Going Galt virtually
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
It has become painfully obvious to me that we are no longer in control of our government. The government uses the monetary system as a means of control as the value of the money has no meaning when they print more of it as needed. I come to this obvious conclusion due to the fact that the government creates an order of magnitude more money than it collects in taxes. Why collect taxes at all, the government can just devalue the money we have to pay its bills. They collect taxes to keep us under control, running on the hamster wheel of life. With this money they create, they are using it to weaken us, the money to Ukraine, the money handed to countries that wish us ill.
Has anyone contemplated a modern-day version of “Going Galt” and what it would look like? I think something like this is necessary in response to a stolen election this November.
Objectives should include:
- Not participating through withholding your production from the government.
- Not participating by sequestering your wealth from the government
- Build an alternative economy, producing goods and services within.
- Securing our autonomy from the government.
It has become painfully obvious to me that we are no longer in control of our government. The government uses the monetary system as a means of control as the value of the money has no meaning when they print more of it as needed. I come to this obvious conclusion due to the fact that the government creates an order of magnitude more money than it collects in taxes. Why collect taxes at all, the government can just devalue the money we have to pay its bills. They collect taxes to keep us under control, running on the hamster wheel of life. With this money they create, they are using it to weaken us, the money to Ukraine, the money handed to countries that wish us ill.
Has anyone contemplated a modern-day version of “Going Galt” and what it would look like? I think something like this is necessary in response to a stolen election this November.
Objectives should include:
- Not participating through withholding your production from the government.
- Not participating by sequestering your wealth from the government
- Build an alternative economy, producing goods and services within.
- Securing our autonomy from the government.
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I moved out of a state whose name can't be said... I moved to an obviously, free state with likeminded people. Started two business...
If everyone cut their expenses by 10% to help cut government intake, it would mean they have less money with which to control us.
Another thing is to stop hiring companies to do work for us whenever possible. Deal with individuals through craigs list and offer up and pay with cash whenever practical.
Call it passive resistance in preparation for active resistance later when the government is less
powerful. No one can object to cutting expenses
There is NO better system. Unfortunately you can control it by controlling money and taxes.
Income tax is slavery. And it's graduated which should be a problem for our constitution... But, hey... Whatevs.
We created Obese Poor People. You don't get more successful than that! (Health, Fit, Poor People not needing T2D drugs, but shhhh)
The expense of printing a one dollar bill is, oddly, EXACTLY THE SAME COST AS PRINTING A $5, OR A $10, OR A $20, OR A $... (you get the message)
Minting a GOLD or SILVER Coin has actual expense relative to the VALUE of the currency.
“I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
This is embodied in Ayn Rand’s quote above, with every other economic philosophy, you are subject to living your life for another. Sorry for loading the first paragraph but I truly think laissez-faire capitalism is he only solution that allow man to thrive, please enlighten me if I’m wrong.
P.S. we don’t have laissez-faire capitalism, we have socialism heading to something no one wants.
Throw the guilty in prison for life in solitary confinement with cornmeal gruel for 3 meals per day.
GET BACK ON THE GOLD STANDARD AND STAY THERE!!!
Capitalism is a form of serfdom where they allow some people up to the second tier for improving the lots of those below them.
But at no point will those people become 1st tier. Because that tier is the same as it always has been. You can hang out with them. But you are in a CASTE system.
It's quite genius...
I cried a little!
Tor net has its flaws as well, government has nodes, if you select an inbound government node, your toast. VPN are a joke but in your first post you spoke about non-centralized, or distributed architectures, this is a saving technology. I have been thinking about a process to utilize SignalR (or equivalent WinSockets client) and something like a multi-master replication to share posts on an open-source client. I don't have enough time to build it...
- Graphene OS for Smart phones - https://grapheneos.org/
- xcp-ng as a open source virtualization platform - https://xcp-ng.org/
- Linux Mint to replace the desktop OS - https://www.linuxmint.com/
I'm working towards a private cloud process and a company to promote it. Interested more on Cloudflare, why?
my computer sure cost me...
Here are some suggestions:
- set up a home server with your email, calendar, file storage, etc, (nextcloud) or alternatively use something like protonmail / tutanota (encrypted email)
- use anonymized cryptocurrencies (monero / zcash) to make payments, or gold / silver if physical presence is possible and verification devices are on hand
- use decentralized search engine (presearch.com, yacy.net)
- help build community mesh networks in your area (guifi.net, freifunk)
- use open source software and contribute to its development, such as switching to using linux on your pc and installing stock android on your phone, use firefox or chromium instead of chrome
- use onion routing software (tor / brave)
- use decentralized services (openbazaar / bisq.network)
- use end-to-end encrypted, preferably anonymized or federated messaging software (signal.org, getsession.org, matrix.org)
- use decentralized social networks (mastodon / diaspora)
- don't use websites that are on cloudflare (block cloudflare browser extension)
I would be happy to help anyone with questions about pursuing the above.
I recommend using onion routing software and not revealing identifying information.
By the way, taxes are armed robbery / extortion under the threat of death or imprisonment. Nobody can reasonably claim you have to pay them for their 'services' they 'provide' by force from which you cannot opt out, or opt to purchase from a competitor (because they outlawed competition, lol). What a bunch of fucking thugs.
Money printing is theft.
The only way to get rid of these parasites is to trick them into killing each other.
This is what we are rebelling against, because it takes unusual will power to not seek the power over others.
Google (and the fedgov) are watching and listening and recording.
We would have to have a way to communicate among ourselves, without participation from the government or uninvited people.
We would have to have another form of money that cannot be traced, or circumvented.
We would need a way to argue contracts to resolve disputes.