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Last Notes npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Have you ever read Orwell’s intro to Animal Farm that wasn’t published with the book? npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I had a client with a Bitcoin tattoo this morning. The conversation quickly went from the business at hand…to the business of saving mankind. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I can’t wait, Professor npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius #The Way of the Superior Man npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Ah…new cars. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius If you’re trying to flee your country, KYC vs Non-KYC could be the difference between safe emigration and indefinite holding in a cell until capital-gains is paid. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius “The core of anarchist tradition is that power is always illegitimate, until it proves itself to be legitimate… npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius 🫂 npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius “The man who is possessed of wealth, who lolls on his sofa or rolls in his carriage, cannot judge the wants or feelings of the day-laborer. The government we mean to erect is intended to last for ages. The landed interest, at present, is prevalent; but in process of time, when we approximate to the states and kingdoms of Europe, — when the number of landholders shall be comparatively small, through the various means of trade and manufactures, will not the landed interest be overbalanced in future elections, and unless wisely provided against, what will become of your government? In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests, and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability.” npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Nationalism and patriotism, not ideology, suffice to control the American population and gain its support. Patriotism requires no collective self-examination. It needs only a spontaneous response to whatever threat is sold to the population npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Real patriotism is a commitment to the wellness of all fellow creatures. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Chris Hedges: Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Most important is the success that the finance industry has had in convincing the populous that prompt debt repayment is next to Godliness. Never before was virtue tied up with debt repayment. But now, people are expected to impoverish themselves, eat twinkies, live in boxes, and sell kidneys to repay debts. A debt that can’t be repaid, historically won’t. And it shouldn’t. Excessive interest is usury, and excessive charges from monopolies that corner people into participating with a one-sided loan, are unjust. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius The goal of the FIAT industries is to shift an ever larger percentage of the peoples’ income into rents: home insurance, mortgage interest, realtor fees, construction costs, inspection fees, etc. As long as the people believe that real estate “always go up,” it’s easy to encourage them to drink from the well of ever-indebtedness. The virtue of home ownership is key, and an ever-explaining money supply is key. There was a time that a man could buy a house for 2-year’s labor, and still eat. Now he’s on the hook for 30-40 years and is buying his house 2-3 times. This is debt peonage, and Karl Marx, Adam Smith, JS Mill, Bertrand Russell, Noam Chomsky, and Sheldon Wolin all said (in different ways) that debt peonage is slavery. The difference is, that the masses are aware of slavery and so they fight it. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Dogmatic market worship and government hatred are symptoms of a person who recognizes that a problem is systemic, but who accepts the explanations give to him by the problem’s architects who benefit from the man’s complicity. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Air is a resource commons. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius It’s not what you make. It’s what you keep. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius What is progressive taxation? npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I love seeing Russian and Chinese posts on Nostr. I have no idea what you’re saying, but I am delighted that you are saying it!
