Modern Day Enslavement
by
Jeff Berwick Previously by Jeff Berwick: Debtucation
Watching people live in places like the US, Canada, UK, Australia and most of Europe is sometimes just hilarious to watch... I like to sit back on the beach in southern Mexico, having defected from Canada years ago, and ponder the absurdity sometimes. Most are slaves and they don't even know it. Worse, they all support their own slavery and, in many ways, make themselves more into slaves every day... on purpose! My personal favorite is when African Americans talk about slavery as though it is something that doesn't exist anymore. "Many of my descendants were slaves," states the man stacking boxes in a warehouse 10 hours per day while getting to keep just enough of his income after federal, state, municipal, sales, property, gas, alcohol, cigarette and hundreds of other taxes that he can almost subsist – if his wife and kids also slave – sorry, work – 10 hours per day... before he returns home with one eye on the rear view mirror hoping to avoid being stopped by the Overseer... sorry, they call them Officers now, for not stopping completely at a four way stop or by going 5 miles per hour over the stated limits. He probably bobs his head to this excellent KRS-One track oblivious to the lyrics that explain how he is just a modern slave. The great majority of people in the west today actually exist as slaves – the only difference being that the governments of today have improved greatly over the centuries and realize that the slaves produce the most when they believe they are free and when they are given a few freedoms – such as choosing their own job. After 12-16 years of Government indoctrination... sorry, education, the slaves even clammer for more enslavement. When Californians were recently asked if they would like to be allowed the option of having access to one of the healthiest plants in the world, marijuana, they replied: No! And even those who replied yes mainly replied yes because it would INCREASE the amount of money (taxes) that go to their slave owners. They want their slave owners to make MORE money! Many who voted no stated that marijuana is far too dangerous to be allowed in the hands of the people – repeating what their state slaveowners tell them on their nightly news. Yes, it's so dangerous!
To make matters even worse, the people are in favor of putting hundreds of thousands of users of victimless "crimes" like marijuana in cages every year! The amount of waste is beyond reproach. It costs tens of thousands of dollars per year to keep someone in a cage – and all this does is increase the tax burden on the rest of the population... for nothing. Perhaps to add insult to injury, even the people put in these cages are in many ways more free than those who pay for their incarceration. Check out one of the U.K.'s newest prisons (forwarded to us from reader and friend, Vin M. who lives most of the year in Mexico):
Consider some of these humorous differences between Prison & Work and ask yourself how free you really are.
Reprinted with permission from The Dollar Vigilante. June 22, 2011 Jeff Berwick [send him mail] is an anarcho-capitalist freedom fighter and Chief Editor of the libertarian, Austrian economics grounded newsletter, The Dollar Vigilante. The Dollar Vigilante focuses on strategies, investments and expatriation opportunities to survive & prosper during and after the US dollar collapse. Copyright © 2011 The Dollar Vigilante
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