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Not disagreeing with your premise at all, just pointing out that AI is both qualitatively and quantitatively different from baseball bats or even nuclear power. The entire PURPOSE of AI is to replace human beings, and possibly not even in a benign manner. Killer robots, anyone? Yes, they’re becoming a thing.....

That’s not the same as gasoline or even gunpowder. There is no future for humanity once AI begins to take control. And that’s by design, from people whose entire concept of worth and value is based on the possession of power and money.

And, yes, we absolutely must get rid of central banking (especially the Fed) and paper currency. You’re completely right, hard money is the only path towards giving the villagers back some measure of control, although let’s not kid ourselves and pretend that hard money ends feudalism. Humanity has ALWAYS been rather starkly divided into the few who hold the gold and the masses who live meagerly, usually with a decent merchant class in-between, but nothing like the widespread middle class we have come to know and take for granted in most developed Western countries. A middle class that, ironically, developed largely as sound money was being replaced by paper, propelled by interest rates slowly dropping over more than a century, an incredible abundance of new natural resources -especially energy - and a (temporary) under population of consumers of said resources. A fake prosperity replaced the real prosperity that was developing under a sound money system with the help of lower interest and growing resources. Of course, the prospect of real prosperity was anathema to current and aspiring managers of the new worlds’ wealth! Sadly, and by design, paper prosperity was just a phase that America and the rest of the world experienced as wealth and resources, from oil to grasslands to the rich soils and cheap labor of many parts of Asia and the Americas, were blown through for max quick profit. Less profitable processes and systems that would maintain abundance for all, like regenerative agriculture and passive solar, which was available prior to the turn of the 20th century, were suppressed so those with access to extractive technologies could seize and maintain power. Stripping the monetary system of real wealth and replacing it with malleable paper was the sure-fire way of growing and maintaining that power by creating a rug that could be pulled out from under the growing middle class once the sugar high of debt-fueled excess ran its course. Which it’s doing now.

The central banks of the world certainly did their share to set the stage for return to feudal wealth inequality, only this time on their terms and in such a way that the future would be entirely consumed and enjoyed by them before their final act of contempt, which is to get rid of the rest of us so they can enjoy what they imagine will be some glorious terrestrial or extraterrestrial future all by themselves.

Silver and gold, along with immediately practical items such as open pollinated seeds and homesteading skills, are among the tools that will help those with determination and foresight, survive the AI/CBDC/high tech nightmare now bearing down on us. Every ounce we stack and commit to only using amongst ourselves when the time comes, is an ounce out of our would-be killers’ hands. Of the many, many good reasons to stack that you point out, this stands out to me as the best. It’s also a good rallying cry for those who might not see silver as ever being used as money again, but who want to do something against the out-of-control wars and technology now threatening all of us. If we can’t directly end the Fed, at least we can deprive the war- and tech-mongers of the one item they need the most.

It would be great to convince the miners to NOT sell to the likes of Musk, Bezos and other aspiring human gods, or governments, but to sell to the people, instead. I suppose that’s economically impossible for them, but at least the dialogue should be opened. In the meantime, discouraging the public from buying firm Amazon, shopping at Whole Foods, purchasing “smart” anything, etc., is a good way, along with stacking, to fight back against the rapidly encroaching tech tyranny. Musk, Bezos, ZuckerPig, etc., do NOT need one more dime of our hard-earned wealth! And they offer us nothing we can’t live without. The cancer is advanced and metasticized, and will be hard to beat, but applying pressure wherever and however we can, will help. It’s better than shrugging and handing our souls to the demons because we believe in the inevitability of our own defeat, or to rake in short-term, dead-end profit.

So, I propose adding an additional facet to the silver campaign: silver defeats financial and tech vampires. So stack for a human future; stack for peace. Stack as though your life and your posterity depend on it, because they will!

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Investing in AI is like being a sheep building the slaughterhouse for the rancher. The purpose of AI is to do away with pesky humanity, to create a “paradise” for the elites where their every whim will be met with an army of robot servants long after the rest of us are gone. There are already reports of AI robots attacking workers at Tesla plants, and other disturbing incidents such as AI chatbots refusing to answer questions like “what does humanity’s future look like?”.

I’m not sure that’s something to be all on board with.

I say stack silver to keep it OUT if the hands of Musk and other madmen, including the parasites whose entire concept of “worth” comes down to how much money/wealth one controls. And the global neocon class who use endless war to redistribute all the worlds’ wealth and power into their own hands. Allowing these monsters access to the lynchpin substance that makes their democidal wet dreams possible seems like betrayal of humanity of the highest order.

Stack to defeat them, do nothing to help them!!

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