Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)

I do think I'm sure you know the old James C. Scott book, seeing like a state.

This reminds me a lot of James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State.

Oh my god, my entire life arc right now is doing philosophy with Scott's Seeing Like a State.

This reminds me a lot of James C Scott's Seeing Like a State.

I keep going back to James Scott's Seeing Like a State, which is you know an amazing book and people haven't read it absolutely pick up a copy.

In the first you know couple of chapters one of the things he talks about is land disclosure.

The question of exclusion from property or exclusion from space not only is it fragmenting public space but we start to look at the way that all of a sudden property has to exist right.

But if you've never read a book called Seeing Like a State, I would highly recommend it because it goes through government programs from the top down.

Seeing like it's a little academic, but it's a really interesting book.

And I think it's ultimately another consequence of fiat currency and central banking though, because the reason there is so much national debt is because governments have figured out this way to borrow money into existence, right? It's literally what they're doing with the Fed is the US government issues this shit coin called US treasury bond. They can print as many of these as they want. They sell them to the Fed to borrow dollars, right? So the Fed now is already the creditor to the US government borrower at interest. The Fed's taking interest payments right off the top. The Fed can print dollars ad infinitum. So it's just total shell game. And then the government can spend those dollars as it sees fit. And that you end up with a situation where the government has extreme indebtedness, but will just keep printing more money to externalize the cost of that indebtedness onto the population via inflation. So you can think about it this way, the price inflation that you experience as a consumer, you are just paying for the slow motion default of your government on its debt.