Our future?

All ideas sound great..............until you put them into practice. Then they either fail dismally or linger on destroying lives for years.

Socialism, Communism, Fascism are just examples of hairy fairy ideas which devastated lives and even the worlds at that time. All of them are ideas which have been dreamed up by somebody for no other reason but to control others for nothing else but to give those who invented the ideas power over the people.

Now we have another.................Pretend to make everybody happy and give those who are just lazy, something for free.

Why bother going to work when Big Brother is going to give you everything for nothing? Well you will get a good citizen award of a 'social score' for doing things those in power want you to do. If your score is low, then you will not get the nice things they promise or even worse you will be locked up or worse.
 
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It starts slow. Carrier offers phone with plan. You never really own it

One day photoshop moves to a subscription based system. You no longer own but rent

Music goes to streaming, don’t own that. Just pay a monthly rental fee.

Protools goes to subscription

Movies go to streaming .

While it may be convenient to not have a box of CDs or DVDs that you own, little by little one gets used to not owning anything.

Conditioning.

And then one day you’ll own nothing, even the clothes in your back.

But someone will own it. Just not you.



So, who owns it??
 
RFR said:
It starts slow. Carrier offers phone with plan. You never really own it

One day photoshop moves to a subscription based system. You no longer own but rent

Music goes to streaming, don’t own that. Just pay a monthly rental fee.

Protools goes to subscription

Movies go to streaming .

While it may be convenient to not have a box of CDs or DVDs that you own, little by little one gets used to not owning anything.

Conditioning.

And then one day you’ll own nothing, even the clothes in your back.

But someone will own it. Just not you.



So, who owns it??
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How much to rent/lease your idea?
 
All that stuff is voluntary. The idea of your home, chairs, cutlery, bed, possibly even clothes being shared by others is pure madness. Then if you do not do what 'they' want, you will be given a bad social score and lose your privilege's is even madder.

Sharing someones wife I'm all for though. The idea of just having one when 'I' feel like it appeals to me.
 
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RFR said:
It starts slow. Carrier offers phone with plan. You never really own it

One day photoshop moves to a subscription based system. You no longer own but rent

Music goes to streaming, don’t own that. Just pay a monthly rental fee.

Protools goes to subscription

Movies go to streaming .

While it may be convenient to not have a box of CDs or DVDs that you own, little by little one gets used to not owning anything.

Conditioning.

And then one day you’ll own nothing, even the clothes in your back.

But someone will own it. Just not you.



So, who owns it??
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My problem with all this youboob, facebutt social media is, anyone can throw anything out for the price of hits, without knowing a goddamn thing about it. And when that happens all Real Life context is lost. People only believe the crap they can find real fast in a search, which has no Real Life foundations either. So even with proof if one of knowledge dares to go against the grain, your instantly a liar and a troll. No exceptions. Then your breaking community rules for standing up for what you know is true, and banned from the platform. I give myself a week if l keep posting here.
 
Slouching Raymond said:
There will always be a large group of non-conformists that have not been taken into account.
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I agree, Raymond.

However when a cashless society is here with full 24 hour surveillance along with the social credit system they can lock anyone out for ‘misbehaving’. We’re kind of fucked.

There will always be barter, underground economies and people opting out of this new world.

But that will actually be a hunger games society where the non conformists are completely locked out of the society.

Most aren’t prepared for that. Infrastructure for an alternate non conforming society is non existent. Many have no idea how to grow their own food, or hunt, fish, raise chickens etc.
Hell, many people don’t even know how to cook anymore.

The people that do conform will be in the prison of the ‘smart cities’. It may be a nice prison, but still, a prison.

Interesting times ahead.
 
Except for a brief few moments here and there, l have been completely locked out of society. But even at only 66 l have outlived all my friends and this social media virtual society, while it is better than TV, it really sucks balls.
 
Sheff37 said:
Except for a brief few moments here and there, l have been completely locked out of society. But even at only 66 l have outlived all my friends and this social media virtual society, while it is better than TV, it really sucks balls.
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Just curious if you’d like to share. Locked out how?
 
How? Well not by choice. Just l am Not one of them. Whatever they are. That which l held of value means nothing today. It's not my world. So l am locked out by default. And it's not all bad because l am a square peg trying to force myself in a round hole. And l can see that, so l know when to back off. The bottom line is it sucks.
 
My world has always been music, yes drugs, sex, and other things were there. But the bottom line was it was always about the music. While sound is still very popular, my approach to the music world of today is irrelevant.
 
Musicians have always been outside of the ‘normal’ society to some degree.

The kind of locked out I’m talking about is when the grocery store won’t sell you food because due to a lower social credit score, you’re cut off.

During the pandemic, vaccine passports did much the same. No jab, no job, no jab no dinner out, no jab, no club entrance. Etc.
 
Yes there was pushback and it was dropped in many areas and never instituted in others.
There are still plenty of venues and clubs in LA, that you have to ‘show your papers’ to get in.
But the infrastructure is there to be used anytime.
 
RFR said:
Musicians have always been outside of the ‘normal’ society to some degree.

The kind of locked out I’m talking about is when the grocery store won’t sell you food because due to a lower social credit score, you’re cut off.

During the pandemic, vaccine passports did much the same. No jab, no job, no jab no dinner out, no jab, no club entrance. Etc.
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The world isn't there yet. But it is going in that direction fast. For me, l just got food stamps for the first time in my life last November. Then Billy Gibbons gave me $700 for my cut of the ownership of "Hey Baby Que Paso". I reported the $700 and food stamps cut me off because they said it was self employment income. Yet it was a one time check. So now my food stamps are cut off. It's a process. I got no stimulus pandemic check because l don't file for income tax. But l have been a homeless Skid Row vagrant for the last 8 years. So here we are.
 
I still have no jab, don't want a job. Eating out of a dumpster isn't the worst thing in the world. Society hates us, as l hated the homeless. I became one of them not by choice, but because the fight with Eric Garcetti was futile. But this was in 2013. So much has changed since.
 
RFR said:
So you truly are on the outside. How do you survive? Busking?
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It's more like how do you not survive? But you are 100% on your own. You make alliances to claim a spot, then those are gone. And others want to make alliances with you to camp out next to you. And they don't last either. Busking was fun, but if you make any money, and we did, you won't be doing that long. Survival is in recycling cans and bottles.
 
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