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Rule by force is the disease, who and how are symptoms.

This simple meme can change the world.

It only has to reach enough ears, and/or eyes.

Not these captioned photos, the idea that ruling by force is the disease of all states.

A meme is an idea that moves through a culture.

It doesn't matter what your utopia consists of, if it needs armed thugs to make it happen, it sucks.
Likely you do, too.

Why do you think you own me?
Off with my head?
Really?

We all own ourselves.
We may be beholden for what you have given us, but our lives are our own.
Each of us benefits from the labor of the generations before us, and around us.

Those funny looking folks at Macy's?
Yep. Among others.

Each and every one of us benefit from the electric grid likely emplaced before our births, and after the death of the workers that actually did the work.
We owe each of those workers our gratitude, at a minimum.

Each of us owe my dad for the work he did on the interstate highway system that I still drive over.
The labor he gave the corporations that made bank from his work still serves us to this day.
The work he did on the toll roads is still raking it in long after recouping costs.
It's just how states and taxes work.

We can pay it forward to their grandkids by contributing the work that we do.
Instead of working to pay the shareholders of the corporations that put the grid in, we can free those worker's grandkids from wage slavery.

We can either move forward under the status quo, you work, they profit, or we can keep working, but stop paying for things.

Just because we stop paying for things, the world doesn't collapse.
The sky does not fall.

In fact, as long as the workers continue to work, nothing changes.
Walmart still has full shelves.
Grandy's will still serve supper.

But,...

When our shift at paper plant is over, we eat at Grandy's for free.
We stop by WallyWorld and pick up some picnic supplies for the weekend.

Few of us will need to work more than 20 hours a week, and those that do can retire early, if they want.

Our world will be very different, but will look much the same.

Local labor pools will form, finding a job will be a matter of getting out of the house to do it.
Maybe you can drive the bus that gets all the workers to the factory.
Maybe you can be the guy washing the busses so they look 'presentable'.
You only need to put in ~20k hours to replace what you consume.

Who knows what you would like to do more than you?
Maybe you don't like what you are currently doing and want to try something else?

Today do you have the freedom to move jobs without taking a major gamble?
In my utopia you just pack up and move on.

What do you want to learn how to do?
Since everything is free worldwide now, you can hop a plane and go to Notre Dame and try to get involved with that work.
I'm sure they won't have any lack of public work projects to get something out of the workers displaced by robots and obsolescence.

If they don't, the mobs are going to get hungry.
Hungry mobs tend to burn down things with gates and walls around them.

If I was a lawyer, truck driver, bankster, real estate agent, or any other of a number of folks that will be displaced by technology, I would be looking for an out.
Pretty soon we will see accountants with 8 years of college on the corner with a 'Anything Helps' sign.

Better that we have a plan to end the need for money.

It just separates us into haves and have nots.
Workers and bosses.
Owners and slaves.

Why you persist in your belief that that is as good as it can get is beyond me.

"Crapitalism is our lord and savior! Every knee shall bow!'

I said bow!

All I see is a dystopia with just enough hope to keep the masses opiated.

You got to decide for you, dear reader.

Do you want to be free to be treated like an adult, or do you need a nanny to keep your bib clean?

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