It is mind-blowing to think about how much wasted potential is out there. How many people out there are working a dead end thankless job? How many more are thankful that they have a job in the first place? The system is so broken that we can't even automate out the pointless jobs because that would break the economy. Even more disturbing are states like Louisiana were slave labor is enforced through the police state.
But wait! There's more! Because the military also owns it's soldiers. I have multiple friends who were given injections. Try to ask what's in it and the only reply will be, "Don't worry about it." Even more frightening, everyone in this culture seems to know of someone who's mysteriously disappeared on American soil. What happened to them? Don't worry about it.
Welcome to the meat grinder. It's located at the bottom of the pyramid. The meat grinder grinds no matter what. Our unsustainable usurious debt-based economy makes sure of that. When more debt is owed back to the Fed than money in existence, this fully ensures that the poorest of the poor become victims of indirect slavery.
Slavery is relative. Ever since overt slavery was made illegal, the elite has become increasingly creative at blurring the lines to ensure that pseudo-slavery is as profitable as ever. Where should you draw the line? At actual slaves? At sweatshops in developing nations where workers make less than a dollar a day? At citizens making minimum wage? You could make a case for any of these arguments. Blurring the lines divides consensus so no one will agree on what is acceptable and what isn't.
Back in the day slave owners had to provide food and shelter. There was a monetary incentive to keep slaves healthy. Today, not even that incentive exists anymore. Paid labor can be chewed up and spit out without a care in the world from the employer's perspective. There will always be replacements lined up at the door. Scarcity economics ensures this reality. It's been a sellers market for quite some time with no end in sight.
I won't make the foolish claim as to say that slaves had it better, this is simply an example of selfish capitalists taking as much as they can for themselves will little regard for the "others". For every two steps forward there will always be one step back.
Humans are the lowest-cost, nonlinear, all-purpose computing system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
This is how the authority views it's citizens; as a money making cash cows that deserve zero compassion. Anyone who tries to come in and change the system from within gets carried away by a tidal wave of corruption. If you're invited to the club, you can choose to join the ranks, or drown. Politicians will never challenge the status quo. "Drain the swamp," was such an incredibly laughable gimmick.
The establishment has become incredibly adept at crushing it's rivals. Red Scare propaganda still permeates society 100 years after the fact. The words "communism" and "socialism" will trigger some citizens so badly that rational conversation becomes impossible. The elite knows how to manipulate public opinion with disturbing effectiveness. Call it the Affordable Healthcare Act and everybody wants it. Call it Obamacare and half the country picks up a pitchfork. Billions of dollars in research has been spent on figuring out exactly how to manipulate us.
When subversion fails, outright violent force prevails. The leader of any threatening movement will be assassinated. I guarantee it.
And this is why you should be buying as much cryptocurrency as possible. Not to make money, but to support a leaderless movement that has no head to cut off in the first place. These are the problems that crypto aims to solve. It's a tall fucking order, but the chance to prevail is higher than it ever has been in human history, especially when one considers the current economy and how far gone on borrowed time we have become.
The potential of Steem is massive, let's not throw it under the bus. Proof-of-brain can come to life here, and we already have a lot of brain power. If Steem is still around in five years blogging will be that thing that got the movement rolling, not the activity that people still do for money. Proof-of-brain extends far beyond writing some words in a text field.
Communities need to form and consensus must be honorable. Steem could be at the ground floor of such a movement. If we can begin to make decisions based on the good of the whole, rather than the individuals in charge, the entire world will change for the better.
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