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Welcome to the machine
What had you dream?
It’s all right, we told you what to dream…
(Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here album, 1973)
The movement is not yet visible, because it is underground and, like all trends, it goes from the bottom up, not like fashions that are imposed from the top down.
But it is happening all over the world. And it's called Big Quit.
Some attribute it to the plandemic organized 2 years ago, but in reality, it is something that has been brewing for many years, as the new generations realize the sinister way in which they are used by the prevailing system, and they end up feeling complicit in the destruction of the planet. (As an example of complaints we can take Metropolis or Wish you were here).
Current unemployment in the developed world is not due to a lack of labor supply, but rather due to a lack of demand for the jobs offered. Young people do not want to be part of the machine and the dreams that the machine imposes. Instead, more and more people want to work in something that makes sense for their time on the planet, and that allows them to enjoy a more dignified life than the one imposed by “sleep-come to the office-work”. Many companies intend to stop the escape from the offices, basically increasing salaries, convinced that the prevailing paradigm of privileging money over personal life is going to triumph and people will return to "sanity".
A rethinking of what is essential and what is not is taking place.
It is a strong change. Many people are losing faith in the system and realizing the futility of feeding a monster. Many decide to abandon a promising "career" and bet on permaculture or the installation of a bakery to make sourdough bread. This movement of the Big Quit testifies to an accelerated loss of meaning in the face of what existed, especially within the so-called "skilled professions". It is being understood that both liberalism and socialism are the two sides of the same coin called the capitalist system and that promotes fierce competition for scarce resources. In the first case, only the owners of the means of production and distribution benefit, and in the other, a series of state bureaucrats who only serve to hold power. People in general, especially the middle classes hypnotized by the American dream, just use the time of their lives to feed the system, and end up living the same year about 80 times, pretending to be happy.
It is this machine-like system that is responsible for inequality reaching its current size, the largest in human history. This system is a modern adaptation of the feudal system of more than a thousand years ago, in which a feudal lord, now a State, distributes privileges among the lords of the government or among corporations, making laws that enable depredation and legalize it. According to current jurisprudence, it is legal to poison rivers killing thousands of species to extract gold, because the system tells us that gold is very important, and the life of a few fish and turtles is not important at all, much less, the natural food chain that is cut forever by slaughtering them.
Metropolis, Fritz Lang
Then comes the famous question of "earning" or "making" money.
To "earn" money, you just have to occupy a place in the machine's circuit. To "make" money, you have to get fully involved in a project and bet your life on it, so that there is a true transformation of resources.
A new paradigm is organized around this question. The universities created a new elite, the enlightened elite that holds a document called a “diploma”. The Diploma enables the individual to get a job in a corporation and fit into the gear system of the machine. And, what is worse, to organize his/her life and that of his/her family around a “sun” called “salary”. This is "earning" money. You earn money working for the machine. Some, those who were born in developed countries and are very well connected to get a job with an above-average salary, can "earn" a lot of money. But when they look back after several years of their career, they cannot be very happy when they realize that they contributed so that a few others could prey, oppress and fiercely compete for power.
Also, it's hilarious, that all the economic models that are taught in universities are "growth" models. Do you know why? Very easy, because growth is financed with debt, and then, governments are forgiven for issuing freely, because, according to them, they do it for growth. Of course, globalization, which is sold as growth, means growth for the rich countries to the detriment of poor countries, which are the ones left indebted for life. All for "growth".
To be an entrepreneur, you don't need a diploma.
The system of diplomas was organized by the same machine in order to better distribute privileges. There is no proof that studying at a university for a career, designed by a state or private bureaucrat, turns somebody into a person who contributes to well-being. It's just to hold a degree, and if that degree is from a highly reputable private university, and the guy has good connections, then he/she's going to be able to fit in easily and get his/her salary, his/her fringe benefits, and his/her bonuses. If he/she doesn't have good connections, he/she will have to settle for “earning” less money at a lower corporate level.
Metropolis, Fritz Lang
The Big Quit is directly about “making” money. Money is made when a system is transformed through an invention or differentiation valued by those who will buy it. “Making” money requires efficiency in the use of resources, whether material or intellectual. To “make” money you have to get directly involved in a project and put work and life into it, which is very different from going to an office to meet a schedule, not contributing anything to the environment, and then going to the gym believing that you deserve a prize for having been sitting around talking nonsense for 8 hours. All employees of a corporation, from its CEO to the cleaning staff, are employees who do not contribute anything to the environment. Their lives consist of maintaining the status quo by taking a place in the machine and “earning” money.
“Earning” money means accepting, vegetating, agreeing with the rules of the machine so as not to alter its operation, believing that what television says is true, and viralizing the contents that the great hallucination proposes. “Making” money has to do with rebellion, action, transformation, with trying to get out of the silent prison.
