RE: Are you a baby boomer?

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I am not talking about real property as castles of stone, wood, or straw, but of soil, regolith, and stars themselves. In March 2023 Terran 1 launched, 3D printed by Relativity Space. Every bit of history of humanity, that period in which the technology of the written word has enabled lies and facts alike to be transmitted by the liars and truth tellers to be preserved by their own hands, and not vouchsafed to the honor of oral reciters, nor the abyss of misremembrance, has been of a long, slow slog of technological advance through the crude stages of collective industry that began with agriculture and that today we observe has attained to the power to traverse our local solar neighborhood, to travel in space.

Throughout that history, psychopathic overlords have connived and schemed to parasitize our collective production, investing that parasitized surplus production to support armed gangs of thugs that enabled them to conquer and control society. War, states, and overlords are aspects of centralization that has been the inevitable consequence of collective industry. Because increasing productivity increased the wealth and power of those parasitizing productive industry, centralization and it's inherent institutions have advanced technology from the Stone Age to the Space Age.

That progress is now complete. The Space Age however, is no longer advancing centralization. The laws of physics, the very structure of the universe itself, today mandate that the cutting edge of technological advance in every field of industry decentralizes the means of production. Decentralization now increases productivity, and it increases productivity orders of magnitude beyond what centralization can attain, because centralization is able to be parasitized by overlords, and overlords require the lion's share of productivity, as is obvious today from our overlords being more wealthy and powerful than ever before.

Agriculture cannot increase productivity meaningfully by increasing scale. Monocropping and automation have reached their limits. Whole continents are plowed under and natural ecosystems replaced, which our overlords do to maximize their cost to productivity in terms of overhead, to feed their armies, and bureaucratic nightmares of governmental institutions, all necessary to their sybaritic lifestyles. Aquaponics, using marine and freshwater animals to fertilize plants that cleanse the water of their wastes so it can be recycled to the aquatic schools, doesn't even require garden plots to produce food. Any environment in which we can live can be used to raise our food. I have seen a couple in a 3 bd apartment that used 3 2000 gallon tanks of tilapia in their garage to feed cash crops they grew in their apartment hydroponically, producing easily ~10x what they needed to feed themselves in a sunny window and under LED lights.

That is decentralized agriculture. You can feed yourself wholesome nutritious food with a 55 gallon barrel of catfish you feed table scraps and hydroponically fertilize a few gutters of veg in a sunny window. No biocides, additives, or ecological destruction necessary. Neither will you create any taxable event producing your food, or need any taxable wages to buy it and fork over profits to parasitic profiteers. Decentralization massively outcompetes centralization economically to the producers, by eliminating parasitic losses.

Overlords are obligate parasites. They cannot themselves produce their wealth and power, but must pinch the pennies from the pockets of the public for it. When we ourselves make what we need with means we own, we retain the benefits of our production ourselves, and merit by our industry our supper. This relegates overlords to merely being our peers, that themselves must merit their own production rather than seizing ours.

This isn't limited to agriculture, but today enables every good and service that creates the blessings of civilization to be produced by means that individual households and small communities themselves can own, requiring no hoards of capital, vast holdings of real property, or subjugated thralls to create it. This is why Terran 1, that first 3D printed spaceship launched in March this year, marks the true beginning of the Space Age.

You can buy a 3D printer today for the cost of a nice lunch out with your family. Such an entry level printer will not have the precision, or be able to use the exotic aluminum alloys, that are necessary to produce spaceships, nor will you fit a spaceship in your garage, but the more advanced technology is the faster it becomes more advanced, and the faster it disperses across the population. Bambu Labs X1 Carbon incorporates lidar, and can employ multiple materials and colors in a single printed product, a vast improvement over what the Creality Ender 3 can do, and that was the cutting edge only a couple years ago.

It won't be long until the ~$1M printers necessary to make spaceships will be easily available to small communities that can provide the necessary space to print their own spacecraft. The Space Age is not merely incremental quantitative advance as has occurred since the depths of prehistory, but a clinal boundary that renders centralization itself obsolete, with all that means to human freedom, and that is what I mean when I say that real property is going to become increasingly available.

Wizened seers millennia ago prophesied that after an apocalypse, humanity would create a paradise across the heavens, and 'seize the very stars of the heavens as footstools for their feet.'

We have said 'The sky's the limit.' when our enterprise promised to be extremely productive before. Today, however, the sky is just the beginning.



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