AbstractEquilibrium on Nostr: Not Participating is best accomplished by being fully independent, or suicide. Don't ...

Not Participating is best accomplished by being fully independent, or suicide. Don't argue as if that's a real option for civilizational prosperity.

In monopolized markets, all consumers suffer perpetual sunk costs in exchange for the monopoly's continued existence. There will always be taxes at many layers of supply chains; let's not put that burden on all (domestic, exponential taxation) but the highest layer (tarriffs), when we can put most of it on the highest layer instead for a more sustainable balance.