The title should replace "Money" with "Currency".
It's the Venezuelan Bolivar is worthless. If you use gold or silver, I am sure they will be more than happy to accept it.
How to Survive When Money Is Worthless [video]
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#22Is there a text version? The "multimedia" presentation is pretty annoying.
It's called PHOTOJOURNALISM.
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#24For all the negative comments about the presentation, which I might normally agree with, I liked this format this time. It took a while to load (thank you multi-threading). I got through it because I treated it like an interactive video with subtitles, which is better than a video. I liked the sound - which, in my iPhone, was muted at the started as my phone was muted, so I didn't even realise there was audio. I like…
I actually found this to be worth the time. I haven't paid much attention to the situation down there, and seeing it was enlightening. Onto the content... I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by? Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? Surely with so much manpower available, there are way to make them productive on a large s…
> I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by?
If those people are alive (as they observably are), then logically they are getting food.
When you're poor, you generally can only afford low quality food. Low quality food is bad for your health, resulting in many problems including obesity and diabetes.
Low quality food is generally processed grain. It's cheap to make and cheap to keep "fresh," which is why we have so much of it in the US. Think high fructose corn syrup, and almost anything that comes in a box, and do the thought experiment across the food chain from the farm, through manufacturing and distribution, to consumption and the doctor's office.
When you see a population of obese people, don't think that their food problem is solved; realize that the food they have practical access to is a problem. (And yes, many rich people in rich countries are obese and have a choice, but many of those obese people are poor and do not, and we're not talking about a rich country at the moment.)
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#25Is there a text version? The "multimedia" presentation is pretty annoying.
Reader view in safari or firefox is what you want. I have it turned on for all websites and haven't looked back.
I honestly don't know how chrome users can use the web nowadays with how bad things have gotten.
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Trump != capitalism
Capitalism is:
- freedom to own property
- freedom to use or trade property you own
- freedom to trade services for property or other services
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I actually found this to be worth the time. I haven't paid much attention to the situation down there, and seeing it was enlightening. Onto the content... I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by? Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? Surely with so much manpower available, there are way to make them productive on a large s…
> I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by? If those people are alive (as they observably are), then logically they are getting food. When you're poor, you generally can only afford low quality food. Low quality food is bad for your health, resulting in many problems including obesity and diabetes. Low quality food is generally processed grai…
Additionally, consuming mostly processed grain leads to micronutrient deficiencies, which can in turn cause food cravings that are extremely difficult to resist -- causing people to overeat the food that is available.
Re: How to Survive When Money Is Worthless [video]
#29For all the negative comments about the presentation, which I might normally agree with, I liked this format this time. It took a while to load (thank you multi-threading). I got through it because I treated it like an interactive video with subtitles, which is better than a video. I liked the sound - which, in my iPhone, was muted at the started as my phone was muted, so I didn't even realise there was audio. I like…
I agree, it is not that bad. HN is a grumpy bunch who wants everything to be a text file and every millisecond of loading is precious time wasted.
Re: How to Survive When Money Is Worthless [video]
#30For all the negative comments about the presentation, which I might normally agree with, I liked this format this time. It took a while to load (thank you multi-threading). I got through it because I treated it like an interactive video with subtitles, which is better than a video. I liked the sound - which, in my iPhone, was muted at the started as my phone was muted, so I didn't even realise there was audio. I like…
I actually found this to be worth the time. I haven't paid much attention to the situation down there, and seeing it was enlightening. Onto the content... I wonder, can someone tell me why there are so many obese people in these video clips, if food is so hard to come by? Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? Surely with so much manpower available, there are way to make them productive on a large s…
"Why does there seem to be so many people sitting around? Surely with so much manpower available, there are way to make them productive on a large scale?"
Yeah well, how to organize society? Let it organize on their own, free market, etc. - or organize it from top with commands.
In theory we have the first and they have the latter. But it is never that black and white.
Even if some try to paint it like that. And I doubt that there are really starving, "just" that it is hard to get meat for example. Only the very basics. So you still can get fat with rice and beans, but still suffer from malnutrition.
.. and "Revolutionary Kellogg's" ... I found quite hillarious.