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2023-10-13: The Week in Review, not that I think anyone cares

13 Oct 2023 2 minute read 6 comments Great White Snark $0.22

The last few days to a week have been a bit 50/50, TBH. On the one hand, I'm a bit glum about coming regulations in ZAF that are going to make it even more difficult for me to remain in the cryptosphere unless I just HODL my crypto until I can move t...

Does Earning Fiat Money Under Capitalism Diminish Our Moral Cleanliness?

6 Oct 2023 7 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark $0.26

That's the gist of the question somebody asked me in a chat group, then was surprised by the length of my answer (which is expanded upon below): Frankly, as questions on morality go, that's a difficult one to answer definitively. (I even started read...

Heartless When I'm Here

27 Sep 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Great White Snark $0.13

You say I have no heart,No staying power, no motivation.Ah, alas, alack, sir;You are mistaken.I have no heart for this,only for this.Your artifice of glass and steel,A temple to money,Moves me not.For all its height,It has not pith nor momentIn my mi...

Private property

15 Sep 2023 1 minute read 0 comments fmiren $0.42

Private property is at the core of the liberty and civilization itself. Friedrich Hayek in his "The Fatal Conceit" notes the historical pattern: if central authorities cannot keep themselves from suppressing the freedom for their citizens by abusing...

The Myster of Capital. Part 2

11 Jul 2023 2 minute read 0 comments fmiren $0.24

For the first part of the article, go to: https://www.publish0x.com/real-world-assets/the-mystery-of-capital-xddoxdn     Dead capital Contrary to what you might think, the poor of the Third World save. A lot actually. Per de Soto’s and his research t...

The Mystery of Capital

10 Jul 2023 3 minute read 1 comment fmiren $0.33

“The Mystery of Capital” by Hernando de Soto is an amazing book. It seeks to answer the question, “Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else”, which is also its subtitle. The question, as you can imagine, is too complex...

Tonight, in "Why You Don't Pick a Fight with A Honey Badger and Walk Away": A German Doofus

12 Jun 2023 6 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark $0.23

"As long as there is somebody who can print money and you are all just focused on money, not health, there will be no peace on earth. If you wanna be healthy, connect." — A German doofus whom felt the need to criticize me (on my own damn post, nog a...

Nowhere is Safe from the Tyranny of Global Capitalist Finance and Consumption

5 Jun 2023 8 minute read 3 comments Rorschach's Journal $0.35

Once again, I have had the pleasure of reading the thoughts of my Iranian correspondent. Here's what he wrote tonight. (It gets pretty indignant and heated, in case you need a warning for emotive/inflammatory language.) As always, the words in quotes...

Permaculture and the change of the operating system

18 May 2023 16 minute read 8 comments SirGerardThe1st $1.05

Image by G J Whitby from Pixabay    The capitalist system in which we have lived for more than 200 years, which is the result of mixing in a shaker the feudal system of distribution of privileges by a king to his lords that lasted more than 1,000 yea...

"The Fatal Conceit" by Hayek

5 May 2023 1 minute read 0 comments fmiren $0.23

Some thoughts fafter reading "The Fatal Conceit" by Hayek: Private property is at the core of the liberty and civilization itself. Hayek notes the historical pattern: if central authorities cannot keep themselves from suppressing the freedom for thei...