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The problem is that we have people with very different ideas of the 'common good' living cheek-by-jowl in the same administrative areas and competing for the use of the administrative apparatus to force the losers to conform to the values of the winners. When politics becomes identical to war, a war where the functionaries of the administrative state become the forces of an occupying army, you don't have 'government' as White people would understand it. You have a war-machine by another name.

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Nov 11, 2022·edited Nov 11, 2022

Another thing permanent employees don't get: when you are self-employed, you are always looking for more work. The current job ending, the internal politics, the corporate bottom line turning red, none of that bothers you because you see other opportunities on the horizon. You are not sailing on their ship. In effect, you have jumped out of the boat into the water, and learned that swimming/treading is rather pleasant.

Meanwhile the permies are always dreading their employer pushing them out of the boat. They are dependent and not only financially.

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No I didn't hate this show; it was great. Please do similar in future.

This all sounds so familiar from (now old) blogs from the Early Retirement movement.

Prime examples are Mr Money Moustache (a Canadian libtard transplanted to Colarado) and Early Retirement Extreme (a Danish autist physicist who lived in a trailer in California but also worked as a quant on Wall Street). Lots of good advice on living free and frugal.

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Catherine Austin-Fitts should have you on her Solari podcast. She is forever promoting independence from the big world.

I don't think we have Towler's Tea in Canada. Last December Academic Agent posted a little midnight talk from his dining room, complete with Xmas tree and festive table and he mentioned the tea he was sipping was ... Towler's. Now it makes sense.

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