Month: March 2023

It’s not about more skills. It’s about the lowest wage being enough for anyone to live without help

Of all the points being missed by the political classes, probably the worst as well as the most troubling is the absence of any understanding or appreciation that life is now too expensive for anyone to pay for, working full time and on the minimum, basic or working wage.

Whilst it may be logical to believe that everyone is hardwired to work at and do whatever they can to earn money when they don’t have enough, the next of those points being missed is that if you cannot do the most basic of jobs and still not pay your own way without help, the rubicon has already been crossed when it comes to ‘helping ones self’.

For many, a lot of help or borrowing is the same thing as receiving just a little.

Why should anyone who doesn’t have enough even if they work a 50 hour week, struggle and destroy their life, if they cannot even then gain the benefit of being able to fully support themselves with the self-respect that it gives?

In a money obsessed society, where the politicians and elites are even more obsessed with what that means for them than most, it sadly stands to reason that government cannot think of any problem and therefore come up with any solution which isn’t itself derived in monetary terms.

On the face of it, focusing on getting people earning – and identifying that this can be achieved through the acquisition of new skills, does indeed sound like a genuinely good way to address a small element of truth that exists when answering the question of how to get more of the low paid back into work.

Yet many of the jobs that need to be filled don’t actually need or require people who are not being treated like the adults they are to have any additional skills beyond common sense, being motivated and to be genuinely happy with who they are.

The problem here is very much the difference between what it is when you are required to live to work, instead of being able to simply work to live.

Politicians will continue coming up with diversionary schemes to help themselves, that just make more and more people feel disillusioned with a life where the system doesn’t legislate to allow anyone who so chooses, just to simply exist. They will continue doing so until they and The System that they are promoting, supporting and facilitating is called out for the life, community, country, planet, values and humanity destroying lie that it all is.

When the lowest wage for a working week can pay for all of the basics in life that any person genuinely needs, and the way that government and governance works is to promote and maintain that standard in all things and all it does, pretty much all of the societal problems that are plaguing life and dividing people will quickly cease to exist.

#TheBasicLivingStandard

Why do we need a CBDC when ‘normal’ money is already digital?

If you aren’t asking this question right now, you should be. The Bank of England has announced it is working on a Central Bank Digital Coin and it is likely to be in use in just a few years time. But why?

If you use online banking to move money around, pay your bills, transfer money to someone else, or have your wages paid electronically into your bank account, you are already using digital money within each and every part of that transaction.

Under the guise of simplifying life with easy to use technology, just about every part or function of life is now being ripped away and replaced with a machine function of some kind.

If you don’t believe me, look up the new AI bot that a leading search engine is about to launch which will write pretty much anything and everything that you want it to, and then ask yourself the question ‘If I use this, who is actually in control?’

Conspiracy theories abound in these times. But conspiracies sit out on the periphery and distract. They don’t have a profound affect on life within.

And this is the point. Technology to improve quality of life: YES. Technology to control life: NO!

The problem is that those pushing all of this; all of these changes; all of this ‘progress’ are ignoring the No that all of us would consciously give if we were actually asked, and amalgamating it all so that it equates to exactly the same thing.

We are quite literally being tricked into surrendering our freedoms with a series of lies that make us think that we are the winners as we progressively lose.

The only purpose of a single, universal central bank digital coin is control. Nothing will be private. Everything you do with money will be seen. And it won’t stop there. As the Canadian government did with their protesting truckers, if you do or say anything that someone in control doesn’t approve of or doesn’t like, they can simply switch your money supply off. You should think about what that would mean.

The crypto craze has been fun for those who have played the game and won. But it was based on nothing more than belief. And whilst the original idea that launched cryptos like Bitcoin was decentralised finance, the reality was that it was as pretend, fake or created as the FIAT money it sought to replace.

By buying into the myth that we can get rich by taking bets and speculating on money and currencies that simply don’t exist, we have actively played a part in creating our own living lie. A lie that is about to hurt and damage us beyond repair, taking away anything that resembles freedom of choice and freedom to be who we actually are as it does.

The technology is good. The ownership and purpose is rotten to the core. We need to retake control of the way that everything works before we are all inescapably and completely enslaved within a system that works for nobody other than those who control it.

If any of this makes sense, use cash.

If you are a business owner, reject the cash bribes from card companies and banks to refuse to take cash.

Together, work with your communities to create your own markets, systems of exchange – and yes – digital currencies that are pinned to real value – which isn’t money, but the value that people put into and give to the system itself.

Freedom is our future. Our future can only begin locally and by trusting only the people and the communities that we really know. Our future freedom starts with Grassroots-Up.