@hosford42
I absolutely agree that the root of the problem is an economic one, and things must be dealt with there in order to be properly fixed. However I don't think that we can reform the market system in a way that will prevent this from happening again. I think that as long as we use a money based system, people will find ways to accumulate it, as well as use it to subvert any laws we enact to prevent it. That's how we got here in the first place. It would only be making things a little better for a little while.

But even if we could do that, our troubles are deeper than that. Because we have long been capable of producing a much higher standard of living for everyone, but continuing to use a scarcity-based economic system, not only have we been simply keeping most people poorer than they need to be, but we have been wasting massive amounts of resources in doing so, resulting in the environmental degradation we are seeing the results of everywhere. We have to ditch the outdated system that is creating artificial scarcity by its very nature and employ a modern, scientific system that was designed for this very problem, that has both sustainability and efficiency built right in. Howard Scott's Technocracy is such a system: https://www.technate.org/tiki-index.php?page=IB28
The result would be no more environmental degradation (by whatever countries use this anyway), no rich or poor classes, a much higher standard of living for everyone, very little work needed to produce that standard of living, and much more.
#Technocracy #Technate

@fixiemama @sz_duras

Behind the Liberal Veil: The Long Arc of Technocratic Megamachine Domination

Economic liberalism and representative parliamentarism: democratic façades masking a millennia-old technocratic domination. From the extermination of indigenous peoples to the cognitive empire, the megamachine marches on. #decolonial #philosophy #history megamachine #technocracy #decolonial #politicalphilosophy #anticapitalism #representation #history #alternatives …

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/behind-the-liberal-veil-the-long-arc-of-technocratic-megamachine-domination/

@fixiemama @sz_duras

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#Arendt saw the slide from #colonial #capitalism to #totalitarianism coming: when the #state, #market, and #technocracy merge, #imperial logic knows no limits. It’s no longer about “#liberalism” but a global #machine neutralizing all #opposition.

@obtener
Inexcusable since America has had the resources and technology to provide all of its citizens with a high standard of living for about a century now.
https://www.technate.org/tiki-index.php?page=IB28
#Technocracy #Technate

The founding members of the club, which has already sold many of its membership slots acc/to organizers, include Cameron & Tyler #Winklevoss, the #cryptocurrency execs whose company, #GeminiTrust, had been targeted by the #SEC until #Trump named new agency leaders, who in April put a hold on the federal lawsuit.

#JeffMiller, a lobbyist & top #Trump fundraiser, is another founding member. In the Q1 of this year, he has registered to represent 39 new corporate clients, including the #crypto firm #Tether, an overseas operation that was a longtime target of US regulators until recently….

Municipalism: A Historical and Contemporary Alternative to the Thanatic Megamachine

@sz_duras #Municipalism #Clisthene #Bookchin #Proudhon #Magnaghi #Bolo #Mumford #FabianScheidler #McKenzieWark #Degrowth #EcologicalCommunalism #ThanaticMegamachine #Decentralization #DirectDemocracy #Commons #Bioregionalism #AntiCentralization #MetabolicRift #Autonomy #Decolonial #Bureaucracy #Technocracy Municipalism-from the ancient Greek demes to Proudhon, Bookchin,…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/05/03/municipalism-a-historical-and-contemporary-alternative-to-the-thanatic-megamachine/

"Modern civilisation has a number of extremely delicate and highly interconnected components whose graceful degradation is effectively impossible."

It is "much easier to break things than to build them up. The government administrations of Britain, France and Germany for example, were set up at a time in the nineteenth century when the rising middle classes demanded a properly functioning state[…]. It took perhaps a generation for professional, neutral public services to fully emerge."

"Forty years of globalised neoliberalism have broken our societies, our economies and our political systems, and we no longer have the ability to put them back together."

https://braveneweurope.com/aurelien-the-end

#Takeover
#GreatReplacement
#DarkEnlightenment
#Accelerationism
#Technocracy
#TechnoUtopianism
#TechnoOptimism
#Patrimonialism
#Sovereignism
#ProsperityGospel
#Firehosing
#AynRand
#RoyCohn
#NRx
#Trump
#Musk
#Thiel

@paco @Sheril
The problem is the system itself, because it promotes and rewards bad behaviour. You need to change the rules of the game so that better behaviour is allowed to thrive, and then we can let scientists and engineers do what they were trained to do. The best system I've found for that was devised by a team of top engineers, scientists and other experts of various fields called The Technical Alliance, and they called their system Technocracy, long before it's meaning was changed to what you may know it as now. They picked it because it means "rule by skill", in other words, get the politicians and business people out of the way and let the experts just do their thing of making people's lives better. More information here: https://www.technate.org
#technocracy #technate

Specifically, #ToddBlanche said the #Justice Dept will largely not bring cases that violate the #Bank Secrecy Act or contain unregistered #broker dealer violations & other registry requirements under the #Commodity #Exchange Act.

The memo said the National #Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team would be disbanded effective immediately.

Complicating matters, #tech companies are approaching multiple #power utility providers …seeking multiple bids for the same project, inflating power demand outlooks….

"What we're seeing is this huge proposed influx of these abstract projects that nobody knows anything about," Jon Gordon, a director at the *clean* #energy trade group, Advanced Energy United, whose members include clean power & large energy users like #DataCenters.

Now, the #power industry is struggling with a question that will determine the course of billions of dollars in investment: how to meet the demand?

…If utilities underestimate the demand, they risk an unstable electrical #grid with a higher chance of #blackouts for their customers. If they overbuild, #consumer rate-payers could end up with the tab.