What a success for corporate America that it can convince a super well-educated man that he should trade his life to acquire a thing that is being marketed to him.

My friend hates his job, is getting fat, is losing his hair, and just rolled in with a new Rivian.

What kind of reasoning is this?

“I work hard, so I deserve an awesome car.”

What if you had an adequate car, worked less hard, and kept your hair?

Established market “authorities” will always seek a legal structure that provides them a competitive advantage and closes the door behind them.

#bitcoin evens the playing field

“Only fluency across the boundaries can provide a clear view of the world as it really is.”

Edward O Wilson. Consilience

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The most powerful governments can certainly solve homeless. We have all seen them create a trillion dollars with a keystroke….which goes to the corporations and the billionaire class while the masses get a higher cost of living and $1200 checks.

The government chooses not to solve homeless with the fraction of that number that it would require…200billion. All exploited and miserable classes serve as labor for the rich. The prison industrial complex thrives on an impoverished class of minorities. The police system thrives on controlling the destitute. The tax money that props up these systems is funneled into the pockets of the private corporations that run these prisons, builds their walls, and sells them guns.

Jesus came to forgive debts, not sins. The original meaning of the Lord’s Prayer in Hebrew and Greek was “Forgive us our debts.” When he unrolled the scroll of Isaiah in the synagogue and declared that he “came to proclaim the year of the Lord,” he spoke of “deror” or debt cancellation. He advocated for the tradition of the Jubilee year which was brought from Babylonia into Judaism, and which served to restore balance and relieve debt slaves and their families from indefinite servitude to lending classes.

There is a fine line between lending with interest and usurious lending. And society is blind to that line. We do not defend the public against aggressive lending tactics, against loans out of which one cannot bankrupt themselves, against debtor prisons, against compounding rates that cannot be paid.

If a debt cannot be paid, it should not be paid. We must hold lenders responsible for unjust loans. The morality attributed to adequate repayment of debts is contrived for us by the lending class. There is no morality in repaying a debt…but there may well be debt peonage, wage slavery, and inadequate provisions for one’s family.

The US has an incredibly extensive history of using gangs and local militias to foment insurrection and undermine government policies that it finds unfit for its corporate interests. Usually these appear when a leftist government comes into power and tries to enact policies that limit the sale of resources or public utilities to foreign corporations (US corporations), or that tries to push back on austerity measures imposed upon the country by US banks through the IMF. How dare the governments of third world countries consider that their resources should belong to their own people?

All this is possible when one controls the greatest military and the world’s banking system.

#Bitcoin #Peru #Honduras #Guatemala #Libya #Cuba #Chile

https://medium.com/backyard-theology/an-open-letter-from-jesus-christ-to-the-church-d04df320a7b6

Newsflash: poverty is a systemic issue, not just a matter of individual effort. So maybe try showing some compassion and empathy instead of judgment and contempt.

"..we have reached a new level of deception, one that convinces us to do whatever it takes to promote a corrupt system that widens the rich-poor gap through fear, debt, and policies that constantly expand materialist consumption and advocate dividing and conquering anyone who appears to oppose us. These deceptions will lead to our own destruction.”

John Perkins

There is no left-right conflict inherent in the system.

There is only top-bottom conflict, and a dialogue controlled by the top with a purpose of fomenting resentment between the suffering masses below.

The central bank was started by bankers, using subversive politics against a public and against a government that would have never accepted a wolf if not shod in sheeps’ clothing

Satoshi told us that Bitcoin is “peer-to-peer.” Centralized exchanges are vestiges of the traditional financial system applied to a method of exchange that doesn’t need them. They are walking dinosaurs.

The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes though life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason.

Bertrand Russell

Agree.

Financial parasites invest heavily to convince the people that they are part of the real economy. To shift money from one place to another and extract a service fee is not a contribution to the economy. Interest is not value created. Stock buybacks and associated stock growth is no sign of increased production.

The shift from industrial capitalism to finance capitalism is a shift back into feudal society.

Read: “Killing The Host”

-Michael Hudson

Agree.

Financial parasites invest heavily to convince the people that they are part of the real economy. To shift money from one place to another and extract a service fee is not a contribution to the economy. Interest is not value created. Stock buybacks and associated stock growth is no sign of increased production.

The shift from industrial capitalism to finance capitalism is a shift back into feudal society.

The myth of perpetual growth is a siren song to the masses, who want to believe that they can have a better life. Yet this belief serves to shift rents to the elites who peddle it.

Preachers of perpetual growth don’t mention that the definition of GDP bloats over time to include non-productive financial services, that quality of life cannot include access to things and forget that greater and greater percentages of people’s incomes and working lives must be sacrificed to access them, and most importantly, that perpetual compound growth within a closed system of limited resources (Earth) is an ecological impossibility.

Yes and no. I left that out because the myth really is that the economy grows every year…always has and always will. If I inserted a more targeted phrase, it would be “economic gains and productivity always go up.”