I would love to fight this but it is seeming like an inevitability. If you have the means, it’s time to leave the big cities. Sell your houses for what I consider to be an insanely high price (given today’s market) and buy a plot of land with a well for the same money. Once everyone gets on this boat the city houses will be cheap and farm houses expensive. You get bonus points if your country house is over 250 miles from the city.
The death of cash brings a social credit system (linked to corporate control like conspirologist says), and the alternative is a regression to bartering - which will be made illegal. If you live in the country this is possible. A split cord of wood is worth three honey wagon visits. Frozen raspberries trade for fresh honey at about 3:1 pound for pound. Bakers are setting up and now deliver once a week, and they accept Wild game and berries. The weird thing is that we have other “job” jobs, but wondering when they will end...gotta buy flour somehow and that doesn’t grow in the mountains. Fortunately, gold does. The only hurdle for newcomers is overcoming that label - the sooner you move, the newer you aren’t. Alaska is great, by the way.
As a libertarian I think it’s completely fine for tyranny by megacorp because it isn’t the state! Create your own bank, megacorps and society you lazy fuck! Bootstraps!
It’s the same stupid fucking mindset as Fox News neoconservatives believing the number one enemy of the world is “liberals.” Yes, liberals are bad, but the scope of the game is so much bigger. “...but my free market!” “Let the free market decide!” There is no free market in the corportocracy of America. Government and mega corps are in the same bed and are ready to fuck you in the ass as hard as possible to ensure that you abide as a good consumer.
I’m aware. Half of voat still preaches the free market and libertarianism. They get asshurt and refer back to theory whenever you bring up some sort of situation where their ideology turns to shit. Literally just the opposite side of the same coin of communists. They expect humans to be rational actors. Another thing that makes them angry is when you point out that get woke go broke doesn’t work. I’ve yet to see one person show me a megacorp that isn’t doing better than ever before. Their enemy is neoliberal global capital but they’ve been tricked into thinking it’s the useful idiot footsoldiers and that megacorps are secretly wishing for communism. Yeah, maybe in 200 years where there are no more white people and global communism. Right now your enemy is megacorps and only the power of a strong state can stop them. I honestly don’t know what the fuck is wrong with lolberts, they just hold on to their belief that it’s still 1776 and we rules haven’t changed a bit. We have technocracies, global oligarchs. Those that rule us don’t even have to be within 5000 miles of you like they did back then. Conservatives are even more retarded than communists. At least communists think capitalism has some faults whatsoever, libertarians think it’s god and that if just the pesky government would get out of the way everything would be perfect.
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WhyNoDonuts ago
I would love to fight this but it is seeming like an inevitability. If you have the means, it’s time to leave the big cities. Sell your houses for what I consider to be an insanely high price (given today’s market) and buy a plot of land with a well for the same money. Once everyone gets on this boat the city houses will be cheap and farm houses expensive. You get bonus points if your country house is over 250 miles from the city.
The death of cash brings a social credit system (linked to corporate control like conspirologist says), and the alternative is a regression to bartering - which will be made illegal. If you live in the country this is possible. A split cord of wood is worth three honey wagon visits. Frozen raspberries trade for fresh honey at about 3:1 pound for pound. Bakers are setting up and now deliver once a week, and they accept Wild game and berries. The weird thing is that we have other “job” jobs, but wondering when they will end...gotta buy flour somehow and that doesn’t grow in the mountains. Fortunately, gold does. The only hurdle for newcomers is overcoming that label - the sooner you move, the newer you aren’t. Alaska is great, by the way.
Ralemlol ago
As a libertarian I think it’s completely fine for tyranny by megacorp because it isn’t the state! Create your own bank, megacorps and society you lazy fuck! Bootstraps!
This is literally how libertarians think.
xenochrist15 ago
It’s the same stupid fucking mindset as Fox News neoconservatives believing the number one enemy of the world is “liberals.” Yes, liberals are bad, but the scope of the game is so much bigger. “...but my free market!” “Let the free market decide!” There is no free market in the corportocracy of America. Government and mega corps are in the same bed and are ready to fuck you in the ass as hard as possible to ensure that you abide as a good consumer.
Ralemlol ago
I’m aware. Half of voat still preaches the free market and libertarianism. They get asshurt and refer back to theory whenever you bring up some sort of situation where their ideology turns to shit. Literally just the opposite side of the same coin of communists. They expect humans to be rational actors. Another thing that makes them angry is when you point out that get woke go broke doesn’t work. I’ve yet to see one person show me a megacorp that isn’t doing better than ever before. Their enemy is neoliberal global capital but they’ve been tricked into thinking it’s the useful idiot footsoldiers and that megacorps are secretly wishing for communism. Yeah, maybe in 200 years where there are no more white people and global communism. Right now your enemy is megacorps and only the power of a strong state can stop them. I honestly don’t know what the fuck is wrong with lolberts, they just hold on to their belief that it’s still 1776 and we rules haven’t changed a bit. We have technocracies, global oligarchs. Those that rule us don’t even have to be within 5000 miles of you like they did back then. Conservatives are even more retarded than communists. At least communists think capitalism has some faults whatsoever, libertarians think it’s god and that if just the pesky government would get out of the way everything would be perfect.
glennvtx ago
The state is the primary enemy, a strong state will only accelerate the dystopian future.