North Stoke Life

I'm afraid it will happen. Like 2007. House prices have already peaked. Great recession probably by next year to make the 'correction'.  Once the rental value of land and directly related selling prices outpace the ability of the economy to pay them, recession will happen. No one will see it coming because they treat land as capital in academic economic thought. It's the same as treating people as slaves to be sold like other commodities. Slavery never ended. So system wide recession is inevitable and was priced in 20 years ago. There's nothing you can do about it to stop it now. I don't want it to happen. There's a well understood remedy which would make it impossible that is not harmful or difficult to adopt technically. But spiritually humans do not yet have the capacity to take it on. So be it. Recovery will happen within a few years and social organisation will commence the next identical cycle with earnest. People having quickly forgotten cause and eff...

Total gold mined is worth 27 trillion dollars. How much is that per tonne, ounce and gram? Approximately $122.73 million per tonne, $3,817 per troy ounce, and $122.73 per gram. Key Assumptions and Calculations Total value : $27 trillion USD (as stated). Total gold : \~220,000 metric tonnes of above-ground gold (best current estimates of all gold ever mined that still exists). Per tonne : $27,000,000,000,000 ÷ 220,000 tonnes = \~$122.73 million per metric tonne . Per gram (and per kg): 1 metric tonne = 1,000,000 grams. $122.73 million ÷ 1,000,000 = \~$122.73 per gram (or \~$122,727 per kg ). Per troy ounce (standard for gold pricing): 1 metric tonne ≈ 32,150.75 troy ounces. $122.73 million ÷ 32,150.75 ≈ \~$3,817 per troy ounce . Quick Reference Table Unit Value (USD) Per metric tonne $122,727,273 Per kg $122,727 Per gram $122.73 Per troy ounce $3,817 Notes : Gold is extremely dens...

Hard as this proposition is to accept, is it untrue? The more the state appropriates from the people, the more people it will kill indirectly. This is not to be anti state. It is to be anti society because it is society as a collective of people who are the power behind it. Look at the numbers above, all properly sourced from multiple public and state sources. Which one's stands out the most for you. Ignore 'All other causes' because they are largely natural.  The top ranking cause, though grotesque and forbidden by all tribes from public dialogue, is still not the biggest surprise for me to come out of this research. For me, it is war followed by taxation. War, because it is war which most people believe is the largest cause of excess death, yet the numbers speak for themself - it is rather insignificant as a contributor to the socially induced excess death toll. Taxation , because most people believe taxation is necessary, which clearly it is not when there's an alte...

  Many people seem to be acting irrationally about AI with no literal supporting reasons for it. This is why they say that AI will one day become a conscious living autonomous entity. What they really mean, but are saying in myth and symbol, is that a new group of people who benefit from it will use its benefits, but not for good reasons. They are absolutely correct to warn of this danger. But cannot say it literally because they are scared of being attacked for it or are seen to be complicit in the danger they point out so well.  People are not really scared of it directly. They are pointing at the dangers they have witnessed many times before when enormous new found power is placed in the hands of other people. Some people do not trust themselves yet to use the huge increase in productive power a new labour saving invention like AI brings to the world. But cannot say that directly for fear of harm or complicity. Is it possible this mistake in thinking AI is conscious is peop...

Take a deep breath. The title is clearly not easy to accept. And is it untrue? The United Nations Convention on Genocide seems to be indicting its own self: The UN Convention defines Genocide as committing any of the following acts with intent to destroy a group: Killing members. Causing serious bodily or mental harm. Deliberately inflicting conditions of life aimed at physical destruction. Imposing measures to prevent births. Forcibly transferring children. Let's start from the top, bearing in mind this allegation might fail of the law determines that the enormous excess death toll caused by the state is not being done with the intent to destroy a group. But there s preponderance of evidence and a balance of probabilities, running counter to this: Killing members - the state through social organisation kills way more of its own citizens during peace time than it does its enemies during war. See The Purpose of War Causing serious bodily or mental harm - ditto. How about the genocid...