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May 30, 2022·edited May 31, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

Thanks for the education on Keynes!

Agreed that central planning will fail and that things will be a struggle in the meantime.

Current policies and events align with post-carbon goals of managed economic contraction and desirable and humane population reduction with them holding the levers on resources and behavior guided by the LTG model and UN SDGs timelines.

Their best efforts to engineer technocracy and social credit rationing in a planned degrowth economy translates into a sort of hunger game neo-feudalism, possibly a return to pre-industrial civilization for the 90+%.

Some voices determine that the scheme involving vaccine immunity by subscription to digital ID to technofeudal society will suffer the same fate as industrial capitalism from diminishing EROEI, resource limits and increasing complexity.

Take a look at Dr. Tim Morgan's Surplus Energy Economics.

At any rate if you're not going to comply, go broke in a ponzi or die fighting one of their strawmen, let me suggest how to position. I see 2 paths to follow.:

1) pursue local self-reliance, mutual aid and food security networks with alternative currencies &/or trade and barter hubs. Invest in real durable goods and commodities, shelf stable food, gardening tools, utility items and reliable sources of defense, water, food, heat and shelter.

2) have a back-up plan for collapse scenario including bug out to rural camp, intentional community or seasonal rental near state or national wildlands.

Survive world collapse dot com has a straightforward explanation with suggestions on how to prepare. I've been working off the list "100 things to disappear in an economic collapse." Get started on your plan and preps!

Thanks for reading! Best wishes!

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May 30, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

Lenin was the ultimate practitioner of dialectics and exploitation of contradictions in “capitalist” countries, and the 8-year NEP was his crowning achievement. Four years into the revolution, Soviet Russia was teetering on collapse, economically and politically. Collectivization of ag produced less than before 1917, there was no hard currency, nationalists in Ukraine (among others) agitated for independence, sailors in Kronstadt revolted, etc.

By appearing to soften on ideology, Lenin gained time to restore the economy. Western industries, rope in hand, rushed to set up shop in partnership with the Soviets, western central banks gladly loaned fiat currency and financed infrastructure. At the same time, independence movements were appeased with a sop to federalism by creation of a union of “republics,” the USSR. This was also the period of Operation Trust.

When the objectives had been achieved, the mask was dropped, businesses nationalized, loans defaulted, currency confiscated, etc. The NEP was followed by the inevitable terror and repression, the “liquidation of kulacs as a class,” and the purges of the Great Terror.

No matter what costume he wears, the wolf is always a carnivorous predator.

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May 30, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”

--Vladimir Lenin

“While the State exists there can be no freedom; when there is freedom there will be no State.”

--Vladimir Lenin

Fantastic article, 2SG.

More simply excellent work!

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May 31, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

Go BTC!

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I really like it when someone uses Commie instead of Communist.

My kinda guy.

BUT TO GET A+, IT'S:

COMMIE BASTARDS

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Yes. All businesses that make money in this paradigm are recipients of the fiat money system, doesn't matter receiving subsidies or not.

Keynes is not a commie. He was a full blown fascist. As are most stake/shareholders of this economic/social system.

Commune: https://classic.net.bible.org/dictionary.php?word=Commune

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/commune

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commune

You are being a part of the scam to blame something other than the people who are at the heart of this great reset?

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