Higgenbotham's Dark Age Hovel

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America is looking great...

[Higgenbotham]

Big box and large virtual stores are dependent on growing transfer payments at the same time, as noted on earlier pages, organized retail crime is a problem. With transfer payments now 16 percent of GDP, transfer payments are almost certainly more than 16 percent of big box sales since they are spent directly into the economy.

As big box stores close in areas where organized retail crime renders particular stores unprofitable big box retailers will be able to reduce overheads but probably not to the extent that sales decline.

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As discussed in real time they told me the mice will eat the turtle.
ORC was the business plan and organized retail crime in bish useful idiots areas.
This was the period also when they stole cars in Detroit to Toledo and ran them out of Chicago
and confirmed by the MSP - Michigan State Police.
These crews used jammers on wifi security since it was Mom and Pop shops targeted then in this bastion of liberal stupidity.
As we reported real during antifa timelines it has took this amount of time for them to even consider waking up.
They lured the riot clad police away from the district and the crews jammed and looted the business district.
Today the propaganda useful idiots cry like offended fools they truly are as useless idiots to taxpayers who even had a clue.
I can confirm the note as the timeline they kicked the Democratic Senators head around.
Uniparty Washington should be walled off to protect what sanity that has already slipped way.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/dataset ... government

Pay it back with interest. Inflation. Both segments of the Senate are grifters point blank. Inflation is the policy.
They do not even pretend to care or will.
It is not possible to use credit exclusively as money and get anything other than inflation.
I call bullshit and horseshit on polling data. Period
Put on a nice show for the retarded wing of the Republican Party, that's 90% of them.
62% of Democrats polled have no economic understanding.
fify

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BRC-20 transactions accounted for 50% of total BTC transactions on May 2. BRC-20 tokens are fungible tokens designed on the Bitcoin blockchain. They have great similarities to the ERC-20 token standard on the Ethereum.

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fees are cleaning the rubes out again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvW5X1oQKOo you are now here

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Annie Jacobsen Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America Hardcover -
February 11, 2014 by Annie Jacobsen

They ended up here in some cases from the gallows.
https://anniejacobsen.com/operation-paperclip-photos/
Coveted killers and madman.

[Higgenbotham]

It's hard to know what the profit margin is of Amazon's core retail business because the company doesn't break it out specifically. This is the best estimate I've been able to find.

The old retail business looks out of place in the current platforms-and-services-focused Amazon because the marketplace is more profitable, carries no inventory risk, and takes fewer employees to manage. “The marketplace generated twice the operating profit margin of the retail business—10 percent versus 5 percent, according to a person familiar with the company’s finances. In annual sales meetings, a team of 15 people overseeing a retail category would see their growth outperformed by one person from the marketplace team, the people say,” wrote Spencer Soper for Bloomberg in 2018.

https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articl ... arketplace

Amazon likely has a significant organized retail crime problem also but they haven't admitted it so far as I know.

Not this:

https://abc7news.com/sf-organized-retai ... /12054678/

But this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuesti ... r_package/

[aeden]

Fed Chair Alfred Hayes tried to fight inflation and recession at the same time as he alternately raised and lowered interest rates. His stop-go monetary policy confused consumers and businesses. Worried companies just raised prices to stay ahead of future high interest rates. Consumers kept buying before prices rose even more. The Fed lost credibility, and inflation rose to double digits.
Unless you survived the seventy's they are just a clueless today about sticky wages and operational mandates.
It was and is another cover story for another graveyard of no Border Empires going in every direction but survival.
Credit based deception is flatly ignored as the idiots who proffer you owe it to yourself. Credit card debt just again spikes to a new level
as saving collapses.

[Higgenbotham]

It's hard to know what the profit margin is of Amazon's core retail business because the company doesn't break it out specifically. This is the best estimate I've been able to find.

The old retail business looks out of place in the current platforms-and-services-focused Amazon because the marketplace is more profitable, carries no inventory risk, and takes fewer employees to manage. “The marketplace generated twice the operating profit margin of the retail business—10 percent versus 5 percent, according to a person familiar with the company’s finances. In annual sales meetings, a team of 15 people overseeing a retail category would see their growth outperformed by one person from the marketplace team, the people say,” wrote Spencer Soper for Bloomberg in 2018.

https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articl ... arketplace

Amazon likely has a significant organized retail crime problem also but they haven't admitted it so far as I know.

Not this:

https://abc7news.com/sf-organized-retai ... /12054678/

But this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuesti ... r_package/

I suspect Amazon saw the fraud in their retail business and gradually moved toward marketplace (third party sellers) partly because they could pin some of the fraud on the third party sellers rather than absorbing it themselves. I've seen third party sellers in the Amazon forums chalk up the fraud as a "cost of doing business" rather than being honest about what it really is. If (probably when) the fraud gets too much for the third party sellers to absorb, marketplace will prove to be a temporary solution for Amazon.

Amazon continues to move away from 1P sales to 3P sellers - sellers will comprise 60% of overall units sold by the end of the year. But the shift is gradual.

