• happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
    37·
    23 days ago

    https://nonpol.com/manifesto-the-economy/

    Somehow with a worse economic policy:

    • Every business in the UK will be open 24/7, like hospitals.

    • Providing full employment with all the new job listings, 4 day workweek

    • “Technology will be a major factor here. One benefit from the pandemic was the flexibility to work from home. Going forward all wheelchair and home bound people can have a full career working from home. With the growth of AI, quantum computing and robots. A lot of mundane, repetitive, difficult and dangerous work can be carried out through technology. NONPOL is a technology party and will use technology to support workers and the economy. Machines are reliable, don’t take sickies, are consistent, accurate and don’t strike for a pay rise. For those frightened of AI, we would enforce the Asimov rules of Robotics, so, no fear of Terminators.” - Replacing all of those workers with machines that don’t take sickies or strike for a pay raise.

    • Banning phones, history, and geography courses in schools

    • Nationalising all basic industries, but not like British Rail. This allows banning strikes and paying workers based on productivity

    • Remove all social benefits, require their repayment when you die

    • Tax all Chinese students for COVID.

    • bitcoin

    At least Andrew Yang’s platform boiled down to “we’re going to bribe you to not shoot CEOs in the street.”

    • Azarova [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      37·
      23 days ago

      Banning phones, history, and geography courses in schools

      lol not even a white washed history, just fuck it all. the past? never happened. critical support for this party in getting an entire state to wholeheartedly embrace Last Thursdayism.

    • 7bicycles [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      25·
      23 days ago

      For those frightened of AI, we would enforce the Asimov rules of Robotics

      It comes as little surprise but this simply is not how an LLM works or could ever work

      • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
        19·
        23 days ago
        1. Control of Fiat and digital currencies

        As a technology party, NONPOL embraces technological advancements, such as AI, Quantum Computing, Blockchain and Bitcoin if they are used intelligently. In particular a countries currency is critical to its economic health. The UK has successfully managed to keep the pound and it is one of the most respected currencies on the planet; however now that the gold reserve no longer exists, as a fiat currency it is still fragile. We have no contingency should our currency become devalued or affected by external market forces. We expect this not to happen if we have built a solid and growing economy. However, we should have a contingency. Currently most countries are opposed to Bitcoin, as they have no control over it and do not like its anonymity. This is narrowmindedness. It is the flexibility and anonymity that makes it an attractive investment. If the UK builds a car, does it matter if it is bought with fiat currency or Bitcoin? It is still a sale and Bitcoin is highly fungible. The blockchain concept is a great technological advancement, for many reasons. In order to embrace this technology, NONPOL would start a GB bitcoin, which would be very different to the Bank of England digital pound currently being planned. The digital pound is still controlled by the bank, our GB bitcoin would use the same bitcoin technology as other crypto currencies and remain anonymous. This would give the economy 2 currencies that can provide growth, contingency and promote global trade with the UK. Also, there are major benefits in the crypto currency secondary markets, which trade like any other commodity. We would set up a UK GB Bitcoin trading platform for anyone to trade our crypto currency anonymously. There would be huge revenues from such a platform. Furthermore, if international customers bought British goods with our crypto currency, we would earn money on the export duty. More avenues to bolster the economy.

        They’ve written this whole ass five dollar paragraph to say “oi, wot if bitcoin.” It has the same exact vibe to me as Trump’s crypto shit where he doesn’t bother to pretend he knows what any of it means.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      23 days ago

      I’ll give Yang this: although it’s a shame to see what appears to be a sincere guy fully sold on capitalism. At least he’s one of the few capitalists that acknowledges that for the system’s own good: porky cannot have too good of a deal.

      Plus I liked his policy of trying to get children away from online echo chambers like 8chan. He’s about as far-right as I’ll actually get out and vote for.