Has there ever been effective revolution that didn't attract (and ultimately get coopted by) power-hungry psychopaths? Was the founding of the US the only one??

(Spoiler: power-hungry psychopaths DID eventually infiltrate the US power structure)

On Hunger and Freedom.

The Curse of Awareness

We're surrounded by quiet evidence we don't live in a free economy.

Case in point: why/how is it that every item in a grocery store (with all their myriad inputs and complex supply/demand dynamics) fall into neatly quantized price increments? $1.99, $2.99, $10.99, etc.? Why isn't a box of blackberries $3.37 or $2.03?

....I understand there are reasons (psychological or otherwise) for charging round numbers, but those reasons are nonetheless distortions of free market dynamics which do not care about the difference between $9.99 and $10.02.

On-board a cruise with extended family... Let me just say that the Nostr/Bitcoiner vision of a future where the people rise up, throw off the yoke of the state, and demand freedom, liberty, and respect for their Natural Rights is OVERLY optimistic.

Even more than I expected, the general population has ZERO objection to being bagged, tagged, and herded. The technoccracy will be embraced. Normies are already SLAVES to convenience and maintenance of status quo.

Leftists need to understand that the problem with billionaires is NOT that there isn't enough $$$ to go around and they are hoarding it. The problem is that the only real way one becomes a billionaire is by exploiting proximity to power and/or capitalizing on the degeneracy of the fiat system.

Similarly, the problem with your neighborhood crime syndicate isn't how much money they have amassed. The problem is HOW they went about amassing the money.

Redistribution doesn't solve anything.

Random thought:

I've always heard the DOD touted as proof that a socialist system can work (e.g. Tricare).

What's always missing from that claim is the obvious fact that it can only afford to be socialist because it is funded by the proceeds (and debasement) of a larger capitalist system. Also the fact that socialism always works... for a moment... until gravity kicks in and it collapses under its own weight (much like the bloated/corrupt DOD is doing now).

That is all.