Who said anything about using a rubber? Or not? Let’s properly support the people that exist now.

You mad?

Yes, to support everyone on what our economy outputs today will involve the quality of life decreasing for a lot of people. And the economy will have to change, to build the things that people need but are currently unable to pay for. This is unsurprising.

Probably the living space is more to show this is feasible over it being the expected/desired solution. It would be very counterproductive to tear down good houses, but small apartments work well for “house single unhoused people”.

Rural transport is a rounding error compared to the number of private cars that could be converted with minimal fuss in cities.

Why would an export economy be a bad model? They literally have a surplus; all you need to do to fix it is… Make less?

This is unsurprising.

But forcing a recorded count does get those Republican Nays on record so they can be punished later.

Bitcoin wouldn’t be an awful solution to this, but there’s certainly a few better ones, such as

• Visa and MC just being the opinionless payment providers they ought to be.
• Regulation enforcing all payment providers to be similarly opinionless.
• Ethereum, or another crypto more suited to many, fast payments
• A layer-2 network over Bitcoin that can enable many fast payments, such as the lightning network.