psketti wrote:
andyh wrote:
Actually I see that the UK is worse than many other countries when it comes to that

I agree the time is gone to change anything, just as the time has 'gone' for the past 2000 years...
do you understand what I'm saying? 
I do indeed andy. But I also despair at how many of us will now possibly 'fall' due to the fact that we've decided to actually sit up and take notice of this age old problem.
Without a doubt, it's coming.
We have always struggled, this poor vs the rich battle has been going on for a long time and we still fail to get what we want because basically at heart the poor man is decent, it is the rich who are ruthless.
We will not fight and kill for what WE want, oddly enough we are willing to fight and kill for THEIR wants.
The problem is that the public for the most part do as they are told and the army and police are also 'the public'.
We have had plenty of time to see this and the only thing that is special about now compared to the past is that we are entering the age of mind-computer interface.
We know that reality is basically what your brain perceives, if you can imitate reality via a computer interface then who knows what you could get away with so to speak...
Money is what makes the world go round and if that money becomes tied into this computer interface of perception then you have the most mind bogglingly scary and powerful control tool known to man.
You can at least turn the TV off
How do you avoid being part of a world with 100% digital money?
The only way is to be 100% self reliant and that is not possible except for the most hardened tough men who live on their own.
Families cannot manage such a thing, they need community and others to rely on for their help, mankinds ascent from trees and caves to what we are now all began with co-operation. It is this co-operation that makes us what we are and this co-operation came long BEFORE money was invented

Mankinds original motive for this co-operation was mutual benefit, not personal financial gain.
We can actually live such lives again, even WITH advanced technology and avoid money and avoid control freaks etc.
This would be a monumental effort of co-operation involving thousands of people though...and as I have explained, we will do the bidding of our overlords before we will help each other.
Eventually after transhumanism comes along and the mind-computer interface we'll see tiered levels of humanity emerge, this is all a bit beyond our lifetimes of course but perhaps not our kids.