Ironic, most of the working class.... they became the slaves for the Industrial revolution until today, after all.🤯
And the 4th soon....
I understand this unwanted outcome originated, when close knit independants had to compete with larger plantations.
So we need to encourage financially smaller producers.
Thinking about the problem and solution a while back, I designed a low labour auto farming design land dwelling, with fish and water, interlocked together in a fibonaci style providing transport.
Land to go with your title of ownership as a share of the land.
Birth till death , no removal, no selling or buying, only transfers to family.
You would also need a secure, independant, local money system, to stop the gradual, capitalist creep
Independant local private peer to peer money or independant ledger system, based on local resource costs. (video plan c).
Thankyou for sharing your studies,
fantastic narration and accuracy.👍
I believe it's very important, to have alternatives to what may be planned for the masses next, by the techno billionaire Class, digital ID slave owners.
All ideas and plans to avoid this next transition, are to be encouraged, for a brighter future.
Hello, Michael and thank you for reading and responding. You're asking important questions and our goals are certainly aligned. My first intention was to write a book on the solution, as I saw it, called A 2020 Vision: the Economics of Community. Back in 2012, I bought the domain a2020vision.org. But what I discovered is that without understanding the problems at a deep level, the solution didn't matter to people. They were asking different questions like 'How can we distribute money equally?' when you and I know it's really about land and its ownership.
The next chapter is The Short Eventful Life of Sovereign Money and goes into Ben Franklin's scrip model. It solved the problem of encouraging small producers and independent livelihoods with a secure and local money system. It's what my caret system is based on, which I introduce in the last section. The only other sovereign money system I'm aware of is Feder's that was the basis for National Socialism. It took a World War and global propaganda machine to erase that.
My system is a network of commonwealth banks that have the exclusive right to issue mortgages AND the local credit to repay them, which I call a caret ^. The collective mortgages are distributed monthly to all 'commoners' as dividends for locally produced food, wellcare, education and home improvements. The commonwealth sets the tax on the caret and the exchange rate to favor local producers and consumers. It fosters home ownership for those born there or LT residents, and encourages small local businesses and small local landlords.
Essentially, it takes the model you're looking at for families and extends it to the community, so there's flexibility and mobility but it still favors families staying together. Within commonsense rules that prevent extraction or monopoly, each commonwealth determines their own system after modeling it in an online simulation game.
I've been talking with Mark Alexander, also on this thread, who's in the process of programming an app to model the caret system. We're looking to set up my retrometro.com domain (or a 2020vision) so that people can design the neighborhoods they'd like to see. Isaac Middle has a high-falutin' degree in Urban Planning and is willing to help with it.
I'd love to see you design your fibonacci style land-water farm-dwelling commune for the site! It sounds like a great idea. I fully agree that we need to be planning now for what we want, because what THEY want is certainly in motion. Thanks again.
I was an earth-scratcher for about eight years, with my ex-wife in Vermont. We had a pretty large growing area for a two-person operation: four greenhouses, a couple of planted acres, several hundred tomato plants, hundreds of feet of rows of corn, potatoes, squashes, greens, you name it. It was a lot of work, and we did manage to grow enough that we never had to buy vegetables at grocery stores. We also cut our own trees for firewood. My wife had four looms, so it was theoretically possible we could have made our own clothes from scratch. But we still had to buy in things like dairy and grains, and we also bought yarn for the looms, so we weren't close to self-sufficient.
I suspect that in the old pre-industrial days of Vermont, many more people did this kind of work, but also depended on each other for an exchange of goods. So my neighbor might have cows or sheep, while I have the vegetables, wood, and woven products. There aren't a lot of people doing this kind of thing in Vermont now; we're much more dependent on mega-farms far away.
You lived the question I've asked, Mark: Can you change the system by escaping it or only escape by changing it? Vermont may have been like the 'rugged Massachusetts farmer wringing niggardly rewards from the sweat of his brow in the hard soil.' But I think Vermont soil is much nicer.
