Together We Are Powerful

Do you understand what would happen if people decided to act together and stop buying or using all Apple products for a month? You could do that couldn’t you? You could survive without your life falling apart, without suffering too much. Surely this is not a lot to ask of someone.

But what would the impact on Apple be? How rattled would the management and investors become as revenues stopped completely? (yes, you would delay making any regular monthly payments for an entire month too). How startled would they be by such a dramatic assertion of consumer power? What message would it send to other corporations?

We could assure all industries that we will continue to boycott and shut down the revenue stream of all the leading companies, one-by-one, on a perpetual rotation. We might even toss in a few one week strikes for good measure. Nothing long enough to hurt individual workers or families, but long enough to seriously affect corporate bottom lines. How disruptive would it be if no employees showed up for work one week.

What could we hope to achieve from applying this type of consumer discipline? Respect. Honesty. Transparency. A reduction in profit and a reversal in prices. Increased loyalty to employees with decent wage increases, zero layoffs and a complete end to management perks and bonuses. How’s that for a start?

After Apple (or Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart… take your pick) we shut off Google, then Amazon, then Facebook or X or Instagram for a month. You can live using alternative technologies and different corporations for one month at a time can’t you? Surely you can handle buying a different brand of gas for a month. It may be inconvenient at first but you’ll get used to it and you’ll thrive on the spirit and power that you get from exercising your consumer muscles.

All we need to do is spread the idea and organize the timetable. If anything deserves to go viral on social media, this is it! A backup peer-to-peer site like Qortal that operates without needing Cloud servers on the internet must also be chosen and established so that the government and big tech can’t shut this down.

I don’t have a cell phone or access to social media sites to spread this idea so someone else will need to provide an address where people can message “IBW2P” (I’d be willing to participate) or “CMI” (count me in). I can seed this through my network of 2 or 3K, but it will be up to individuals like you to make it go viral on social media. We can’t continue to do nothing and let them box us in. It’s time to dump our negativity and get organized. Together we are powerful.

The Transition

Most people are caught up in the daily routines of their lives… going to work, caring for family, shopping & appointments. They have too little free time to start pursuing new independent ideas.
Paying the bills and managing the "have to"s is exhausting. Escaping into prepared entertainment provides some temporary relief but it doesn't solve the stress or the problems.

Consequently, people absorb and adopt the cultural trends. Most people have limited exposure to alternative ideas. Most people have limited tolerance for alternative ideas. Ideas not immediately relevant to daily routines are considered impractical, idealistic, pointless, futile.

Mainstream society avoids and censors many important issues. People who raise these issues are ridiculed, discredited or even violently confronted. The mainstream media and social platforms turn public opinion against these ideas. This leaves people stuck in the old ideas that enslave them.

One of the most important ideas never discussed involves how social productivity and wealth are distributed. People are taught that exceptional people are responsible for creating and providing the quality of life we enjoy. If it weren't for the talent and genius of these rare people, we would all be living in a primitive squalor.

Another idea rarely discussed publicly is what the gift of life is truly all about... what could it be for... what should it be for? For most people right now it's purpose is mainly to avoid poverty, depression and an emotional burn out. It is about accepting authority and following the social rules.

To ensure that people are too busy to ask important questions and form study groups and action groups to build solutions our social leaders, politicians, educators, media hosts, and entertainers use psychology to divide us and preoccupy our minds with anger, fear and even hate. They also create entertaining diversions like sports, movies, video games, social media channels & "approved" causes to redirect attention and subdue independent thinking.

The main point of this post is to shift your attention and personal thought processing to one of the most important "hidden in plain site" foundations of society that never gets discussed publicly. Recognizing its significance just so happens to be the solution to nearly all of society's major problems. It may seem so obvious that you might wonder why it is even worth mentioning, but the implications of this simple truth are profound.

RICH PEOPLE PRODUCE ALMOST NOTHING - they simply organize and control others who produce everything. Everything humans create consist of only 2 main ingredients… natural resources and human resources (labour & brains).

RICH PEOPLE don't produce natural resources, nature does

RICH PEOPLE don't harvest natural resources themselves, they hire workers to do that for them

RICH PEOPLE don't do manual labour or work on factory production lines, or grow vegetables, or raise livestock, or fish, or mine, or drill oil... they hire workers for that. RICH PEOPLE don't do retail, or office work, or deliveries.

ORDINARY PEOPLE PRODUCE EVERYTHING

ORDINARY PEOPLE harvest and process all of the natural resources that Creation has provided freely for all living things... our Common Wealth.

