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@clayboyn, Freedom is a right and no one can take back that from anyone but in my opinion we are watching total opposite to it and System want to develop a world which will accept the slavery. Stay blessed.

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Hear hear! Agree 101%. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this, as well as the best JFK speech ever 😋

You are right about the extant system, and how most folks are fit into it.  Yet your own piercing of the veil of ignorance reveals that not all people are so susceptible to being milk cows in the corral of propaganda.  It can be a clever trick to parlay that understanding into actual freedom, and particularly in view of the chains of debt slavery and parasitism rentiers seek.  

There is something that might be considered a secret that importantly affects the potential folks with understanding have to be free.  

>"... the only people truly free perpetuate that freedom through the ignorance of the masses and a legacy of abusive activities that cement their spot atop the greatest Ponzi schemes of all time: The fiat monetary System and fractional reserve banking."

That secret is that those rentiers and parasites aren't free at all.  They are bound more securely by the chains of debt than their prey.  They are bound by their dependence, and they need to perpetuate that parasitic profiteering in a world that is producing technology that is advancing decentralization to an ever greater degree, across all industries.  It is centralization that makes parasitism possible, and it is parasitism that makes centralization powerful.  As decentralization increases, centralization decreases, and the profits of parasitism decrease.

Furthermore, we do not need to be potentates to be free.  The machinations pertaining to plutocracy are demanding: the competition is fierce, and those at the top of the heap know damn well if they falter for a moment, their feed trough is going to be wrested from their grasp by their ever hungry ilk.  To be free of that need to feed is liberty indeed.

We need enough, and not more than that, to be free, and more than enough makes us less free withal.  We may not be free to fly to Jamaica on a whim, or to buy Wakaya from the Bronfman's of NXIVM, but those assets are actually liabilities.  Clare Bronfman was denied recognizance because of her possession of Wakaya, for example, and to be able to fly off to a foreign paradise one must have a passport, be suitably vaccinated, legally insured, and so forth.  Not really so whimsical, after all.  

Many people believe that owning their own home creates an asset which improves their lot, but most people don't think it through and grasp that before the mortgage is paid off they have a liability - the chains of debt slavery you referred to earlier.  Further contemplation reveals that to all assets inure via various vectors numerous liabilities, such as taxes, payments, obligations to positive acts, and negative prohibitions excluding one from other acts.  Even after you have paid off the mortgage you must pay the taxes, ward off frauds, and guard against those you trust wresting your property from you.  I am speaking from personal experience, not speculatively.

I once kept chickens.  Free eggs!  After a while having fun raising chicks my hens produced with nominal encouragement from the roosters, I had around 30 chickens.  They laid about 2 dozen eggs a day.  My family could reasonably consume a half dozen, with considerable planning of menus.  It does not take long to begin to wonder what to do with eight dozen eggs.  About a week actually.

That is not freedom, that is desperation.  That is just the burden that the asset created, not the liability.  The liability included needing one person to be present every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, better or worse, hell or high water, sickness or health.  No days off.  Having just one chicken created that liability.  Water is the most egregious need for a daily presence, and it isn't hard to think of ways to make sure water was automatically provided - but waterers break.  Food goes bad, gets pests, and more.  Foxes, raccoons, neighboring dogs, black bears, and hawks, amongst other things, all provide entertaining reasons to be present daily.  Murphy's Law requires personal presence regardless of automated systems when you have livestock.  There just is no substitute that is reliable and realistic.

The burdens of wealth are treated at length by John Smith, a Quaker who undertook a mission early in American history to prevent those burdens from causing undue harm to his religious community.  It is a counterintuitive mission, but experience trumps intuition, and he did have no little impact on his neighbors.  

The rich are the least free people in the world.  Perhaps the most potent chain that constrains their freedom is our thoughts.  For them to continue to bear their burdens, we must not escape our mental corral.  Decentralization is increasingly making this impossible, and the more advanced the technology decentralized, the more quickly and completely that veil of lies becomes transparent.  You well and truly point out that the truth is both an asset and a liability, just like every other treasure.  One of the liabilities of the truth that decentralization is making tyranny increasingly impossible, and eventually will completely force us to be utterly free, is that we will no longer be able to just keep our heads down, perform our duties to our overlords, and depend on their crumbs for our room and board.  We are going to necessarily have to take the bull of prosperity by the horns, and wrestle it into tolerable submission so that we provide our necessary means, yet do not overburden ourselves with oppressive wealth.

Given the state of the world today, I am confident that most all of us will welcome such burdens, when the present oppression has run it's historical course.

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