There is precedent for at least one of Musk's kids growing up pretty based (well, publicly and totally justifiably hating his guts. Same thing). It's not impossible for it to happen again. Hell, with Musk's freak obsession with having loads of kids and being shit to them, it's probably inevitable.
Grimes is a crunchy classist who advocates for an oligarchic system where the rich, like her ex and children, benefit from government wealth redistribution. Instead of thinking about social inequality, she suggests thinking about the trees.
Reminds me of the part in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the galaxy where they made leaves the official currency and suffered from inflation due to leaf availability
my favorite part of the overton window is that whatever this is is considered completely indistinguishable and interchangeable with actually changing major components of society in a fundamental way
What’s funny is that there was an attempt to construct a blockchain using trees, effectively teaching them capitalist monetary procedure in the process
this Grimes tweet sounds like dialogue lifted straight from an HBO prestige dramedy about chaotic rich people where the artist daughter trys to skewer the absurdity of obscene wealth
I mean, there are wildly successful artists that are ditzy and stupid, but I'm not led to believe that being stupid and non-threatening often walk hand in hand.
But in her case, she was married to Elon Musk and has had some weird and threatening stuff going on for a while now.
I always find the “money should be backed by something” mentality confusing cause like
A) what does that even mean? Unless you can trade it in it’s just another mental construct
B) the value we give whatever it’s backed by is no less a mental construct than the value we give money itself
It is a representation of the wealth of the government producing the currency and its ability to support the valuation of the currency through supportive action.
Gold has been a store of human value for almost all of human civilization, a durable fact. That's why they use it for backing money.
Do you think that by calling it a mental construct that it goes away? I'm not saying you have to like it either - I don't - but it's a real idea shared by billions of people that affects the world.
Um, yeah, that’s literally what a mental construct is, my point is I don’t get why those billions of people believe in it. It comes off as something people just accept as fact, refuse to think about it, then attack anybody who dares think about it.
Every idea goes away forever if you simply call it an idea. It melts away in the blinding light of the sun. What idea? It's gone now. /s
They believe it because billions of people believe it. Tautological, frustrating, still true. We can rage our whole lives, it'll still be true when we die. Sorry.
To A): That is what being “backed by” something means, it’s when the government promises you can always trade in $1 for X amount of whatever. That’s how it worked when the USD was on the gold standard, you could theoretically roll up to the fed and trade all your money for gold.
Pinning a currency to some outside value that is functionally independent of the local economy is (in theory) a great idea for small states with relatively unstable economies, which is why many of those countries pin their currency to the US Dollar.
It’s not bomb proof but it provides some amount of stability. For a huge economy like the US’ it makes no sense because if the US economy tanks, any commodity the Dollar is tied to will inevitably also tank at least in the short to medium term.
The people who want the US specifically to go back on the gold standard think it’ll bring back the relative economic safety of the post-depression era, because they misunderstand the factors that actually drove that safety.
I get what you’ve said, at least some of which I already got.
My confusion, though, is how people can look at currency, which we use for everything including taxes, recognize its value is just what we collectively give it, but then fail to transfer that understanding to what backs it.
You know I never quite understood why Grimes would fuck Elon but TBH, seeing how they're both so stupid it's actually awe inspiring, it all makes a bit more sense.
In retrospect, Art Angels was always an accelerationist album, it's just we were surprised by how bad she was at praxis.
Entirely possible she had to just like, play stupid to seduce Musk. If she could convince me the whole thing was a prank, I would instantly forgive her.
Imagine voluntarily admitting that Elon is smarter than you are, to obtain pity in the court of public opinion. Somebody hand her a popsicle and tell her to go play outside.
Some people are really good at one thing (say, making extremely soothing but occasionally haunting music) and really bad at a lot of other things (choosing significant others, political philosophy) and it’s important we recognize this
I love it because it is either the most insipid thing anyone has ever said or an amazing shitpost and which one you see depends on if you believe Grimes knows paper is trees.
I thought she was going to say that the dollar should be backed by a memecoin. Trees really surprised me. She found something more unworkable than bitcoin!
At one point (and maybe still,) money in Estonia was backed by their forests. Estonia was the first former Soviet republic to abandon the Russian Ruble. They were able to do this because of the wealth of their trees.
Henceforth to be known as "tree buggery"? Back in the before-times, when disposable diapers were the cause of all the world's problems, some enterprising grad students did the mother of all dumpster dives and discovered it was newspapers (F.K.A., "trees") making up the bulk of landfills...
The accelerationist in me says that if we put Grimes in charge of everything we could speedrun the death of America in like 6 weeks instead of dragging it out over however many years it's going to actually take.
i don't understand how backing the dollar with trees changes the incentives for capitalism...like backing the dollar with gold didn't lead to widespread gold conservation, it lead to the opposite
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backing the dollar by trees is actually really funny and cool childlike imagining, and I support it.
she just needs hard labor to balance it out.
(Björk only made one movie, Dancer in the Dark, and she sweated blood for it.)
I thought her being with Elon was the worst thing about her. I was wrong.
S01E04 Power Marketing
September 2, 1998
The Upright Citizens Brigade controls Alan Greenspan during his ""State of the Economy"" speech, in an attempt to change the national currency to ""Oak Leaves"", but Greenspan throws the speech.
"Groimes you uh *snf* can have uh, the um... Baby Serial Number AEX12 if you say oi'm good at Vidya gaems"
There are more than two possible political/economic systems.
But in her case, she was married to Elon Musk and has had some weird and threatening stuff going on for a while now.
A) what does that even mean? Unless you can trade it in it’s just another mental construct
B) the value we give whatever it’s backed by is no less a mental construct than the value we give money itself
Gold has been a store of human value for almost all of human civilization, a durable fact. That's why they use it for backing money.
They believe it because billions of people believe it. Tautological, frustrating, still true. We can rage our whole lives, it'll still be true when we die. Sorry.
My confusion, though, is how people can look at currency, which we use for everything including taxes, recognize its value is just what we collectively give it, but then fail to transfer that understanding to what backs it.
Entirely possible she had to just like, play stupid to seduce Musk. If she could convince me the whole thing was a prank, I would instantly forgive her.
she made visions
she made visions
she made visions
she made visions
Just.. Wow
my hair hurts.