The Cost of the Financial System, Patents, Legal System, etc...

I usually keep YouTube on as  background noise, and mostly watcher maker and builder channels. I'm pretty tired of the culture war and culture critic talk. From the culture "war" point-of-view, it's interesting to compare YouTube's suggestions versus the garbage dump that's on the "trending" (i.e. Promoted by YouTube) page. I wonder if people are really watching any of that stuff, or if it's all astroturf stuff that's grown in the plugged up sewer pipes of cosmopolitan culture.

One of the things that's interesting about the maker/builder videos is it's really obvious that when people are unleashed from the corporate and financial world, they're much more creative and productive than they are in the beast system.

The cost of the beast system is enormous, just in boring economic terms. The patent system, for example is almost pure overhead and is an organ of the usury based financial system. It's several thousands of dollars per patent issued, and then a bottomless pit of expense to litigate and enforce patents. The legal system and enforcement of business agreements is another bottomless pit of expense. It seems pretty likely that the administrative aspects of the beast system consume the lion's share of the wealth it produces.

It seems pretty likely that people could make due without all that overhead. All that overhead is in place to make financial/paper wealth valuable. Ostensibly it protects people from cheating, but it's by far the largest cheater.

As I've pointed out numerous times on my blog, this period resembles the reformation rather than antebellum America or some other time. Since the Internet has become the most  important channel of information, new ideas and approaches to organizing work and people has begun to supplant the old ways of doing things.