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What a difference 35 years of zombie capitalism makes...
h/t @AndyJamesHicks
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Zombies have more rational personal finances.
Very true, at least their currency is something you can hold in your hand.
If you like your zombie you can keep your zombie
Just think of all the uses of a domesticated zombie...
I don't remember signing a release to use my photo...
The zombies are out in full force
They kill without any remorse
They're clearly insane
And ready for pain
They're Black Friday shoppers of course!
Only Americans give thanks for all they have one day and then the very next day trample each other to get more shit they dont need!
Freemen used to make up America!
Today, Sheeple...
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/molon-labe-the-battle-cry-of-free-men_112013
DaddyO
The photo comparison above is a trend I noticed a long time ago, which is why I refer to the upcoming catastrophe and outcome as the cowboys vs zombies war.
The difference between zombies in 1978 and Walmartians today is that the zombies in 1978 had more brains that the humans of today.
I was born in 1978 and I slay fiat mind-control zombies today on Zerohedge.
Yup fonestar, you are my hero....
"Never to stray from controversy, Martin also made a final prediction. Regarding recent comments by Larry Summers on stimulating people to spend their money by charging them to hold money at the bank—that is, through negative interest rates—he said, in the next economic downturn, expect the Federal government to simply outlaw cash altogether. With rates already at zero and the Fed’s tools for stimulating consumption all used up, the only way to prevent hoarding of cash, gold, or other tangible forms of wealth outside of the banking system is to go 100% electronic. Unfortunately, "It [also] means 100% of everything you ever do is taxed," he added.
Perhaps that's why art, diamonds, and Bitcoins are going through the roof?
http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/martin-armstrong/expect-cashless-society-not-hyperinflation
Hornady has some solutions should they become a real problem.
CLASSIC.... +1
...coming to a coin store near you...
Biggest difference:
1978 - Tax and Spend
2013 - Borrow and Spend
I agree with Armstrong, but it's pretty clear the diamond and art crowd is not investing their funds in BTC. And Armstrong (and Jim Rogers) clearly do not understand Bitcoin.
Is Armstrong correct when he says 100% of what you do is taxed?
I don't believe that part is correct at all. If you take even a cursory look into Bitcoin you will see the myriad of troubles it presents to the taxman.
I just meant Armstrong is correct on the ultra rich stuffing their cash into diamonds and art.
fair enough, the tax issue is interesting. I don't know who to believe with that.
Really? All your transactions are logged and tracked, and you think the taxman won't be watching?
The fact that Bitcoin is allowed to exist means that the NSA has already figured out how to track the transactions.
Online poker was shut down because it went parabolic at a time that NSA was still working out deals with all of the ISPs. Notice how some states are working on reinstating online gambling now. It wasn't that the government was opposed to it, they just want to be included in it.
Do you even realize how brainwashed some of you sound? Things only come into existence because the NSA allows them to? Jesus Christ!
For a country founded in rebellion that contstantly parrots memes about "freedom", "liberty", "justice" it sounds like you live in constant fear of your alphabet soup agencies.
> And Armstrong (and Jim Rogers) clearly do not understand Bitcoin.
Clearly. Not like you do. Eh, Precious?
You really are a sad little Gollum.
Rogers and Armstrong are products of their generations. They also missed out on a lot of great innovation. Its not like they have psychic powers to see into the future.
I really wasn't talking about Rogers and Armstrong (I'm not fond of either).
I was talking about you.
> "It [also] means 100% of everything you ever do is taxed," he added.
Not just taxed, but tracked, logged, compiled and disseminated in the case something you do or buy becomes illegal or contraband tomorrow.
'Know your customer - better than they know themselves.'
Fuck BeasTCoin.
If you had taken any time to look into Bitcoin's operation you would be able to answer your own questions. It's just that you prefer to spew FUD instead.
I don't have any questions, moron. It's digital data. It can and will be tracked regardless of encryption or any other method to hide or conceal your transaction. You have no clue as to how the net was formed, by whom or for what purpose.
