If you can't choose your own price, you are not free.
I wrote this while in prison when price controls were implemented during COVID. Just came across it in the stuff I brought home from my cell and typed it up for you.
https://rossulbricht.substack.com/p/high-prices-in-times-of-crisis
It still amazes me you have been freed, and continue to put your ideas out there.
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I saw this on Substack. Have you considered writing on nostr apps like Habla.news or Yahihonne?
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Ya fuckin saint, you.
Thanks for sharing Ross🫂
you are not wrong but missing the point that the entire pandemic was engineered to lower the standard of living and the purpose of price controls is to break free market capitalism so people get on their knees and beg the government to "do something" which gives gov a blank check to increase their powers
don't worry though - you are in good company - nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c also doesn't understand any of this stuff
neither does anybody else apparently - just me
which is remarkable because these aren't novel ideas, but apparently the cattle is just too dumb to grasp certain concepts no matter how many times they are explained
no offense
PS: didn't read your blog because this stuff is too basic for somebody like me
In retrospect the pandemic looks like an agreed upon time to roll out the Great Reset in a uniform way across all countries. The psyop made it possible to do it in a more than incremental way, which is how they had been doing it throughout the 2010s. The surprising thing is the exceptions, like Sweden which never even had lockdowns. But perhaps they needed a control group and also Sweden had already gone totalitarian a long time before so there were no further needs to change their system.
Florida was the exception too, along with Sweden.
the funny part was some liberal "reporter" ( propagandist ) in Florida was calling the governor "DeathSantis" for not locking down so he had SWAT raid her home to send her a message that retards aren't welcome in Florida LOL
and now in Trump's second term like half of his government is composed of people from Florida. Trump of course also receives international guests like presidents and prime ministers right at Mar A Lago in Florida. i think this will really put Florida on the map where people will no longer see it as just a retirement community for seniors, spring break destination for college students and a location for Disney World.
i think people need to be educated about Florida. for example i didn't even know Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral was in Florida not far from Orlando. you always hear "Houston we have a problem" in the movies, but it really should be "Orlando we have a problem" if anything. I actually saw a rocket launch in Florida just while driving from one open house to another.
anyway sorry for changing the subject but you are correct of course.
it is such a basic 101 that even a retarded Alex Jones follower understands it. they periodically roll out engineered crises to shock the system because people and society have a tendency to ossify and become settled in their ways and there really are only two ways to break through that.
1 - you can indoctrinate children and wait for the older generation to die, but this is very slow.
2 - you can create a crisis and declare that "everything is different now" and rules aren't rules anymore.
normally they are content with waiting for old people to die but there are exceptions:
1 - Netanyahu. He doesn't like to wait. He did 9-11 and he also did October 7. He is the most powerful person in the world so he can get away with those things.
2 - The rise of AI and Technological Singularity. You would think nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c should be able to understand the implications but apparently not. Anyway i will spell it out - the pace of acceleration of economic development is going exponential and the elites know they don't have time to wait for anything. They had to be bold - so they brought out Covid and Lockdowns.
roughly half of the changes implemented during a Crisis like 911 or Covid are PERMANENT. for example Real ID goes in effect next week but was actually conceived after 911. likewise in NYC during covid they closed one of the 3 lanes of BQE ( one of the most congested roads from Brooklyn to Manhattan ) because apparently closing a road lane fights viruses or something ( i dunno, ask nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c i am clearly not smart enough to understand science ) ... after Covid ended that lane closure was made PERMANENT. they first said that it was because when the lane was closed there were fewer accidents so they are closing the lane to save lives. but then people figured out the reason there were less accidents is because everybody stayed home during Lockdowns. so now they are saying that actually it's because the whole road is going to collapse ! so rather than close it completely ( if it is unsafe ) and fix it, they will just close one of the 3 lanes. then they will close another lane and so on ...
that's WEF's incremental plan to transition us to bikes and mass transit. some World Bank guy on X for an inexplicable reason tweeted a chart that was like a step by step plan to go to "car free cities" and everything happening today ( street fairs etc. ) was listed on the chart as one of the steps. they are completely open about what they're doing because they know zombies like nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c will never wake up anyway.
there is absolutely no need to hide anything. they didn't hide WTC 7. they pulled it in front of everybody. because they know you're fucking stupid and they can do whatever they want.
