RE: Government is Slavery

"I can't see where in your scenario people can exist in greater freedom, since you say that 3D printing technology promotes such. The dependency on centralised supply systems such as energy generation, water supply and mass food production would, in my view, remain even with 3D technology..."

3D printing enables the production of goods. It does not provide, and instead requires, services like electricity and the materials used to make the goods. I have mentioned other decentralized means of production, such as solar panels, wood gas, and etc., that are ways people can make electricity and other power, themselves. Aquaponics, which I have seen used locally in an apartment which produced far more food, at least more tilapia, than the users required, makes centralized food factories unnecessary. Where people congregate in cities, water is, like the civic space itself, a resource that requires sharing by the people there, but it is something that rural people have long provided themselves with wells.

Certainly many personal means of production are far more difficult to undertake in urban settings rather than rural, as has always differentiated these settings. I presently live where I am restricted from having chickens or rabbits, and as I'd have both I am seeking different circumstances. However I live in a region where I am surrounded by farms, and currently get my eggs from a local farmer, so it's something I can trade to get and don't necessarily have to produce myself, and am not limited to factory farms for sourcing. I actually have provided chickens to someone who could have them in exchange for eggs in the past, as well.

There are more decentralized means of production than I know about, I am sure. I've seen people make iron tools from dirt, so not all means of production relevant in our present circumstances are even modern. While I note the breadth and depth of the applications 3D printing provides, that alone is not the decentralization evolution ongoing. In every field of industry today decentralization is the cutting edge of technological advance. There isn't any industry I am aware of where productivity can be increased by increasing centralization - except perhaps slavery.

Centralization is obsolete not because we have already adopted decentralized means of production, but because we will. As technology advances, productivity increases, and producers that adopt the most advanced technology outcompete producers that do not. During the last few thousand years, advances in productivity were gained by increasing centralization of production, making larger trains, factories, and etc. That just isn't happening anymore. It takes time to replace infrastructure. Trains are a good example. Many of the locomotives currently in use were built from the 1950s to the 1990s. Trains last a long time. They're extremely expensive and are therefore maintained and used as long as possible.

But trains aren't the cutting edge of transportation technology today. Drones are. They're more efficient and incredibly less expensive, delivering packages right to your door and requiring no tracks, rights of way, unions, or brakemen. Back when trains were the most efficient means of transporting goods, centralization of transportation by making larger cars to hold goods, stringing more of them together, and etc., made it even possible to ship goods that required refrigeration, for example, and greatly reduced the cost of shipping, outcompeting horse drawn wagons, and train tracks were built feverishly across the world in the 19th Century. However, some people still use horse drawn wagons today, and it took decades before transportation by rail mostly replaced wagons.

For long distance shipping of bulk goods, swarms of drones are still not competitive with trains, but drones are novel tech, and that is very likely to change IMHO. For local deliveries of small items, like pizzas, drones are vastly less expensive than pizza delivery boys, and trains have never been an option.

Decentralization isn't just happening in manufacturing through 3D printers, but in every industry there is.

It is of note that the centralization of transportation required immense capital and created the Robber Barons that had great control over who could succeed in business by their control of transport. Tales of corruption and financial skulduggery are myriad and horrific. Back in the 1980s I had a car I used to deliver pizzas, and made great money (even with a crappy car). The potential to control people was zilch, and little was possible in the way of financial crime or corruption. Today I could start a drone pizza delivery service with lunch money (except for crappy government preventing it), but couldn't control much at all because it is so inexpensive to get a couple drones. In fact, because drones are so inexpensive it's unlikely that any delivery company will be able to succeed for long in that field, because it's cheaper to have our own drones that pick stuff up for us than to pay to have it delivered - and this neglects that it's less expensive yet to just make stuff ourselves in many cases. Amazon is making $B's by taking advantage of this transition in transportation, and it is notable Amazon has no trains.