Questions, indeed.
GFY.
It can and will be tracked regardless...
There's a reason frns are serial numbered. Coinage, not so much.
"I don't have any questions, moron."
So you don't have any clue what you are talking about, you have no interest in learning and you have no questions? Thanks for clearing that up. Ignorance exemplified.
Um... yeah, Mr. 'I was born in 1978'.
Your just a kid. When you were ten years old, I was already in my own IT business.
Like I said, kid, GFY.
And it sounds like your personal processing power is very much stuck in 1978.
Speaking of zombies, JC Penney's!
It's just amazing to see stalwarts like JC Penny getting slammed, Sears laying off workers and even Walmart underperforming and they are still trying to sell this crap about about a "recovery"?
I can only imagine Obama and his lap dog Carney will still be spouting this shit when we are all living NFA.
+1 Brilliant
The BIG difference is
ZOMBIES DON'T NEED OBAMACARE!!
They can get off by paying the fine.
You don't need to pay the fine tax. Just make sure you don't get an Income Tax Refund.
Which photo are you in?
.......period!
You didn't build that zombie!
Californians react to the sad news of Martin Luther King's recent death in a fatal car accident
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-6RlheSQkM
LOL!
Not sure why they always pick on Cali, not that they lack plenty of dumb f-k's.
And what is up with so many guys there always going shirtless? Gal I know who was a PT there for a year said the same thing about guys in the gym, always shirtless even if they were not really ripped or thin.
Just another video showing the sad testament of the utter stupidity of a cross section of the nations idiots.
I would like him to go to a red light district and tell people that SNAP, et al had all been eliminated for good. Now THAT would ruffle some feathers,lol.
My 20 year old grandson was a C student in HS. Now he is in college majoring in cultural studies with a C- average. He takes the minimum hours and usually doesn't attend classes, smokes a lot of weed and has a lot of free sex in the coed living. He will likely change majors to extend the time in college to 6+ years. He gets max financial aid, free Obama care and food stamps. He has the lastest iphone, xbox, 400 channel of HD cable and sleeps until noon and then eats fast food. Watches a minimum of 30 hours of football a week. His goal is to become a paid protester against the inequities in the developed countries. He would love to shut down freeways to max the commutes for the stupid taxpaying fools who work fulltime. If he ever has to leave college, he will move back with Mom.
And some call that "capitalism."
That is a smart boy you've got there.
zombie eat better than WM GMo' sh@t...
....and they don't have Obamaphone and Obamacere.
The zombies are dressed better
And at least the zombies have an excuse.
pods
The Globalist elites have accomplished their goal, next step is elimination
tha Wal-Martians on the right are lookin for som style
http://store.realtree.com/camo-homecoming-and-prom-dress.html
Need to mentiin they evolved to FSA SNAP ZOMBIES
Forget the zombie apocalypse, enter the consumer apocalypse!
same, same, no different.
The zombies are intellectually superior
Amerikans are reslient beings. Nothing will stop them from shopping till they drop.
No difference....headshot works equally well on both.
Don't forget the double-tap, just to make sure.
Since it is 1978 the zombies never voted for Ronnie, H.W., Billie, W., or Ozero, marking them as more erudite Americans.
Freaking idiots... my god... for a few bucks...
There are less people who are going to buy stuff in the second picture. LOL @ retailers who produce cheap crap.
People who pay 250$ for a TV really think they get the same quality as a TV that costs 1500$
People should realize that producers make special products for discount actions.
Just unloading all the remaining chips and circuit boards made 5 to 6 years ago onto the Full Retard Walmartians.
But, then again, think of all the Full Retards that were paying a few thousand dollars or more some years ago for the same product.
They're still trying to unload all the 60 to 120 Hz refresh rate flat screens onto the zombie populace before they unveil the new 440 Hz to 880 Hz refresh rate flat screens. Just like they did with the CPU's and iPhones. (I believe they call it planned obsolescence.)
Same as before, same as it will always be.
