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And that is *exactly* why money was created in the first place. To slam you back into reality. To create fear in your mind. 

I have 4 steem which is not much, but i'm sending it to you. I can't fix the entire problem, but I can help in a small way. 
Maybe there are others who can also send a small amount until you've reached the $40 you need? 

Let's give it try. ☺

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It’s crazy I remember before there was even internet 🤪

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The imbalance of what we have versus what we need is the result of the system we are in.  I would love nothing more for all to breakthrough it but it is always the few that lead that suffer to set the example.  Keep moving forward no matter what!  

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Perhaps my little upvote might help.  It's all I can do for you, my friend.  

The question you pose as to the reality of the struggle for freedom from banksters is easier to wrestle into submission if considered from first principles.  While powerful men seek, and attain, to our wealth with unscrupulous means, the fact of our freedom remains.  Even though actual thugs point actual guns at our heads, yet we decide if we obey.

This is the bare fact of existence, and lack of scruples is indeed failure to act according to sound and right principles.  There are consequences to doing so, and I have learned in life that such gain as I think I shall have from acting thusly is fleeting, contrary to my actual interests, and even if I meet a due bill in a timely way so, will later suffer greater harm thereby.

These principles, I believe, are sound, and despite how things appear to be, it remains true that we see but dimly what is beyond our purview.  

Accordingly, I note that advancing technology always increases the power of individuals more than institutions, and technology is advancing exponentially.  Despite that Nest, Alexa; Fakebook and Goolag, seem to be increasing the power of predators to feed on our substance;  that fees, taxes, and fines seem to increasingly sap our substance, by relying on the basic principles that reality proves timeless, I remain confident that the future is brighter than the past, that our freedom will increase, and with it our prosperity.

Maybe not me personally, and in truth, little do I care.  My sons, and their sons, and the peoples that I love will, generally, and increasingly, as far as I can see.

Thanks!

First: I read the title as "I'm short two jackasses". Don't ask me why, but thats what I thought it said. I would have been willing to offer myself as one of those jackasses if you needed.

Second: Have my two cents. A little bit of support to get you closer to those two Jacksons(sadly not jackasses).  After fees and all, its barely a Lincoln(the cheaper one) but hey, it's something.