I will not go into things like Sovereign Man on the Land, and other legal disputes. Even thought they are legally correct, very few Govern-cement Thugs know the actual rules, and so, they are mute. People actually believe what they are told about the system, the police officers too.
What i feel as sovereignty is the ability to walk away from the system, and to really, and truly, not need the system.
If you need nothing the system provides, then the system has no hold over you, and that is sovereignty.
And, what most people are missing from their freedom self autonomy is consumer goods. