Yes, I know it looks and sounds far fetched, with disguised voices and blurry visuals. We probably thought wear a mask or remain 2m apart was far fetched too. I read a bit of economic stuff from people who worked for WEF and many say the financial crash will make all others look like a stumble. Many countries already trialling it. UK…
Yes, I know it looks and sounds far fetched, with disguised voices and blurry visuals. We probably thought wear a mask or remain 2m apart was far fetched too. I read a bit of economic stuff from people who worked for WEF and many say the financial crash will make all others look like a stumble. Many countries already trialling it. UK just talks like is "exploring" it yet for it to become operative, lots of preliminary work would need to be in place, wouldn 't it? In these vids they mention different classes of people from "Sovereign" and no restrictions, to "Commoner," "Restricted," and finally "Quarantined" who will have most restrictions, not even a bank account! I'm sure they will bring these in softly at first, with rewards for buying right things, using public transport, eating less meat, for example, but as time goes on with energy prices from the sanctions, they will put restrictions on people. I'm only just learning how the world really works, nearly into my 7th decade. I worry for younger ones who have no grasp of what's really going on and most don't seem to care either.
We're pretty close to being in the same boat Markker. 67 years old myself, 40 of which has been spent in Japan, and what a lot of tourists don't stick around long enough to see is that the Japanese corporate nation-state is heading into the same direction. Maybe it is even easier here because Japan never had a bottom-up revolution of the working class ... it has just been transfers of power between self-selecting sociopathic 'managers'. We are quickly heading towards a technocratic feudalism. Like the sociopaths in the West, Japanese also devour their own, and I am one of many permanent foreigners who never had a chance to get beyond the lowest hanging hamster wheel of the machine.
Kineechiwah! (can't write in Japenese). Bumped into a woman that I'd meet once before in August this year. At that time she worked for an ATM company. We had a bit of a chat about using cash and how many people don't anymore. Two months later, just last week, she informs me 50% of staff, including herself, have been made redundant! So, with bank closures, reduced opening hours, removal of ATM machines from certain venues, things are speeding up! Difficult to know what to do, draw it out and keep under mattress, spend money on getting battery storage for solar panels which is considerable outlay, stock up on nonperishibles (useful for barter system as no doubt I'll be a "Restricted" at best) or just spend on having a good time whilst some freedoms left. I had a few days in Japan when our stint in HK ended just after the handover. Our small children attended the newly opened International Japanese School. Their teachers were Canadian but also Japanese. I enjoyed my visit to Japan.
It is a nice place ... to visit. Yeah, the Japanese is govt. is a lot more clever at deceiving the public to go cashless with years of discounts, safety, and other incentives before the public realizes thay have given away what autonomy they once had for the sake of convenience and saving a few yen as the govt. purposely destructs the economy. I'll be dust in the wind before the effects really hits and the kids grow into even more compliant servants of the ruling class. Watching those near my age being put out to pasture before their time, and with no options other than to wither up and die is one long Halloween ... uh ... Kabuki Tragedy ... and the tourists who help keep the scam going are none the wiser. On that happy note time to make another cup of coffee. Even at my age and once having been a 'tenured' professor, I have to supplement a shrinking pension by waking up every morning at 4:30, and prepping for another day of a minimum paying job as a token foregeign mannequin for the public schools. And I am one of the lucky ones. Future permanent foreigners are being replaced by digital textbooks and speaking test judges outsourced to the Philippines. Must cheaper and easier to control. After all, that's what institutions (as opposed to communities) are all about, aren't they? Not services. Control.
Yes, I know it looks and sounds far fetched, with disguised voices and blurry visuals. We probably thought wear a mask or remain 2m apart was far fetched too. I read a bit of economic stuff from people who worked for WEF and many say the financial crash will make all others look like a stumble. Many countries already trialling it. UK just talks like is "exploring" it yet for it to become operative, lots of preliminary work would need to be in place, wouldn 't it? In these vids they mention different classes of people from "Sovereign" and no restrictions, to "Commoner," "Restricted," and finally "Quarantined" who will have most restrictions, not even a bank account! I'm sure they will bring these in softly at first, with rewards for buying right things, using public transport, eating less meat, for example, but as time goes on with energy prices from the sanctions, they will put restrictions on people. I'm only just learning how the world really works, nearly into my 7th decade. I worry for younger ones who have no grasp of what's really going on and most don't seem to care either.
We're pretty close to being in the same boat Markker. 67 years old myself, 40 of which has been spent in Japan, and what a lot of tourists don't stick around long enough to see is that the Japanese corporate nation-state is heading into the same direction. Maybe it is even easier here because Japan never had a bottom-up revolution of the working class ... it has just been transfers of power between self-selecting sociopathic 'managers'. We are quickly heading towards a technocratic feudalism. Like the sociopaths in the West, Japanese also devour their own, and I am one of many permanent foreigners who never had a chance to get beyond the lowest hanging hamster wheel of the machine.
Kineechiwah! (can't write in Japenese). Bumped into a woman that I'd meet once before in August this year. At that time she worked for an ATM company. We had a bit of a chat about using cash and how many people don't anymore. Two months later, just last week, she informs me 50% of staff, including herself, have been made redundant! So, with bank closures, reduced opening hours, removal of ATM machines from certain venues, things are speeding up! Difficult to know what to do, draw it out and keep under mattress, spend money on getting battery storage for solar panels which is considerable outlay, stock up on nonperishibles (useful for barter system as no doubt I'll be a "Restricted" at best) or just spend on having a good time whilst some freedoms left. I had a few days in Japan when our stint in HK ended just after the handover. Our small children attended the newly opened International Japanese School. Their teachers were Canadian but also Japanese. I enjoyed my visit to Japan.
It is a nice place ... to visit. Yeah, the Japanese is govt. is a lot more clever at deceiving the public to go cashless with years of discounts, safety, and other incentives before the public realizes thay have given away what autonomy they once had for the sake of convenience and saving a few yen as the govt. purposely destructs the economy. I'll be dust in the wind before the effects really hits and the kids grow into even more compliant servants of the ruling class. Watching those near my age being put out to pasture before their time, and with no options other than to wither up and die is one long Halloween ... uh ... Kabuki Tragedy ... and the tourists who help keep the scam going are none the wiser. On that happy note time to make another cup of coffee. Even at my age and once having been a 'tenured' professor, I have to supplement a shrinking pension by waking up every morning at 4:30, and prepping for another day of a minimum paying job as a token foregeign mannequin for the public schools. And I am one of the lucky ones. Future permanent foreigners are being replaced by digital textbooks and speaking test judges outsourced to the Philippines. Must cheaper and easier to control. After all, that's what institutions (as opposed to communities) are all about, aren't they? Not services. Control.
Cheers.