reality is that life is short. i no longer feel sharp like i did in college. you only have so much time to figure things out. most people are stupid and distracted and will never figure anything out. i had some hopes for nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c but it seems he has missed the train. better luck next life Mike ! i should just be happy that *I* have figured things out and let Mike enjoy his seed oils and bread, even though he himself admits that when he stopped eating bread his Irritable Bowl Syndrome went away but he says that Leaky Gut is still a conspiracy theory because official science doesn't recognize it so he continues to eat bread because he believes some doctor on YouTube over his own personal experience.
you can't help somebody like this.
trolling aside, i don't have an opinion on leaky gut. but i do have an "opinion" about "science" except it's not an opinion - it's a fact. i have seen how this "science" works time and again. from global warming to covid to transportation to you name it. all science works the same. WEF says what science is, youtubers start churning out videos in support of it, when i debunk them my videos get removed for "misinformation" and slaves like nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c lap it all up like good boys.
we still appreciate what you do for freedom of speech though nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c
i say that completely unironically
in fact i have unfollowed nostr:npub1ye5ptcxfyyxl5vjvdjar2ua3f0hynkjzpx552mu5snj3qmx5pzjscpknpr long time ago because he started being cringe, which means i may have to eventually switch to Gossip
i hope you stay in good health nostr:npub1acg6thl5psv62405rljzkj8spesceyfz2c32udakc2ak0dmvfeyse9p35c or at least don't suffer a stroke and can continue to provide the community with technological solutions geniuses like me need to share my brilliant observations in these trying times
sincerely
I don't follow Ajax Jewnes but I do wonder what happened to all the InfoWars enthusiasts - they used to be everywhere. And now when you actually need them they're nowhere to be found. I guess his ostracism from social media had the intended effect after all.
i think he also tried to transition from conspiracies as well and towards covering celebrities like Kanye West.
he probably realized that conspiracies are a dead end because eventually you have to talk about the Jews and then they Epstein you.
You should consider posting your content as articles on Nostr through Yakihonne. This is some good stuff!
Good piece. Thanks for sharing here on Nostr, Ross.
Thanks for transcribing and sharing with everyone! I spotted a few typoes that I'll document below. I have mirrored this article to my blog, that is open source and self-hosted, contains the full text block, with typoes amended:
- ecommerce => e-commerce.
- spedometer => speedometer.
- fuel guage => fuel gauge.
- si => it is. '...when it is needed the most...'
- villifying => vilifying.
- throught => through.
- scarece => scarce.
- resperator => respirator.
- mansts => masks.
- Interfereing => interfering.
- reation => reaction.
- 'balk and the new prices' => 'balk at the new prices.'
- 'more important that people breathe filtered air than insulation get installed' => 'more important that people breathe filtered air than that insulation get installed'
- 'a world where there isn't need' => 'a world where there isn't a need'
- 'a reduction in prices and expansion of supply' => 'a reduction in prices and an expansion of supply'
- 'going down down a road' => 'going down a road'
- 'At every day low prices' => 'At everyday low prices'
- 'When the price is at its highest is when...' => Simplified to 'When prices peak, people need...'
https://blog.rottenwheel.com/posts/high-prices-in-times-of-crisis/
Centralized control & a lack of free markets is one of the key reasons why socialism eventually falls.
It is interesting that markets operating outside of these controls don't suffer the same fate. It highlights the benefits of dark markets in providing needed goods to consumers during uncertain times.
It is my hope that the nostr protocol will eventually allow such markets to emerge powered by permissionless decentralised money.
Thanks Ross, I went to school for economics and so wasn’t excited by the discussion of prices as signals and incentives. Adding in the idea of reduced taxes on essential goods during a crisis is great though, I’ll need to look up examples of that happening. Good metaphor with the bus as well.
Good read
If you can't choose your own price, you are not free.
I wrote this while in prison when price controls were implemented during COVID. Just came across it in the stuff I brought home from my cell and typed it up for you.
https://rossulbricht.substack.com/p/high-prices-in-times-of-crisis
Maybe you could use something like nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqy8hwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddaksqgrafcz9qw4jvc2a6hefasyt222re0jlz7avcvqjkf3zpj4zx243fs4hhwmw or nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyw8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytfsxyh8jcttd95x7mnwv5hxxmmdqqszpxr0hql8whvk6xyv5hya7yxwd4snur4hu4mg5rctz2ehekkzrvcsuxfmc in order to re-write your Substack, Ross.
I do Substack-style reads using Habla, so even I would know.
Beautifully and clearly written.
Thank you ross 💪😉🏴☠️
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Thanks for sharing this, it’s great
Enjoyed your article. Good food for thought.
