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Last Notes npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Damusā new āwho to followā feature is as offensive as YouTube or Netflix or Amazonās watch recommendations. Algorithms that guide thought inhibit personal exploration, and consolidate opinions into a unified groupthink. This is the proof of stake modelā¦those who have the most (dollars or followers) encourage governing algorithms to boost their product selectively over the products of others. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius In Frederick Douglassā Narrative, he describes being struck by the poverty of the northern people that he met upon his arrival in Newport. His conclusion was that without slavery as he had known in the south, there can be no wealth. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I think about this every time TSA is feeling me up at the airport. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius āThe credit system, which has its focal point in the allegedly national banks and the big money-lenders and usurers that surround them, is one enormous centralization and gives this class of parasites a fabulous power not only to decimate the industrial capitalists periodically but also to interfere in actual production in the most dangerous manner - and this crew know nothing of production and have nothing at all to do wish it.ā npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Sometimes I like to throw out a quotation without a citationā¦ an excellent thought with which most people interested in delivering humanity from enslavement by the financial industry will agree. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-232-is-the-us-a-failed-state-with-michael-hudson/ npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Have you ever read Orwellās intro to Animal Farm that wasnāt published with the book? npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I had a client with a Bitcoin tattoo this morning. The conversation quickly went from the business at handā¦to the business of saving mankind. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I disagree with the vaccine comment tooā¦ but I donāt lose site of an incredible message because of an unrelated opinion that I disagree with. If I shared my views on meat, people would probably unfollow me and assume that everything else I say is tainted. Ideas donāt work like that. Compartmentalization and association of ideas is a logical fallacy. Ideas need to be evaluated on their individual merits. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius I canāt wait, Professor npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius #The Way of the Superior Man npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Ahā¦new cars. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius If youāre 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 āThe core of anarchist tradition is that power is always illegitimate, until it proves itself to be legitimateā¦ npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius š« npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius āThe 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, ā 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.ā 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 canāt be repaid, historically wonāt. And it shouldnāt. 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 peoplesā income into rents: home insurance, mortgage interest, realtor fees, construction costs, inspection fees, etc. As long as the people believe that real estate āalways go up,ā itās 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-yearās labor, and still eat. Now heās 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 problemās architects who benefit from the manās complicity. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Air is a resource commons. npub169yu4d6xl8a6d4xvfyhstjdxr0cc7qtfq5pch5kwv4k2wkapa3pq8v2thg Aurelius Itās not what you make. Itās 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 youāre saying, but I am delighted that you are saying it!