We were on a fairly rocky slope, so our soil wasn't so great, so we kept having to add things like manure to it. Thankfully the previous owner of the land had cows, and had left a giant manure pile that we could dig into. But in general, valley bottoms are where you find the good soil there.
Farrakhan: “You can’t believe how wicked these people are – to play games with your lives and the lives of your babies – create a war just to get more money, to charge more interest - and send your babies to die for BULLSHIT.”
I'm enjoying this chapter by chapter journey. It seems pointing to deeper root causes beyond plantation owners gives us a chance for nuance. Hearing about debts and suicide and having to always expand due to the land exhaustion in their system is elucidating.
Thank you, Chris. Yes, that's exactly my intention. Had we been born into exactly the same circumstances, we would have done the same or worse. Slaveowners deserve our pity, perhaps as much as slaves. Whatever is done to one is done to all. The most important task, out of mercy for both, is to end the system of servitude in all its forms.
And is history repeating itself as Capitalism eats itself?
Now dependent on foreign "slave labor" to produce our goods, and importing immigrants (slave labor) to work domestically for less wages and exploitative business practices?
Doesn't seem that the apple has fallen far from the tree.
And yes, I'll be making both those points in coming chapters called Slavery in Place, and the section called World on FIRE that show we've merely outsourced slavery, not ended it.
The agencies of the Money Power in the Cotton States have been reduced to a perfect system . Agents have been established in every district, who make full semiweekly or weekly reports as to the condition of the cotton crop in each district. The reports begin with the plowing season, and go on through the entire year, giving every fact having any bearing upon the condition of the crop . They report the number of acres plowed—the weather—the number of acres planted—any blight ; army worm, excessive rains, drought—the prospect of crops—bolling of the cotton—the quantity picked—the amount of yield . And every morning, the telegraph brings from Liverpool, to all the agents, the price to be paid for cotton that day .
A general agent told a gentleman who was my informant, that his business was so mean and arbitrary and despotic, he hated it . He said the planters frequently struggled against the low prices which were ruining them . “But,”said he, “they had just as well fight against the course of the seasons ."” They have no alternative but submission to the prices offered by the Money Kings . And those prices mean poverty to the planter, and penury to the colored laborers who barely subsist upon their share of the crop .”
End quoted passage
See the PDF and/or audio for many more references to the cotton trade et cetera.
The Grange, the agricultural society from the 1920's that I was a part of, has a lot of this in their history. They were a big part of the Populist Movement. They said, "We need no middlemen. We have nothing against them, but we just don't need them." They saw these Money Kings coming between producers and consumers to leave the risk and work to the producers and skim the profits.
The same process is used for chicken farmers, who've been forced to sharecrop their coops for Perdue. They take all the risk and compete with one another for the lowest price, while Perdue makes their profit risk-free.
Even AirBnB is this model. We compete against each other, paying all expenses, putting in all investment. They skim a steady profit from owner and renter, with no risk, investment or liability.
I've been thinking about my question in the chapter, what do we call them? Financiers and bankers are too neutral, as is investors, even capitalists. It makes it seem like they're putting in something they made, same as we would invest. I'm leaning towards Usurpers. It's our land, labor, houses, infrastructure, creativity, language, love that they've usurped. Even our God.
Great post, 🧐
some thoughts,
if I may...
Ironic, most of the working class.... they became the slaves for the Industrial revolution until today, after all.🤯
And the 4th soon....
I understand this unwanted outcome originated, when close knit independants had to compete with larger plantations.
So we need to encourage financially smaller producers.
Thinking about the problem and solution a while back, I designed a low labour auto farming design land dwelling, with fish and water, interlocked together in a fibonaci style providing transport.
Land to go with your title of ownership as a share of the land.
Birth till death , no removal, no selling or buying, only transfers to family.
You would also need a secure, independant, local money system, to stop the gradual, capitalist creep
Independant local private peer to peer money or independant ledger system, based on local resource costs. (video plan c).
