Freedom Tuesday #53!
So let's play like we woke up in a free world today.
Instead of hustling from January to April to pay the politicians, we can take it a little easier.
As you can see from the math set forth in this post, we shouldn't be working more than 4 hours a day as it is.
Instead, we buy into the bulls**t by playing the game by the rules set forth by the winners of the 'who will kill for power' game currently passing as 'civilization'.
I mean, can't we find a house for everybody?
There are plenty of empty ones.
14 million empty houses, and less than 1 million homeless.
No, instead you defend crapitalism by telling people to get a job.
Instead of allowing folks to live decently, you want to spit on them, because craptialism teaches you to do that.
If you don't know by now, all those street people out there are evidence that the system you call god's gift to the planet is not working for us all.
Sure, sure, they could all get jobs, if they had housing to take a shower and sleep in, but who is gonna give them that hand up?
You?
You won't even give them a handout.
How is this the best system devised by man?
Because the men devising it are doing just fine.
Who do you think trafficks in humans?
Not the folks living under the overpass, I guarantee.
There is soooo much that goes unexamined in our daily lives.
I've had time to examine some of it, and it has not helped me survive better in this system.
I refuse to exploit the ignorance of my neighbors.
Each and every one of you that continue to play the game are forcing this reality onto the rest of, I, for one, wish you would quit.
It is not ok for these folks to use violence on those folks because reasons.
Get that through your thick skull.
Stop paying taxes.
Stop living as though everything is ok, because it is, for you.
Join us out here.
It is the only way to escape the matrix and its enslavement of your mind, and body.
Nobody rules where none obey!
I wish all of this were true.
Then the solution would be so easy.
The problem is none of this addresses the actual causes, the actual root of the problem.
Yes, we have umpteen empty houses for every homeless person.
However, having people work and trade that work for houses is exactly why there are so many extra houses.
Take that away, and there would be ⅒ of the houses we have currently.
And home ownership is very important.
Without it no one invests in making there home or property better.
Without ownership, who would plant a garden to be harvested months later.
So, ownership is important and thus having a price is important.
We cannot get rid of this without also getting rid of almost everything good about houses.
The culprits in our current system to make house unaffordable to a large selection of people are
The house prices have gone up and up almost solely because of money printing.
And the biggest money printing operation is mortgages.
Where a bank steals 100 pennies out of the pockets of the closest people, and then trades that dollar for a house AND a note ( of death, that the person will continue paying for life.)
What a great deal to be a bank. Offering stolen money in exchange for twice the value!
And then we have the city planners who want to keep house prices up. Making it impossible to build new starter homes... effectively cutting off their new members of society (those turning 18) off at the knee cap.
If things were not exactly as the controllers wanted, they would change them.
There are myriad solutions to this, none of them possible without overpowering those that rule by overpowering us.
The bully still needs his nose punched by somebody willing to look outside the box you seem perfectly ok with forcing onto others.
Crapitalism got us into this mess, more varied crapitalism will not get us out.
I've been serializing a book that offers one of the myriad solutions, have you read it?
If not, your dogma is failing to convince me I am not wasting my time here.
If I were to believe that anarcho-crapitalust was anything, but a contradiction, I would have stuck with this solution.
I have not.
I think the root problem is your willingness to use violence to attain your political/economic goals.
I do not remember if you call all "capitalism" crapitalism
or if your think our current system is not capitalism and so call it crapitalism (this is the way most anarcho-capitalists use the term)
I will assume you use the term crapitalism to describe any form of capitalism.
And as we talk about system, we must weigh the benefits, as well as the down sides.
Because of capitalism we have many houses.
In all other societal structures, you get FAR fewer houses.
And if you switch to any other structure, the number of good houses diminishes quickly over time.
Doesn't matter if you consider capitalism exploitive or not this is a truth.
Because of greed, and the free market to buy and sell houses, houses will get built in abundance.
Socialism and Communism destroys the drive to build houses.
Socialism and Communism destroys the drive to maintain houses.
Now, capitalism also breeds people that want to take over the money system, and rig prices.
And this, most people call crony-capitalism. Which is where we are today.
The system of fractional reserve sets up a system where the slowest runner has to declare bankruptcy. There isn't enough money in the system to pay for every loan. Its a design of the system. And do not call this capitalism, it has nothing to do with capitalism. (except that capitalism attracts greedy people)
I believe the root problem is your willingness to use subtle violence to destroy everyone's drive and make life miserable fore everyone.
The book you are putting on here doesn't answer any of my problems or questions.
I probably should start critiquing it.
Yes, any system that requires so much of this in return for so much of that, wage slavery, puts us at odds and requires that we compete.
No monetary system will lead us anywhere but where we are.
God knows how many thousands of years monetary systems have been at work, yet here we are.
Don't you think that we could provide housing, clothing, food, and jobs, if we really wanted to?
This system could be managed in the interests of more than the top of the crapitalism pyramid.
We don't do this now because the rich prefer folks at each other's throats.
They think if the slaves aren't storming the bastions they have too much comfort.
They hire thugs to maintain their privileges.
This is the status quo, for thousands of years.
Clearly it works for those in charge, the comfortable slaves that make it possible, and the thugs that keep it in place.
Others, not so much.
In a society that values equality, the community would insure that everybody gets a house, and a place in the community(not under a bridge).
Allow me to set my definitions.
Socialism requires force.
Communism is voluntarily adopted as a better option, or it doesn't happen.
What currently passes for communism, is not, and never was.
This book is where I get the definitions.
What other kind is there?
You buy from the people you like, and not the ones you don't like.
If you get into a position of power, you help your friends, and harm your enemies.
It's just what people do.
If it is not crapitalism, what is it?
Features of crapitalism: wages, taxes, ruling elites, thug class maintaining the ruler's power, poverty, extreme wealth.
You would define it somehow different?
Of course you do, hundreds of generations of indoctrination could leave you thinking nothing else.
I thought the same until I read the old masters.
Tell me that your consent has not been engineered.
Tell me that mind control was not used in your #fakeducation.
Tell me if I am not the only person to ever suggest these titles to you.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
They can't know that they don't know something, nor that they don't know it.
It's the nature of esoteric knowledge.
I'll take a shot at those questions, I'm not hampered by having written my words 140 years ago.
Please make it somewhat broad, I rarely make it all the way through the nit picky ones.
I am not saying that capitalism is my favorite, i am just pointing out the advantages and disadvantages of all the systems we have tried to date.
There are other system yet to be developed, and i keep looking for them