All of my friends are intelligent people. They’re all wage slaves…slaves to banks, service companies, real estate, the insurance sector…
Why? Because the system is designed to entice you to keep paying those fees.
Aurelius
aurelius@Nostr-Check.com
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Read Michael Hudson
Read Noam Chomsky
Read Chris Hedges
Read Thomas Paine
Read JS Mill
Push back on Financial Imperialism
Push back on War
Push back on Time and Resource Theft
Push back on Austerity
Develop Public Works and Services
Advocate for the Poor
Disable Power of Large Corporations
#Bitcoin!🍊💊
“censorship in the United States has reached such a level beyond anything in my lifetime.”
-Noam Chomsky
CounterPunch.org
‘Not a Justification but a Provocation’: Chomsky on the Root Causes of the Russia Ukraine War
One of the reasons that Russian media has been completely blocked in the West, along with the unprecedented control and censorship over the Ukraine...
Existence in the US is not pleasant for us because we are a productive economy… but because we wield the guns. Our success rests on the misery of others, whose economies are eviscerated by coerced exchange of natural resources and labor for energy and food denominated in dollars. The forced exchange of these commodities for dollars rather than in any native currencies forces a steady flow of resources from third world countries into the hands of the US.
I’m not hoping for the implosion of the dollar. But I’m definitely hoping that the people around the world can get out from under the thumb of a system that exports its inflation in exchange for commodities and labor. Is the dollar’s purchasing power propped up by the fact that the mass of it is stuck in treasury bonds abroad that cannot be repatriated in exchange for anything? For sure. Would empowering these other countries to subvert this system and obtain food and energy denominated in their native currencies help the people there? Absolutely. Would it hurt the dollar? Yea….but advocating for the destruction of native currencies in order that we prop up the dollar is to advocate for the debt servitude of billions
“De-dollarization is not a voluntary choice by countries anymore, it is the countries’ inevitable response to the ‘weaponization project of the dollar.’”
-Iran Vice President Mohammad Mokhber at recent 51st annual meeting of Asian Clearing Union
If you don’t read constantly, chances are that your opinions are the opinions of those around you.
My friends who have a favorite book … haven’t read enough books
Nothing is more repulsive than the scorn of the popular masses by people who consider themselves the élite.
— Berdyaev
If you’re looking to create value, see where the FIRE (Finance, Insurance, Real Estate) industries are injecting massive inefficiencies into and extracting massive profits from our community. Find solutions to give those profits back to the people they exploit
Tech people, disintermediate!
Taking the wife to Playa de Carmen tomorrow. Any Nostriches there? Any Bitcoiners?
…Just sand and heat and inevitable sunburn?
The elite’s use of the “dangerous others” argument….
Blame the Russians
Blame the Muslims
Blame the Mexicans
Blame the Blacks
Blame the Gays
How about we embrace all of those similarly disenfranchised minorities and blame the bankers who foment disdain and hatred among the masses 🤔
Bank bailouts do not stabilize the economy as billionaires would have us believe. They shift liabilities onto taxpayers. The financial class who yell “free market” are precisely those who designed a legal system that protects the rich at the expense of the poor.
“Spreading democracy” is a euphemism for enacting foreign governments that are complicit with US foreign policy interests.
When every country in the world considers you to be the greatest risk to world peace, you probably are.
“The Distribution of wealth … is a matter of human institution solely. The things once there, mankind, individually or collectively, can do with them as they like. They can place them at the disposal of whomsoever they please, and on whatever terms. Further, in the social state, in every state except total solitude, any disposal whatever of them can only take place by the consent of society, or rather of those who dispose of its active force [i.e. government]. Even what a person has produced by his individual toil, unaided by any one, he cannot keep, unless by the permission of society. Not only can society take it from him, but individuals could and would take it from him, if society only remained passive; if it did not either interfere en masse, or employ and pay people [i.e. police] for the purpose of preventing him from being disturbed in the possession. The distribution of wealth, therefore, depends on the laws and customs of society. The rules by which it is determined are what the opinions and feelings of the ruling portion of the community make them, and are very different in different ages and countries; and might still be more different, if mankind so chose.”
JS Mill. Principles of Political Economy
Today, the finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE) sector has regained control of government, creating neo-rentier economies. The aim of this postindustrial finance capitalism is the opposite of industrial capitalism as known to nineteenth-century economists: it seeks wealth primarily through the extraction of economic rent, not industrial capital formation. Tax favoritism for real estate, privatization of oil and mineral extraction, and banking and infrastructure monopolies add to the cost of living and doing business. Labor is increasingly exploited by bank debt, student debt, and credit card debt while housing and other prices are inflated on credit, leaving less income to spend on goods and services as economies suffer debt deflation. Today’s new Cold War is a fight to internationalize this rentier capitalism by globally privatizing and financializing transportation, education, health care, prisons and policing, the post office and communications, and other sectors that formerly were kept in the public domain. In Western economies, such privatizations have reversed the drive of industrial capitalism. In addition to monopoly prices for privatized services, financial managers are cannibalizing industry by leveraging debt and high- dividend payouts to increase stock prices.
Read Michael Hudson.
The United States is not a democratic society. It is not intended to be. It’s a polyarchy. Power resides in the hands of the wealth of the nation.
https://magisterwernegren.com/2017/01/27/the-minority-of-the-opulent/
Inflation is 15%.
This keeps you in the fiat mines, grinding out day after day to make up that lost buying power.
The work detracts from your ability to read, to care for your family, to think, to engage with the arts. It makes you bitter, and then you die having lived less of your life.
The extra work feeds the FIRE industry who bleed humanity. Parasites on a social system meant to support the people.
Preserve your effort.
“The National Security State is an instrument of class warfare, organized and designed to permit an elite, local and multinational, to operate without any constraint from democratic processes. This allows the bulk of the population to be treated as a mere cost of production.”
The Real Terror Network
Edward Herman