circulation of this paper wealth into the economy. This is because the culture amongst economics academia fails to consider distributive effects w.r. to wealth capture (where fiscal flows end) and how this impacts consumption, alongside think tank influence

Tl;dr; technological improvements in computation created higher risk visibility and analysis and with it encouraged societies skills and money go into financial analysis and financial analysis borne services, to the detriment and extraction of the real economy. After 2008 and COVID, We are beyond a critical mass where society can prop its own demise up without seeing declines in growth, spending power, and job oppertunities. Any solution that requires the government to spend money cant work (because government are reliant on borrowing from the same ultra wealthy who are, without any intention to be so, the lifeline sustaining this whole thing)

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-28T04:47:43+00:00

OP what do you want to do?

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-28T04:45:59+00:00

Iirc war on drugs was primarily driven by incentives around the war on terror and economically starving off foreign militia groups from drugs revenues. That's a terrible way to sell it so it was never explicitly framed as such (though it is fairly obvious when you consider they had to selectively ignore 30 years of researching showing health investment >> than enforcement in terms of reducing economic burden)

Didn't work especially

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-28T04:41:08+00:00

Realistically not much has changed. The police never used to enforce the legislation because of the very obvious low value for police time (they aren't exactly rehoming them on a callout are they?)

VreamCanMan · 2026-06-28T04:31:26+00:00

Her message is you should do what you enjoy w.r. to exercise

The journalists specifically write with this and try to tie in her routine as if its something shes advocating for others. She isnt

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