Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Shift Focus to Individual Capability

The Beast system fills gaps in personal competence. That is, a person who is a cog in the corporate system makes money, then uses that money to pay for the things they can't do themselves. If you don't know how to fix your car, then you pay a mechanic. After hundreds of years of division of labor, and a school system that trains people for a roll in that scheme, the average person is kind of dumb at everything, and possibly an expert on one thing, and the aggregate economy is very diverse and well into an era of all-diminishing returns. Millions of man hours were poured into building social media systems, for example.

The feeble people who are created by the Beast are made for slavery and a life spent on a frustrating treadmill. They're institutionalized almost from birth and are shaped and molded to serve as a cog in a machine that's increasingly predatory and parasitic.

The antidote for that is competence at the individual and community level and replacing systems with individual competence and skill. That'd simultaneously shrink the economy and de-complicate it. I believe people would be much less likely to invest their personal time and energy into building nonsense if they were more responsible for the outcome of their own life.

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