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.
