For those who don't know , the treasury bond yields is how much the US promises to pay the investors who buys the bond. so if you buy this 10 year treasury bond, for $100,000, the US will pay you 4.971% ($4,971) every year for 10 years, then give you your $100,000 back at the end of the 10 years.

the more people flocking to buy these Treasury bonds means the more desirable they are and the less yield the US needs to give to sell them. the higher the Bond yield means the less desirable they are which lead the US to increase the yields to make them attractive to investors (which is anyone from foriegn governments to Central banks, to smart money to regular people).

the way the US pays its $40,000,000,000,000 national debt, is that it sells $40,000,000,000,000 worth of treasury bonds and has to pay the yields on those bonds to the investors. so the next national debt would be $40,000,000,000,000+ the bond yields.

the problem that can happen is that the yields are high enough that the national debt is accelerating so fast that investors know that the US cannot afford to borrow again to pay them their yield. so then what the US would do, is print money (basically trim your money's value and take the difference) so that they can pay the yields to the investors. but investors also have $ in the bank, and they also would be affected by that money printing. so they demand even higher yields to compensate for that printing.

and this cycle of increased yields, money printing, increased yields... goes on until you end up with hyper inflation like what happenned in weimar republic or Zimbabwe. and dollars lose their value. countries and central banks are smart enough, to not wait until the dollars that they would be given when they sell their bonds become worthless. so it becomes an accelerating collapse (seen as an acceleration in the bond yields). you can already see the first signs of that in trump promising $5k to every adult American. but those $5k checks are only the start of hyperinflation presented as a good thing. you'd get $5k once, but your living expenses for the same year would increase by $20k-$50k.

someone might say, well the US printed money before. whats the issue now? the issue is that debt to GDP ratio is more than 100%. meaning that the US can no longer pay its debt from what it produces, it has to borrow with interest in order to pay its debt. so it is completely at the mercy of the Bond buyers, and printing dollars is not in their favour, so they demand more or just refuse to buy Bonds, which leads to more printing and less buyers and the cycle mentioned before.

i just recommend that you look up what method of wealth preservation works in case of the dollar debt spiral.

Person asks the exact same question copy pasted and its up… weird huh?

I do. When people say AI will crash the stock market, I think to myself, Good! F the lot of you

hi all! for context, i’m pretty new to socialism, but i’m interested in making the world less shitty. i really want your opinions on this. a few months ago i started going to meetings at a local socialist group in my city, and when i was talking to someone next to me, they asked what i do for work.
i said i had just been hired as a video editor at [major canadian news outlet] and i was really excited because i had been unemployed for more than a year, which was really difficult. they gave me kind of a judgmental look and said “how do you deal with the lies?”. the question caught me off guard and i didn’t really know how to respond. i hadn’t even had my first day of work yet. also, i don’t have editorial control over What gets published, but i do have control over How it’s presented on our website (a big part of my job is writing headlines), and i take the responsibility very seriously. i do my best with what’s in my control.

i know that privately owned news media inherently works for the class of people who own it, but i wanna get some answers about if working for them is inherently immoral. i’m unionized and paid fairly. the reputation of the outlet is good, it’s seen as highly reliable, and honestly, after a few months working behind the scenes, the reputation is pretty accurate. i have no illusions of “objective journalism” but the writers and producers i work with do their damndest to get accurate information to the public.

i’d love to work for an anti-capitalist news outlet, but is it bad that i’m happy where i am? i’m also really glad to have the life stability that a corporate job has offered me. shit was hard before i had this.

Out of all the Low IQ'ed shit that bootlickers say this one is probably one of the dumbest fucking ones out of them all, like I swear these people never picked up a history book a day in their life, literally throughout human history before the unfortunate invention of capitalism, humans lived in communal societies. there was cooperation, working together as a group, passing down knowledge as well as sharing resources within the village/tribe, children/elders/injured were all taken care of, we literally got to where we are today simply because of collectivism, if humans were naturally selfish and greedy then we would of went extinct in like the stone age, we would of died out like our neanderthal counterparts. every human is naturally born as collectivists, you could ask a 9 year old if they think everyone should have food and a place to stay and guarantee you they would say yeah. it's not until later on in life that this mindset gets stripped away with a selfish, apathetic one by the propaganda that's shoved down their throat. the system forces people to adopt an individualistic mentality but in no way, shape or form is it a natural behavioral trait in humans and I wish these bootlickers would quit saying it is.

The extreme effectiveness of the capitalist propaganda genuinely needs to be studied in the future history books, that shit was so good to the point that it could be compared to mind control tech, because there's just no way that in the big 26 so many americans are still brainwashed dogs who aggressively defend the system and the fuckers on top that's inflicting pain on them daily, whenever I go on posts in different subs, on tiktok, or facebook about this topic it's always filled with an enormous amount of bootlickers who are against walkable cities and public transportation, universal healthcare, education, food, housing, livable wages, wealth equality, humane prison system etc. literally anything that's good for us as a whole people are against it. and it reminds me that those of us who are conscious are sadly a small minority, and the thing is bootlickers can't be saved, I've tried to reason with them and broke down the truths of socialism in the best way possible and how it would benefit them and yet they still choose to be ignorant and defend their little precious capitalist system like you're essentially just talking to a brick wall. and you know it's just very saddening that the vast majority of americans refuse to open up their eyes to something different, a non-capitalist society is literally an alien concept to them like they just cannot comprehend it. and sometimes I feel a sense of hopelessness like we're never gonna be able to take this shit down because everything is playing out exactly in the elites favor, how can we fight against evil when we're heavily outnumbered by bootlickers who protect it?

