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[–]magnora7 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

Bitcoin transactions cost about $4.

XRP transactions cost about $0.0001 each.

There are better options, the only question is why more people aren't using them? Especially online retailers, cryptocurrency payment purchasing options need to become mainstream and fast

[–]Jesus 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Digital currency is exactly what TPTB want. They won't sanction alternatives. A mathematically perfected economy based on supply and demand is the only way around all of this. The banks are not going to allow the people to have their own digital currency.

[–]magnora7 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Perhaps, but there are thousands of competing cryptocurrencies right as we speak. Most are not owned by the powers that be

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

They are anything but efficient.

Their primary criteria is that the majority of the money/power/control flows to TPTB.

I can't speak much to a mathematically perfected economy, but it might be worth aiming for.

The current system is terrible with excessive surplus mass produced disposable shit. Inverting it to produce items on demand would be better, though patience would be required.

As you implied balance would be better - and it would be more practical if there was an open-source democratic online network with Amazon-warehouse-like regional caches all over (a few in every city) to maintain modest stocks of everything - but it's a pipe dream and would be corrupted or suffer a hostile takeover by TPTB, even if you could build the network overnight. These systems alreadu exist, for products and for food - but they're all corporate and pushing crappy merchandise.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

excessive surplus

But it isn't a surplus, at least not in regards to food, when so many people are starving or malnourished.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Depends. On many things.

There's extreme food waste in North America. We have exceptionally inefficient systems on many levels. Processing factories should be reclaiming the heat they use to generate power and/or heat homes. There's no food reclamation projects. In Oakland we built a veggie oil to biodiesel station in our warehouse. The restaurants couldn't give us their old oil fast enough. We filled many vehicles and in turn they did a weekly circuit of the restaurants. Every person did it a few times a year. And that's just off the top of my head regarding food and energy. There should be no one hungry - yet the system does not care about trickling down fairly nor efficiently nor at all.

Clothing is ridiculously wasteful on a crazy scale. That's a whole other ball of confusion. So much just ends up going to Africa - including the high-end stuff.

Ultimately we need to build an anti-corporate and anti-consumerist culture and bring manufacturing home again, DIY and hand craft things, and develop our own non-exploitable cultures.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Ultimately we need to build an anti-corporate and anti-consumerist culture and bring manufacturing home again, DIY and hand craft things, and develop our own non-exploitable cultures.

Agreed! Decentralization is key.