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The End Of Capitalism

3 May 2023 2 minute read 0 comments TyreP

With the rise of artificial intelligence and the ever increasing improvements to robots, the end of capitalism is nigh. The reason for this is simple, without the need for human labor, there won't be any (or at least very many) jobs for the normal i...

The Treadmill on Which We Run and the Rags to Riches Myth

26 Apr 2023 6 minute read 5 comments Great White Snark

Do you want to know how to be rich? Well, who the fuck doesn't, right? It seems that there are two ways to do so: Write a book of instructions/steps to follow on how to be rich and sell it to millions, if not billions, of desperate and gullible schm...

Your [Fiat] Money or Your Life: The Tyranny of Global [Traditional] Finance (Preface)

11 Apr 2023 5 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark

My last post on this subject left off just before the preface to the book. In this one, I'm going to set out my thoughts thereon, as I read it. Preface This work is openly hostile to the world of neo-liberal finance and its mainstream thinking. Despi...

Your Money or Your Life: The Tyranny of Global [Traditional] Finance (Continued)

4 Apr 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

Since there's clearly interest and it's worth my while to continue, this post picks up where the previous one left off. As noted, I don't necessarily agree with the opinions presented by Toussant. He makes some very strong assertions, for which I hop...

Your Money or Your Life: The Tyranny of Global [Traditional] Finance

2 Apr 2023 6 minute read 5 comments Great White Snark

What follows is a synopsis of the book (of the same title) by Eric Toussant, first published in 1998, a book a friend suggested I read, after her reading my prior post. I can only assume that she thinks my reading it will give me something I can use...

For Life or Money: The Problem with Being Me, a Slave to the Wage

2 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark

The key problem with me is that I have not solved my biggest problems and I likely never will. That's because I don't believe that I can, on any real level, to be honest. Life and the world has failed to kill me, and so have I. Despite my best effort...

Reflections from a Farm Part 3: What is Money for?

28 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Ahhhh.. this is really the life, being a guest on a farm! As I had mentioned before, I think the rural/farm life is just too much hard work and stress for me... so, I guess that is why I don't do it! But it is a real pleasure to drop by to visit...

Reflections from a Farm Part 2: Money Flow and Debt

26 Jan 2023 3 minute read 0 comments bengy

  Running a farm seems to take a lot of capital to start up, to invest in equipment, land, crops, livestock... it seems to be an endless array of things that need to be paid for upfront, and then paid off over time. Well, it just seems to be exact...

Every Business Is Crying About Needing Workers, But Nobody Is Paying More

20 Dec 2022 2 minute read 2 comments Liberty John

North Dakota Needs People My company has a location in North Dakota. There is a lot of work to do there. Several employees quit, plus a few got fired. So they invited us to go there temporarily with significant extra pay as an incentive. I volunteer...

Murray Rothbard Collection

22 Nov 2022 1 minute read 0 comments LibertasBella

War is mass murder. Conscription is slavery. Taxation is robbery.” - Murray Rothbard Austrian School economist Murray Rothbard believed the private sector could do anything the government does – only better. He didn’t just promote anarcho-capitalism...