Faux Economy

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Why is the video titled "Faux Economy" is because I assert that America has never genuinely been a Capitalist economy. It is fake... a fake economy. The "powers that be" have been playing a "shell game of sorts - an elaborate shell game," or an intricate "ponzi scheme." One of the most successful companies in the world, Coca-Cola, started out as a "snake oil" tonic, literally!

Many of the world's most valuable tech startups have never been profitable. Even after raising billions of dollars from investors they still lose money every year. Why? How is that possible? Their business model seems to rely on rapid growth to underwrite the expansion of their business. However, they remain unprofitable for years. Why are Wall Street investors so willing to tolerate negative cash flows for increasingly longer periods of time? They have conditioned you to think that this is normal. You're like the allegorical frog placed in a pot of tepid water - as opposed to boiling water - you have been tricked into not jumping out of the pot.

Who are the notable business tycoons which permeate our modern American landscape? What do you truly know about these people? How did the parents of these people play a role in their success? Nepotism is far more rampant within the American Capitalist model than many people are willing to admit. Where does nepotism or cronyism come into play within a meritocracy? If you truly advocate that a meritocracy is the ideal, why tolerate so much nepotism and cronyism? Don't allow them to hide behind the excuse that this claim in made out of jealousy. Sure, I admit a degree of envy, but it's NOT the reason I suggest look deeper into the family ties of our business magnates. Go down the rabbit hole, if you haven't already.

Who is Miguel Bezos? William Henry Gates II? William Avery "Devil Bill" Rockefeller Sr. (aka Dr. Levingston)? ... just to name a few. How did their influence lead to their sons' success? Who financed their businesses? You'll discover that most of these people were hand-picked. They didn't make it own their own - their own merits. Many - perhaps even most - of these people are simply "paper cutouts" chosen to be the face of the company. Sure, John D. Rockefeller, may be shrewd and cunning, but his business acumen isn't what earned him is vast fortune, but his guile.

Americans talk about virtue, but we celebrate cons, swindlers, and crooks. The entire 20th century is replete with stories of their achievements. How many of those were stolen? How many of their accomplishments are truly their own? Perhaps, we'll never know, but they have successfully marginalized General Smedley Butler, JFK, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, etc. What if these men - and countless others - had been free to pursue their dreams? Where would we be now? All the squandered opportunities. All the lies.

The lack of contention within our society has made us soft. There should be a competition of ideas. We also deify competition, but for some reason when it comes to dissenting ideas, we have somehow become a culture of censors. NO DEGREE of censorship should be tolerated. Even the UCMJ is probably unconstitutional in this regard. What soldier in his right mind would advertise where they're going? There doesn't have to be a law to curb this behavior! Americans seemingly want to make a law about anything and everything. When it came to our Founding Fathers, George Mason of Virginia exemplifies the Anti-Federalists (they hated that moniker, because they truly were not anti-federalist) who would probably advocate a minimalist approach to government. Or, as Henry David Thoreau, so brilliantly observed, "That government is best which governs least."

If you've read Thomas Paine's "Common Sense," then you already understand why our Founding Fathers were minimalists regarding government. James Madison was clearly echoing the sentiment of Paine when he wrote in the Federalist Papers #51, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." No one said it this way, but government is almost a "necessary evil." Again, these are my words, and I'm not claiming they phrased it this way, because they did not. However, it is clear that when Paine was contrasting "society" from "government" that he noted that society was produced by "our wants" (human desires for companionship, mutualism, etc.) We 'associate' or 'socialize' with people who are like-minded and share similar interests and ambitions. However, what Paine said about government's purpose was simply "restraining our vices" or it produced by - not our wants, but "our wickedness."

See, if we as human beings, never acted upon our jealousy, envy, pride, or our maliciousness, we would have no need of government. However, if we need the money or other resource, especially if we cannot fathom how our misdeed could harm anyone, we can justify to ourselves that the deed is justifiable because there's no foreseeable or perceivable harmful consequences.

Notice, it comes down to the distribution of resources. Who gets what? If you notice, THIS is the very reason - according to "Common Sense" - why we create society in the first place. Remember, Paine uses the scenario - or the realization - that he can beat the winter snow if we helps his neighbor erect his shelter (protection from the elements) if, in turn, his neighbor will help him erect his shelter. They are sharing resources - sharing labor. While we recognize Paine as political philosopher, we fail to acknowledge his economic contributions. For, it can be argued, an economic system is merely the means by which a society agrees to distribute resources. Today, we use money as the metric to arguably equate value/worth to who should rightfully possess it. I would argue that perhaps it's time to retire money. Has money run its course? Is it time to find another means to justly distribute resources? This is a question for the INFORMED masses. People can only make a just decision when they possess the full equation. You hide even a single variable from people and their decision will also be erroneous. Is this the reason the world's corrupt just said, "We'll lead." They didn't want to bother informing everyone of the truth. Too much work!

Who knows what the future holds? However, nothing worth doing ever came easy. Today, we have breathtaking and awe-inspiring technologies at our fingertips. Extra-Cellular Matrix (ECM) can regrow lost fingers, blockchain technologies and the Internet can revolutionize transparency and accountability to the public sector, Resource-Based Economies (RBE) and Open Source Everything (OSE) is a holistic approach to move away from the Anglo-Saxon model of money, Intellectual Property (IP), centralized banking, and insurance. It would require a whole new way of defining "vaue" by people. Are people ready for such a model? Who knows? However, rather than have my daughter prostitute herself by learning "pole-dancing" skills in order to get money in order to feed her family or put herself through college, maybe it's time to try something that has NEVER been tried - at least in the last 2,000 years. It's time for a new paradigm.