Friday, December 29, 2023

Chronic Wasting Disease

I recently got interested in the disease that's plaguing disease called "chronic wasting disease". The story that circulates the media about the disease it occurs in wild deer populations and is "spreading" around the USA.

However, after just a little research, the story I find is CWD originated in captive deer populations. It specifically started in Colorado back in 1967, then kept cropping up in various farmed deer and elk populations ever since.

Researchers published "Alterations in gut microbiota linked to provenance, sex, and chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)" (link to article) in 2021. It's pretty interesting. Their theory is the feed and high population density on deer farms--yes they farm deer--creates the conditions for CWD.

Anyway, I'm going to keep reading up on it. 

Thursday, April 6, 2023

The US is a Joke

 The supreme court ruled that boys can compete in girls sports "as girls". 7-2.

A boy can just claim he's a girl and that's good enough for the US government. Why? How? It's really pretty weird. Anyway, I doubt most people have anything in common with the US leadership. I don't. I doubt I'm a really exceptional case.

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Nashville Trans Shooter 2

 There's a lot of video of the incident. It looks pretty real. What a messed up world!



Car Deaths and School Shootings

 I had a really bad car accident in 2008--easily could have killed me. Maybe a little more speed or a different angle and I would have died. There was absolutely nothing I could do to avoid it either. Everyone who drives or rides in a car accepts that risk every day. The odds are pretty grim, basically there's a close to 1:1 lifetime chance of serious injury in a car accident, and 1/78% chance of death in the US.  About 1,000 kids die in car accidents every year and the total number is 40,000+. The number went up significantly as smart phones became widely used, about 3,000 more per year as far as I can tell.

People accept those risks as a cost of doing business. Many drivers get right back behind the wheel after a serious accident. I know I did. After about 2 days of driving I was numb to the risk again.

At the same time, if there's a violent crime, specifically a school shooting people freak out about it for at least a few weeks. They don't freak out about ghetto shootings, but only about school shootings, which is really pretty weird.

When a parent puts a kid into their car they expose them to about a 1% chance of death over the course of a year. The school shooting odds are microscopic--probably down into lightning strike territory--but people feel strongly compelled, at times, to "do" something to prevent school shootings. It's just kind of weird how it works.

Nashville Trans Shooter

The Nashville trans shooter story is pretty weird. It's probably the rarest event in the world.

Female art student with gun collection and tacticool gear is also female-to-male "trans" person goes into a school and shoots it up.

The story is loaded with freemasonic numerology bullshit. 3 adult victims, 3 child victims, children are 9, adults are sixties-6. The address is "33", the date of the attack is 3/27 (3*3*3).

Political people with different axes to grind jump all over the story from every angle, because it has every angle. Tranny. Guns. Assault rifles. Insanity. There's supposedly even a manifesto (yet to be released).

There's probably no real conclusion a person could draw from this story.

It's sad that kids get killed in school shootings. It's also quite rare. It's sad that kids die in car accidents, but people just accept that as a cost of doing business. I'm not sure what the psychology is there, but it's kind of interesting.

Monday, March 20, 2023

Black Lives Don't Matter to Blacks

A lot of black kids go to Miami for Spring Break, apparently, and they are basically rioting and shooting each other this year. I guess it's internalized white supremacy or something that's got them going.

Here's a video of some black guy snuffing out another black guy on the sidewalk.

https://mobile.twitter.com/CulturePlugg/status/1637831959945818112

Here's one of random black kids trashing a car and some food places and having brawls on the street.

https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1637663531339247617




Sunday, March 19, 2023

Remember Occupy Wall Street?

 After the financial crisis, a bunch of people went and "protested" the outcome by camping out in various cities around the US, including NYC/Wall Street.

There were a lot of people unhappy with the US plutocrats and the government after the 2008 on both the left and the right. The people on the "left" wanted more socialism and government, while the people on the right wanted a return to sound money and dissolution of the Federal reserve bank and similar economic system changes.

Occupy Wall Street did not last long, in fact, it dissolved, on the left into the "woke" bullshit. Identity politics and gender insanity. Corporations push that crap hard, as do the neoliberals (left wing fascists) in the government.

The incompetent and corrupt corporations and banks wrapped themselves in the left wing talking points to advance their agenda--personal wealth and power. It's very obvious in retrospect.