But I would like to make a distinction between “entrepreneur” and “micropreneur”.
The word entrepreneur, IMO, is used indiscriminately and generally to show the individual whose objective is to develop a new idea outside of a corporation, but that, in reality, his/her final objective is to re-insert himself/herself into the system through obtaining venture capital and partners of all kinds to build a new corporation. This individual is guided by the same operating system, which is the capitalist system because his/her real intention is to create a gigantic corporation that accumulates capital and power and destroys its competitors.
The micropreneur has no intention of setting up new corporations. He/she just wants to enjoy life, without putting money before his/her life project and based on a style of sharing the results of his/her work with his/her environment, while helping to make it grow and make it sustainable. This is what we call “making” money.
The micropreneur is the Big Quit guy. The one that is not seen because it is not news for the mass media. The one that is going to change the world when there are enough generational iterations.
For this reason, Satoshi Nakamoto's decentralization proposal meant the first great seed of the Big Quit.
In the crypto world, what we are saying is related to passive income (“earning” money) and trading and developing new projects (“making” money). Of course, as long as the new projects propose a shift towards decentralization and do not have the “corporate” seed in their White Paper.
Don't misunderstand me, I'm not making a value judgment, that is, I'm not saying what you have to do to be happy. The only thing I am showing is a common thread between what is happening in the form of a still underlying trend and the technological manifestations that accompany this movement, known by sometimes vague terms such as decentralization, blockchain, and token-based-economy, concepts that by the moment are being included in another macro concept called Web 3.0.
Web 3.0 may be one of the highways that can prevent civilization from ending in a general collapse, based on a system that proposes excessive global growth, which only benefits an elite that "legally" owns all the planet's resources, exercising the power that gives the accumulation of capital.
Pablo Servigne is one of the creators of the word Collapsology. Collapse is the "process by which the majority of the population no longer has the basic needs covered by the services provided by law."
“Our globalized economy, based on fossil fuels and growth, can no longer be sustained. Debts accumulate and are necessary to generate growth. It is a house of cards about to crumble. Our civilization will not be able to endure much longer.”
(Paul Servigne)
Very few today are trained to deeply understand what an economy without oil means, organized in small communities or “islands” as anarchy proposes, which, on the other hand, is a word that terrifies conservative dinosaurs.
The global economy based on the issuance of debt by governments and central banks that obey the orders of giant corporations can only bring more debt. An economy based on assets such as cryptocurrencies, based on the decentralization that is achieved through blockchain technology, and based on the transmission of value through tokens that represent value for their users, can be an alternative to the imminent catastrophe that is surely going to happen.
I don't think there is an alternative. When the corporate world collapses, a new economy based on decentralization, without permission, without hierarchies, will emerge, in which human beings communicate and exchange value with each other, without thinking about accumulation to achieve power and compete against our enemies. Instead of “earning” money, we are going to “make” money, which will be in the form of tokens distributed on a blockchain that does not depend on anyone, but makes the world sustainable for everyone.
Almost everyone recognizes that this story is true, and they can see it in their daily actions. However, the mass media continue to talk about the great achievements of the G8 and the IMF. For this reason, under its glazed offices, the Big Quit is growing. One day the flock is going to become widely aware of how it is being used. And on that day, the peaceful revolution of "making" money instead of "earning" money will begin.
Conclusion
The new world order that emerges after the great collapse is going to depend much more on “making” money than on “earning” money. Regrouped in small communities, the individual will have to prove that his/her daily work serves the mutual and is aligned with the concept of generating a sustainable society. This is what is called anarchy. There will be no need to accumulate money and power because none of that will make sense in a society without hierarchies.
As long as you continue to reason with the operating system of the capitalist system, there is no limit to the depredation of the planet, which inexorably leads us to a generalized collapse that will generate a domino effect on the entire capitalist structure. The question is not when this or that corporation will fall, but when.
G8, IMF, UNO, all these reservoirs of useless parasites who do nothing and collect colossal salaries, will inexorably disappear, and will not be replaced. Individuals will be very busy "making" money and no one will ever again consider a retrograde structure based on debt issuance that "earn" those who do not contribute anything to their environment.
Metropolis, Fritz Lang
Thank you for reading! Decentralize yourselves as much as you can, and much more! Work for yourselves, not for others. When you work for someone else, they pay you what YOUR POSITION is worth, when you work for yourself, they pay you what YOU are worth. No one achieves financial independence by working as an employee. Live long and prosper!
As usual, none of the things written in this post are financial advice and are not intended to replace personal research. My sole intention in writing this post is informative. Several of the things discussed here could be wrong, so in no way can this post be construed as financial advice, and in no way should it replace your own research.
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