A $2k/month model, should it ever arise, won't need you.

I haven't looked at a cost analysis recently, but it's possible that we basically already have $2k/month models, if they were priced to be even slightly profitable.

I think OP is talking about decoupling tax and government spending, Modern Monetary Theory-style.

In this model government just prints all the money it needs in order to function. Taxation isn't used to fund government, it's used to give your currency value, and to stop inflation running out of control. Metaphorically, you might as well pile all that tax take up and burn it, because once you've collected it it's performed its function.

This is a very simplistic take on MMR, and I don't think it would work in the real world, but spending does precede taxation.

So it would fix false valuation shenanigans too? I see that as a win/win.

Then you're against democracy. Think about what the word means.

That's the best theory I've heard. Or at least, it's the one that fits with my usage. I'm mostly-backend, and I'm mostly-GPT.

(I'm also a "small steps under guidance" user rather than a "fire and forget" user, so maybe that plays into it too).

Some cultures hold a lot of household wealth in that format (predominantly-gold jewellery). South East Asia, North Africa, Middle East...

That's how the mummy of Ramses II was treated - gamma radiation. I imagine an inert atmosphere was part of the process too.

Changed "make a thing" to "describe a tool" and got a raft of text back that I couldn't be bothered to think about, because it's not my space. This jumped out though:

"## Existing things that almost do this (but don’t go far enough)

* Radicle – closest philosophically [...]"

So it seems to me that you succinctly described Radicle - at least well enough for an LLM to recognize it.

> The US saw 60% real wage growth from 1860-1890 with no empire whatsoever.

Um. Weren't they carving one out of the American West? I mean, there were people there beforehand... it feels like a not-dissimilar situation.

One could argue that they privatized the profits and socialized the costs. The costs being the army, navy and to a lesser extent an army of colonial administrators. You can see a similar shape in the decision to end slavery in 1833 by, essentially, buying it out. The money for that buyout had to come from somewhere.

(I'm not a historian, I've no idea how well this idea would stand up to scrutiny).

You seem to be implying that the landed gentry financially benefited from the Empire?

Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire by Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback.

But like I said, I'm not a historian.