RICH PEOPLE simply manipulate an economic system that they created to enable themselves to claim ownership and authority over everything that ORDINARY PEOPLE produce... they manage and scheme and plan to scalp even more profit, interest and taxes from workers.

so here's the point... ORDINARY PEOPLE DON'T NEED RICH PEOPLE... ORDINARY PEOPLE already produce everything that society creates

RICH PEOPLE DESPERATELY NEED ORDINARY PEOPLE because they produce NOTHING themselves

If ORDINARY PEOPLE just stop obeying the illegitimate authority that RICH PEOPLE gave to themselves, then ORDINARY PEOPLE can define a new way of life for themselves.

If ORDINARY PEOPLE stop obeying RICH PEOPLE the police and army won't have to follow unjust orders and use violence to enforce the unjust laws that RICH PEOPLE created to protect their power and privilege.

ORDINARY PEOPLE outnumber RICH PEOPLE by millions.

Once ORDINARY PEOPLE stand their ground, RICH PEOPLE can no longer control or discipline them. They can't arrest millions of people simultaneously.

Here is how ORDINARY PEOPLE can stand their ground and make the transition to ORDINARY RULE.

STEP 1

Spread the news of the transition widely throughout the general public... get excited, enthusiasm is contagious. Don't expect support from traditional institutions and organizations like unions, NGOs and government or mainstream social media platforms.

Use word-of-mouth and LOCAL kitchen table planning to organize and build awareness campaigns. Connect and coordinate with alternative groups & media to learn and share awareness techniques and strategies. Hundreds of really good partner groups exist, but watch out for controlled opposition and paid troublemakers.

Look at this as practice for self-rule and preparation for taking the personal responsibility to run your own life.

STEP 2

Since ORDINARY PEOPLE do everything now that keeps society running, when they stop doing it all NORMAL will collapse very fast - that will give ORDINARY PEOPLE tremendous bargaining leverage.

To fix 90% of society's social, economic & environmental problems including planned obsolescence, waste and war we need only switch to a time-based, debt-free, labour economy where social contributions are measured and rewarded in hours.

Variable paid time-off rates for vacations, personal time, sick time, rest & recovery, etc will preserve some income inequality but will remove the vast and ridiculous income differences that we now tolerate.

Once enough people have been informed in STEP 1, and 10s of thousands are willing to participate in STEP 2, a date is chosen to shut down the system with a nationwide labour boycott.

One simple demand will be all that is necessary to end the strike... each business and government agency must immediately begin converting their operations to an hour-based accounting system that tracks all internal labour costs in hours and minutes - that's it for STEP 2

Businesses will continue to track external purchases in the dollar prices of their suppliers but all internal labour costs MUST be converted from dollars into hours. At the end of the STEP 2 conversion period, which will likely require 6 months to complete, all businesses will begin pricing and labelling their own goods and services using both hours and dollars.

As prices will still include a dollar component, workers will still be paid in dollars only, their pay cheques won't change but the price tags on everything they buy will now display 2 different prices, one which is still in dollars only and one which shows a combination of hours and dollars. This will get consumers use to thinking about prices in terms of hour values.

STEP 3

All businesses and governments will now be purchasing from suppliers who price their own internal operations in hours, so supplier costs will be largely measured in hours as well as a business’s own internal costs. Now both internal and external costs will be priced in hours. This will enable the dual pricing system to advance to displaying a dollar-only price and a price that is almost completely converted into hours-only. Consumers will begin to understand the serious price advantages of an hour-based economy. It may take several business cycles to convert residual dollar values completely.

Online public accounting systems will be developed and launched to track labour hours and commercial custodial lines-of-credit will be issued to track all business-to-business transfers of worker-created assets. Employers will begin to understand the benefits of no longer needing upfront capital of their own, or the borrowed capital of others, to operate their businesses. Once the online public accounting system is operational, fully visible and accessible to everyone then workers incomes will be generated automatically and recorded in hours.

In each workplace workers will assign enforcement reps to ensure employer compliance with the price conversion timetable. If employers lag or refuse to proceed then a new work boycott will be initiated in that workplace. If governments try to make work stoppages illegal then another countrywide labour shutdown will be initiated.

Conclusion

It is no longer realistic to comply with the laws and orders being dictated by the self-appointed leaders of the world. Corporate and government overreach into the freedom, rights and privacy of ORDINARY PEOPLE is out of control.

RICH PEOPLE no longer hide their disgust and disrespect for ORDINARY PEOPLE and now openly admit their plans to depopulate the world and reshape the natural order of life itself. These delusional maniacs must be stopped now before they destroy the entire planet.