Friday, March 10, 2023

White Liberal Thought Process

Many of my friends and family are generic white liberals. I was trained to be a generic white liberal, but it just didn't stick. I think it's essentially a political-partisan point-of-view, and if you have any ability to think independently, you'll quickly walk away from political partisanship because it's so stupid.

The blacks=murder data is a good cypher for understanding the white liberal mindset.

White liberals driving through black neighborhoods in Cleveland on the way to some entertainment downtown will lock their car doors and will be vigilant about people on the street. They might even laugh as they do it. It's common sense, maybe even instinctive behavior.

However, if they're presented with data that show blacks = violent crime they'll almost certainly try to explain it away. Gun control oriented articles and publications in the US are a great example of that. I've read dozens of those articles and they never once mention who's doing most of the murdering, and that's a salient point. I used to be pro gun control until I learned this. There's no relationship between gun ownership and crime in white areas. Gun crime is location dependent, because so is high concentrations of black people in a country like the US.

There's an entire government-industrial complex devoted to black crime problems. The architects of that industry concocted the "systemic racism" concept to explain away the black = murder data. The system is flawed in this peculiar regard and there are potential workarounds for the issues that cause blacks to murder people randomly.

So what's actually happening in the white liberal mindspace with this whole thing? White liberals of a certain age can't have negative opinions of black people, period, basically because they watched Diff'rent Strokes when they were growing up. They were taught only dumb white people are racist, and then they imagine that any negative opinion of any black people is racist. Anything that event hints at being regarded as "stupid" or bad per the media is anathema. Consequently, white liberal people can't really form any cogent opinions on this topic and they will just mutter what are essentially religious catechisms about the topic.

The obvious interpretation of the data is a higher proportion of black people in the US are violent criminals than other racial groups. Why would that even be a controversial opinion to voice? In fact, the solution to violent crime in the US is totally counter-intuitive, it's the opposite of gun control.

Arm and train the good black people and they'll snuff out the violent criminals in their midst over time.

Black Murder Rates

 I looked at murder stats a number of years ago when gun control was a big topic. A lot of white liberals aren't aware of the relationship between crime stats and race. It's really pretty interesting that the topic is not mentioned at all when news outlets are commenting on violent crime.

The mostly white cities have very low rates of murder and violent crime in general. In fact, if you look at the people who commit murder in those cities you'll see a very disproportionate mix of black faces. The obvious conclusion: "blacks commit crime at a higher rate" can't be made, because that's "racist".

The explanation that's offered by white liberals is there's systemic issues that make blacks murder people more frequently, like lack of jobs. Most white people, though, regardless of what liberal noises they make are aware that you can't relax around blacks, and avoid black majority areas.

Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Blacks (percent) per County in the USA

I live in a mostly white county. It's less than 2% black people. I was wondering how common that is across the US. Turns out it's very common.

The vast majority of counties in the US are predominately white people counties, like 95% and over. So why do white people constantly have to worry and wonder about blacks and being fair to black people. For the huge majority of white people it's not an issue. There's a handful of counties in the US with zero black people.

The white liberals who hate racism the most imagine they're really superior to other white people in some bizarre way, but are like pretty generic white people all over the US and prefer to live in white neighborhoods. Black people are theoretical to them for the most part, just like most every other white person all across the country, even in places like Northern California, which is super "liberal".

It's actually pretty weird. This topic has been a psyop, constant topic of propaganda my whole life but it's mostly a non issue for me and everyone I've ever known.

Saturday, March 4, 2023

Government Scumbags Conspiring to Push Lockdowns

 Here's a bunch of messages from british government psychos scamming the public about covid.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/04/project-fear-covid-variant-lockdown-matt-hancock-whatsapp/

Incompetent and Corrupt Government and Corporations

Many people fall into a dualistic way of thinking on almost any subject. It's actually pretty weird. Almost any public controversy out there will spawn two "groups" who back two sides. The East Palestine train wreck thing is like that. Government versus corporation, even though both groups seem pretty inept and probably corrupt and actually have parallel interests that oppose the interests of the people there.

The government wants to cover its ass and seem to be "in control". The railroad wants the same things, and also wants to limit its ultimate payout. That all revolves around the question of how extensive was the pollution caused by the burn of the vinyl chloride. If a large area was contaminated with dioxin the railroad is potentially bankrupt.

