The war against greed, This is how we win
Going off grid isn’t just about cabins, solar panels, or gardens.
Going off grid isn’t just about cabins, solar panels, or gardens. It’s about refusing to play a rigged game where greed sets the rules and struggle is sold as survival. Every person who goes off grid is saying no to exploitation, no to fake scarcity, and yes to freedom, dignity, and control of their own life.
A society that measures success by GDP but lets people scrape by on scraps is broken.
Off grid, you can stretch $1000 to $1500 into food, shelter, and solar panels, but that’s not freedom, that’s survival on hard mode.
People deserve to live happy, free, and healthy without being chained to poverty wages.
Can you live on less than $1k a month? Sure. But that's not the point. It’s not about how little you can live on; it’s about how much human dignity you’re afforded.
The question isn’t whether $1500 is “enough.” The real question is: why does a civilization that can bail out the richest on top and still trap its poorest hardest working class people in fake scarcity while still worshipping profit and greed?
It makes no sense. It's a giant civilization-sized case of Stockholm Syndrome.
Struggle is not the flex you think it is. Struggle is the lie the greedy corrupt corporate-owned political and socioeconomic society tells everyone so people don't take back what they stole from them.
People are struggling, not because struggle is a good thing, it's because greed and corruption exist. It's always existed and it will always exist until such time as society decides it shouldn't.
This is the fight of our generation. Not left vs. right. Not red vs. blue. It’s us vs. greed. Every empire falls when corruption rots it from the inside, and every empire is rebuilt when ordinary people decide they’ve had enough.
We don’t need another war in the streets. We need an accountability war against greed. A an altruistic war fought with solidarity instead of division, with communities instead of corporations, with courage and compassion instead of apathy and fear.
Helping each other isn’t charity, it’s strategy. It’s how we take power back.
It’s how we build systems that serve us, not exploit us.
It’s how we make greed socially, politically, and economically unacceptable.
This is not utopia. This is survival. This is evolution. This is how we win.
We can all have the world we want if we put people before profits and creed before greed.
What creed? Our most famous, most basic, most important creed.
Treat others how you want to be treated.
The Golden Rule. Help people. That's it. Just help people. It's really that simple.
We all know this already.
You know it in your heart.
We're just scared. We're scared of being taken advantage of or used.
We see the pain and suffering and struggle in the world and we feel for those people who are struggling, we truly do, but at the same time we're struggling too.
How do we save someone else from drowning when we too are struggling to stay afloat?
We're scared to help because it might hurt us and our own survival. We all make just enough to survive. But many don't survive.
Many break under the pressure and resort to crime or the shut down their emotions.
They push their empathy down and harden their heart. It's natural self preservation. It's our natural response to stress and danger.
An survival instinct, a throwback to tens of thousands of years of cold hard real world survival.
The problem with that is, when we do that, more people suffer, and it has a compounding effect. It multiplies the pain and suffering because now more people suffer and struggle more than before.
This in turn compounds some more, exponentially increasing the amount of suffering until war happens.
War happens when greed and corruption and human suffering all come to a head.
The greedy corrupt take everything there is to take, and when there's nothing left and the laws protecting the greedy at the top aren't enough and when the people are in the streets because they lost their jobs and were evicted and they lost their homes and cars and there's nothing left, that's when the people take back what was stolen from them.
Afterwards things level out again, and slowly over the next 250 year cycle it happens again. Over and over and over again.
About every 10 generations in every nation or empire that's ever existed there's a shift, a collapse or war, and a rebuilding. It happens.
We have a choice. Either we allow the war to come, or we simply shift our focus and make it socially unacceptable to be a greedy corrupt piece of shit that takes everything from humanity and leaves the people with nothing.
Making greed socially and politically and economically unacceptable has never really been tried before. Ever. It sounds utopian. It sounds foreign to us because we're used to things being how they are.
But it's not foreign. It's human. It's how humans used to live thousands of years ago before all this artificial scarcity and greed and profit driven everything became "normal".
We've been conditioned to believe this is the best way, when clearly we know it's not. It's why we're all going off grid! Its the whole core reason why everyone is going off grid. Freedom. Fewer bills. Health and happiness. That's it.
We know this. We know the system is corrupt. We know it's not supposed to be this way. We know we can do better. So we do better.
We do better by working together. We do better by holding those in charge accountable.
We do better and build a better society and a better life by helping others. Not just ourselves.
Rugged individualism worked well for a little while. It's time to put that method to bed. Its time is done. It did its job.
Now the next step is to help one another. When we do that, our lives become easier too. There's a little less suffering. A little less struggle.
And over time that compounds and changes and accelerates exponentially.
The more people see others struggling less the more inclined they will be to help one another.
The more they see things are changing for the better the more likely they will reach out and help their fellow human beings.
The more we help each other the more we will help ourselves. The idea of eye for an eye is just the opposite of treating everyone how you want to be treated.
Think about that. Take all the time you need.
If we all go around trying to outdo one another it creates suffering. Eye for an eye makes the world go blind (as someone once said). I'm not religious nor am I into new age feel-good bullshit.
But I do enjoy philosophy and have my own philosophy that puts people first before greed and profit.
I believe wholeheartedly that we all, each of us, have the power to change the world one act of kindness at a time. It takes a lot of work and courage, but we're all hard working folks...yes? We're not afraid of hard work...right?
We're brave...we have courage...yes? Ok, then have the courage to help each other. See how that feels. It feels amazing! It feels great. But we're not doing it just for us, we're doing it for others.
We're saying "NO!" to the status quo. We're saying "NO!" to greed and corruption.
We're saying "NO!" to this old outdated idea that we should look out for ourselves first, because like the old eye for an eye mess, it just makes the world blind and lonely.
We have the power to change that. You have the power to change that. YOU! You can make the decision to "Be the change you want to see in the world".
We all know the meme. Gandhi was right. Jesus was right. Buddha was right. Have you ever noticed the overlap in philosophies?
It's because it's universal throughout all of humanity as a whole. We're all here for a greater purpose than ourselves.
Our purpose is what we make it, and it's how we make it. It's how we treat others, it's how we help others.
It's not hard to make the world a better place. You just have to have the courage and strength, kindness and empathy to trust people enough to help them. That's how we get through this. Together.
We need each other. I need you, you need me, we all need each other. Look at the Amish. Look at what they can do together.
Now imagine that level of cooperation with technology. Imagine how many communities we could build.
Imagine how the world could be when we put humanity before greed. It's not utopia. Utopia is impossible. Utopia isn't going to happen.
But we can extend out times of peace.
We can extend our times of abundance with technology and simply by helping one another build a better world.
Help your neighbor with their lawn. Help a homeless person find a home. Help a hungry person eat. If someone is thirsty give them a drink. If someone is hungry give them food. If someone is homeless give them a home.
Every act of kindness is a revolution. Every time you help, you push back against greed and corruption. You say no to the status quo. No to the old story that says look out for yourself first.
It's our duty as human beings. It's our sacred duty to help one another.
Help someone in need.
My message is simple.
Help people.
That's all it takes to make the world a better place.
We’re all struggling. We’re all fighting a war. Not against each other, but against the greed that keeps us divided and broke. And the only way we win is together.
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