Thankyou for sharing your studies,
fantastic narration and accuracy.👍
I believe it's very important, to have alternatives to what may be planned for the masses next, by the techno billionaire Class, digital ID slave owners.
All ideas and plans to avoid this next transition, are to be encouraged, for a brighter future.
Kind regards,
Michael.
Hello, Michael and thank you for reading and responding. You're asking important questions and our goals are certainly aligned. My first intention was to write a book on the solution, as I saw it, called A 2020 Vision: the Economics of Community. Back in 2012, I bought the domain a2020vision.org. But what I discovered is that without understanding the problems at a deep level, the solution didn't matter to people. They were asking different questions like 'How can we distribute money equally?' when you and I know it's really about land and its ownership.
The next chapter is The Short Eventful Life of Sovereign Money and goes into Ben Franklin's scrip model. It solved the problem of encouraging small producers and independent livelihoods with a secure and local money system. It's what my caret system is based on, which I introduce in the last section. The only other sovereign money system I'm aware of is Feder's that was the basis for National Socialism. It took a World War and global propaganda machine to erase that.
My system is a network of commonwealth banks that have the exclusive right to issue mortgages AND the local credit to repay them, which I call a caret ^. The collective mortgages are distributed monthly to all 'commoners' as dividends for locally produced food, wellcare, education and home improvements. The commonwealth sets the tax on the caret and the exchange rate to favor local producers and consumers. It fosters home ownership for those born there or LT residents, and encourages small local businesses and small local landlords.
Essentially, it takes the model you're looking at for families and extends it to the community, so there's flexibility and mobility but it still favors families staying together. Within commonsense rules that prevent extraction or monopoly, each commonwealth determines their own system after modeling it in an online simulation game.
I've been talking with Mark Alexander, also on this thread, who's in the process of programming an app to model the caret system. We're looking to set up my retrometro.com domain (or a 2020vision) so that people can design the neighborhoods they'd like to see. Isaac Middle has a high-falutin' degree in Urban Planning and is willing to help with it.
I'd love to see you design your fibonacci style land-water farm-dwelling commune for the site! It sounds like a great idea. I fully agree that we need to be planning now for what we want, because what THEY want is certainly in motion. Thanks again.
Thank you, brilliant, lots going on.....👍.
I agree, the commonwealth has an excellent framework, look forward to more on your caret ^system.
Lots to investigate 😁
cheers.
I was an earth-scratcher for about eight years, with my ex-wife in Vermont. We had a pretty large growing area for a two-person operation: four greenhouses, a couple of planted acres, several hundred tomato plants, hundreds of feet of rows of corn, potatoes, squashes, greens, you name it. It was a lot of work, and we did manage to grow enough that we never had to buy vegetables at grocery stores. We also cut our own trees for firewood. My wife had four looms, so it was theoretically possible we could have made our own clothes from scratch. But we still had to buy in things like dairy and grains, and we also bought yarn for the looms, so we weren't close to self-sufficient.
I suspect that in the old pre-industrial days of Vermont, many more people did this kind of work, but also depended on each other for an exchange of goods. So my neighbor might have cows or sheep, while I have the vegetables, wood, and woven products. There aren't a lot of people doing this kind of thing in Vermont now; we're much more dependent on mega-farms far away.
You lived the question I've asked, Mark: Can you change the system by escaping it or only escape by changing it? Vermont may have been like the 'rugged Massachusetts farmer wringing niggardly rewards from the sweat of his brow in the hard soil.' But I think Vermont soil is much nicer.
We were on a fairly rocky slope, so our soil wasn't so great, so we kept having to add things like manure to it. Thankfully the previous owner of the land had cows, and had left a giant manure pile that we could dig into. But in general, valley bottoms are where you find the good soil there.
Louis Farrakhan provides more from an economic perspective on more recent (last century) [debt] slavery
• Farrakhan and International Bankers system Of slavery !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AHP0UQDuHI
8:50
Farrakhan: “You can’t believe how wicked these people are – to play games with your lives and the lives of your babies – create a war just to get more money, to charge more interest - and send your babies to die for BULLSHIT.”
