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Shall we play a game?

You are the hidden ruler of the United States. You have spent your power and influence to build an enormous debt, supreme military, and targeted instability. Your goal now is to reset the world economy, wiping that debt out, and establish a new economy. The new economy must retain your primacy in the world and you get bonus points if you can suppress the relative power of your adversaries and elevate that of your allies.

What are the specific actions or conditions that must be achieved for this goal?

Can you create conditions that weaponize debt?

What does the reset phase entail?, what are the order of events? and how long does it last?

How does the new economy funciton?

Go ahead and play the game in a reply. The more specific and successful at the goal, the better you have played and the more accurately you can see the future.

Replies (10)

First off, let's talk allies. People you don't mind meeting in dark alleys. That's how I think of them. If you can face to face someone in the dark alone with no one around and know your safe then yes that's your Allie. If you can't then they are a threat. So we have Russia, Britain, India, maybe china maybe Mexico, the everlong loved Canada. Cuba is now an Allie, turkey is among the crowd. That leaves two major players still intact and uncounted for: being first Ireland, then Germany. Where do they stand. Looking at our history... maybe I wouldn't go progressing out undying devoution to another. My heritage is both Irish and German. Smart people with a lot of fight, seems like we would want them to be allies. No one talks of the Irish since the kennedys and no one is offering Germany a plate at the table since Hitler. That said someone has to acknowledge them. Are they friends or foes. What are their plans? We have seen both can be ruthlessly strong. My main concern is Germany isn't offered a plate at the table. Everyone deserves a fair chance. People rebuild. Hitler is ridiculously their shun in the world. Hitler equals bad equals all Germans are Hitler's. No, one bad person in power doesn't mean generation after generation follows suit or does it, England I am looking at you. Sorry, Queen but Charles as your precesser. Not likely, to fair well. Maybe he do better than I imagine. So we have established some strong alleys. Smaller less fininacially secure countries seem to be open to us, America, as willing to share their beauty and ways of life. I like this, I like learning, I enjoy learning how others live. I am from the rural south. War games is how we are brought up. It's cuttthroat. My number one tactic to get my currency in place is to target the kids. The next generation. More than a fad, more than a trend. Teach them young at school how to use this currency, the ins and outs, more than just balancing a checkbook, teach them my new currency. Something they know how to make create and share with their school peers. If you learn out language we will teach you our monetary stabilizing system. Communication becomes key here. Other cultures want to develop the currency in their language to a source they can inflict start ups and spin offs with. This is a no go. The only way to be centralized in monetary is to share a common language for the whole system. The language won't be English but yet a mathematical style that these kids will learn from an early age. To know it you would truly have to learn it as in learning a new language. This could be done in a matter of months. Test citizens for strengths and weaknesses. Where their strong, empower them. Where they are weak, build upon the best you can. Everyone gets a job whether it be big or small, everyone is spending at least 14 hours a week devoted to their country and the obligation of sustaining a future for our kids. This willl be picked up during their free time hours away from their normal part time or full time positions. It's the form of a country wide draft of you will, everyone included, everyone on board and let's get moving. Military becomes stronger, people become empowered, a new currency is developed, and children are the forefront of the idea to bring upon a generation of better for their future. This could be done in a matter of two to three years. People would laugh until they realized this is legit, it could happen, our world seems to be headed in this kind of way not so politically or governmentally controlled. We are headed this way by shear choice. The government is overwhelmed, overpaid, and the masses are coming together. This could be done very easily be anyone with enough influence on the market to cause havoc by just saying they are inacting a plan such as this. You either get on board or your money and language will be nonexistent in the next three years and your children will be outcasted for your not being an alley. But you know. That's just how I would play my cards. ;)

Currency has to be backed by something. That something in my mind would be creatable, sustainable, and reproducible. The human labor capital of the two hours a day would be how you would essentially earn and create a currency. Everyone puts in their best for a short time without no payout until a sustain supply is produced in about three years. This eliminates debt, gives you a bulk sum to build new infastructure, and sets up payments for citizens to choose a full time position in what they had previous spent two hours a day working on. Builds upon itself. The drawback is this: people will be assigned according to what they are skilled or exceed at not what they choose to pursue. It isn't capitalism and it isn't free will. If you excel at accounting that would be your job over say artistic ability if your scores higher in accounting. The jobs wouldn't be a free market. Assigned and that's what you paid to do for 36 hours a week. I would also make the work week different doing twelve hour shifts three days a week Monday through Saturday and Sunday would be everyone off because I am religious and believe God intended for the work schedule to include a mandatory day off for rest, family, worship, regrouping. Everyone would have off four days a week to pursue their own passion, homeschool their children, do what pleases them, the other three days their mine and working towards maintaining the system. I feel like that's a fair trade. They get half their time free, plus a day to rest/enjoy their religion or heritage, and the other half they are creating a sustainable economy and living standard. Disability wouldn't be a thing, people who were severely disabled would essentially get paid to help raise awareness, help people learn to be caregivers, help people learn to love the outcasted parts of society. Think most severely disabled person you know, they can still teach another human to love. Learning that is one of the biggest benefits one can produce for a society. They would be compensated for doing what they do best, showing others what love and compassion is and proving they deserve life. A system built upon honoring life as sacred would be the essential currency backing, of course prefunded in human labor, and sustained by human capital.