I mean tbf I have a skewed view on American prosperity, the Irish were slaves and now we're most of Boston lmao

there was always a pair of countries looking for weapons to kill each-other

OMG EUROPE LEGITIMATELY BEGGED TO BE FUCKED AND NOW THEY ARE TRYING TO RUIN THE INTERNET FOR EVERYONE

They must all be bottoms

its too late

its already been done

prepare your anus

they are going in dry

It's not. It's now in the hands of the government reps each country has in the EU that actually choose what laws go in to place. We can bitch at our government to slap it down but if we couldn't get the people we vote for to side with us then we aren't going to get the rep to listen. It was nice while it lasted.

The EU is seriously losing power and influence though.

Are they? We (UK) haven't left yet. They own Greece, they all just voted to threaten Hungary with sanctions, nobody seem to make a peep about forming an EU army. Please show me where they are losing power.

YEah, in a big way they are. Euroskeptic politicians have been elected in droves in multiple countries including Italy, France, Germany, UK, and much of Eastern Europe. Both in national elections and in EU elections, Euroskeptics are gaining power very steadily!

A guy I really like following on this is Dr. Steve Turley, he documents a ton of it with good social science data.

And Merkel--the figurehead that really keeps the EU what it is, is in huge trouble:

I recommend Turley's channel in a big way.

I think @Timcast would especially appreciate Steve Turley, he's got info no one else has got, and he's a very respectable academic.

I can't past a link for some reason but look for "Steve Turley Merkel's Gov't On Bring As Germans Reject Open Borders"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcR9TSCzSbI

There it went. Watch that, look at his other videos too. EU/Globalists are in trouble in Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Italy, Germany, Sweden (YES SWEDEN!) and other countries.

yeah, guy from poland in here earlier talking about it, and sweden.

clearly Hungary hasn't made the EU happy, Italy has had problems for a long time, so only a matter of time

didn't know about Germany having a problem but not surprised

UK is clearly waking up, double that with Article 11 and 13. and Trump is doing nothing to help

well, help the EU

I've seen a couple of his vids but mainly just when I come across them, I'll give him a watch. Yes there is a Euro skeptic rise across the EU, most of which has come to a head coz Brexit gave them the balls. When this is all said and done and we are still under their thumb it will die off. The smaller countries would find it near impossible to leave. Merkel may be the figure head but she is by know means the one in charge. They aren't worried in the slightest. If they were then they wouldn't keep running their mouth about more integration.

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'Hoarding money' isn't harmful. Chang my mind

Withholding money arbitrarily ramps up inflation doesn't it? It's theirs to save, but keeping it out of the economy drives inflation up

Opposite, actually.

The economy is geared towards constant instant spending, which is probably a really bad idea tbh

If everyone stopped spending no one would be able to get paid. A countries economy is based off the movement of money. Not how rich one person is.

It becomes an absolutely bad idea when you factor in the reliance on debt

Hoarding money? or hoarding value?

So, money only has value based on shares of goods and labor.

money is nothing more than cloth like paper

It *should* but it's also representative of currency manipulation

Money is a neutral representation of goods and labor

"neutral" is a big word though, just because, actual value is subjective.

Inflation is based on circulation right?

rather currency in circulation

@Blackhawk342 most are agreed now inflation is caused by excess money supply.

So yeah, too much in circulation basically.