Forward Full Retard Soviet!
What is this thing quality? Do they make it in China?
It's called Moore's Law. I will refrain (today only) from calling you an ad hominem. Do you people ever think before saying anything? It's a good thing that here words are only digital trash and don't actually clog anything important.
Thank you, you beat me to it, but you showed more restraint than I would have.
People who don't understand silicon economics are nearly as clueless as Krugman. Here's the Coles Notes' verson: The first time you do something in silicon, it takes a long time, you make a lot of mistakes, and it costs lots of money. The 'yield' (i.e. working and usable chips) from each wafer is low. You find your mistakes, correct them, correct your processes, and pretty soon, you have something reliable and relatively (from a marginal cost of production) inexpensive to make. But you still have to recover all those upfront costs, so you charge an arm and a leg for it for as long as you can, knowing that your competitors will soon figure out the same stuff, and produce less expensive versions. After a while, everybody's working on the next new thing (e.g. faster refresh rates that will eliminate on-screen artifacts), and they want to sell off their remaining inventory of the old stuff, as soon it will be worthless. (What, exactly, is the price of an 8086 microprocessor chip these days, assuming you can even find one?)
This isn't 'planned obsolence', which was to a large extent a bogeyman created by people like Vance Packard and Brook Stevens. This is rapid product innovation and short product life cycle. If you want to see the opposite, you should go look at pictures of Western Electric's old "500" series telephone. One was installed in my grandfather's house in 1932; it was removed after his death in 1996. Never needed a repair, never needed to be changed. it was old, ugly, had no features, couldn't be used with any touch-tone services, etc., but for a monopoly company like the ancient Bell, it was perfect - install once, never needs service, charge $2 for it every month. My grandfater paid over $1,200 for that phone. A company that tries to implement that strategy in a competitive, fast-moving area like tech is doomed. Look at, e.g. Nokia and RIM - both once powerhouses in mobile phones, now the walking dead, because THEY DIDN'T INNOVATE QUICKLY ENOUGH. What "Pure Evil" (and I refrain, following Yofish's from choosing ruder terms) calls 'planned obsolence', I call survival.
I suppose "Pure Evil" would rather be watching a 1970's era analog colour set, with a 25" screen, that flickers and bleeds, because such a set would still work (if you have a digital to analog converter). The question for any product is "When do you replace it?". Do you do that only when it breaks and can't be repaired, or do you upgrade when the new features are compelling enough to make you fork out? I have an old laptop with a 12" screen, running Win95 with a 100 Mb hard drive. It still works, but I wouldn't want to do anything with it today.
Each of us has to make the determination when a new product's features outweigh the cost and inconvience of replacing an existing, working product. That utility function will be different for all of us, and only a fool would deny that advertising and marketing seek to shift the function towards 'buy'. However, if you can't withstand their blandishments, whose fault is that? In the normal course of things, the utility function will spread across the spectrum (e.g. 'early adopters', 'trend-followers', 'diehards', etc.), and will create that strange and wonderful thing we call a "market".
Stupid people buing Smart Phones and Smart TV's - oh the irony
Is there a bot/troll systematically down-voting everyone's comments?
Don't log in. Here to see votes? How declasse.
Someone is very upset his retail stocks could potentially take a beating today. Click moar red arrows.
Cheap Shit defines Amerika. Just look at HPQ, DELL, APPLE etc.
Mom? Is that you?
no... she's in my basement :)
Obama spends $600 million on rail projects that benefit private companies
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/12/02/210101/obama-spends-600-million-on...
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/12/02/210101/obama-spends-600-million-on...dipshit
Clearly all those in the 2013 picture are brain dead with no focus. In 1978 the Zombies were fully focused and would find 2013 an absolute field day, although feasting on 2013 brains would have an extremely detrimental effect on their own mental capacity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8S9uI6R1FM
And this is what we have become. It is so sad.
monopoly
.....whose we buddy?They must be kept alive.
the one on the right is scarier imo
Can't wait for that 70s biker gang to show up by storming the mall armed with sledgehammers and machetes......T.F.C.(Total F***in Chaos)as in the final sequence of the film.