I like his language.
Thanks for sharing such great links!
I'm enjoying this chapter by chapter journey. It seems pointing to deeper root causes beyond plantation owners gives us a chance for nuance. Hearing about debts and suicide and having to always expand due to the land exhaustion in their system is elucidating.
Thank you, Chris. Yes, that's exactly my intention. Had we been born into exactly the same circumstances, we would have done the same or worse. Slaveowners deserve our pity, perhaps as much as slaves. Whatever is done to one is done to all. The most important task, out of mercy for both, is to end the system of servitude in all its forms.
And is history repeating itself as Capitalism eats itself?
Now dependent on foreign "slave labor" to produce our goods, and importing immigrants (slave labor) to work domestically for less wages and exploitative business practices?
Doesn't seem that the apple has fallen far from the tree.
Is capitalism eating itself, Philip? In what way?
And yes, I'll be making both those points in coming chapters called Slavery in Place, and the section called World on FIRE that show we've merely outsourced slavery, not ended it.
eventually, capitalism runs out of things to "capitalize on."
once everything has been leveraged, then those who initially were partners in the capitalist venture become it's victims.
social programs that capitalism instituted for the "good of society" become leveraged as privatization begins.
The "middle class" has at this point, been eaten.
Below is just one small passage from “Great Red Dragon OR LONDON MONEY POWER” by L . B . WOOLFOLK, which I am recommending here https://archive.org/details/greatreddragonor00wool
Here is a unique audio reading by ‘Flood’
https://odysee.com/@FLOOD:3/Chapter-1---Rise-Of-The-Money-Power---First-Era:e?lid=1361e77b8f366bf7602043d527d6181f30e27c85
Quote:
"X. The Money Power Has Devoured The Cotton Trade
The agencies of the Money Power in the Cotton States have been reduced to a perfect system . Agents have been established in every district, who make full semiweekly or weekly reports as to the condition of the cotton crop in each district. The reports begin with the plowing season, and go on through the entire year, giving every fact having any bearing upon the condition of the crop . They report the number of acres plowed—the weather—the number of acres planted—any blight ; army worm, excessive rains, drought—the prospect of crops—bolling of the cotton—the quantity picked—the amount of yield . And every morning, the telegraph brings from Liverpool, to all the agents, the price to be paid for cotton that day .
A general agent told a gentleman who was my informant, that his business was so mean and arbitrary and despotic, he hated it . He said the planters frequently struggled against the low prices which were ruining them . “But,”said he, “they had just as well fight against the course of the seasons ."” They have no alternative but submission to the prices offered by the Money Kings . And those prices mean poverty to the planter, and penury to the colored laborers who barely subsist upon their share of the crop .”
End quoted passage
See the PDF and/or audio for many more references to the cotton trade et cetera.
The Grange, the agricultural society from the 1920's that I was a part of, has a lot of this in their history. They were a big part of the Populist Movement. They said, "We need no middlemen. We have nothing against them, but we just don't need them." They saw these Money Kings coming between producers and consumers to leave the risk and work to the producers and skim the profits.
The same process is used for chicken farmers, who've been forced to sharecrop their coops for Perdue. They take all the risk and compete with one another for the lowest price, while Perdue makes their profit risk-free.
Even AirBnB is this model. We compete against each other, paying all expenses, putting in all investment. They skim a steady profit from owner and renter, with no risk, investment or liability.
I've been thinking about my question in the chapter, what do we call them? Financiers and bankers are too neutral, as is investors, even capitalists. It makes it seem like they're putting in something they made, same as we would invest. I'm leaning towards Usurpers. It's our land, labor, houses, infrastructure, creativity, language, love that they've usurped. Even our God.
• Minister Farrakhan - Southern Slavery - COTTON - Part One – [10:20]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPv4nlkf784