Margeir

Ekki bara hrátt kjötstykki sem kann að bítskipta.

[Margeir @margeir]

@AndriMagnason The Bitcoin standard ;)

[Gulli Gislason @gullisgislason]

Ég held að það sé að verða ljóst að Bitcoin og rafmyntir eru komnar til að vera. Hér má sjá nokkrar nýlegar staðreyndir um vöxt og framgang þessa nýja eignaflokks.🧵

[Margeir @margeir]

@iamkylebalmer ai

[Margeir @margeir]

@bjornteits Væri það ekki svipað og ef það mætti bara selja íbúðir ef bílastæði fylgdu með 🤪

[Sjón 🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @Sjonorama]

Matvælaráðherra @BjarkeyOlsen skríður fyrir Sjálfstæðisflokknum og leyfir hinar viðbjóðslegu hvalveiðar að nýju. Hún og flokkur hennar
"Vinstri græn" eru hvorki vinstri né græn. Þau eru auðvaldsmottur og umhverfissóðar. Megi þau þurrkast út í næstu kosningum.

[Margeir @margeir]

Er ekki best að allir 12 frambjóðendur fái einn mánuð á ári í embætti? Ástþór fyrstur, svo við öðlumst heimsfrið. Viktor næstur, svo að framkvæmda- og löggjafarvaldið verði nú örugglega aðskilið. Og svo koll af kolli.
Svo höldum við bara áfram.

#forseti24

[Ashok Kumar | 🇵🇸 @broseph_stalin]

This was brutal https://t.co/9GXcsDbq6L

[Björn Teitsson @bjornteits]

Sturlaður lestur. Geta fjölmiðlar plz krafið stjórnendur lögreglunnar um svör. Má sumsé stunda morðtilraunir, svo lengi sem þær eru á bíl?

https://t.co/5UqYYjPOWX

[Guðmundur Jörundsson @gudmundur_jor]

Unglinga vantar staði til að vera á, held þeir verði ekki mikið betri en sundlaugar. Enginn skjár bara tengsl, vatn & útivera. Þætti nær að lengja opnun sundlauga til 23. Það besta sem þetta land á fyrir andlega og líkamlegu heilsu eru allar þessar sundlaugar okkar.

2/2

[inspotMusic @inspotMusic]

15 new tracks for your playlist!🎵 https://t.co/c3A5VS4jOD

any
Joey Calveiro & Harold López-Nussa
Dorbi
RedVibes
@margeir & Matthildur
Judith
Bubba Brothers
Anthony Benjamin
Conscious Kid
@InstantJuJu
Falback
@angysciacqua
Mainrize & Diana Miro
@ronjamaltzahn
@hellomicowl

[Margeir @margeir]

Lagið sem ENGINN er að bíða eftir, kemur út á föstudaginn 🔥
Nú er hægt að vista lagið og fá að hlusta á undan öðrum!

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PS.
Meira info síðar

[Halldór Armand @HalldorArmand]

English translation of my latest column for Morgunblaðið on the My Parents-meme that captures an entire generation excluded from the housing market worldwide.

THE SYSTEM THAT FAILED AN ENTIRE GENERATION

Memes on the internet, where younger generations mock their economic realities compared to what their parents experienced at the same age, can be very amusing. But behind the laughter, of course, lies pain, and sometimes I feel like nothing provides a better insight into the mindset of young people worldwide than these very memes. The same reality is evident almost everywhere. Your salary or effort hardly makes a difference. It's impossible to own a home without external help. The most influential factor in your future life status is simply what your parents own.

Now, I imagine older readers slapping the back of their hand against the paper and saying, “That’s absurd! Are you suggesting I didn't have to work hard to have a roof over my head?" Not at all. But now, in most cases, it makes no difference how hard people are willing to work. Since 2010, housing prices in Europe have soared by nearly 50% on average. It's an increase that bites sharply. However, Iceland is in a league of its own; here, the price has increased by 225% over the same period. The mainland doesn’t stand a chance against us. Trying to save, working more, or even squeezing out higher wages won't make a difference in this game without parental help. The resulting class division is obvious.

The financialisation of people's homes in recent decades is one of the great evils of our time. Capitalism has thus utterly betrayed its promise of a brighter future for the younger generations; their living conditions will be worse than those of their elders. Technological development has certainly led to deflation, and progress lies there; TVs, computers, and phones are much cheaper and better than they were. But owning a high-tech robotic vacuum cleaner is hardly comforting when having a home to clean is beyond your dreams.

People looking for their first home — a home that is 225% more expensive than thirteen years ago — have to compete for the same apartment against investors who have no intention of living there. It's easy to blame the greedy elites and limited supply for the problem. But one might also ask what it reveals about our economic reality – the monetary system itself – when buying a home with no intention to use it is seen as a great investment.

A significant part of the problem is clearly that there's no incentive to save cash, and people are punished for being sensible. Since 2008, we've had the lowest interest rates in 5,000 years worldwide, and central banks have injected obscene amounts of new money into the system to keep its blood flowing — like giving amphetamines to a zombie. This is possible because modern money is merely an illusion, with no connection to any real value, enabling its endless printing. Money printing dilutes people's savings — without them directly noticing — and therefore money finds its ways to desirable things available in limited quantities, like people's homes. This causes asset prices to skyrocket, as they have continuously done since 2008. The people who benefit the most are those closest to the money pots, the financial elite, and the political class.

Younger generations are very risk-seeking in finance, as the Gamestop saga well demonstrated. There, a large group of penny investors, who organised themselves in an online forum, carried out a kind of financial kamikaze attack on Wall Street hedge funds by buying up shares of a failing video game store. Young people also speculate with cryptocurrencies. Are they too foolish to understand the risk? No, they understand the game perfectly well! Young people feel on their own skin that the system no longer works and are in search of a lifeboat to escape it. Risk is not their enemy. It is their only hope.

[Margeir @margeir]

Nú er hægt að streyma Gamlársgaldur á YouTube!

👉 https://t.co/vssE0LuYhj 👈

[Margeir @margeir]

@StationHelgi Næs. Ég líka!

[Margeir @margeir]

@haukurh Þetta var náttúrulega mjög low budget og hann fann upp á þessari skapandi lausn. Að búa til töff bakgrunn úr nánast engu. Loðnuskotin voru keypt frá fréttunum á Stöð 2 og svo var bara súmmað inn.

Það sem ég skil hins vegar ekki er hver var pælingin með þetta næntís tagl mitt 😂

[Margeir @margeir]

@hasantoxr GPT-4

[Margeir @margeir]

Græjað!

[Fiddler king 🎻 @lexijona]

Er í viðræðum við DJ margeir og er að græja þetta fyrir okkur

[Margeir @margeir]

@svansson Göbbels teiknaði hann upp sem grænmetisætu. Af því að Göbbels vildi bæta ímyndina en hann vissi (eins og við hin) að grænmetisætur eru upp til hópa góðar manneskjur.

[Margeir @margeir]

Some say it's better to be a has been than a never-was and a never-will-be.