Eff it, let's post two Life Economy posts on a Saturday.
8 PRINCIPLES FOR THE LIFE ECONOMY
What will it take to bring about the life economy?
We need strong core values and grounding principles that individuals, families, and communities can live by.
In addition to the 4 pillars of the life economy, which we defined as courage and love, sound money, security in abundance, and unite and collaborate, here we take a crack at establishing 8 principles of the life economy:
FREEDOM
The vast majority of us are loving, caring, and conscientious people. We can be trusted to do the right thing. Somehow, the minority have convinced the majority that we are wicked, and need to be watched over like little children.
We don't need corrupt governments telling us what to do. We don't need large corporations dictating our culture and way of life to us.
We need freedom. Freedom to succeed and freedom to fail. Freedom is foundational. And we must value it above all else.
NATURAL LIVING
The death economy has been defined by replacing natural ways of living with artificial and unnatural ways of living.
We all innately know how we want to live. We want to have meaningful relationships. We want to do meaningful work. We want to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. We want to spend a great deal of our time in nature. We want to have leisure time for activities that feed our spirit.
We can turn away from all of the unnatural ways of living that have been foisted on us in the modern world. It will take hard work to break bad habits, but when we remove everything that's artificial from our lives, anything that's left is what's meant to be there.
RESPONSIBILITY
We have outsourced so much of our lives to the "experts" and the "authorities." To what end?
A life economy requires individuals and families to take responsibility in a radical way. It means that we don't trust the "experts" and the "authorities" by default. We trust ourselves and our own inner wisdom. We take ownership over all of our actions - especially our mistakes.
The "experts" and "authorities" have proven themselves to be irresponsible at best, and downright malevolent at worst. The best antidote for this issue is for individuals to take responsibility for themselves.
NON-AGGRESSION
The non-aggression principle is fundamental to the life economy. It states that no one may use violence against another individual unless an aggressive individual uses violence against you first.
This principle values self-defense. What madness convinced us all that we are not allowed to protect ourselves? That we must rely on the police and the military for security? If individuals don't protect themselves, individuals will be preyed upon by groups of aggressors, manipulators, and corrupt actors.
A vibrant economy and society must be rooted in non-aggression. When we blunt our aggressive instincts but train ourselves to defend against potential aggressors, we are ready for anything and we can focus on being productive.
OPEN-MINDEDNESS
Fear, ignorance, and closed-mindedness have held us back for long enough. They kill productivity and cripple healthy living.
Open-mindedness and tolerance for the opinions of others are crucial to rebuilding society.
DECENTRALIZED POWER
"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Global government, global health organizations, and global goals = global insanity.
There can't possibly be a free, prosperous, healthy society with power concentrated in a small number of hands.
Power must be handed over to individuals and small groups. There should be as little government as possible, and where there is a government, it should be decentralized and checked many times over.
Let's be honest with ourselves; we have given up our power to corrupt centralized governments, corporations, and organizations for way too long.
We must break up old, large, corrupt organizations, and form new, small, principled, decentralized organizations.
COOPERATION, NOT COERCION
The death economy is built on coercion. We will build the life economy on cooperation.
We are a tribal species, and we operate best in cooperative tribes. It's only natural for us to peacefully cooperate within our group and with other peaceful groups.
Large federal governments maintain their power through their monopoly on violence. They coerce us to follow their laws, pay their taxes, and fund their wars. It is only once we do not cooperate with centralized governments that we'll be free to cooperate with each other in a peaceful way.
INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SOVEREIGNTY
The time of kings and queens is over. The time of corrupt democracies and bureaucracies is also (almost) over.
It's time for individuals and families to hold the power.
Most here on #Nostr will be familiar with the book, "The Sovereign Individual." While it is definitely possible for individuals to become sovereign in the 21st century, no man is an island. I believe what we're going to build toward is the possibility for individuals, families, and small tribes to be sovereign through the life economy.
It may take a generation or more, but we will get past these violent sovereign nations in time and replace them with a more autonomous, empowered individual and family.
#Bitcoin #Nostr
Well, here goes nothing.
THE DEATH OF "THE DEATH ECONOMY" & THE BIRTH OF "THE LIFE ECONOMY"
What we are experiencing right now is the long, slow death of the "death economy." Outlined in John Perkins' remarkable book, Confessions of an Economic Hitman, the death economy has pillaged the world. The rich have become fewer and richer while the number of poor have increased and become poorer.
The four pillars of the death economy, as Perkins outlined, are:
- Fear
- Debt
- Anxiety over Insufficiency, and
- Divide and Conquer
While it's an uncomfortable truth, it is true that the political, religious, financial, economic, and media leaders of the past century have lorded over society using these nefarious and demoralizing tactics.