This is how decentralization makes us more free, and it does so in every industry, from food to medicine, energy production to transportation. It doesn't turn us into isolated islands, but enables people to work directly with each other, without requiring representatives that can be corrupted, or overlords with immense capital that can decide who can do business and who can't. It doesn't eliminate trade, industry, or society. It increases our productivity.

It eliminates overlords and parasitization, which is an almost incomprehensible cost of doing business today. If I need electrical outlet boxes, which I may for a job I am looking at, it isn't necessary today to buy them from a hardware store at a markup that covers all the parasitic losses incurred in producing them at a big factory, shipping them to the local hardware store, and making the hardware store owner their profit, but that means of securing that product now has to compete with me, or the owner for whom I do the work, printing them with a 3D printer. Since I am in a rural area, the boxes may be fairly expensive, and may be much less expensive to print instead, saving the end user money, perhaps time, and potentially even enabling customizing the boxes to their specific need in ways that aren't even possible with cookie cutter products produced in factories.

Recently I saw a news story about a gun buyback in Houston, TX, where the local government was buying guns to get them out of the hands of civilians. An enterprising guy with a 3D printer printed off 62 handguns and sold them for ~$3k to Houston. They cost him less than $200 to produce, and he made a handsome profit. No where more than means of security is decentralization of import, and this only hints at why. Firearms are mechanisms that deliver metal slugs propelled by chemical explosions on target. That technology is ~1000 years old, but remains useful to overlords because it's the optimum means to enable gangs of thugs to compel people to obey overlords. It's not the optimum means to prevent armed gangs of thugs from kicking down your door.

Modern security technology has far advanced from chemically propelled metal slugs, and myriad mechanisms that can prevent armed gangs of thugs from kicking down your door are potential today. But overlords own governments, own the stores where people buy security mechanisms, own the indoctrination and propaganda means that create what people understand, and in every way they can they prevent their subjects from acquiring modern security technology that can prevent them from forcing people to do what they want.

But we don't have to buy security mechanisms today, because we can manufacture them ourselves. This is why I mentioned the Houthis using inexpensive drones to blow up $B's refineries in the Yemen war. That's an example of using modern security technology against centralization, and it's why no war against insurgents has succeeded since WWII. The insurgents always win, because massive armies cannot compete with decentralization. Again, the people aren't lone individuals cut off from society, but society itself is eliminating parasitic overlords because of decentralization of the means of production.

That is increasing their freedom, prosperity, and felicity, and that suite of benefits is only just beginning to occur. There is unimaginable benefit coming as decentralization continues to develop and spread to people everywhere.

"...communities living and working together in larger numbers requires the ownership of land. This land must be of a certain size to provide the necessary conditions for energy needs and food."

Aquaponics makes it possible to grow the food you need in your apartment, as I have mentioned. It does take some room, but not very much, and most of the mechanism can be incorporated into living space, similar to growing houseplants on a windowsill. The water can be almost infinitely recycled. The fish or crawdads need some food, and the lights take some energy - if you're not using sunshine alone. Solar panels take roofs, gravity generators require access to the ground to drill a hole into which the weight is dropped and reeled back up, windmills and waterwheels require access to those resources, and producer gas requires a place to grow flammable stuff, or a source of it, but we aren't required to live in smart cities where we can be surveilled 24/7 by overlords and don't have access to the required space and resources. Not every place is suitable for every technology, but we can also trade with one another, as I do for eggs, and may for electrical outlet boxes.

To maximize our freedom, prosperity, and felicity, is it best we do not live in bugpods that our overlords want us to BECAUSE that makes us less able to produce what we need ourselves and maximizes our dependence.

"They simply lack the time and money as well as the know-how to create a version of freedom. I think the most striking point, moreover, is that they do not even recognise or know how to live in greater freedom and accept that the large systems should and may both provide for them and dictate the rules of coexistence."

