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NICE WHILE IT LASTED 2

Hunger, true hunger such as Victorian England offered all the lower class scumbags who had refused to move over to America, thus freeing up the nobility from dealing with their social inferiors as they simply wanted to go about their day unmolested as they gazed in awe at their human-less machines ( the upper class everywhere want more machines and less Deplorables-I can’t believe the idiots who think robotics are about giving their poor ass leisure time ), can be a powerful motivator for excellent writing.  Dicken’s A Christmas Carol was about the true spirit of feeding the author during Christmas time.

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The Great Depression was a breeding ground for some of the best writers to come ( L Ron Hubbard the exception, and perhaps the best proof that selling your soul to Beelzebub was actually possible ).  Poverty and hunger do light a fire under the best of us.  Of course, both societies took it too far, actually condoning real malnutrition as the penalty for failure.  Lack of funds, leading to lack of a wife which was a rather stiff Reproduction Tax, that should have been enough punishment.

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At the moment there is a bit of yearning for those on Food Stamps to be cut off during the government shut down.  I’ll of course remind you that while in session the politicians are in Washington DC.  Which is a couple of nice streets around monuments surrounded by war torn ghettos full of said recipients.  Do you REALLY think the fedgov is going to allow that tinderbox to catch?  You cannot decide to starve out those you hate, and expect to live in a functioning society.  Britain lost its nobility and we turned socialist when that happened.

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Hunger is a great motivation, but starvation is not a good motivator for positive change.  And that is the way I see the general direction of things moving, with the Internet Alternate Income Streams and the wave of censorship.  Follow me here.  Females, OtherColors and Diversity Hires all push older White Males out of the workforce.  A lot of these men with an ounce of motivation and talent went into Internet businesses.  Most hang on by bringing advertisers from TV to the Internet ( marginal content, but well supported by consumerism ).  But a lot of talent is also supported that way.

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But then two opposing forces collided.  The mainstream companies desperately trying to remain profitable embrace PC so as to pull on the purse strings of the remaining job holders, which means they cannot support anything non-Politically Correct.  And there goes the ad model to support those Casper’s working on the Internet.  Suddenly, quality starts to matter again.  Everyone wants your Patreon support, but you can only spend X amount on entertainment each month, so only the better content wins. And that is how it should be, but only up to a certain percent.

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So prevalent is the capitalism or nothing system which is actually globalism, most people applaud their own destruction.  No Free Riders, No Welfare, No Free Crap Army, Produce Or Starve, all are well and good under a truly free market system.  But NOT under a fixed manipulated mercantilism system where the cheaters get socialized loses and private gains.  And the masses starve willing to work.  Every time that someone starts to get back ahead in this fixed system, the rules are changed on them.  You’re not allowed to work until you are 22-26 now, as opposed to the old 16-18.

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Then they stopped allowing you to work until retirement.  Since all the management jobs are now OtherColors and Diversity Hires, you can’t work your way up into management.  Which effectively ends your manual labor career about twenty years too early.  So, you are a hard worker and smart, you start an Internet business to finish out your working years.  But now THAT is being taken away.  Censorship is killing a lot of businesses that could have endured.  They weren’t great, but they were Yeoman performers.  But we can’t have any but the highest performers now, can we?

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By refusing to subsidize any jobs except all those held by women and  OtherColors, by refusing to allow marginal workers to stay employed, you are increasing social discord and fomenting rebellion.  It is all well and good for the elites to keep everyone in poverty.  But when you remove hope or advancement, and just keep increasing the suffering, you can guarantee blowback.  There wasn’t THAT many prepping writers or merchandise purveyors, or YouTube channels that it employed any fraction of displaced White workers.  The point was it was a beacon of hope for the entire number of disenfranchised.

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We didn’t care that we had to give up suburbia.  We never wanted it in the first place.  Better to go live in a trailer park and socialize face to face.  There are plenty of poor working class out there and no shame in joining them.  But that was even too much to ask for.  Rich people who couldn’t possibly need more money all colluded to take away that safety net of niche micro-businesses.  It wasn’t that they were removing the only venue to publish.  It was that they were taking away the Low Cost way to do so.

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When you are a micro-business, you can only do that by having close to zero expenses.  You could start a YouTube channel with a discarded cell phone ( from someone Status Symbol-ing up ), get a dedicated camera for $75 at Wal-Mart, and even improve the sound with a specialized microphone for not much more than that.  But you could start with zero additional cost.  If you were a writer, without a computer, at most a new machine could cost $130 for a ChromeBook.  That was writing, editing and publishing along with revenue collection.  Just broke White Boys needed that low cost start.

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Now, anyone can still start for free.  And then, they see all that blood and sweat and tears de-monetized.  Anyone can start.  Anyone can succeed.  They have to jump through hoops now, but if you figure out how to get readers or viewers, you can still do it.  My question is, do most people still want to try it?  By crushing the dreams ( and even if we KNOW it is a fantasy, we still would pursue the dream ), by turning this into a rigged game, you get a lot fewer players.  Throwing in the towel happens quicker.

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Remember those video stores out there at one time?  You had a LOT of movies being made for $100k to under a mil.  There were terrible movies, but if you wanted to watch a movie every single weekend, or especially all weekend long, you watched them gladly, accepting them for what they were.  Second tier was okay as long as it was entertaining.  Like today’s “Sharknado”.  Or those giant gators in a New York lake movies.  I know there are still a lot being made for the same price, cable movies or for streaming, but they aren’t as good as video movies.

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Cable or streaming, you’ve already paid prior to watching.  Video companies would lose customers in the form of a store buying LOTS of tapes if they didn’t offer some level of quality, and they had to meet high expenses.  It was a form of editing for quality.  And when I say quality, I don’t mean acting or plot or special effects being all that great.  It just had to be entertaining.  Most of today’s movies don’t have that, regardless of budget.  Video stores allowed amateurs to enter, as long as they were talented.

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Today, the Internet is going from a video store era to a Hollywood monopoly where only the golden few are allowed a voice.  Sure, the viewers are hurt, but more importantly for our discussion here, the talented but broke are not being allowed to participate in that economy.  In Hollywood, controlling the distribution keeps out the poor.  On the Internet, the threat is from distribution also.  The monopolists are denying distribution AND banking to the small and scrappy.  But worse, denying you that access AFTER you become successful, rather than just denying access to begin. 

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You might be thinking that ONLY reading the best and successful is better.  But it isn’t.  Everyone is trying to stay safe and inoffensive.  It is BORING!  You get a few weeks of stress and panic which increases content enjoyment, and then it goes back to safe and dull.  They almost lost their minds, panicking about the stock market, but realized they need to go back to safely plodding along.  Now it is back to boring in the Survivalist Sector.  I know, I know, you can’t always be “on”.  There are slow days.  But every day?  I miss the Xerox and mail ‘zine days.  Full on non-stop passion. 

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That did carry over to the Internet, and lasted a good long while.  And then the Puritan Police moved in and started raiding the Speakeasies. 

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