Active management funds are more than welcome to beat or keep pace with the market consistently for 45 years. Until then, I'll choose the winning option.
You can't, because everytime that happens, a group comes out of the woodworks that says X, Y, and Z need to be done before a general strike can even be considered.
X, Y, and Z usually involve community building, mutual aid, strike funds, housing security, and other precarity reducing actions.
The "pool of money" idea itself has got to go. Government spending and revenues operate much more like sources and sinks than a purse.
Spending injects money into the economy and revenues extract it. The two roughly balance each other but only because overspending/undertaxing increases the money supply in negative ways and under pending/overtaxing decreased the money supply in other negative ways. Besides these, interest rates are the third lever of the economic engine.
The constraint is inflation rather than solvency for states who have monetary sovereignty.
I get the appeal and the logical, rational appeal of the purse model, but it leads to a warped idea of how the government and economy interact.
TV-free here for about 6 years. I'd recommend it. It takes some getting used to, but after acclimating, the presence of TVs has become annoying. I'm not sure why I'd want to lose myself for an hour or two to it when there's more fulfilling things in the world.
I can see where you're coming from with your "more fulfilling things" statement, but I disagree. After all, TV's don't spew noise they spew stories. I'm not gonna argue that all TV is fulfilling, but engaging with stories is one of the the things which separates us from animals and to me is one of the more fulfilling things in life.
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