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In the time of John Locke the goal of the elites was get the peasants off their farms and into the factories for the "greater good".

Today the goal is to get the "peasants" (you) to spend all you earn and more as quickly as possible, for the "greater good". cont...

Oh did you think that Locke was a hero of liberty or the life of a peasant was miserable? Let's cure you of your state based programming.

Locke was not one of the good guys, he conspired with his contemporaries to solve their big problem, lack of labor for industry. Cont...

See the problem was many peasants were in fact small land holders, it is one reason Thomas Jefferson envisioned the US as a nation of said same. Problem in England is Locke and his buds considered peasants "lazy" they had all they needed on their family farms. Cont...

They could in Locke's words, "slaughter a few hogs a year and become, fat off the land" paraphrase from memory mind you. So Locke and his buds worked hard to move the peasants to the factories of London under the guise of freedom from toil and what have you. Cont....

All for the "greater good" you see. The industrial revolution was coming, England needed to keep up with it! You can't fill factories with workers killing themselves if they have all they need on what we call today a "homestead", something had to be done. Cont...

Today the spirit of Locke live in the concept of keynesian economics and MMT (modern monetary theory). Today the US is the England of old, "most powerful nation something something, murica" and must stay on top. Not sure why but we must! Cont...

Anyway in the past the US was a mega land of factories, the serfs become blue collar workers and did pretty well for themselves, building stuff, things, cars, steel. That is the past, today we mostly buy stuff from other nations and we are a money and debt factory. Cont...

We manufacture money for the elites by assuming debt and to assume debt we must spend more than we earn. All money itself is debt, the system runs on debt and the elite acquire debt cheap or free and we acquire debt at the cost of our life force. Cont....

Just as Locke and his buds could not have the serfs living fat and happy on beer, pork and applejack, the modern elites can't have use saving our hard earned money, spending must be forced as the serfs are "not industrious" and "lack motivation". Cont...

All is pushed to make us spend, they even print articles that say "saving too much is selfish" and when the nation was "attacked" our president before telling us to do anything else told us to "go out and go shopping", remember that? Cont...

The serfs though do think, damn them. About the future so we created the 401Ks. This takes the money they do spend and puts it in the hands of the "industrialists" and locks it up for 40 years or more. Most is then spent swiftly by the children of serfs via inheritance. Cont..

Still some serfs are really stubborn, they won't spend fast enough, won't only store their wealth in stocks to provide liquidity for the elite, they stuff money in mattresses or "savings accounts", no worries inflation will take 2-10% of that a year. There is no way out. Cont..

So what is a modern serf to do? The answer rebuild the small land holding (homestead).

Run their own enterprises, because we are industrious (entrepreneurship & agorism).

Be your own bank, hold modern digital gold. (#bitcoin & #lightningnetwork ⚡️)

The game is as old as time.