Breakaway to Freer Living
I visited the Colonial Williamsburg VA USA living village again to study how colonies were originally set up and it became glaringly obvious that they were set up as hierarchies to funnel the Human Productive Surplus up to the government elites. That is still true today. You would think that the govt would work to make life simpler for us the productive class of citizens, but it is just the opposite. Bankers lobby to impose a for-profit check clearing system and private money creation system on us so they can manipulate the business cycle for their profit. Lawyers lobby to impose a convoluted legal system on us where signed fixed contract terms are merely negotiating points in a dispute. Insurance companies lobby to place a human bond CUSIP number on us at birth. Accountants lobby to impose dense tax laws on us like an arbitrary 39.5 year economic life on commercial structures for calculating depreciation. Arms Builders lobby the govt to invade other countries and waste resources. ...