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Just realise that the 'money game' is rigged, the deck is stacked and the house will win no matter what you do. That leaves but one way to 'win' this game and t
by Yetanfou 8y ago
Just realise that the 'money game' is rigged, the deck is stacked and the house will win no matter what you do. That leaves but one way to 'win' this game and that is by not playing it. Yes, you need money but you do not need limitless amounts of it. You most certainly don't _need_ many of the products peddled by 'the rich' so that part of the game is easily avoided - just don't buy 'm. Use your money to become more independent of future money by buying land in an area which can support you and your family, either by producing stuff yourself or by buying it from people close-by - thereby avoiding giving money to 'the rich'. Don't buy into dependency through all sorts of long-term contracts, loans, credit cards, needless insurances and other such things. Given that you probably live in the USA I assume you need a car, what you do not need is the latest and greatest and certainly not a new one every other year. The same goes for all those electronic doodads which try to lure you into spending more and more of your waking hours staring at their mesmerising animations, all the while doing their best to serve their true masters. Home speakers which always listen to every conversation in your house was used as a dire prediction of times to come in novels like 1984, now it is supposed to the 'the thing to have for smart people'. Well, I'll just flick that light switch myself, thank you Alexa and Google and Siri. Mobile tracking beacons which communicate with billboards to show you tailored advertising, it might sound like something out of The Diamond Age but it happens right here, right now. To get rid of intrusive nonsense like that you need to take a good, deep look at that mobile device in your pocket and ask yourself how much of the software running on it is serving you, how much of it serves someone else. I could go on but I guess the gist of what I'm saying is clear: put your money where your mouth and thoughts are. That way you do not need to resort to such means as you suggest, you do not need to implement the next 'utopia' which is doomed to fail - viz. Venezuela for the last example of where such ideas lead.