At least zombies don't attack you with tazers over grocery carts and discount flatscreens.
The zombies are all brain dead and the dead people on the left probably smell better.
the zombies on the left certainly cost less. the one'e on the right look like my EBT card at work.
So many good quotes in that film:
Dr. Forester: Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and shops! The people it kills get up and shop!
The perspective that is made plain in the progression of the staged television 'debates' scattered throughout the film discussing how to deal with the 'zombies' is interesting; amongst other things.
Great movie
Dumb and Dumber!!
Our government opens up a giant hole in us and then proceeds to sell us stuff to fill it, be it flat screens or social and economic justice.
News that holiday sales were not good and XRT (retailer ETF) opens up and gold is down 1%. Asset prices manipulated much?
This photo made my day!!! (still laughing)
LOL, Wall Street and media hyping of record shopping didn't work.
Healthcare, taxes and food is more expensive for the majority of Americans, while wages are not there.
is it any wonder prince phillip wants to return as a virus to wipe out the human animal.
any wonder bill gates and monsanto poison us.
any wonder the jews see us as slaves of an inferior race.
any wonder soros can control all sides for his masters satan and the rothschilds family.
they make children vanish kill them and mind control the rest.
tv
tv
shopping
tv
numb minds
dosed from the sky with cancer.
electrically charged by household air and wifi voltage
perfection
planet of the apes is here.
And any of that holds a candle to private debts that will never be repaid. Shit even the intersst is impossible to pay.
Indentured servitudeis the hallmark of how to make ends meet in a world of ireedemable promises.
How do we know the movie was not shot on black friday?
Easy, no fat zombies.
If the corporations treat people like animals then they become those animals and will be devoured by them.
Arrest the Walmart heirs. Redistribute their stolen wealth.
Because a person is in a position to abuse their environment due to chance does not make it right. Revolution and war will take away everything from the corporate globalists and politicians that degrade themselves by committing such abuse....
Kind of a trick question, but I spotted the only substantial difference. The zombies on the left are slimmer.
Those guys aren't trying to go in, they just heard Michelle Obama is about to make a speech and they are making a mad rush to the exit door.
Moar, Moar, Moar
We must have M O A R
Moar NOW
and much Moar later.
The main difference... today's zombies have energy drinks, and are lots more zippier.
Next year Black Friday shopping will begin at 12 noon on Thanksgiving Day. Cook your turkeys early!
Unless you are one of the smart ones who sits on your couch, collects welfare checks, and eats Cheetohs...(SNAP Cheetohs that is)
No no! That should be sitting on your couch watch ing porn and eating Cheetos you bought with your SNAP card AND then going to the emergency room, flashing your Medicaid card and complaining that you don't understand why your johnson has turned orange.
The 1978 zombies knew they were zombies?
As China and Japan get ready to square off in a military confrontation to distract their populations from their ongoing economic central planning and environmental disasters, Obama regales in his Munich redux moment and economist after economist warns of a bubble in the stock market, the masses greatest worry is about saving $25.00 while getting the latest and largest flatscreen bread and circuses propaganda infusion device.
They have them right where they wanted to, the way they wanted. Sad, isn't it?
Brainzz, bitchezzzz!
The smart guys on the left will buy things with money they've earned?
Zombies remain calm
Zombies don't trample each other
Zombies don't taze each other over a big screen TV
Zombies don't pay taxes
Zombies don't submit to warantless searches
Zombies aren't on welfare
Zombies know they are the walking dead
BTC rich in the mind, poor in the wood.
Inmate of open-air prison run by lunatics and populated almost entirely by zombies is desperately seeking a pen-pal ... because Aldous Huxley gave someone to Winston Smith. For mutual support in these trying times, am seeking fellow non-zombie intelligent, open-minded, and well-informed inmate for discussing topics of mutual interest.
see PGP key under Bio.
Colors have improved since then