In 2016 the number of products sold through the marketplace exceeded those sold by the retail team. Since then, the marketplace’s share has been growing steadily, albeit with fluctuations in some quarters, often caused by sales events or holidays when Amazon’s retail operation typically plays a more significant role.

Over the past eight years - since the marketplace overtook retail sales - sellers have been gaining 150 basis points in market share every year.

https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articl ... arketplace

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I would eat the costs of the returns fee and chalk up for cost of doing business.

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/seller ... a1a63b9358

There are literally thousands of discussions like this in the Amazon third party seller forums.

[Higgenbotham]

https://www.quora.com/Are-we-living-in-a-new-dark-age

Are we living in a new dark age?

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In terms of our knowledge and our ability to pass that knowledge on to the next generation, I think that we are living in a new dark age.

“Ridiculous!”

Most people would say.

“We’ve never known more than we’ve known today.”

Perhaps these people have not considered that there is more knowledge floating around today than ever before but filtering that knowledge out of the cloud has never been more difficult. If we are not careful, the next generation will forget the most important knowledge because they have spent their lives mired in a fog of noise and misinformation.

Traditionally, we filter knowledge through experts - old people with loads of experience. But today, young people are bypassing those experts and deciding what they believe is true based on what they “like”.

Consider this guy, Frolly. He has an excellent overview of geological science because he has been studying it for his whole life. When he sees what the young people in media are telling everyone about how the planet works, he is appalled.

He certainly takes his time to make his points, and what is sad is that most young people today do not have the patience to follow his arguments. Their attention spans have been permanently damaged by their entertainment devices. Whereas previous generations were conditioned to see slow, calm exposition as evidence of careful, trustworthy thinking, people of today are more likely to give credence to someone with a manic, energetic, and confident presentation style.

I look around and see young men with access to simulation tools on supercomputers telling old men that their old ways of knowing things by studying data are obsolete - we should all just trust what the supercomputer tells us, even though it has never demonstrated predictive power. When I see this breakdown of the scientific method, I know that we are in a very dark age in which the signal of knowledge is getting buried in all of the noise made by young people on the internet.

When the internet flattened the hierarchies we’ve used to determine what is true and what is false, groupthink began to determine the truth of matters. Whereas Orwell imagined groupthink enforcement by the thought police (moderators), today we know that groupthink is enforced by each individual’s fear of being seen as out of step with what is popular.

For example, at the moment, it is positively criminal to criticize what “climate scientists all agree about” and it isn’t necessary for thought police to enforce uniformity of belief because we enforce it ourselves through our virtue signaling posts on the internet. With these fear-driven, virtue signaling posts, we create so much noise that debate is quickly extinguished.

“How can you not be afraid that the world is coming to an end because of how evil we all are with our carbon producing ways!?”

“Are we really smart enough to understand and control our impact? What if carbon isn’t the thing we should be worrying about. What if, by focusing on it, we are ignoring something more important?”

“I’m too busy to think about the details, but I think you are probably stupid for not believing what everyone else believes.”

For me, becoming an adult has been a process of realizing how rare truly smart people are in the world. I believe that each individual has the capacity to be smart, but smart people are rare because we are all conditioned to be so busy that we never have any time to do any real thinking. Constant distractions and striving to survive or to reach the next level of the video game are making thought impossible.

I saw a video yesterday of a group of people on a subway train singing along with a Boys2Men song from the 1990s - The End of the Road. Everyone was smiling and enjoying the sense of community the group singing produced. The song had a really simple melody, but every single voice I heard was so tone-deaf that the result was noise. I couldn’t believe it. Something has happened to our culture and our minds that is damaging on a scale that I can scarcely fathom. It is not normal for so many people to be tone-deaf. Have they been poisoned by a physical substance or by television or smartphones? This is the mystery of our dark age and until we unravel it, I think things will get darker.

I’ve been thinking about how the noise of our dark age can be explained through the evolution of music. It is a sort of zooming in process, starting back at the dawn of the enlightenment when music was about everything. It was epic and depicted the world as a whole. Then the romantic era began and the music sang the songs of the individual soul. The joy, the despair, the currents of mood flowed in sweeping melodies. Then the world wars started and the music became focused even further with syncopated klinks of the keys depicting the zips and zaps of the currents scientists told us flowed within our minds. The meaning could not be deciphered, but it depicted an aspect of our selves. After the world wars, the music got louder. If you take the words away, you have the banging and booming sounds, the rock and the roll of abstraction which has evolved into the pulsing heartbeat of electronica and a cacophony of white noise. This is the song of our dark age, but there are hints of a new enlightenment dawning. We will eventually emerge from an intellectual bottleneck that selects new, epic songs to describe the world as a whole.

-Kirsten Hacker

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https://www.disinformationindex.com/fil ... en_aw2.pdf
Same discussion since 1993. Taxpayers are only abused blood bags going forward.
Are we living in a new dark age?
By design filtered since the cheese wall H.
Narrative Payload.
No mention of the Noske Effect from the echos of this was never your war.
You were driven by your rulers into the world slaughter.

The transition from Weimar democracy to Nazi dictatorship was demonic in malice and deliberate then.
Disparities and inequalities will rule over all the crayon chewers in areas ignored in design.