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My manifesto
Hey guys. This is my first post. I'm not sure why this community was not brought to my attention sooner, but I'm already sure I'll like it here. Anyway, I thought I'd start things off with something I wrote earlier today. I'd like to know what you think and what we can do to change things.
My Manifesto:
I'm disgusted with the world we live in today. I hope you are too.
If You're not, I bet you drive an SUV living the all American dream of being
dreadfully lazy. You pay people to do everything for you. I'm sick of it, and
you need to stop.
What the United States has become is a disgrace. Employees demand to be paid so
much money so they can afford their $250,000 houses with their $40,000 cars.
Companies make so much money because their customers get paid so much. Their
customers and their employees are the same group of people. This is called
inflation.
While this problem is self-solving, as you can see with the current state of
our nation's economy, perhaps we could not be so selfish this time around?
We are all one people, but you depend on us to do the work for you. We fix your
car, we deliver your mail, we run your websites, we build your electric
toothbrushes, we serve your coffee, we make sure you have the internet and cable
and electric and water just so you can live the happy lives you're living.
At OUR expensive.
If you haven't guessed yet, we are your children, your grandchildren, geeks and
fast food employees, mechanics and janitors, and everyone else that does
something you don't know how or don't want to do. We're in the information age
now. Adapt or perish. You are not immune to the laws of nature, especially the
most important: survival of the fittest. We are tired of dragging you along with
us.
You are impeding our progress.
If you would like to do absolutely nothing all day, that is fine with us. But right
now we can't do that because we don't yet have the technology. You're trying to
give science a bad name in the classroom because it conflicts with your 2000 year
old mythology. We would be happy to give you anything you desire, for free even,
if you would only let us.
We're also tired of the way you've let the government get woefully out of control.
You sat back and let the very communism you were so terrified of during the Cold
War creep up right behind you, disguised as a Patriot with a flag and a Bible.
They've gladly sacrificed your freedoms for your security for you. What do you
care? You've still got the internet and cable. You can just sit in your little box
and look out the windows of these devices to the world that you live in.
Our current plan has obviously not worked. We need to switch to a new plan. I have
a plan that I'm certain will work, but things must be done properly.
My demands:
1. All information shall be freely available to anyone that asks for it. That means
your bank account, your social security numbers, your mother's maiden name and all
sixteen digits of your visa and mastercard.
They use these numbers to label us, to fit us in neat little rows into their
databases on the servers that we keep running 24 hours a day. They scare you into
keeping these numbers hidden away because their system doesn't work if everyone
has everyone else's numbers.
This means trade secrets and patents as well. I don't care if your company collapses
because your patent is public information. Your company should rely on product
integrity and customer support to stay in business. Not secrets.
This means government classified information. The public should know what our
corrupt politicians are doing behind closed doors. And if the rest of the world can
keep tabs on us, they should have no reason to worry about whether or not we are
planning to attack them. No more secrets is the key to secure nation.
2. 50% (Fifty percent) of your total income shall go to education, health care, both
receiving 25% each of the initial 50% alottment, 5% for law enforcement, and the
rest going to scientific research.
These are the only things you actually need. We can pay for those things right now,
we just need to stop spending it on wars on the people, drugs and terrorism. You
might say 50% is a lot, but you only bring home approximately 65% as it is. Now that
you're living efficiently, you don't need all that money anyway.
This way, we can stop giving money to the silly politicians that are wasting our hard
earned dollars to play war in our backyard with real weapons.
3. There will be no government regulation of business. You may have thought it was a
good idea to grant monolopies to the utility companies so they would build
infrastructure, but supply and demand would have caught up eventually and the
networks would have been built by competition anyway.
You might say that our products would harm us if the government did not intervene.
However, with your cell phone, you have instant communication with anyone on earth,
so if you got sick or injured from a product that is unregulated, then the whole
world will know not to buy that product. Word of mouth is the only reliable regulator.
4. The highest crime in the land will be prejudice and discrimination. Every individual
on the planet is unique and you need to accept them the way they are. If you don't like
them, move on with your life and do not engage in theirs. Judging people based on skin
color or religion is intolerable in this day in age.
You may practice whatever religion or do any drug you want, so long as you're not
interfering with someone else's ability to do the same. In short, we need to stop
trying to get everyone to be like ourselves. Be happy with who you are. The most
forgotten people in history are the ones that were just like everyone else.
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The human race can achieve anything, if you would only let us.
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