Author: Night Walker

Someone showed me the new mayor of New York, Mamdani, posting about his city’s preparedness for snow, and how amazingly serious they take the sanitation there. They have fancy uniforms and everything! I thought, hey, I bet we have something similar at home, having a world-class city here. Well, it’s not as fancy, no shiny uniforms or swearing-in ceremonies, but it seems alright. Its a pretty and clean city, for one of Canada’s major cities.

I thought, What’s our biggest city’s public services like? “Under Mayor Rob Ford the City began to look at ways to cut cost on waste management.” Well, I have no evidence to this, but I’m sure if I flew over there and interviewed people about the quality of city services before and after Ford was mayor, I’d hear the same story as ever, It got worse over time.

If you ask your parents or grandparents about public services, they will almost always claim “things were better back then”. They are right. There was a point in time, pretty much after the second world war that there was widespread and high quality services here in north america. Our bloody politicians have been selling off our infrastructure and services for damn near a century, at best to offset the slow lowering of tax rates applied to the top 10%, and at worst to simply line the pockets of them and their friends. Although the first option ends up in the hands of their friends either way. If you point the camera in the right direction, it sure looks like slow-motion looting.

The lie they tell us is always the same, that service quality will remain the same, and nothing will change. This is incredibly stupid when inspected through the thinnest lens of logic. There is no way for a service to be organized in a way for it to financially compete with a well run public service, when an owner wants to take profit from the service. Secondly, any attempt to reach the most efficient point through aggressive competition leads to confusion and instability, as an extremely competitive field is practically a battlefield. These are not things you want to worry about when talking about the clean water you drink, or the removal of the shit from the pipes under our feet.

The most fulfilling system for our critical services will always be a single, public owned service with solid checks and balances to prevent problems. All services are paid for, and public owned services are paid for by a form of crowdfunding called taxes, and private owned services are are usually paid for directly by individuals or by our municipalities contracting out. After all, a public owned service is owned by us, and what we get out of it is the service, and whats the point of private ownership if your not taking money out of your company to enrich yourself?

As an afterthought, if you pay attention to the people arguing that the publicly owned services are bad, and would be better if privately owned, its always the people that want to buy them, or the politicians that want to sell them. Weird how they are the ones that would benefit from the arrangement, eh?

I’ve been reading and listening to others recently, around the topic of what the billionaire bastards are planning. It’s more apparent then ever that they are the ones who are ruining everything. I think the silhouette of their game plan has calcified in my mind.

It’s obvious to everyone, layman or expert, that “Capitalism” with a capital C, is incompatible with democracy. Our dumbass rulers realize it as well. I think they have decided, in this moment of our world order committing suicide, that the iron is hot. To them, democracy was a fun little romp in the back yard for the serfs, but it’s time for the “worthy” to take direct charge again. They have revolting surveillance tech backed by the majority of politicians in most “western” countries, and the masses crave stability. They have decided that authoritarianism backed by technology slithering into every crack of our lives will be the most stable way for them to move forward. They’ll strike from behind (like the cowards they are) by getting you hooked on all the enshitified systems, buying up and shutting down all the alternatives, forcing your representatives to write laws to twist any attempt to resist into an illegal act, and insert messages into all your media to convince you that anyone else who resists is your enemy. You end up as a technical slave with invisible shackles.

They also have the backup plan of killing all of us and burning everything down so they can repopulate in their own image, this is why they all have luxury bunkers with no plan to keep us out. As the plan is that we’ll all be dead or mindless slaves.

The thing that should help you sleep at night is that they are stupid. If they weren’t stupid to begin with, the toxicity of all the wealth that surrounds them has melted their brain. It is an absolute failure of the world in large that a billionaire even exists, not to mention that I’m certain that there are several technical trillionaires out there. However, the optics of that existing are so bad they go to great lengths to hide it. Secondly, I’m sure this plan won’t work out how they think it will, there will be spectacular failures, and it will take most of us down with them.

I’d rather prevent all this, as this is all the most evil shit. The way to stop them? Remove the oligarchs from the economy as much as possible, by bringing democracy to the economy. Wouldn’t it be great to get to vote on who is your boss, and get a share in the profits of your company? Also wealth taxes on the ultra wealthy, as there is no way to actually tax them so much that it would make them poor. The amount of wealth they have is actually incomprehensible to most people, from what I’ve seen and heard.

I’m going to start journaling here as a way to vent, in a different form then what is normally accessible to me in day to day life. I don’t care if anyone but me ever looks at this, but I can always hope maybe one other person reads something here that might give them hope, a reason to reflect, or even inspiration. This is not a collaborative effort. This is just me going for a walk in the dark to shout into the void.