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Agorism is a revolutionary left-libertarian political philosophy that advocates the goal of bringing about a society in which all relations between people are voluntary exchanges by means of counter-economics.
Counter-economics is the sum of all non-aggressive human action which is forbidden by the state. The counter-economy includes the free market, the black market, the "underground economy," all acts of civil and social disobedience, all acts of forbidden association (sexual, racial, cross-religious), and anything else the state, at any place or time, chooses to prohibit, control, regulate, tax, or tariff. The counter-economy excludes all state-approved action (the “white market”) and the red market (violence and theft not approved by the state).
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As an agorist, my preference for savings is physical gold & silver. However, aside from keeping pace with inflation, they don’t generate income.
I don’t know a whole lot about investing, but I understand that bonds are basically government debt instruments, which is what allows them to print more money and inflate our dollar away, so I’m thinking I shouldn’t include them in my investments.
What about stocks? Do you participate in the stock market?
In Canada, we have a tax-sheltered investment account called a TFSA (similar to a Roth IRA in the US, I believe). So we can allow our investments to grow tax-free, and don’t pay any income taxes on withdrawal.
I have little trust in fiat & the monetary system, but at the same time need to start preparing for retirement, so I’m curious how other agorists handle that.
I do have a side hustle that I’m working on, which I hope will generate passive income in the long run.
Won't there always be a group of people with more weapons and fewer morals ready to take from a weaker group?
If you engage in any black or gray market activity that's not on the dark web, do you use a different physical currency? Something like gold or silver?
Redirecting one’s own taxes as an effective altruism method
“About twenty years ago, I stopped paying U.S. federal income taxes. By law, the government has ten years to collect an unpaid tax bill, whereafter a sort of statute of limitations kicks in and the bill becomes permanently noncollectable. I’ve adopted the practice of waiting out this ten-year period and then donating the amount of the uncollected tax to charity. Over the past six years I’ve redirected over $30,000 from the U.S. Treasury to charity in this way.”
“Tax redirection is a promising addition to the arsenal of techniques effective altruists can use to better deploy their resources in ways that further their values. There are a variety of ways one can go about it, depending on one’s values, goals, and risk-tolerance. The U.S. war tax resistance movement has a good understanding of these various methods as they are practiced in the U.S., their pros and cons, and strategies for doing them most effectively. Tax redirection is probably not for everyone, but ought to be considered more carefully and more seriously than is currently common among those interested in pursuing effective altruism.”
Without their controllable, inflatable, confiscatable money, they would disintegrate and there’s nothing they could do about it.
But so many people continue the mantra - “just use cash” which is frustrating because it legitimises their position as much as voting does. If they control the money, whether digital or physical cash, they control the board game rules.
Recently got into torrenting and was just curious if there's any specific files worth torrenting that may otherwise be at-risk of deletion and/or the State/Central Banks do not want people to have worth dl'ing and seeding?
For example, torrents that are rare or only available through torrenting and not on the surface web to say the least.
That's all, thanks!
Seems that every time I meet an anarchist up here, they're anti-market anarchists. I find a marginal amount of anarcho-capitalists, and I obviously don't have as much issue with them, being more potential agorists than anti-market anarchists would be, but finding anything beyond that has proven fruitless for me... finding red marketeers is rather easy, but I'd rather minimize interactions with them, for obvious reasons. I'm simply hoping to find others up here, closer to the Tacoma-Puyallup area in Washington, but given other options haven't yielded anything, I figured I'd check here. I'd like to build my social network in order to pull myself more and more out of needing to rely on white market methods to get by.
Interesting talk, I edited it so it's just konkin speaking and fixed the audio