Erosion of Private Property
It seems to me that private property is getting eroded by outside forces. It's not that the concept of private property had become obsolete, it's very much necessary, however it seems like due to a massive propaganda campaign and culture shift, private property is getting eroded.
And this is not just an attack on obvious private property like estate or farmland, this is all across the board, they even want to steal your soul away. Let me give examples:
1) Rising Taxes
It's not even debatable. In the last 200 years, but especially in the last 50 years, taxes went across the roof. So this is a huge violation of private property. Considering that the Tax Freedom Day in Ancient Rome was about January the 2nd, while now it's around August is pretty horrible. You only had to work only 2 days of a Year to pay off your taxes in Rome. Meanwhile now you are working half of the year, as a slave for your Government.
2) You don't actually own things
Believe it or not , but you are not a legal owner of anything. Allodial title is not given to you if you own a farmland or real estate. And the money in your bank account is actually owned by the bank, even legally, and you are just lending that money to the bank. So your house and your bank account is not yours, you are just renting it. And your personal items can easily be stolen anyway.
3) Surveillance
Turns out that you don't even own your private actions, since they are constantly surveilling everybody. Your phone activity is recorded, they can turn on the mic and the camera at will, they track everything you do online, and so on....
4) The Body
You don't even own your body, you are sent to a rape-camp (prison) if you start consuming certain plants. Also India has ruled that you actually don't own your body, so they don't even hide this:
5) They are coming for your Body
Well if this isn't enough yet, they are coming for your body with chips inside your skull that will read your thoughts:
- https://www.infowars.com/a-chip-in-the-head-brain-implants-will-be-connecting-people-to-the-internet-by-the-year-2020/
- http://www.computerworld.com/article/2521888/app-development/intel--chips-in-brains-will-control-computers-by-2020.html
- http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31042477
Conclusion
So this is the erosion of private property. Not just at an institutional level, like the communists would want factories being owned by workers, but total erosion; Like having chips inside your brain to read your thoughts and upload it into a "Skynet-like" AI system.
Nobody will have private property except the Government, and everybody will be a literal slave. Looks like the 21 century starts to look more like a Nazi Concentration Camp than anything else.
Sources:
I found this on businessinsider.com, I find it very interesting:
"In the terminal collapse of the Roman Empire, there was perhaps no greater burden to the average citizen than the extreme taxes they were forced to pay.
The tax ‘reforms’ of Emperor Diocletian in the 3rd century were so rigid and unwavering that many people were driven to starvation and bankruptcy. The state went so far as to chase around widows and children to collect taxes owed.
By the 4th century, the Roman economy and tax structure were so dismal that many farmers abandoned their lands in order to receive public entitlements.
At this point, the imperial government was spending the majority of the funds it collected on either the military or public entitlements. For a time, according to historian Joseph Tainter, “those who lived off the treasury were more numerous than those paying into it.”"
This is happening today all over the world, taxes are reducing people to extreme poverty, and everyone pays taxes, if you eat you pay taxes on your food, so the excuse that people don't pay taxes may be valid but only for the very rich who find loopholes to not pay some taxes. This taxing is really validating your article about private property, it exists, but it is becoming more expensive therefore more difficult to keep.
Yep I know all about this, that is was I specifically referred to the Roman Republic, not the Empire.
Once they turned into an empire, all bets were off, it turned into a militaristic fascist police state.
And before that it was the most free country that has ever existed in human history.
It is really ironical that the most free country has turned into one of the most vicious empires, however history repeats itself (USA).
The question is, do you want to have property and why? In a share economy you can lend things from your neighbours, services to allow these are in the market place like PeerBy. If you want to go from A to B, why drive this with your own car and not lend or rent one for the day with services like Snappcar? When want to stay somewhere, why go to an expensive hotel and not rent a nice room or apartment with AirBnB? Owning something basically means, wanting more to own! And yes, chips and integration of these with the brains will happen. AI will become so intelligent that it will become MUCH MORE intelligent than humans, so better to have humans with chips integrated with their brains so it can stay on par with AI's intelligence. Technology can not be stopped, and guess what, it are not government or large corporates driving these innovations; it are generally the small companies doing that; these small companies may at some point be bought by the large corporates, but that is the system we build trough owning things; Since owning things means, wanting more, therefore we globalised, therefore we scale up, on small scale being our home, and on large scale being the small companies that wants and needs to become bigger since otherwise they are eaten up by their competitors. So owning stuff + free market drives all of this.
I wrote two articles last days on de-centralisation of governments, you may like them. When interested, serve to my page @edje.
I would certainly love to calculate at 200 terrabyte/s speed, but I would not put a chip in my brain until it's completely open source and 100% verified.
The last thing you want to have is a chip that will control your body, so that the AI system will literally have an army of zombies.
It's so Orwellian that I can't even think about it.
LOL... I'm not sure what the exact requirements for me are to become bionic, but I would probably like to be part of test to download my brain content, knowledge, consciousness, so basically me and test if I can be transferred to eg AI. Some believe the downloading part of it shall be possible within 25-30 years.
That is indeed not what we want. BUT, I'm with Elon Musk, when we do not upgrade ourself to human 2.0, the chance AI will wipe humanity out is quite substantial. I truly believe singularity will be reach, rather sooner than later, and when that happens, AI will be gazillion times more intelligent than humans in matter of days/weeks/months at most.
Well they can't even manufacture a CPU without a backdoor, so until they do that, I'm not going anywhere near their silly brain implants.
Certainly they would need to invent "mental encryption" as well to keep thoughts private.
And then maaaaaaaaaaaybe I'll consider it.
But as I said, I don't think this is their goal, to empower people. They actually want to enslave people. Technology currently is used to enslave people, not to empower them.
And until this changes, I'm not putting any chip inside of me.
LOL
Start from something not implanted first, such as smartphone. 😢
What do you mean not implanted?
control begins with devices portable first, not chips implanted in the body, which will be the next stage.
It's only a question how much are people putting up with this.
I have sold my smartphone 1 year ago. And I have almost convinced my fiansee to sell her's as well.
There is nothing trendy about having a portable surveillance device in your private romantic home.
It is rare not using smartphone these days. what's the alternative then?
Older cell phones. You can get a cheap Nokia for 2$, why should I pay 400$ for a spyware?