That's a pretty simple question to answer--test the soil and water for dioxin in a systematic way. Anyone who made it through a few quarters or semesters of college math or science courses could probably devise a pretty simple protocol for doing that and there are numerous experts out there who have carried out similar tests at prior incidents who already have a good recipe for such testing. It might take some time to carry out, and might involve various iterative procedure changes along the way, but it's simple.

It's clear the government and the railroad can't be trusted with that task. The people there in East Palestine are going to have to hire their own experts and do it. It's retarded to wait for the government to "help".

Saturday, February 25, 2023

A Musical About Leo Frank

There's a musical in New York city about Leo Frank--the jewish guy who was lynched for raping and murdering an Irish girl Mary Phegan.

I somehow heard about this story in high school. How many thousands of people were murdered in the early 1900s that I didn't hear about? I don't even really remember the context or classroom presentation of the information about the case; I guess it was some 1980's propaganda about racial "injustice", of course not the Jew on Irish murder injustice, but the "wrongful" lynching of Frank.

Jewish groups promote the story as if it's a slam dunk that Leo Frank was innocent. However there were four jews on the grand jury that indicted him. Also, a number of different authors have delved into the subject and provided the details of the case and he looks pretty guilty. In fact, he even tried to shift blame onto a black janitor, who would have then faced the death penalty.

I wonder if they'll have that part in the musical: "It was the negro, it was the negro not the jew.... the negro, the negro, the negro that is true.... Here's a note I found that said that he did it.... Oy Vei! I didn't know he is illiterate..."

Anyway, was he guilty or not? There's no way to know for sure all these years later. I assume he did it, but don't really know.

Imagine all the trouble with the mindset of backing people of your "race" no matter what. It seems pretty stupid and cumbersome.

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Corporate Poisoning and the Case for Vigilantism

When I was in elementary school back in the 1970s, the Love Canal poisoning was in the news so much that I heard about it, even when my primary interests were Hot Wheels and Cartoons. I never bothered looking into it until the East Palestine train wreck event, though.


Hooker Chemical Company buried toxic waste for years starting in the 1940s and 1950s. They knew it was a serious problem, and a source of potential future liability, so eventually the sold the land to the local schoolboard in an attempt to wash their hands of the liability for the toxic waste. During the construction of the school, the dump site was discovered, and disturbed and began leaking. Kids reportedly played in puddles of the waste... but it wasn't until the 1970s when a housing development was built in place of the school that obvious health problems emerged among residents, like cancer, birth defects, and miscarriages. The government eventually got involved but it took many years for the people at the town to get relocated, compensated, etc... it wasn't until the 1990s that the corporation eventually paid up.

Just think about this: the board of directors and a corporate lawyer attempted to pawn toxic waste off on a school. It was basically a plot to just avoid paying the cost of proper waste disposal. They knowingly poisoned kids, then families to save their corporation some money. It's pretty hard to imagine that mindset, but it's unfortunately quite common.

What happened to those people? Did they go to jail, or did the company and the people involved go bust? Nope, not at all. They didn't even lose their reputation. There was even an article on the company's in house lawyer Ansley Wilcox II in the Cornell Alumni newsletter in 1979 long after the story became national news. The guy poisoned a community on purpose to save a few bucks, and it's not even mentioned in the article--it's just the typical "oh look how great this college is" article.

In fact the whole system is setup, even regulatory agencies like the EPA, essentially to promote the interests of the Country Club people. Even people like Gretard, the tony the tiger of CO2 promotes their interests. The system is fucked.

Over the weekend my wife and I started watching "The Batman". The movie is like 3 hours long, and it's OK. I don't want to do a movie review, but it got me thinking about vigilantism, the specific kind Batman does anyway, and also made me realize there's zero batmen/hero types in the US. It's all supervillains and henchmen. The supervillains are mostly the Dr. Evil or Ernst Blofeld variety.

Ironically the system, in this current day scenario needs a batman as a form of checks and balances. The judicial system and the government, for example, isn't going to deliver justice, probably not even compensation to the people in East Palestine who had their property value obliterated. Imagine if you lived like 10 miles from that train wreck and owned a $400,000 property and thought it was your future nest egg and legacy for children, etc... Now it's worth $0 and potentially contaminated. You might be able to sell it to some trashbucket speculators for $40,000 but you just got screwed. To get compensation might take decades. The railroad is exactly the same type of corporate trash as the Hooker Chemical Company. They already had people on the ground trying to con residents into signing their legal rights away for $1000.

