The pitchforks are coming

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Originally Posted by Greenbeanz

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Originally Posted by Gandalf

I can sense traumatic things happening and it is the accumulation of a variety of things that will likely hit in sequence. The thing with the super rich is that they don't contribute towards society. They suck out far more than they put back and certainly so on a comparative basis and they don't really produce anything. Financialisation is a case in point. It is making money from money or else expanding debt for poor people. The rich go straight to the Central banks for handouts and money grows money, but the poor go to loan sharks like Wonga as they cannot afford to pay their bills (which are 50% more expensive than half a decade ago despite wages going up single digits if you are lucky) and live in spirals of debt. If the elite do produce anything it is typically unethical (Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, etc) and based on giving your data to the government and using slave labour.

We are living in a world where nations are falling heavily into debt, letting people think debt is normal and yet continue to worship finance at the expense of practically everyone as they get free money and pass the inflation onto you. Instead of addressing any of the issues the governments expand the police state and are now going to install street lights that monitor conversations. I mean, really. People of course should piss on these street lights and carry out a variety of other noble acts. If the government can arm terrorists and bail out banks, then the least you should get from it is the freedom to assault a lamp post.

There are seven billion people in this world and in 40 years it will double. Forgetting all the jazz about corruption, the thing that set the Middle East off was food prices. The government keeps talking about deflation, but anyone in the real world knows that it is quite the opposite if you use traditional metrics of inflation. Food inflation (along with transport, taxes, home prices, energy) is rampant and you are only going to see it unravel more and more as the population expands, immigration remains unchecked, oil runs dryer, and weather more irrational. People in the West have been sheltered for a long time and 30 years of mis-management is finally going to come home. Inflation has traditionally been exported, but now it rules supreme everywhere.

The key is to adapt ones values and not worship finance, but to turn away from globalisation and instead towards decentralisation and to local communities. Debt, consumption and worship of finance should instead give way to self control, moderation, and a simple appreciation for farming. More people should move to the countryside and grow food and enjoy simple pleasures. The rat race has nowhere else to go.

What he said.

And Bartering would force a different way.

Ill swap you six trucks of pumpkins, ten nursing stations and a new infrastructure with a new head of state, if you simply disarm all your war heads ;D