The lockdown is creating a second Great Depression. Many are already foreseeing this. San Diego already has a higher unemployment that the original Great Depression. All the signs are around us, but few realize it. Yet, the lockdown is being persisted. It should never been implemented. But why was it implemented? Was it to “save lives”? Was it to unburden […]
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Modern societies are built on flawed axioms for how to live. They require increasing populations to sustain welfare, social security and old age pensions. If a population doesn’t have ~2.1 children on average, then it begins to fall into population decline. Fertility matters to centralized authority planners in order to keep their economy propped up and growing. To keep going, […]
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The word economics is related to management. But management of what? Is it only concerning the management of production, distribution and consumption of goods and services? Or is there more to the word economics? Etymology Here are some etymological origins of the word economy: from Greek oikonomikos, oikonomia “household management” from oikos “house, abode, dwelling” + nomos “manage, custom, law, […]
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Someone sells. Someone buys. What is someone selling? What is someone buying? Do we sell? Do we buy? These can be hard choices to make, in more ways than you might think. Everything that we have created exists because people buy into it and create more of it. Someone sells a product or service, and people buy into it. If […]
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I am forced into economic survivability according to existing opportunities for advancement within a framework which requires me to continually pay for survival, preventing freedom from money in all forms. I am introduced into life through the lives of others, my parents. I have no land, maybe they do. Apart from what they give me, I cannot “own” anything myself […]
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How do you think I got to where I am? Time. It doesn’t happen overnight. There isn’t a sudden “awakening” into understanding all of this about reality in one shot. All our time is normally spent on the job, driving, commuting, cleaning, taking care of living, care for our children, vacations to escape the regular life we live, TV and […]
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The scientific efficiency of production was able to provide more time for others things. Division of labor, compartmentalization, hierarchy, and co-dependence was further ingrained in our way of living. This conditioning was further deepened with the progression of the scientific efficiency in social sciences, i.e. social engineering through a scientific dictatorship. We were promised more time with this efficiency, and […]
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Here we are in society, with the requirements to engage in some form of economic survivability. 99% of the options are limitations of our potential. They are required cogs in a machine for it to run as it currently runs. We are then required to take up a position in the cog, after we are trained and indoctrinated, through outcome-based […]
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Words. They shape our perceptual reality. Capital (etymology link) from Latin capitalis “of the head,” hence “capital, chief, first,” from caput (genitive capitis) “head”, from PIE *kaput- “head”. Meaning “main, principal, chief, dominant, most important” is from early 15c. What does “capital” (chief, first, principal, most important, etc.) have to do with “capital”-ism? Why use the word “capitalism” to define […]
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