Anyway, a batman would swoop in and wreck the company's shit outside the paperwork and nonsense of the government system. In a really clear cut case, like the Love Canal scenario, essentially any type of vigilante justice was warranted against all the people involved at the chemical company. Poetic justice, like feeding them poison, or more blunt types of treatment seem justified to me. The total scope of the East Palestine thing is unknown as of today, but if it's really bad, like the entire region is contaminated with dioxin or something, then similar responses would be warranted.

Anyway, I doubt some batman is going to serve up a helping of justice to anyone, and the system will just limp along spewing poison and toxic shit on a regular basis.

Friday, February 10, 2023

Fun as an Enlightenment Concept

There's a pretty decent etymological history of the word "fun".
  • 1400s -- fun = to fool
  • 1600s -- fun = "to cheat/hoax"
  • 1727 -- fun = diversion/amusement
  • 1906 -- fun = mirthful sport (present usage)
The USA is basically built on the concept of "fun", it's in the Declaration of Independence:
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
The colonies, and then the US were setup as an Enlightenment project--a distinct break with the dreadful trashbucket past of the old world (Europe) and the scammer priesthoods and religious traditions of the middle east.

In fact, one of the main characteristics of the Old World, even back to classical world days is "seriousness". Seriousness is a concept that's wedded to a hierarchical society. The "betters" keep the lowers in check by forcing them to believe in the hierarchy. There's dress codes and fancy hats and color schemes to keep people as cogs in some crappy machine. It's utterly ridiculous and it kept humanity retarded for centuries.

In modern times, this concept is currently returning, even in the USA via left wing retards. The neocons tried to bring it back in their sphere as well. Both of these groups are absolute shit, old world garbage.

The leftoids push their vortex of insanity via claims about victimization. They managed to get ever increasing political power via the civil rights act. There is always some new victimized and marginalized group trying to guilt people into giving them wealth and power. It's a variation on the various scams religious groups have used over the years. The lefties have created a non-stop tidal wave of nonsense that's quasi-religious like pronouns, and "training" at work.

The US basically demonstrated, over its history that this old world mind-fuckery and collectivism is trash. It depletes resources for dumb vanity projects--like building big churches, or wars. Individuals, free to pursue self-interest and "fun" outside dumb ass collectivist hierarchies create and produce. Minions slaving away for faggots in funny hats and inbred aristocrats just struggle to survive.

Thursday, February 9, 2023

Ex-Amish Guy on the Problems of Amish

 I've been watching some random videos by an ex-Amish guy. Lots of the elements of Amish life and society are pretty dumb, counterproductive, and damaging, just like any other segment of society. It provides a good counterpoint to the sugar-coated view of Amish life, or the rose colored glasses view one can obtain with casual contact with the Amish, like I have from time-to-time.

Eli Yoder's Channel

It's pretty interesting.

Is it possible to have an "Enlightened" and functioning religious community or will it always be a freak show? Almost every religious sect is plagued with pedophile priests, for example. It really doesn't matter which group it is: Jews, Catholics, various protestant priests have been busted diddling kids. The catholic church seems like a big gay pedo club. The prior pope even wrote a book about it.

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

LARPing -- The World's Most Deadly Pastime

There are people who do harmless LARPing, like playing real life dungeons and dragons, or a video game. There's all kinds of YouTube videos on the subject. People make real armor from steel plate, some do elaborate chain mail, leather work, etc... It's really pretty impressive as a maker activity. The LARP activity is like a sport or game. When I was in high school, my friends and I did paint ball wars. Most of us only had slingshots because the guns were too expensive. It was really fun. The people who do that type of larping know it's fake, and they do it just for fun, the same way they'd play football or basketball or whatever.

There's people who are LARPers who don't understand it's fake. Some of them are religious people. They think there is a god that commands them to murder, etc... in the name of their LARP. There's two great examples of this type from recent decades: The german Nazis and the current day Zionist Jews, especially the neocon type Jews.

The Nazis and Neocons have the same intellectual roots. They are driven by a reaction to the Enlightenment, essentially. In fact, you could look at LARPing--and the concept of "fun" as an Enlightened concept. The Nazis and Neocons hate the concept of fun. They think the Enlightenment made people soft, and weak, and the "authentic" experience is "struggle" and domination. They also think the Enlightenment destroyed meaning, because scholarship and historical investigation revealed the Bible is just a comic book basically.

