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when money is produced out of the thin air, it's like constantly adding water to the juice until it's so diluted that it's just water centralized states can only maintain real juice % by conquering and juicing the outside world once the conquering stops, dilution starts

so interestingly enough, when corporations are taxed, employee salary and benefits actually decrease since it forces more "leanness" governments seem to be "bribed" by companies for lower taxes but actually they r trying to help people keep their jobs/lifestyle

the government has to balance between allowing the companies to do what they want with the money (which includes keeping employees on payroll) vs taxing the companies and doing government things like "infrastructure"

in countries like the u.s. there is actually a cultural aversion to these centralized projects as "inefficient" and a "waste of money" (especially on the conservative side) this is in contrast to a country like china where centralization is associated with efficiency

so from the individual's perspective there's really nothing that can be done. government taxation into infra projects will build roads and schools but it won't help the actual individual NOW. maybe free internet for all? doesn't seem the bottleneck...

the only thing they CAN do is to stay at their current job and start living below their means to amass some excess capital and then hopefully deploy it in a way that can change their life. like doge. there's also youtube/skillshare/etc.. learning but that's global competition

once this is realized then the conservative monetary policies can start to be understood the increased taxes reveal themselves not as a way of bettering self but start to feel petty and spiteful as a way of equalizing everyone

this anger is not without merit. prior to the days of globalized knowledge companies had to train the local population to be useful the rich who made their wealth during those times would likely fail just as hard now given global knowledge worker competition