RICH PEOPLE are a tiny minority of the population. They have confiscated and abused the Earth and its human and natural resources since civilization began. It is time that ORDINARY PEOPLE rise to claim the true ownership of their own productivity and their natural right to govern themselves.

Let’s begin.

Economic Cancer

Society’s economic stupidity has metastasized. It is destroying the Earth. Our economy now threatens the continued existence of the human race.
What are we doing? Why do we continue to do it when we know that it is wrong?

Our economy demands perpetual growth. The desire for financial reward is insatiable. Investors always want more… a bigger return on investment. Earning the same as last year sucks. Businesses profits must GROW or investors abandon ship. Growth is used as the primary indicator of economic health. If a market begins to shrink because consumer needs have been satisfied then that market is weak and dying. Techniques like planned obsolescence, improvement holdbacks, and reduced product durability enable the “healthy” product replacement schedules necessary to sustain sales and profits. Never mind the natural resources that are wasted. Economists socialize (“externalize”) those costs.

So the entire economic system is built on devouring the Earths resources to increase production targets annually so that a small minority of the world’s population can receive unearned investment income. This is the reality of our current global economy. This, of course, means access to the necessary natural resources is absolutely critical to the dominance and survival of the key producers. They rely on their government partners to secure the needed resources. Ambassadors, trade representatives, state departments, international NGOs and ultimately the financial and military muscle of the banks and armies of the “developed” world.

It is all too easy for the public to ignore their own role in this tragic arrangement we call the economy. Consumers need low prices to survive. Taxes, interest and profits all add to the cost of living which perpetually exceeds what consumers are paid as workers. Public demand for low prices accelerates as profit and debt servicing costs in the economy become more unsustainable. This not only encourages producers to cut corners further on product quality, it justifies and legitimizes the government’s “right” to secure natural resources by using war and invasion to “protect” national interests (at least in their own minds). If consumers and taxpayers refused to support the cancerous dictatorship that dominates their lives, and withdrew their productivity and spending that keeps the whole scheme running against them, society’s financial disease could be eradicated overnight.

The economic cancer that is devouring the world’s resources has now reached the point that our leaders recognize that we can no longer afford to have independent nation states. Scarce resources must be managed by a technocratic cabal of corporate scientists and advisors who will decide what is best for the entire world’s population. Rather than address the underlying cause of the economic cancer, financial clans are fortifying control and competing to determine who gets to direct the future of humanity. No one even mentions that most of the world’s problems could be solved overnight if we simply changed the economic system from a profit driven model to a needs driven one. No one dares to speak of an individually driven economy rather than a top-down, centrally-controlled model.

Just imagine how much easier your own life would be without mandatory taxation, mortgage debt and interest costs, and the enormous embedded profits in everything you buy that transfer unimaginable wealth to the billionaire class. How much more relaxed would your life become without the need to devote half your daytime hours to working any job you can find that will stave off bankruptcy for another month? How much more meaningful could life become if you had sufficient quality time to enjoy important relationships and to discover and develop your own interests and potential? How much totally unnecessary labour could be eliminated from society altogether by simply switching to a human-friendly social economy instead of allowing the financial cancer to consume us? How much social tension, sickness and crime would simply evaporate once people had the opportunity to become truly self-fulfilled?

Please start talking about treating the underlying causes of the economic cancer that is consuming society’s civilized morality as well as the Earth’s resources.

Understanding Profit

Imagine that you and two neighbours decided to make apple pies together. Carol, who grows apples and pears in her orchards, will bring the fresh apples needed. Lindsay, will bring the pie shells that she made with flour produced from her fields of grain. You, will provide the butter, milk and honey that you produced on your own farm. Altogether, including the total time and material costs that each person spent to prepare the ingredients, a single pie would cost 30 minutes. Each neighbour’s portion of the cost being equal would be just 10 minutes.

Using a time-based income system each neighbour would generate 10 minutes of income for themselves for each pie produced. The total income generated would match the value of the pies exactly. Each neighbour could use the 10 minutes of income that they created to purchase and consume one third of a pie. The economic system would be in perfect balance. The distribution of production, income and consumption would be seamless. All workers could afford to buy an amount equal to what they produced.

Now suppose a 20% profit was added to the price of the pies. Each slice now costs 12 minutes. None of the women would be able to afford the product they just created. Producing each pie only generated 10 minutes of individual income, so each woman would need to borrow another 2 minutes in imaginary promise-to-pay money in order to purchase their fair share of their own productivity. Why would anyone be willing to accept this anti-social scam? Yet, this is the true affect of the profit that society has been trained to worship. In an honest money system, there would be no need for debt at all.