"And yet another aspect is that the very wealthy pay almost no tax, it's the "middle class" that pays the most. This is part of a design that keeps people impoverished and reliant on the system. People with a strong connection to nature, and production of food and energy, wouldn't need to be subservient to an exploitative corporate control structure that metes out their money, food, water, and livelihood."
Those very wealthy ppl are the ppl who by their superior entrepreneurial genes provide gainful employment for the less-superior.
I have a nice veggie patch,but I can't grow enough to feed us completely...and keeping a
herd of beef in the yard is out of the question.
As to power generation...need i say more?
"Oh but that's way too hard. We can't be bothered to actually take responsibility for ourselves, we're way too dumb and lazy due to our genetic inferiority. Better just to accept exploitation and subservience. We should be grateful to our superiors, for providing our food and security."
GTFO with that weak-minded, weak-willed, self-loathing "we can't do dat, we we todd it" stockholm syndrome, and start DOING WHAT YOU CAN to gain independence from corporate servitude.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6e3CprVTi8
GTFO with that weak-minded, weak-willed, self-loathing "we can't do dat, we we todd it" stockholm syndrome, and start DOING WHAT YOU CAN to gain independence from corporate servitude.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6e3CprVTi8
>>>> People are familiar with the idea of "boycotting" a company that is engaging in unscrupulous practices, but few consider the idea of boycotting the most violently murderous institution on the face of the earth: the United States government, ... <<<<
Good point.
<<<< ... and still less realize the moral necessity to boycott USD. >>>>
Some people want to actively support good companies, and that's typically done with the USD.
Your positions, rhetoric, and "lifestyle" are way too radical. I say it's better to focus on the people's power to curtail bad policy, especially the environment and war.
Good point.
<<<< ... and still less realize the moral necessity to boycott USD. >>>>
Some people want to actively support good companies, and that's typically done with the USD.
Your positions, rhetoric, and "lifestyle" are way too radical. I say it's better to focus on the people's power to curtail bad policy, especially the environment and war.
"Way too radical" wtf does that even mean? Sounds like one of those mean-nothings that you tell yourself to avoid having to admit responsibility.
>Some people want to actively support good companies, and that's typically done with the USD.
There are no "good" corporations. Some are of course better or worse than others, but they all submit to the authority of government, and most of the better ones are heavily taxed.
You don't want to take responsibility for admitting the evil of the monetary system. It's too much for you, despite the facts, so you try to excuse it without even addressing the facts or offering any logic. Just "that's typically what's done". That means exactly shit.
The people's power is solely in its willingness to say "no" to the decrees of the system, especially finding alternatives to fiat currency, tax avoidance/resistance, counter-economic livelihood, and non-consent/non-participation such as refusing to engaging in elections and voting, which have NEVER amounted to any kind of real effectiveness, and despite the "triumphs of democracy" in the world, it continues to slide into ever deepening forms of slavery, severe economic disparity, war, and violence in too many ways to list them all.
Government is vile in principle and of course has only succeeded in enslaving people when you look at the track record. Submitting to the use of its monopolistic currency as the main necessity for our life is among the stupidest and most brainless things that has ever been done by a mass of people.
>Some people want to actively support good companies, and that's typically done with the USD.
There are no "good" corporations. Some are of course better or worse than others, but they all submit to the authority of government, and most of the better ones are heavily taxed.
You don't want to take responsibility for admitting the evil of the monetary system. It's too much for you, despite the facts, so you try to excuse it without even addressing the facts or offering any logic. Just "that's typically what's done". That means exactly shit.
The people's power is solely in its willingness to say "no" to the decrees of the system, especially finding alternatives to fiat currency, tax avoidance/resistance, counter-economic livelihood, and non-consent/non-participation such as refusing to engaging in elections and voting, which have NEVER amounted to any kind of real effectiveness, and despite the "triumphs of democracy" in the world, it continues to slide into ever deepening forms of slavery, severe economic disparity, war, and violence in too many ways to list them all.
Government is vile in principle and of course has only succeeded in enslaving people when you look at the track record. Submitting to the use of its monopolistic currency as the main necessity for our life is among the stupidest and most brainless things that has ever been done by a mass of people.
<way too radical
As I have said before, I don't try to tell people they should disintegrate their lives by trying to live up to the highest standard of purity possible. If not paying your taxes will will result in your imprisonment and the confiscation of your children, then you have to make a judgment call, and taking care of children is priority. I did not 100% disengage cold turkey, that's almost impossible.... I still use USD.
I recognize that this is the compromise I have to make at this time in order to live, but also that it's NOT COOL, and that that compromise needs to be reduced as much as possible with the goal of elimination of dependency upon USD, or ANY corporations altogether. Yes that's "radical", and very difficult to do, but that doesn't stop it from being the truth, or what we should be striving for.
I don't have such a fragile ego that I have to delude myself that my life is beyond reproach morally, or that I can't see the challenge before me to truly achieve a moral life.
As I have said before, I don't try to tell people they should disintegrate their lives by trying to live up to the highest standard of purity possible. If not paying your taxes will will result in your imprisonment and the confiscation of your children, then you have to make a judgment call, and taking care of children is priority. I did not 100% disengage cold turkey, that's almost impossible.... I still use USD.
I recognize that this is the compromise I have to make at this time in order to live, but also that it's NOT COOL, and that that compromise needs to be reduced as much as possible with the goal of elimination of dependency upon USD, or ANY corporations altogether. Yes that's "radical", and very difficult to do, but that doesn't stop it from being the truth, or what we should be striving for.
I don't have such a fragile ego that I have to delude myself that my life is beyond reproach morally, or that I can't see the challenge before me to truly achieve a moral life.
>I say it's better to focus on the people's power to curtail bad policy, especially the environment and war.
Because it's so easy for the people to usurp the policy agenda from the corporations... open your eyes man.
As voluntaryist.com eloquently puts it, and much more diplomatically than I can:
"Voluntaryists are advocates of non-political, non-violent strategies to achieve a free society.
We reject electoral politics, in theory and in practice, as incompatible with libertarian principles.
Governments must cloak their actions in an aura of moral legitimacy in order to sustain their power, and political methods invariably strengthen that legitimacy.
Voluntaryists seek instead to delegitimize the State through education, and we advocate withdrawal of the cooperation and tacit consent on which State power ultimately depends."
Read those last two sentences over and over again and put on your best thinking cap.
Because it's so easy for the people to usurp the policy agenda from the corporations... open your eyes man.
As voluntaryist.com eloquently puts it, and much more diplomatically than I can:
"Voluntaryists are advocates of non-political, non-violent strategies to achieve a free society.
We reject electoral politics, in theory and in practice, as incompatible with libertarian principles.
Governments must cloak their actions in an aura of moral legitimacy in order to sustain their power, and political methods invariably strengthen that legitimacy.
Voluntaryists seek instead to delegitimize the State through education, and we advocate withdrawal of the cooperation and tacit consent on which State power ultimately depends."
Read those last two sentences over and over again and put on your best thinking cap.
Dude
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