RE: Simon Black Predicts the Future From the Past

"Do you argue that decentralized technologies based on blockchain and cryptocurrency can free people from the domination of overlords?"

Yes, I do, though not crypto alone. I note that the structure of the physical universe is the reason that decentralization is today the cutting edge of technological advance in every field of industry. The laws of physics cannot be amended. There is no august body of corruptible legislators that have drafted them, and who can be bribed to alter them. Overlords are dependent on centralization, and absent technology, or in the coming circumstance that means of production are decentralized, overlords are prevented from parasitizing production.

Overlords are a side effect of centralized industrial technology, which I have attempted to show is a temporary phase of technological advance, during which crude and massive devices are necessary to produce goods and services. In the absence of mechanized means of production individuals produce goods by hand that they themselves consume. In decentralized production of modern goods, no massive capitalization controlled by overlords is necessary, and overlords are unable to profit from providing capital funding inexpensive tools, because no such funding is necessary for inexpensive tools. Only the intervening and temporary condition, the initial transformation of non-industrial production to industrial, mechanized production and it's developments requiring massive mechanisms and capitalization, enables overlords to parasitize production and extract wealth and power from collectivized production.

Because industry is becoming modern and machines becoming sufficiently sophisticated to be small and inexpensive, collectivized production is being deprecated, capitalization is becoming unnecessary, and centralization of production is eliminated because it is not the most advanced technology which produces the highest productivity, and is noncompetitive with higher productivity technology.

Overlords are singularly focused on their personal wealth and power, and do not care (despite their rhetoric) about society or civilization at all. They only care that they rule over society so that they are able to maintain their obscene wealth and power relative to their slaves. Since they cannot change the laws of physics and prevent decentralization of means of production, they seek other means of retaining their parasitic pipeline funneling wealth to themselves.

Preventing decentralized production, preventing the advance of technology where it enables individual households and small communities to retain the benefits of production, by the various means available, such as psychological manipulation, force projected by armed gangs of thugs, or deprivation of industrial feedstocks yet centralized, are all ongoing means being undertaken today by overlords to prevent the cessation of parasitization they depend on.

Greta browbeats us all. 'How dare you!' produce goods and services profitably, and the false claim that CO2 changes climate is massively trumpeted by centralized media controlled by overlords. Armed gangs of thugs are conspicuously obvious in the application of institutional centralization to restrict decentralized production, and corporations are eliminating inexpensive and reliable petroleum resources available to individuals that enable energy and chemical feedstocks for decentralized production.

All of these mechanisms will fail to surmount the laws of physics and the indomitable human spirit in time. They are doomed to fail, and oligarchs to fall, but until they are defeated they will extract a price in blood and suffering of people seeking to make a living and deliver to their posterity that felicity and prosperity they are due.

"...the majority of the common people will either become slaves dependent on state unemployment benefits or become riotous terrorists."

Defending ourselves from evil overlords is not terrorism. It is overlords that are terrorists. It is overlords that seek to cause terror with lies about climate change, with armies of thugs committing savage and brutal acts of violence, and corrupting the institutions that were previously necessary to govern ourselves during the centralization phase of industrial production, now obsolete as overlords themselves.

Freedom is not optional, slavery is not acceptable, and I will not allow my beloved sons to be enslaved while I live and breathe, no matter psychopathic terrorists' demands.

Thanks!