Ironically, the neocons are the biggest group of wimps on the planet. They're generally manlets who worship "manliness". One of them even wrote a book on the subject. I think they're basically cut from the same cloth as Leopold and Loeb--two jewish kids who murdered their friend back in the 1920s. It's people who are extremely detached from reality in an intellectual fantasy bubble.

The neocons though mass murdered Iraqis, and I'm 90% sure they as a group at least participated in the planning of 9/11, so they helped kill about 3,000 Americans too. The Iraq war was an abject clusterfuck failure.

A significant portion of the neocon group are "jews" that imagine their people are very special people.

They think this in a very specific way, though. Their LARPing is very weird. I've written about this in prior posts: These people are aware it's a fraud, and that they are frauds, but they have an intellectual formula (derived from anti-Enlightenment philosophers) that's convinced them the highest and best thing they can do is murder-LARP. That is, they are aware of the fraud of their religion and maybe even their ethnic identity, but they think essentially that it's best to "make" it real.

The Nazis were a very similar group with very similar beliefs. Ethnic supremacy. Conscious mythmaking about their national and ethnic story. Extreme aggression to give their life and ideas "meaning".

I'm going to contrast all those loser, fag, conmen with the simple people who just go about their business and accept their lot in life, or who maybe quest after an individual capital "T" truth. The loser fag neocons and nazis think their life is significant because their demonic ideas were put into practice--even though it was a catastrophe for the US and poor people in Iraq and other countries who were killed and poisoned by the demonic US government.

It's amazing that some cretin like Bill Kristol is still on TV and is promoted by the media. There was a brief resurgence in admiration for that scumbag by lefty retards during the Trump presidency. Life should be all knuckles, knees, and elbows in the face of this type of person forever. Unfortunately, it's not.

Unfortunately it seems like "civilization" is just a series of frauds and LARPs by these psychos--shared mass delusions like religion and war.

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

What Is the War in Ukraine Really About

There's an AP report that says Putin struck some type of agreement with a former prime minister of Israel to not kill the leadership of Ukraine. (link)

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A former Israeli prime minister who served briefly as a mediator at the start of Russia’s war with Ukraine says he drew a promise from the Russian president not to kill his Ukrainian counterpart.

Who knows if that's true? However, if it is, it's not really a "war" at all. If it was a war, and the leadership of Ukraine was in the country, they would have been a prime target. Russia probably could have snuffed them out easily, but didn't. Many experts thought Russia was going to steamroll Ukraine, but they didn't.

In fact the conflict has been going on for a weirdly long time, and it's cost a huge amount of money. It seems plausible that much of the money for "aid" for Ukraine has been stolen by local politicians, and international figures as well.

Why would Russia drag out the conflict? A whole bunch of Ukrainian men are being killed "defending" what they think of as their country. I think though, they're being scammed into getting slaughtered by fecklesss corrupt leadership.

It's not a war, it's something else. Obviously I have no way to know for sure, but the "war" story makes no sense at all.

 

Neo Nazi (feds) Plot to Blow Up Power Grid Foiled

After 9/11, the federal government "foiled" several "terrorist" attacks--that they planned, promoted, and sometimes funded. Rolling Stone even did a big article about it. Basically, the FBI would find some suckers who would play along with a dopey plot to carry out an attack. They didn't have the means, the motive, nor the opportunity to commit the crimes IRL, but with the backing of federal agents and informants they could be goaded into it.

There's a story in the news now about "neo-nazis" attempting to sabotage the power-grid of Baltimore--to destroy that city. Here's the NPR report: link. I think this story is even faker than those post 9/11 foiled plots.

They even have a manifesto.

I actually don't believe a single word of the reporting or the story in general. I heard from an Internet friend that a very similar story in Germany happened as well.

I think it's pretty likely that some group associated with a government plans to damage power infrastructure and blame a third party like neo-nazi stooges. Why? I have no idea. Why do they do anything?

I think all the real life white supremacist "terrorists", if they exist at all in the USA could fit in a compact car. It's a trope the feds have been pushing for years. Hollywood has also built up the trope in movies and TV shows.

The governments of the world are all trash.

