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July 08, 2018, 02:17:28 PM
Last edit: July 08, 2018, 03:25:17 PM by Torque
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It’s pretty tempting to go down the road of “if they really want to be slaves, let them be slaves” but you and I both know that’s not the right answer.

Sometimes you have to save people from themselves, if only because we want to live in a civil society. The Hobbesian jungle isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

But here's the thing : the debt slavers' game won't ever change. It hasn't changed in 100 years. It was set up and designed from the beginning to keep the working class moderately poor, but more importantly keep them working as long as possible until death. Every "service" given to the public for their supposed benefit comes with a cost, and that cost is a skimmed usury payment. Mortgages, rent, healthcare, car loans, student loans, insurance (for everything), utilities, assessments, subscriptions, property taxes, HOA fees, city taxes, sales taxes, social security benefits, unemployment benefits, long term care, long term investment plans, etc. etc. It's all by design. Just look at the latest rise in online "subscription services" for nearly every damn thing around you. How long until some of these subscription services are no long optional?

There has not been and never will be something given for "free". Even supposed free social services, free health care (and possibly direct free money, aka UBI) wouldn't be free at all... they will get their cut one way or the other. They always do. Everything the govt offers comes with a cost to the public. The middle class and poor will get charged a tax burden to subsidize "free" services. The wealthy elites will pay nothing.

They privatize gains and socialize losses. They socialize costs to the middle class to pay for the poor. They subsidize "today" at the expense of the future.

The only way out for Average Joe is simply to try and not play their game. Or at least minimize it as much as possible. The less reliant he/she is on the govt for services and on constant debt to subsidize one's life, the better off he/she will be.

But Average Joe has to figure this out for him/herself. No one is going to "save them", esp not the very establishment that is fucking them over.