Hey Rebel,
This week, I heard two blunt statements that say more about the times than any economic report.
One was an Irish farmer.
He looked straight into the camera and said:
"Work is a waste of time."
The other was an older ex-cop type.
His bitter summary of modern life?
"Be a crook."
Now obviously, I’m not recommending crime.
(Though these days they call anyone who values sovereignty an extremist and legal gun owners criminals-in-waiting, so definitions are getting adventurous.)
But think about what it means when two ordinary, hardworking men arrive at those conclusions.
The farmer isn’t lazy.
He wants to work.
Produce.
Provide.
And the ex-cop?
He believed in rules and playing it straight.
Yet both sound like men who feel the math no longer works.
When decent people start saying:
"Why bother?"
…something deeper is breaking.
Because people can endure hardship.
What they can’t endure forever is manufactured pressure with no reward at the end of it.
Work more.
Keep less.
Pay more.
Own less.
Obey more.
Smile wider.
Marvelous system.
Maybe the answer isn’t to become a crook.
Maybe it’s to stop depending on systems that reward them.
That’s where my head’s been lately.
I’m putting the finishing touches on a new framework I think is far more useful than chanting freedom.
I’ll explain why I gave up on the slogan, what I’m chasing instead, and how to proceed when honest work starts losing to amateur fraud.
More soon.
Paul (Private) †
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TheExitLetter.com
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