Friday, June 8, 2018
Copiosis or No Physical Object Money/Net Benefitism same failed Reagan and Kemp Republican trickle-down/voodoo economics
Copiosis may not be a scam, as its founder Perry Gruber denied here.
Copiosis is, however, a rebranding of nopom.info or nopomstuff.info. The latter 2 web sites promote the same new economic system based on the book by Larry K. Mason called "Invisible Hand."
In 2009 Democratic celebrations of the inauguration of President Barack Obama were interrupted by the 700,000 job losses per month result of the Sept 15, 2008 'wall street' secondary mortgage market and later sovereign wealth fund crashes requiring $800 billion in federal stimulus (American Renewal and Recovery Act ARRA recovery.gov) spending. Austerity budgets to pay back private lenders to the EU central bank were most acute in Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain. USA-based Republican politicians returned to their role in the legislative minority (continuing to seek 'a way forward' in the next election cycle) as annual deficit and multiyear debt hawks supported by 'taxed enough already' TEA party rallies (later rebranded House Freedom caucus after the 2010 elections and 2011 state reapportionments following the decennial census). Some of those reapportionments have been changed by court findings of illegal partisan gerrymandering. Perry Gruber and Larry K Mason posted letters here promoting what seemed like a nonpartisan, centrist, alternative economic system.
As far back as 2006 Larry Mason's book "Invisible Hand" had been promoted here. The second review, posted in 2006,
By Lydia Glider-Shelley Dec 1, 2006
"Powerfully compelling. A must-read!" Last week I had the wistful experience of finishing one of the most thought-provoking pieces of literature I have ever had the pleasure of reading. Wistful because like any good book, you get to know the characters and are loath to bid them adieu. One can only hope this phenomenal writer will see fit to pen a sequel or perhaps some related short stories. On a par with Ayn Rand's monumental "Atlas Shrugged" without the long repetitive central speech that Ms. Rand felt it necessary to include in her work, "Invisible Hand" by Larry Mason suggests a viable solution to the problems plaguing America. Poverty, crime, drug addiction, health care, housing, nutrition... all of these are dealt with in a new type of society: one in which we are paid according to the net benefit of our actions. Basic food, clothing, shelter, medical care and certain other necessities such as education (at all levels) are "free" or no charge to people in this scenario... although there are still luxuries and private ownership available to those willing to work and earn them. Private ownership is changed, however as there is no longer joint ownership of anything. This and many more intriguing concepts are explored in this brilliant masterpiece, which I highly recommend. While you're at it, buy a few extra copies for your friends and family. Enjoy!
compared "Invisible Hand" to Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand "without the long repetitive central speech[.]"
A reviewer with a similar name posted the first of 2 reviews of "Invisible Hand" on Amazon in 2014.
Copiosis and nopomstuff.info (formerly nopom.info) are simply far- right economic views that overvalue individual freedom to make choices and delegitimize the role of a regulatory and administrative state to protect individuals from exactly the type of financial services industry fraud that only the state has the capacity to fix and prevent a recurrence. The descriptions of copiosis and nopom.info (now nopomstuff.info) are simply earlier versions of gas-lighting and black knighting that only polarize political discourse further driving some people to avoid civic and political activism (including voting) entirely. Some people alienated from electoral politics pursue other alternative systems and vote for third party candidates in both primary and general election cycles resulting in more far-right Republicans getting elected and reelected from 2010-2016. The descriptions of @copiosis (twitter.com page) and nopomstuff.info in the comments comments here sound appealing by denying partisan motives and descriptions.
Demands for faster paces of change, to do more good for more people more quickly, to pass the laws and implement the regulations usually highlight the division such as whether to have free college or free public college tuition or whether to allow all individuals the choice to buy health insurance from Medicare or require all individuals to buy health insurance from Medicare with taxes replacing health insurance premiums. Even the 2010 Dodd-Frank act that created the CFPB (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau) that has been gutted since the November 2017 change in director to Mick Mulvaney, in particular, was the subject of 'pace of change' arguments about how strongly to re-regulate banks. Disputes of whether the Glass-Steagall act, repealed in 1999, should have been included continue to divide Democrats and suppress their base voter turnout. Any new proposal that is marketed as 'nonpartisan' or 'neither left nor right' becomes attractive as people seek a 'new normal' amidst chaos on many issues while trying to 'keep a roof over individual heads' by 'paying bills' from 'any job' one can 'get hired for' and keep including multiple jobbettes or the 'sharing economy.'
Exaggerated individual freedom, disputed here, while limiting the role of government in the economy demonstrate another book based on "Atlas Shrugged" is more accurate based on the results of how most people experience, despite personal denials of harm and claims of personal resiliency in crises, the effects of the political and economic systems on their daily lives.