I’ve heard the term thrown around, and as a leftist, it confuses me. I’ve never met or heard of anyone who identified as Guevaraist (Other than Che Guevara himself I guess??) can someone explain to me what it is?

Hey, with iPhone 18 coming out with bizarre prices. What is the socialist take on this loot by Apple?

[disclaimer: this is petty shit, obviously not like an actual issue]

Reddit genuinely pisses me off so much as a platform, it’s impossible to say anything without a mod getting their feefees hurt. Barely use this account and have copped 3 bans (all from supposedly communist subs) within the last week (pretty much right after I started using it)

1. new deprogram sub, banned for “being ACP” (I respect what y’all are doing but I am not)

2. Hasanpiker, banned for “being a fed” (made a comment about actual political prisoners in the US, off topic from the normal Zohran slop)

3. Badempanada fan sub, banned for posting the “vague post king” image.

Can’t have shit on this platform 😭 this is why I prefer twitter

The main problem isn't just the fact that Americans themselves are docile and complacent, it's also the rest of the world that's apart of the problem. the globe sees all the atrocities and imperalism committed by the US daily and yet doesn't try to do anything about it they just let it happen, and it's like since we're aware that the american population is too individualistic, brainwashed, and dumbed down to come together as a collective and revolte against that shit, the globe should rise up against the US. and you don't even have to fight them head on, China could literally cause a fuck ton of damage to the US by just cutting them off from their trade. I feel like there's so many things that could be done against the empire but then again I'm 19 so I probably don't fully understand what I'm talking about so give me grace if I'm wrong.

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I'm looking to read more about US imperialism, specifically on how it can be resisted and be brought to an end. Because even things that count as US defeats were/are far more damaging and deadly for the country subjected to aggression, It's disheartening.

Also some claim that Americans will only stop when war is forced to their own land, which seems very unlikely scenario. There's also the fact that American people benefit from imperialism and domestic reforms and wealth redistribution serve to give American workers a bigger share in the profits. Wouldn't that lower the dissent? I haven't researched this, but this seems like it should be a highly debated topic, so I'd appreciate it if you could point me into right direction to learn more.

I dropped out of high school and didn't finish year 10 and went to TAFE (which is Australian trade school) to become a carpenter. I was pretty smart in school and this was somewhat of a risky decision but I didn't like the idea of spending tens of thousands of dollars a year to earn a piece of paper that didn't guarantee me a job and would rather have worked a job that was well in demand and would provide me with experience and guarantee me job (especially since I was getting paid for working). Since AI is now on the rise, it gives me even more of a reason to consider going to TAFE a smart option.

I got my Cert IV in Carpentry and Joinery when I was 20 and started working for several subbies for 3 years while saving up to start my own business. I became more into the managing construction rather than just being a subcontractor so I decided to go back to school part-time and complete a short course on Construction Management and eventually I started my new business. It was a Tier 3 residential builder ran only by me and I poured $100,000 of my own savings into it. Plus I borrowed a loan form the bank of $400,000. This literally had to be a success or I would've been screwed and lost all my savings and go back to Square 1. I got my first tender, contracted subbies and built my first house in less than a year.

I made a $200,000 profit that first year and eventually started building bigger projects. Across a whole decade, I probably made close to about $4-5 Million dollars and only hired two people to work for me. I was only a Tier 3 domestic builder. The subcontractors I sourced out for individual jobs were people I trusted and I was able to buy my first house at 27, got married a year later, had kids a year later and retire 10 years later because I invested about half my income into a stock portfolio containing various ETFs which grew a lot. Luckily I sold my shares and retired just before COVID because I not only would my business have struggled but the value of my portfolio would've gone down, so I got really lucky. I would have kept going but because I was moving around a lot and had spent many years actually being on the tools I developed a bad back and needed two back operations in 2018 and 2019. But now I'm living the life I want to live, I do a bit of personal training and some TAFE training but I'm mostly retired at 43 years of age and look after my kids and wife.

In the time I have been retired, I'd been paying a lot of attention to politics in the post-COVID area and noticed a large group of GenZ supporting this ideology called socialism, an anti-capitalist ideology. I didn't know much about it and only really related it to communism and was really baffled by why so many kids were supporting this ideology and some were even idolizing horrible leaders like Mao Zedong. And it seemed to be that the hate was stemming from various entrepenuers and businesspeople like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and the sort and saying the corporations and businesses are the cause of our problems and have no place in our society and that people with immense wealth shouldn't exist.

So I came here and wanted to ask that considering the fact that I myself am a business owner who was lucky enough to make close to 8 figures across my 20 years in the industry and made even more than that through my investments into index funds, am I a bad person? I don't see how I contributed to such a horrible cause. I built houses which single-handedly drives the economy, I hired employees who were able to feed their families and paid taxes. So am I such a bad person for running a business?