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This names how harm stabilises itself.
When extraction becomes habitual, it gathers explanations and protections until it feels inevitable. Unlearning it is about recovering the capacity to notice where urgency, justification, and reflex have replaced discernment.
Sometimes the most meaningful shift begins with a small pause.
Full reflection here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-179417144
#FredericBastiat #DustyDimmerSwitch #SystemicHabits #CollapseAwareness #RelationalAttention
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This names how harm stabilises itself.
When extraction becomes habitual, it gathers explanations and protections until it feels inevitable. Unlearning it is about recovering the capacity to notice where urgency, justification, and reflex have replaced discernment.
Sometimes the most meaningful shift begins with a small pause.
Full reflection here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-179417144
#FredericBastiat #DustyDimmerSwitch #SystemicHabits #CollapseAwareness #RelationalAttention
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When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
[Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.]Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) French philosopher, economist, politician
Economic Sophisms [Sophismes Économiques], 2nd Series, ch. 1 “Physiology of Plunder [Physiologie de la Spoliation]” (1848) [tr. Goddard (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bastiat-frederic/395…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bastiat #fredericbastiat #robbery #corruption #exploitation #legalsystem #morality #plunder #plutocracy #selfserving #system #theft #meme
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When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
[Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.]Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) French philosopher, economist, politician
Economic Sophisms [Sophismes Économiques], 2nd Series, ch. 1 “Physiology of Plunder [Physiologie de la Spoliation]” (1848) [tr. Goddard (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bastiat-frederic/395…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bastiat #fredericbastiat #robbery #corruption #exploitation #legalsystem #morality #plunder #plutocracy #selfserving #system #theft #meme
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“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” — Frédéric Bastiat
#quotes #maga #fascism #authoritarianism #FredericBastiat #corruption -
"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
Attributed to #FredericBastiat
Like this quotation, Margaret Thatcher's infamous comment that there is no such thing as society was not an observation, but a proposition.
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"The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else."
Attributed to #FredericBastiat
Like this quotation, Margaret Thatcher's infamous comment that there is no such thing as society was not an observation, but a proposition.
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When a regular person scrapes something off #theInternet its called #suspiciousActivity as best, at worst a #cyberAttack, piracy or #plagerism.
> Microsoft, Google and CloudFlare do it and its called a "#largeLanguageModel".
See what they did there.
#theft #piracy #chatGPT #AI #neoFeudalism #fredericBastiat #plunder #digitalCommons #privatisation #oligarchy
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#Datreveno #FrédéricBastiat #Ekonomiko
Je ĉi dato en 1801 naskiĝis Frédéric Bastiat, ekonomikisto, kiu inventis la ideon pri oportunkosto (t.e. la kostoj, kiujn oni cedas kiam oni elektis agon) kaj la parabolon pri la rompita fenestro. Li forte apogis la nocion pri libera merkato kaj komerco, kaj kredis ke la sola metodo por transmeti posedaĵojn inter homoj estis per leĝaj kontraktoj. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat
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#Datreveno #FrédéricBastiat #Ekonomiko
Je ĉi dato en 1801 naskiĝis Frédéric Bastiat, ekonomikisto, kiu inventis la ideon pri oportunkosto (t.e. la kostoj, kiujn oni cedas kiam oni elektis agon) kaj la parabolon pri la rompita fenestro. Li forte apogis la nocion pri libera merkato kaj komerco, kaj kredis ke la sola metodo por transmeti posedaĵojn inter homoj estis per leĝaj kontraktoj. https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat
Bildo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bastiat.jpg -
> Banks don't buy...
The #MerchantBanks and #CentralBanks corrupt everything they touch. And they touch alot of stuff.
#FredericBastiat: "When #plunder becomes a way of life for a #groupOfMen in a #society, they create for themselves a #legalCode that authorises it, and a #moralCode that glorifies it." One cannot underestimate this. The #overdevelopment and #gentrification that has gutted #communities over the past century was funded by #bankers, including the…(1/3)
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