Except it isn't at all. The properties to buy all have a fixed price, costs of houses/hotels are fixed, rents are fixed and can't be adjusted, and most importantly, a) you can only buy a property if you randomly happen to land on it and b) people have no choice of what property to stay at (again, chosen by random dice)
The British banks and their tax heavens still very much control the world of money.
The commonwealth barely hangs together outside of the world of cricket.....
I don't think I have read anything so wrong about tariffs in quite a while.
Tariffs either protect local manufacturing and/or slows consumption of said import.
In both cases, it is inflationary.
I could see some sort of certificate driven approach.
Customers and merchants generate a keypair and CSR. The CSR by design contains no personal information. You submit the public key/CSR and seperate identifying information to a KYC authority.
The government generates a signed certificate the bank can use to open an account, and the customer or merchant signs their transaction requests using their private key to associate them with the account.
The bank has a paper trail showing KYC was performed, but does not have any personal information about the participants, almost akin to the old "numbered Swiss account" cliche.
Ideally, the KYC authority deletes the personal data after issuing certificates, but I'd expect it would be more "information can be released under court order" or "revocation policy blah blah blah".
That's the level of tradeoff I'd expect is politically viable. Bank of America doesn't know you're buying hentai, but if it turns out the 1000-year-old character is actually 12, a court can lift the veil.
I live on a fault line, and we have overcome most issues by building seismic tolerant buildings.
We have the knowledge to live in high-risk areas with some certainty, but it will never be without risk. Climate change, ie more frequent severe weather events, is definitely going to challenge our norms and how we do things. Fire tolerant buildings ?
Start by doing a long walk, like the PCT or Te Araroa trail. 3+ months of hiking.
You are busy every day, get up, eat and start walking. Finish the day physically tired. Sleep rinse and repeat.
Have a break from news etc
You come out fit, mentally reset and have a good perspective. Just my 2c
