The Daily Meme #739!

IF everybody could make this concept clear to their friends and acquaintances the world would be a different place.

I hear that all the time.
The thing is, you cannot make this concept clear to anyone who has not concluded it himself. The thing is, that sacrificing your job, your being embedded into a social circle and such, brings you nothing when you have no substitute for that. In trying to communicate to your friends and acquaintances that freedom is not given but taken, it can very well happen that you end up alone, with no finances, with no backup what can sustain you, without then needing to either becoming dependent on another human being, or to become dependent on the well-fare state. Since dependent, you are.

Now, if no friends are left to be friends (same with family), there is no one from them to become dependent on. You either starve, get back to some job or go to receive government money (in case you cannot find one).

I thought that I already had directed my way of living as a freelancer the best I could, also, when we had a company back then, we had chosen to go full risk, in order to overcome the fact of receiving the ever same amount of money.
Our company went bankrupt, since the risk we took, was too high.
I myself was fired during the plandemic, since my non-compliance was not well received.

The ludicrously contradictory thing about this is the following: If you realise that freedom is not given, but must be taken, you must also realise that it will cost you something. When you finally realise that it has cost you the most (work, family, friends), then before it costs you this job and this social affiliation, you should have already built up an alternative network that prevents you from falling into financial ruin, that secures you a network of supporters. But then you would have already lived in a way that would have started the story earlier, that it had cost you friends or family.

But now a new player comes into the picture that you didn't think your current network would be compliant with. And then you are once again in the situation of having to take care of a new network. Because you can't predict the future.

The thing is, you can replace a job and you can replace a source of income, but what you can't replace are long-time friends or family members.

Personally, the only reason I didn't crash was because I relied on my husband to support my decision not to comply. But you could say that because my husband has a permanent job, he behaved wrongly because he followed the rules. Tell me, what should he have done?

The realisation that at some point someone is outwardly compliant in order to protect/support someone else who is not is not difficult in principle.

My insight of all of it is that a man needs a woman and a woman needs a man. Since, if you be together for a long time (life long), you will see that roles are shifting. Some time (even years) one of the two is the more receiving one. And then, the other will be. Sometimes roles never change. But however it is, the relationship between men and women, and between them and their children (if they happen to be parents) are the most important ones.

You can crack an isolated individual easily. And since apparently we seem to have high numbers of singles and non parents living in modern societies, that is the weakest point of all.

So, no, you neither can make that concept clear to friends, family and least to acquaintances. Since it must be lived out experience and not in theory, unfortunately, I must say. (Or, maybe in a very very rare moment).

I wrote something on blurt in response to the topic:
https://blurt.blog/logic/@erh.germany/3rlmls-facts-and-conclusions-about-farmers-and-truckers
It's not directly related to our conversation but that is my chain of thought.

I live in the city and there is nothing I can grow for food. People I know know nothing or not much about what you and I think we know. People aren't the least bit interested, I'd say. There's not much you can do about it unless, like in my last comment, you want to live completely without friends and family.

As for learning how to deal with cryptocurrencies, yes, that's for everyone to decide. I'm not going to delve into the matter of crypto trading because it would take too much of my time and my actual focus. If you're serious about it, you have to become an expert in this field. Of course, what you say is true, it's better to have something of something than nothing at all. Whatever you bet on, though, it's always a gamble with the unknown.