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Groucho replied on Sun, Oct 28 2012 5:02 AM

Here's a snapshot I took about a year ago of a poster commonly seen on public transportation. For the George Orwell file....

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Anenome replied on Sun, Oct 28 2012 1:41 PM

Oh is that Stefan Molyneux? I ended up chatting with him at Libertopia :) He was the emcee for the event, great speaker.

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Anenome replied on Mon, Oct 29 2012 3:23 AM
 
 

Finally a solution! We will make hunger illegal!

It's not an eating mandate, we'll just give you a tax consequence if you don't buy food.

 
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Anenome replied on Mon, Oct 29 2012 3:29 AM

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John Ess replied on Mon, Oct 29 2012 11:12 AM

"It's not an eating mandate, we'll just give you a tax consequence if you don't buy food."

I thought it was the conservatives that got mad about Terry Shiavo starving herself to death.  Now liberals, too?  Sheesh.

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Clayton replied on Mon, Oct 29 2012 4:02 PM

@Anenome: Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwesome visualization. But awwwful vocal skills. The script was pretty good but got a little preachy in the "your fault" section.

ATTN: Graham Wright - would you consider re-vocalizing the above video? I think most of his script can be used as-is but the ending could use a little tweaking... what say you?

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RagnarD replied on Mon, Oct 29 2012 4:35 PM

Another visualization I think would be powerful is the surface area of the debt in $1 bills in relation to the surface area of the united states.  If my calculations are right it would cover 60% of the country, then add in the unfunded liabilities and cover the entire country with $5 bills.

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Clayton replied on Mon, Oct 29 2012 5:38 PM

I guess; the trouble is that the human brain really can't comprehend the scale of a territory that large, either. We can comprehend the scale of things that can fit in our ordinary visual range - out to the horizon which is a few miles. Beyond that, I think the brain's ability to comprehend scale in the same way it comprehends how to ride a bicycle breaks down. It's pure abstraction beyond that (empty symbol manipulation).

I think an ideal vizualization would show all of the following:

a) Average American income, net worth (i.e. average household liabilities and assets)

b) Annual average American income, total tax burden (i.e. State, local, federal, Medicare, SS, etc.)

c) Annual Federal revenue, outlays, deficit

d) US, World GDP

e) US debt, showing amount held privately in the US and by foreign holders (debt that can't be "magically waved off the books" without consequence, unlike debt held by the Fed that simply represents an obfuscated basis for inflation).

(a) is just to get the ball rolling. (b) can be shown next to (a) for scale. (c) should be shown next to (b), again, for scale. You might insert some corporate stats (Wal-Mart, Exxon, etc.) as intermediate stages. (c) should be shown next to (d) for scale and then (d) next to (e). Kind of like this, but in color-coded money-stacks.

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Graham Wright replied on Mon, Oct 29 2012 6:00 PM

@Clayton - sure, I can do that if you think it will add value.  Do you want to tweak the script and send it to me? 

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Clayton replied on Mon, Oct 29 2012 6:37 PM

@Graham: Sent

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Anenome replied on Mon, Oct 29 2012 8:01 PM

Pretty awesome, let's see what ya guys come up with :)

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Anenome replied on Tue, Oct 30 2012 9:42 PM

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Anenome replied on Tue, Oct 30 2012 9:43 PM

Let's try that again (since editing is forbidden on this thread for some reason)

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Wheylous replied on Wed, Oct 31 2012 11:23 AM

The board isn't letting me edit it, so here is the actual image:

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Prime replied on Fri, Nov 2 2012 10:42 PM

NEW SPECIES DISCOVERED: CORRUPTOBERNANPITHICUS POMOMIENSUS

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CORRUPTOBERNANPITHICUS POMOMIENSUS 2.0

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Neodoxy replied on Sat, Nov 3 2012 12:21 PM

@Caveman

Lmao. Funny because true.

 

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Malachi replied on Sat, Nov 3 2012 3:30 PM
Classic! Haha
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