In my article on "why prolonged Bear markets are no longer allowed" ( https://controlplanecapital.com/p/why-prolonged-bear-markets-are-not ), I covered the possible solutions outside the system.
I'll give you a TL;DR version.
"Crises will be kept long-enough so that citizens ask their governments for a solution (knobs implementation), but not long-enough to birth alternatives outside the system."
Ideally, a tax revolt + a rejection of fiat slavery, but probably not realistic at scale.
(1) Medium-of-Exchange self-custody + (2) mesh comms + (3) mutual credit are the top three solutions outside the system the Controllers fear because they reduce legibility and raise switching costs back.
Some of the other solutions outside the system are:
- Off-grid energy & micro-grids,
- Food & logistics sovereignty,
- Parallel education & credentialing,
- Community mutual aid / gray insurance,
- Jurisdictional arbitrage & exit,
- Legal sanctuary tactics,
- Coordinated labor friction at choke-points.
The regime's crisis design is deliberate: short, sharp, subsidized, and synchronized — just enough pain to win consent for new knobs, never enough time to seed alternatives.
Most of these solutions outside the system become more realistic in a prolonged crisis.
Use a simple threshold model:
- Let D = duration of pain (weeks), P = perceived personal loss (jobs/savings), R = repression level (legal/financial risk).
- Adoption probability ~ f(D×P – R – F), where F = friction (UX, coordination, defaults).
- The Controllers tune R (sticks) and F (frictions) while adding C (carrots: subsidies, payment holidays) to keep D×P below the tipping point.
Implication:
- 2–8 week shocks + immediate backstops keep D×P < threshold → no mass switch to alternatives.
- >12–16 weeks, visible unfairness, and bungled backstops push D×P above threshold → outside systems scale.
- They plan to avoid the latter — revealed preference: fast facilities, forbearance, and "temporary" rules that ratchet.
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Great insights. As always.
Why don't you publish your insights directly on Nostr?
Substack is just another centralised platform that stinks. I'd like to spread your work. But Substack won't work for me.

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I tried using nostr reads via Primal but the UX of the text editor was bad and jumpy. I posted some articles and I think a total of 3 people read them.
Substack's UX is pretty good and it pushes some posts through the substack app.
The plus of substack is people can sign up to your newsletter using emails, so you can keep your list even if the platform nukes you.
I mostly write about financial markets and the people on here don't really care.
Primal is a terrible app. I've done my most recent articles through untype.app
You should publish on nostr to transfer your audience to nostr
I'll have to check it out, I don't really have an audience to transfer though.
Might as well post everywhere you can manage easily enough as one person then, or just where you feel like 🤙
Even better. Nothing to lose then. At least publish it here and there.
I want to point to your whole series of articles not just to the two most recent ones. For that they force me to signup (track me). Never will I send my friends to a site that requires them to go through that hassle.
That's another interesting one.
I'll have to transfer them eventually, It just takes time and as I previously wrote no one really uses nostr to read long-form content.
At least no one read the ones I've published on here.
Also, Substack doesn't force you to sign up for free content (mine is not paywalled). I think they force you to sign up only if the content you are trying to read is behind a paywall.
They don't let me see an overview over all your articles without account. That's annoying.
I've also had that happen, not sure what triggers it. Right now, if I open the site directly (
) on web in a private browser tab I can scroll down to the last article without needing login.

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Will check again. Still don't want to expose my friends to shitty UX/walls.