People are demoralized because we naturally focus on danger. Things that are dangerous can kill us, and that doesn't allow our genes to get passed on, which is the purpose of individual organisms: we are gene continuity devices. But I am not demoralized. Sure, I'm unhappy about terrible things that horrible people are doing, and about the unnecessary impediments to paradise that are constantly imposed on us by folks seeking to keep all their advantages they've acquired by a variety of frauds and deceptions.

But I'm not demoralized because I know they cannot succeed at keeping their advantages and preventing humanity from attaining to them. All the banksters, the wealthy thieves, only have one source of income. They are all obligate parasites. Regardless of whether they tap people taking out loans or people buying bars of soap, or people making cutlery, or people digging ditches, they extract a little bit from each of their customers or employees. Defense contractors are fed borrowed funds that taxes repay. Taxes pre-parasitize us that can be purchased by whoever doles out the graft to corrupt government agents and agencies best to gain access to them. All of this parasitization is utterly dependent on collective industrial production. It's dependent on centralization.

We've had to endure this for millennia, since the advent of agriculture created surpluses that psychopaths parasitized and used to support armed gangs of thugs to conquer and control society, and for millennia that has been the human condition as the slow grind of technological advance has proceeded through the crude collective stages of industry. Decentralization of the means of production of modern goods and services that create the blessings of civilization are the cutting edge of technological advance in every field of industry today. Decentralization eliminates parasitic losses of production. Decentralized means of production that create the goods and services required by the consumers, folks making their own stuff, and trading amongst one another, do not profit overlords, do not create taxable events. Because centralized production is hopelessly burdened with overhead (~50% is lost to producers in the form of taxes alone), it cannot compete economically with decentralization. The wealth and power of overlords is only available to them through their parasitization of collective production in centralized industry.

Decentralization eliminates parasitic losses, and obligate parasites, and economically increases the value of their production to producers by orders of magnitude. People that adopt independent means of production gain real wealth by orders of magnitude more than people that serve as producers in collective industrial production. As these means of production, like 3D printers, DIY solar panels, aquaponics, mesh networks, and all the myriad ways we can make the goods and services we consume ourselves, continue to develop and distribute independent means, they keep all the wealth that overlords would have gained had they been producing in collective industries instead. Every bit of wealth we create we are able to retain, and overlords create nothing, produce no goods nor services, and will gain no wealth and power from independent producers. Their only source of income is parasitization. Overlords are becoming obsolete as fast as we adopt independent means and become orders of magnitude more wealthy. The proportion of wealth and power they possess is decreasing as individuals adopt decentralized means of production. Money isn't wealth. It's a trick. Independent means is wealth.

Only extraordinary psychological manipulation prevents people from seizing means of production suitable to their personal circumstances. As people are shocked from time to time and overcome the cognitive dissonance that keeps them manipulated psychologically, as they perceive the opportunities to overcome their losses of their productivity to parasitism, whether their power bills, their food costs, or communications are censored, to the point they find it intolerable, they will increasingly see that independent means of production can solve their issue. As they adopt and improve these decentralized means of production, and disperse them ever more widely, less of our production is extracted by overlords, and the wealthier we become.

This isn't a temporary thing. Centralized production will never be more productive than decentralization, particularly as our personally owned means of production are automated. We will have the wealth and power that overlords used, because automation will enable our personal wealth to be increased in the same way that overlords with more slaves became more wealthy in the bad 'ol days. Humanity is passing through a clinal boundary that restores the largely egalitarian meritocracy that existed prior to centralization, when every household had to make their own necessities by hand with Stone Age technology. Centralization is shown to be a temporary phase humanity has endured while technology advanced through the crude collective stages of industry to the Space Age, and that transition has now completed.

In March 2023 Terran 1, the first 3D printed spaceship, was launched. Since then several manufacturers have joined Relativity Space in adopting 3D printing to manufacture spacecraft. This transcendence of centralization is exponential. It seems to be plodding along, and then it will explode all the sudden. It's now beginning that explosive phase of growth. You here lament the cost of meat in your report. How expensive would your meat be if you had a dozen chickens, a couple rabbits, a goat? A barrel of catfish you fed table scraps and used their waste to hydroponically feed some gutters full of radishes and lettuce in a sunny window? It would be almost free. It would be organic. It wouldn't be dosed with hormones, mRNA vaccines, or anything you didn't feed them. Whatever your problem with food is, you can solve it by producing your own food yourself. And we can do that in any environment we can live in, without monocropping, without destroying a single square meter of natural habitat. By producing our own organic, nutritious, trauma free food, we can also solve all the environmental problems overlords cause by profiteering on our need for food they psychologically manipulate us into producing in a way that they can maximally parasitize.

All of human history has occurred on Earth, my favorite planet. But all of human history will not occur on Earth, and it won't be long before people gain access to the illimitable resources across the vast, barren reaches of space, that they can develop at their whim without taking them from anyone else, and without anyone else telling them what they can or cannot do. Absolute freedom to create inconceivable wealth is just now becoming possible to humanity. I am not demoralized. I am thrilled!

In the bad 'ol days when we wanted to say that things had great potential to get better we would say 'The sky's the limit.' But it's not the limit anymore.

The sky's just the beginning.

Thanks!