Money drives our lives. For most people it's why we work, give away a vast majority of our lives, often to jobs we find soulless and ungratifying. "No free lunch", as the saying goes. But food literally just grows out of the ground and on trees. Lunch should in theory be the…
Populism is the only game in town now that politician have eroded the trust for fair and balanced rule of law based policies. The continual erosion of social safety nets, the complete lack of political will to push back against naked profiteering and gouging of the working…
No fiefs. Nor algorithm. The guild is us. A fundamental gap has been bridged. No longer bits and bytes or even convoluted syntax and algorithms, but plain speech can be fed to LLMs and actions, often quite complex, can be taken and the desired outcome is achieved. So in light of all this, plus the ever encroaching techno-feudalism, I created handshakeunion.nexus
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One of the things I've been trying to tackle in my brain box recently is the idea of what a post capitalist system would look like. I'll not further beat the tired corpse of the analogy of a fish in the ocean not knowing what water is. I do however think it's helpful to actually…
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I have been looking for a while to where I fit in on the political landscape. There is so much dogma and rigidity around the camps as they currently exist. Marxist Socialists or Pluralist Liberalism, Anarcho-Humanist or Enlightenment Rationalist. None of these really fit, like a…
AI is inescapable currently. Quite literally every app is introducing some sort of AI into it's main sections. My own website admin panel now has it through Wordpress which seems to have included it "out of the box" - I have no clue to which service it pings or who is footing…
I have been feeling a fair bit of #praxisParalysis over the last two years. Honestly I can't believe it's been that long since my last upload. Man how times change in such a short span. The more I learn, the harder it seems to see the path forward that lifts humanity out of…
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Incredible video from the BBC, I've never heard someone so succinctly describe the fundamental issue with economics and the way it drives our governmental systems.
My friends and I often joke about packing up and leaving the city to buck the trend by pooling our resources for commune living. Our joke has even gone so far as to have people picking out their desired roles & responsibilities within our made up pseudo-society. This musing…
What started as pure aesthetic has become social underground with books and manifestos building an optimistic ideological movement providing much needed hope for the future.
With a change of monarch many Australians are starting to question is it time to change up our way of government. Time for a republic?
Assumptions Before I began my quest to learn about one of (if not the) most prevalent economic systems in the world, I had some very specific ideas about what capitalism was. Firstly, I thought that capitalism's main aim was to redistribute wealth amongst the population.…