From time to time cataclysms and catastrophes happen on Earth. During the Toba eruption about 75kya, almost all humanity is thought to have died, leaving only a few thousand survivors on the whole planet, for example. Not everyone will make it through the ongoing catastrophe of global destruction of civil society being undertaken by overlords desperate to maintain their parasitic wealth and power over humanity.

But I think most of us will, and after we do, that paradise prophesied for millenia will be built by those that do, and as we can see from Relativity Space 3D printing spaceships today, we will gain abilities as the cutting edge of new technological capabilities become developed and dispersed - as they always do - that are going to create unimaginable freedom, prosperity, and felicity for our posterity.

Evolution happens. It's happening to us right now, and evolution works by those incapable of surviving to breed dying, and the survivors being the gene pool that subsequent generations come from. We will live and die by our merits, and folks that do not prepare for the coming catastrophe and war that vile overlords are going to prosecute in their attempt to completely and permanently enslave humanity are not going to be prepared.

This is why I advocate that people adopt the decentralized means of production of the blessings of civilization suitable to their personal circumstances now. Germany is particularly suffering from the machinations of overlords today, as the duplicitous AGW alarmists have almost completely destroyed Germany's electrical generation capacity subjecting their hapless people to insuperable power costs, and destroying industry and the German economy. This is not a natural catastrophe. It's completely engineered by overlords as a means of forcing people to own nothing and be happy that overlords allow them to survive. It's unavoidably obvious that a community of folks with their own ability to produce electricity in Germany today is immune to that catastrophe and will not be enslaved by that means.

Decentralization isn't just freedom, prosperity, and felicity. It's literally the difference between life and death. 1000% increase in power costs is going to kill people this winter in Germany. I hope you take action to make sure you have power and aren't enslaved by this brutal economic attack that is only possible because the AGW deception has been prosecuted by your enemies for decades.

"...central systems such as social security, taxation, etc. do not allow exit..."

This is not true. I am 100% disabled and qualify for social security income as I have for decades, but I do not receive it because I do not want it. Taxation can be avoided, as megacorporations that pay little or no tax prove. Decentralization is a way of avoiding taxation, because when you consume what you produce you create no taxable event. If you earn Euros working a job you pay taxes on those wages. If you spend Euros to buy beets, you likely pay taxes on that transaction. If you grow those beets and eat them, you do not incur any tax liability thereby. If instead of having a job that you pays wages you are taxed on, you simply make everything you need yourself and consume it, you pay no taxes at all.

"...I see bureaucracy and legal possibilities as the biggest problem."

You are absolutely right. This is why I am an anarchist. Overlords own the German government, because they corrupt it with their parasitized wealth. Government is force, and force enslaves people. Germany is not a free and independent nation of sovereign people, because government makes freedom illegal.

Government is not society. Society is not civilization. Being free is the most expensive thing there is for a reason, and that reason is that being enslaved is the alternative. The economic and political disruption that has been ongoing for these last couple years is just the beginning of the war to enslave humanity, including you personally, that overlords have undertaken. There is no alternative to preparing to withstand whatever attacks the WEF and it's minions are going to prosecute, such as the forced house arrest, social isolation, and mandatory pass to legally travel, that are now exacerbated with impossible energy costs and easily foreseeable economic attacks coming.

In every case, being able to provide yourself what you need prevents overlords from enslaving you. Decentralization is the only way you personally are going to avoid being forced into a bugpod and CBDC UBI, which will completely force you to do whatever you are told to do by your benefactors that provide every necessity, or die.

Be free. Free people have always had to make their freedom, at great expense. It has always been worth the cost, because slavery is worse than death IMHO. If I can be of any assistance in your quest and action to be free, please don't hesitate to ask of me what you will. If I can help I will. Most importantly, I recommend you find friends you can rely on where you are, or can go, that you can increase in strength and increase yours.

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Truly terrible things are coming, and it is necessary to prepare to survive and thrive through such times.