Recently I’ve been reflecting on a unusual experience I’ve been having stemming from an observation of increased myopia in the world and my experience of others directly.
At times I’ve had the “answer” flit into my head but sensed the “why” needed more fleshing out.
How I have come to see it that there has been a “freedom tipping point” that has been passed in the world. I’ve approximated this concept before by talking about a rising transaction cost in the face of ever increasing statism. Statism is an inherent drag on capital allocation and one that we all foot the bill for, even if it’s just a credit card fee at the pump.
During the 2020 election steal, I kept having this unreal sensation that some gigantic piggy bank was being broken into – something irreversible was being done. I fought with all my might against this, which amounted to not much. There are just way too many people that have been created by State programs who feel little incentive to improve themselves and discover universality.
Those people will be “put” somewhere.
The world fell out of balance when COVID happened. There was a massive contraction in freedom – in America more temporarily but in Europe more permanently. That European component was enough break the camel’s back. We could also point to Canada and Australia going the way of the dodo.
It no longer pays to be good.
That’s a different way of looking at it. Statism, through the corporation which is purely a fabrication of the State, has choked out a sufficient amount of the voluntarism in the world that now there is no central basis. There is no bastion. There is no regenerative capacity in the ecosphere.
There is an ecological collapse happening — in economic terms.
I was watching this film Tuner starring some young hunk, a Hapa lady from a wealthy background, and Dustin Hoffman. In it, the old fogie Hoffman is dying in the hospital and so the young hunk piano tuner has to take work breaking into safes, on account of his incredible hearing, in order to keep things financially afloat. The bill he has to cover is $36k.
There is no lucrative work for him to immediately branch out into in NYC because the entire region is completely suffocated by regulation and licensure rules. The film’s logic just assumes this, correctly. It would not work within the scope of the film for the hunk to go out to North Dakota and work an oil rig for 3-4 months and that’s if he could even manage to secure the job. The only way to even remain in NYC at subsistence level is to continue his piano tuning work. Imagine it, his Hapa honey pining for him over FaceTime while he’s off on a fishing boat or something. It works in absolute real terms but in terms of movie magic, it sucks.
Inflation has created conditions where stillness isn’t a thing. Everyone has to be an economic transient and ride these strange warps in space and time that increased government budgets and corporate financial dealings emanate outwards. No sole proprietor is creating incentive sets for other people, in comparison to the financialization that’s happening. That doesn’t mean a person should give up. That would be an ideological statement. To make it work, people have to compartmentalize, tell themselves what they need to in order to keep going, and look for what give there is in the situation and work it.
95% of corporate hiring under Biden went to non-White men.
Obviously, the entire Dem leadership from that time should currently be rotting in prison.
Financially, this means that White men have far less disposable income than they had 10 years ago. They cannot put their money where their values are. They’ve been swamped by concerns of basic sustenance, upkeep, and taxes. They’re not clearing the high bar like they used. We have tech company stocks going nutso, through corporate investors, rather than Winchester and I dunno, Fender stocks going nuts.
And neither is anyone else clearing the high bar, save for an ethnic group or two that have positioned themselves immediately proximate to the money printers.
White men are the ones who pay others to be good. But they’ve been relegated to daisy chaining mortgages on a dying real estate market, building condo villages in Red states that Blue staters are fleeing to (who finances all this?), and working construction. These are involved jobs that leave little room for creative thinking and entrepreneurship beyond this take-the-next-fruit-off-the-branch kind of hot-shottery that passes for elite level entrepreneurship. There is no breathing room to step back from the painting and take it all in. Everything is detail work in the wake of bankers.
Again, I’m not saying, “Don’t do it.” It is the way that it is and you either wallow or you get moving. I prefer people kept moving, honestly. It is destabilizing for motion to stop. I’d rather we continue to have a strange, mutative momentum in freedom’s underbelly with perhaps a .5% movement upwards than everything drop out and everyone go nuts.
Most people are NPCs with murder/death/horror programming put into them. They literally can’t handle the loss of a job, let alone a massive market contraction or a generalized state of emergency with US troops running martial law. They’ll just bleat for the government to do something about it.
We are going to live with libs throwing more tantrums and eventually their near-endless pool of bloodthirsty migrants will exhaust itself. Until then, count what few friends you have, notice what little loyalty there is, and keep following your dreams.
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