Тег: Stream

They didn’t ask for some promo for nothing

I finished listening to Yuneman’s stream, which was announced recently. Impressions of the speakers:

  • Vatoadmin. The most energetic of the four; as a humanities person, his stories are, of course, closer and more understandable to me. He believes the world will emerge from the crisis renewed, having discarded some of today’s inefficient practices.
  • Bazhenov. The most high-brow economist among the four interlocutors, and is perceived as a bit of a snob because of it. He believes that nothing will change much; we will recover and carry on as before.
  • Zubov. Had the most terrible connection, due to which I couldn’t make out everything he was saying. Being more of a financier than an economist, he is skeptical about the post-crisis future, because massive government interventions will, naturally, significantly worsen the structure of the global economy.
  • Yuneman. The least of an economist among those gathered, but he conducted the conversation quite sensibly and structurally. He believes that the pandemic should have a long-term impact on our social practices, and this will likely be its main consequence.

A considerable and least interesting part of the discussion was devoted to the analysis of current support measures for citizens being implemented in various countries. It was full of banalites already worn out a thousand times elsewhere. Well, except that they didn’t stoop to reciting the plight of the Pechenegs.

To hell with the Pechenegs, but the word “bitcoin” was also not mentioned once, which, in my view, indicates too narrow a perspective on the situation. Bitcoin emerged as a reaction to the pumping of the economy with fiat in 2008, and in the years since, it has developed and strengthened significantly. Now, that pumping looks like playing in a sandbox, and I would be truly interested to hear an economic analysis of how the coexistence of a printing press going “brrrr” and ready-to-use deflationary money will affect the global economy. If economists believe that this influence will be negligible, again, I would like to understand why.

The prospects of some regimes simply not surviving the crisis were mentioned at the very end and only briefly, but they can be understood here: let political scientists discuss such topics.

I don’t watch streams very often, but I don’t feel that this specific one was a waste of time; the material was dense and the delivery was of decent quality.

Asked to promote it

Sorry for posting other people’s announcements two days in a row, but people in self-isolation have clearly livened up and started broadcasting their ideas into the network with redoubled force. I will try not to fall behind myself, although in my life, with this whole pandemic, almost nothing has changed at all.

Roman Yuneman is known as the only independent politician in the country who managed to defeat Navalny’s smart voting in the elections. And he would be a poor politician if, after that, he didn’t set about developing his success. Yuneman created the Society.Future community, within which he engaged in various expert studies: first, studying the intricacies and pitfalls of the electronic voting that ruined him, and then, after Putin’s January address, he took on work for a new constitution, since the current regime intends to completely spoil the old one.

On April 8, he is organizing a stream on his YouTube channel with a fairly representative team:

  • Vatoadmin, who taught us all to cross ourselves at the word “AES” and to apologize for any reason
  • Grigory Bazhenov, who knows how to scream very loudly at the sight of fuel price tags
  • Dmitry Zubov, whom I know from the Telegram channel Right Economics, but I haven’t encountered him on YouTube, so no stories come to mind about him.

The plan is to discuss pressing issues: how deep today’s crisis is, how long it will last, and what to do about it all. I will be glad to hear the opinions of smart people, many of whom I disagree with (for example, I find Yuneman’s idea of introducing a curfew harmful), but it would be foolish to deny their competence. I hope that some practical steps will also be announced by the participants of the conversation.

So, April 8, 20:00 Moscow time, on Roman Yuneman’s channel.

Crowdfunding. Practice

No sooner had I posted the text about how crowdfunding is the most obvious way to finance the production of public goods in a free market, as an illustration came along.

The St. Petersburg branch of the LPR is renting an office, and to raise funds for its lease, they decided to hold a regular stream. Today at 20:00 Moscow time on the YouTube channel Ancap-podcast the show “Brewing Moonshine” will take place, during which the host intends to drink a glass of moonshine for every 1000 rubles in donations. I don’t know if they’ll be distilling it on the spot or pouring ready-made, but it could turn out to be amusing.

I was offered 300 rubles to post this announcement, and I decided to briefly deviate from my rules, according to which a resource review should not stand alone, but be accompanied by my answer to a donation-backed question. Today we are holding the funeral without the deceased.

I think I’ll drop by to listen to the stream too, although I intend to drink martini with tonic while doing so, if you’ll excuse me.

https://youtu.be/ESZmGW7DKhM