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Pfizer Exec Says they are "Directing" Covid Mutations

I'm suspicious about Project Veritas. It seems like a pretty good way to promote scripted reactions in segments of the US population. All their candid camera interviews could be staged and faked. Who knows? In the world of lies, it's probably best to assume everything is fake. Today, Veritas released a video interview with a Pfizer executive who says the company is basically breeding covid viruses in a lab.

If that's true, it's beyond criminal. Pfizer is a clear and present danger to millions of people and has engaged in something transcending mere fraud and homicide.

I am guessing absolutely nothing will happen as a result, that is, nothing from government agencies or officials: the US federal government is totally corrupt and incompetent.

If anything is going to ever happen to reset the system, it's going to be mass action from randos. That will only happen after multitudes of people have nothing to lose. 

Sunday, January 22, 2023

Is Damar Hamlin Dead?

 Damar Hamlin is the NFL player who collapsed on the field during the Bengals Bills regular season game. A number of people speculated that he actually died (from Covid vaccine side effects). Following his collapse and hospitalization, the NFL began promoting his recovery story, but as far as I know, there's a weird lack of interviews and footage of him. Here's some weird footage of "Hamlin" at some point during the playoff game. It sure could be him, but it is weird his face is covered. It could all be fake.

A similar scenario played out with Tiffany Dover. She is/was a nurse who took a dose of one of the covid vaccines, live on TV. She fainted and disappeared. A number of amateur online sleuths concluded she's dead.

Is Hamlin dead? I don't know. I hope not, but the coverage of the story is very weird and suspicious.



Saturday, January 14, 2023

The Covid Vaccines are Trash

 There's a paper on a longer term, large study of the effectiveness of the covid vaccines on medical professionals at the Cleveland Clinic. It shows, slam dunk clearly that the vaccines do not work at all. The data are presented clearly, then there's a discussion obfuscating the very obvious conclusion. I guessed that the vaccines don't work at all based on what I observed with friends and family.

The chart shows that more doses of vaccine = more likely to get Covid. The best scenario is no covid vaccine. When I initially saw that, I thought perhaps the demographics of the people with the most vaccines explained why they got sick more often, but the paper says that's not the case. The population studied was generally young and healthy. The vaccines are just plain garbage. There's less than no upside to them.

Now, slowly but surely the evidence that the vaccines have potentially dangerous side effects will start to emerge. There will be endless propaganda about it, though, and it will probably take years for the general public to realize how they were conned. I don't think there will be a mass rug-pull event. It took 60 years to ban leaded gasoline.

I hope lots of employers get wrecked for forcing people to take the vaccines. Some lawsuits are just going to trial now. Over time it will turn into an industrial scale wrecking ball as the spineless dopes that got pushed into taking this garbage seek retribution. I hope some act out with extreme violence against managers and executives.

Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Amish Retirement Plan

Over the holidays, my wife and I drove down to Middlefield, Ohio which is like the commercial capital of the Amish in my county. There's a large and growing Amish community around there and we drove through the residential areas on the way. Some of the Amish neighborhoods are mixed, like 75% Amish houses and some non-Amish families.

It's possible to tell whether a house is Amish or not from a mile away without really doing any detailed analysis. I think the obvious difference is in the level of maintenance of the property. The Amish properties are generally well maintained. All the outbuildings are painted, the shingles are fresh looking, the lawn is cut, there's no weeds, etc... The non-Amish houses will have more defects, especially any outbuildings. Like if there's a barn on an old farm property it won't be painted, or will be obviously damaged.

The Amish properties are better maintained because they have huge families and most of the Amish are handy, plus they have more time to invest in those projects. I replaced the shingles on my workshop roof a couple of years ago all by myself. It took several days of backbreaking labor in the sun and heat. If I had three brothers who still live in my area, plus 10 friends in the trades, it'd be a chore that would take an afternoon before a picnic. They have community resources that keep the cost of property maintenance down. For the non-Amish, property maintenance is expensive. In fact property ownership is really kind of a burden for office drone people.

Anyway, I think there's just a fundamental life strategy difference that's manifest in the property of non-Amish people and Amish people. The Amish invest in their own property, their family, and their community. The non Amish believe the system will take care of them.

All the non-Amish resources go into non-productive things like cars and toys, and excess money goes into the system via 401(k) plans, and social security, insurance, and the like. All that stuff is almost exactly like FTX, and all those financial institutions and instruments are run by Sam Bankman Frieds.