The seat of the global empire of the death economy has been the United States of America since the end of WWII. While Americans can take credit for many positive developments for humanity in the time our country has played this role on the global stage, we cannot overlook the dark and evil side of our country.
In his book, Perkins detailed that, "the death economy is driven by the goal that was promoted by a group of economists in the 1970s and 1980s, including Nobel Prize winners Friedrich von Hayek (1974) and Milton Friedman (1976), and can be summarized as 'the only responsibility of business is to maximize short-term owner profits, regardless of the social and environmental costs."
The consequences of this attitude is that the world has been conquered by a small group of people that Perkins calls "the corporatacracy."
What we do next will define our country's legacy.
The opportunity is here to replace the death economy with something more just, fair, and peaceful. The life economy.
If the life economy is the inverse of the death economy, it would be reasonable to suggest that the four pillars of the life economy would be:
- Courage and Love
- Sound Money
- Security in Abundance, and
- Unite and Collaborate
We have all of the tools and knowledge that we need to build this new world. But it will take a critical mass of individuals who will step up and build the life economy with an unshakable commitment to these principles.
Just imagine if the world economy operated with abundance, freedom, and love at it's core instead of lack, debt slavery, and fear.
That's what I intend to fight for in launching this project. I want to live in a world running the software of the life economy. God willing, my children and grandchildren will inherit this world from you and me. It will be a long, hard fight, but we can overcome the death economy and create the life economy.
Let's begin.
#Bitcoin #Nostr
Why Bitcoin?
Because if we don't stand up to fiat governments, banks, and financial institutions they will take everything from us.
We are standing up to totalitarians, that's why #Bitcoin
Thanks I'm checking it out 🤝
Here's Preston's interview with John Perkins
If you discover that an arsonist has burned down a building in your town, you don't invite that person to design and rebuild the thing they destroyed.
You try them and imprison them.
We know that central bankers have burned down our economy. So why we would accept their CBDC?
They are arsonists, and we all know what to do with arsonists.
"There is nothing so threatening to systemic evil as those willing to stand against it regardless of the counsequences."
- James W. Douglass
I gotta give a hat tip to nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z for the recommendation to read "Confessions of an Economic Hitman" by John Perkins. And then for having Mr. Perkins on his show.
What an incredible story and it is a testimony to why we need to rebuild the world on #Bitcoin and freedom tech.
Perkins talks about how he was culpable in building the global "death economy" as an economic hitman for a global consulting firm called MAIN in the 70s and 80s.
The four pillars to the death economy are:
- Fear
- Debt
- Anxiety Over Insufficiency
- Divide and Conquer
What we need to transition to is "the life economy." If I may be so bold, I'd suggest that the four pillars to the life economy could be:
- Love
- Sound Money
- Security In Abundance
- Unite and Collaborate
I have received a rush of creativity since I started reading "Economic Hitman," and have written a ton about what building the life economy could look like. I'm thinking I will start publishing more long form pieces here in the coming weeks.
So thanks for the inspiration, Preston. Let's get to building the life economy everyone 🫡
#Bitcoin is just sitting there, waiting to make billions of people's dreams come true.
So many are afraid that their brightest dreams may come true though.
Confirmed: Bitcoin has tons of practical use, is a great investment vehicle, and is a global money. 🫡
Say no more. #EndTheFed
Sure, criminals can use #Bitcoin. But they can also use cash and the existing fiat payment rails. At least they can't control Bitcoin.
With a CBDC, criminals control the money for everyone, and therefore have the ability to control everyone.
It's digital totalitarianism, and it must be stopped.
You can put me in jail.
You can torture my body.
You could even take my human life.
But you can't steal my #Bitcoin
This is something worth fighting for.
Something worth sacrificing for.
Something worth suffering for.
Even something worth dying for.
THERE IS NO SECOND BEST #Bitcoin
Whatever happens the rest of this chaotic year, I got love for you all.
There are so many heroic individuals in the #bitcoin and #nostr worlds.
I salute you folks 🫡 Keep fighting the good fight.
There comes a time in every man's life where he realizes he needs to start using his brain, his spine, and his balls rather than being led by his heart and his cock all the time.
If you keep letting your life be led by the latter, you end up falling far short of your potential. You become weak, and more easily manipulated.
If you let the former start to guide your actions, you grow into the man you were always meant to be.
That's not to say you should be all head and no heart, to me it's about what guides you the majority of the time.
What do you think nostr:npub1zxp8deh8hk7klvy3fe0cu678cp8lscfx8njvrtjw3cvuqst9adxseahh37
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