16 days ago13 points(+0/-0/+13Score on mirror)2 children
When you realise the entire system is predicated on infinite economic growth, so the (((governemtn))) feels no shame in printing and borrowing more and more
And it's what causes the marketing and buying attitudes. No house is big enough. No car is nice enough. More. More! So people go into debt to buy the five bedroom McMansion even though they have 1 or no kids. Imagine never being content. Always wanting more shit. More useless cheap shit made in China.
16 days ago7 points(+0/-0/+7Score on mirror)1 child
Imagine taking all the money spent on disposible plastic junk and spending it on a piece of high-quality, hand crafted furniture meant tonlast 100 years.
We couldn't afford fashionable clothing or Transformer toys... I knew shoes were more important and toys were never a consideration so I never asked.
All I had was lego.
That was more than enough.
Each Christmas I'd ask for a small set of gears and cogs (Technical Lego).
One year my parents bought me a battery powered lego motor.
I built film projectors, physical mechanical arcade games based on Spy Hunter, an automatic cat feeder, but my passion was attempting to perfect a bipedal walking machine with counter-balance movements so it was able to complete steps standing on one small foot and carry the weight of the motor's battery-pack.
I have no words to describe how much fun I had.
If discover an engineering design problem with what I was building, I'd go for a walk in the sun to do some lateral thinking. 'Happy memories.
Setting ridiculous goals with enormous constrains on parts and motor power (which required gearing) opened worlds of glorious creativity.
16 days ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
So very true, but the article is from Unscientific American and from 2021 which means that the only reason they were telling the truth was to use an amount of truth to usher in Agenda 2030 for the WEF. It's still Agenda 2030 BTW, rebranded under the new masters.
16 days ago1 point(+0/-0/+1Score on mirror)1 child
Very likely. The truth is that we live in a Boom/ Bust paradigm. The snakes controlling our economy will boost stocks and tell working class folks, "Better get in on this while you can!" and then pull the rug out from under them. I was really tempted to buy Ferrari stock back in April, only to watch it climb and climb and climb ... until this week when it dropped below it's April price with no warning.
All that value compiled over the last six month, GONE! Was I tempted to buy this time? A little, but not enough. I'd rather stick to CD's where the bank owes me my interest no matter what and I don't have to pay trade fees or capital gains.
There's a lot of history and it's long but the history is important. Decentralization is not the gem in this writing tho. He gets around to explaining why things can't be fixed and why the overlords won't be able to make it work for themselves. It's game on soon enough. That is also why they want Venezuela. It's not the oil per se, it's the financialization of that oil that eclipses its actual value and allows them to kick the can down the road for another fifteen years, maybe, lol. Nothing works out as planned and the young author is wise enough not to go there. They lost Russia (so far) which is the last great prize.