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RE: Still nothing on Bittrex?
Dog eat dog means that you have no friends in business.
All crashes have occurred to serve the purposes of those that profit by causing them.
By continuing to work, while not paying for anything, we make ourselves immune to the banksters, and their 'market' manipulations.
"By continuing to work"
"while not paying for anything"
"we make ourselves immune to the banksters, and their 'market' manipulations"
The slavery you reference is our lot in life, somebody has to gather the nuts, if we are gonna eat nuts.
As I want more out of life than nuts, I agree to build houses so that the shoe makers, et al, may make shoes.
As long as workers continue to do the work, crapitalism can fall into the fiery pits of hell, as it should, imo.
How do you figure that a general worker's strike wouldn't free us from the crapitalusts?
If we refuse to work for them, while continuing to work for the other workers, accomplished by simply refusing to join into the banking game, the goods will continue to be on the shelves for consumption, as if everything was craptastically fantastic.
In the short term, constraint will have to be shown.
In the long term, we retire at 50 having never had to worry about paying rent, or buying groceries.
We don't retire to a few 10's of thousands, we retire to a world where EVERYTHING is free.
I don't think many people will continue the status quo once they learn the options that actually being free of coercive control offers.
How do you think you could retire to a world where everything is free?
Workers' strike is one of the things that should be done, and strike is the opposite of work.
All the dissonance from your previous reply still stands.
How do you think that I can't?
I think your dissonance is in saying that a strike is the opposite of work.
I clearly stated that the strike would only apply to the banking aspects, everybody still goes to work, they just don't pay for things they get from the shelves.
If I have misinterpreted your words, please clarify.
I don't have time to be gaslighted, tyvm.
Strike is the opposite of work.
What you mean is a strike in a sense of a working strike. An oxymoron.
I guess what is clear for you is not clear for me.
Do you mean a workers' ban on the banking sector?
Cryptocurrencies make it more possible than before, but are still far from acceptable enough.
When the workers will want to buy groceries, they will most probably need to buy them with fiat, which comes from the banks.
The banks own and control big enough portion of agriculture, to make a ban on the banks like you propose, a hunger strike.
Ok, what you are missing is the 'stop paying' part of the equation.
I know you have been indoctrinated into beliebing that crapitalism and trading are the only options, but that is not true, it was never true, and more folks used to know that it wasn't true before the forces of crapitalism killed, imprisoned, or dumbed down by 'educating' the rest of us.
Luckily, I broke lose.
Here, watch this movie,...
https://steemit.com/anarchy/@gutter-films/xl3fbh40
It will show you what worker solidarity is all about.
In a practical, applicable way.
The struggle against crapitalism didn't start in this, or the last century.
It began, in the modern era, in 1840 with the publication of this book:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/pierre-joseph-proudhon-what-is-property-an-inquiry-into-the-principle-of-right-and-of-government
Do the banks 'own and control' or does the true belief in banking own and control?
The banksters couldn't do a damn thing if the workers solidified.
The banksters don't wield clubs, and club wielding thugs don't load trucks or manufacture goods.
Those thugs will come to our side when their food runs out on that side.
When dollars can't buy crap, crap stops getting handed out.
Can you explain the stop buying part to me?
If I want something how can I get it without paying for it?
My needs are modest compared to most other people's in my country, but I believe that I have no other way of getting what I want outside of paying for it.
Can you distill your answers from the links you provided in order to make it possible for me to address your ideas in a fair amount of time?
Keep working, stop paying, is the condensation.
Along with, 'rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms'.
When you go online today, and 'procede to checkout' instead of entering an address and a credit card, you just enter an address.
When you go to the store, you check out so that they know what to reorder.
These rails remained greased as long as the people continue to do the work.
We already have (just) enough people working to supply most of the world.
When a job becomes a duty we will have many more workers than we need, and leisure will explode.
The way I see it is that folks 20 to 50 will be expected to get busy getting in their 20,000 hours of 'responsible' work, so that they too can retire.
That number of hours is Kropotkin's, it may need revising to 30k, it may not, I don't have the data to know.
Either way, nobody 'works' more than 20+/- hours a week.
I would imagine that self sufficiency would explode due to all the folks not wanting to sit around and play Steemit all day.
With a little restraint on the consumption side, we can make this transition on any given Tuesday.
The only ones that can stop us are the workers.
Currently, too many of them embrace their slavery and think me a fool for presenting the truth to them.
It's a cross I bear,...