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Originally Posted by August
Well maybe he didn't have a good quality education but it sounds like he got one nonetheless.
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None he owes the public or the state compensation for. And he payed more taxes in his life than just to compensate for what he took from the state, or for my education. The losses have been higher than the benefits. Even his pension income today - only is to less than a fifth due to state pension fonds which he financed by his life-long taxes, and to 80% is private insurance (classical musicians in Germany after the war used to have these things differently organsied than the majority of employees after the war, a special characteristic in post war Germany, different to explain in full detail).
It does not matter, August. The system of having other generations caring for yourself, and you caring for other generation (parents care for kids, adult kids care for old parents) works in families, and intimate social communities. On levels of states and nations, it gets chnaged into the "Umlagesystem", an anonymisation and deletion of personal responsibility within families, it is fincial exploitation of the young and thus criminal, and it always is at the cost of the following generations, since those coming later always are confronted with ever growing costs and burdens, thanks to our fantastic paper money illusion and every stampeding socialist construction of society.
My grandfather - not to mention that his youth is outside the context of the Federal Republic - never complained, but suffered far more losses than he won gains in his life. The war turned an athlete who almost mad eit into the nOlympic team, into a cripple. His kind, simple character was absued by "colleagus and false friends. He was betrayed in promotion processes, and goodheartedly did the work of others additionally to his own - for free. In a way he was a stupid man, one oif the type that has a good heart and simpole cannot deal with an absuive, chetaing world, if you know what I mean. You can take it for certain that he owed nothing to nobody when he died. Nor do my parents. Nor do I. And for what I take and buy and get and claim today, I always pay what the other side demands. And then I have to pay some more for things I have not asked for, do not want, have no word in, and consider to be overpriced, but I cannot avoid it, for it comes down to a simple comparison of strengths: the state'S, and mine. Finally, I logged several years when I worked in different functions as councelor, psychologist, trainer - FOR FREE. After that I did a couple of jobs that sometimes were hard or stressful work, sometime sless so, but always primtive and extremely low payed.
Some time ago I became seriopusly ill, and that was at a time when I had risen doubts in myself that this cannot be it: to allow getting exploited at other people's gain, and spend working time for nothing but idealism, no payment. Since then I quit working formally, and live by savings and some modest family wealth. Today, I have two other mottos than ten and 15 years ago. "Stuff must cost", and "You want my fair work, you pay me fair money."
I ask nothing for myself from the state, nor do I accept anything for free. I live at nobody's expenses. I owe to my moral conscience, and I owe to my parents - beyond that I owe nothing to nobody anymore, my claimed debts have been more than straightened, but overcompensated for. I kick everybody out my door who tries to tell me otherwise. If you think this undermines your understanding or concept of a state - be assured
I hope it does. If the things I have posted over the past years and especially the past 12 months (about economy and liberalism and democracy always turning into socialist dictatorship and democracy necessarily always fostering the worst in politicians) would make me drawing any other consequence than to wish for national states and international suprastate structures breaking down - I would contradict myself or illustrate that I have not understood what the things I am saying do mean in consequence. Different to you, democratic states to me are no solution, nor the smallest evil amongst all government formats. To me, it is the fundament of the problems we have, and since other forms of states and government - sometimes - only slightly reduce the harms that come from democracy, the only consequence can be to conclude that we would be better off if we learn to get along without any national state structures and democratic systems (and murderous religious cults of conquests, to complete the list) as we understand both terms today. Some of the most blossoming eras of European culture and history unfolded in contexts where there was neither democracy and free elections, nor national statehood. Most of Europe's finests arts and quite a big load of Europe'S finest in philosophic achievments stem from these. This although the continental environment was war-torn and grim and cruel for many.
It is a lie to say democracy is the best there is, and that we cannot organsise peaceful life without national states. A lie fostered by the benefitting parasites who claim control and power by making everybody believe in these lies. But our wealth corrodes and breaks away, our societies turn more and more into hypercontrolled and morally tyrannised dictatorships, free market practically does not exist anymore, and more and more is replaced with state-run planned economies or corrupted by lobbyism and monopolism (monopoles that often the ruling political elites benefit of), and our brilliant fiscal debt system - this sadistic carricature of a currency - explodes right into our faces. The ship is sinking, and once a critical threshold amount of water has flooded the inside, the ship no longer slowly swings to the side, but all of a sudden goes extremely fast into a rollover and then head dive. The crashdive still may be some years away, may last for years in itself, like Rome did not die in two years and the Warsaw Pact'S economy stumbled along for another two decades after it was effectively broken down in the early 70s already. But our clothes already are dripping with water and we need to grab the ropes to not lose balance when walking the deck.