More friends like this please 🫂💜🙏🏼

Ok, 3rd time lucky. I have books to read. No more #nostr rabbit holes for tonight 😅 nostr:note1x3r0ac55fnysceq2fhqze8vf0r66v0zz2djh9yxlzscumcrrxnjswjtfat

I loved this reasoning from a colleague, it unknowingly describes the need for Bitcoin and FOSS (free and open-source software) and OSH (Open-source hardware).

"Theodore Kaczynski's ideas are of special importance today, in a period of aggressive "digitalization" policies.

He not only opened the honeypot of ideological subversion (exposing how the fallacies of progressivism operate at the psychological level), he opened the great honeypot of technological subversion.

Here is my chaotic perspective on the matter

Civilization appeases the masses with food, shelter and entertainment (bread and circuses). The meek citizens depend on the state apparatus to survive, most of them are indebted for decades for living in pile-up substandard housing, forgetting other basic skills, denaturalizing themselves as citizens, settling under state plans of urbanism distributed in expensive "property titles", subjected to speculation. To obtain food, household appliances, or titles they are coerced to obtain "legal tender" as the only means of payment allowed. The source of fiat money offered by the system is the "regulated professions". The time saved by the washing machine is given to the system. The official curricula fragment knowledge, bureaucratize and control the "regulated professions", where competences are vetoed according to title, with no possibility of escape the tax agency confiscates at its whim taxing the trade, restricting the use of technologies, energy and alternative management of productive means. And if not, a fine.

There comes a point of regulatory escalation in which the system does not provide sufficient fiat or credibility to obtain the above three in reasonable quantity/quality. For this reason, the state apparatus sharpens its nose in search of gobbling up the liquid to become bigger. More revenue means more taxation and a considerable increase in data traffic, increasing the fiscal harassment on the population. Cell phones, smartphones, pocket screens allow this drift of Chinese-style population control. Worms, Netflix and metaverse.

The alternative to this dystopia is to regain control of technology (means of production), natural competences and control of currency, using technology as a means and not as the end of progress. An example would be rural self-sufficiency. There it makes sense to use small screens to monitor the perimeter by CCTV.”

Simple thesis on the state

The state mainly provides the following services:

- roads and public infrastructure (public buildings, monuments, parks)

- public health

- security (police, army and intelligence services, judicial system)

- public education

- social benefits (retirement, sick leave, disability).

It should be noted that these services may vary from country to country, but in particular I am talking about European countries where the state has a monopoly on these services. For example, although the state offers public health care, a citizen can opt for private health care, but in practice, given the little purchasing power left to the citizen after paying taxes, it is unlikely that the citizen has the economic capacity to access private services, which in practice gives the state a monopoly on this service as there is no demand for services offered by a third party, which leads to a lack of competitiveness.

On the other hand, there are services that the state directly has a monopoly on, such as security, since in Europe the state prevents you from defending yourself by not having the right to possess weapons, and legally self-defense is penalized. In Europe if a thief enters your house you can not shoot him or you go to prison, you can not hit and injure him because the thief could denounce you, therefore, in practice, you have to wait for the police to come, only they can exercise violence.

The rest of the services that people use are private, be it housing, vehicles, banks, clothes, food, leisure, investments, engineering, lawyers, and any service you can think of throughout your life. In addition, all services offered by the state are also offered by private companies, such as highways, education, security in the case of private security agencies, health care or pensions themselves.

Although the services offered by the state are ridiculous in number compared to the amount of private services that people use in their daily lives, the state makes us believe that the services that the state offers cannot be offered privately and more efficiently when with the exception of the judicial system the rest are also offered privately, even armies (Wagner, Blackwater), but the saddest thing is that in Europe the state takes more than 50% of the GDP, that is, the money that its citizens have earned in a year, in the payment of these services.

It is a discourse that is not logical in its formulation and from an economic point of view does not hold, it is simply a robbery.

Summary: The state steals more than 50% of your wealth by offering you shitty services.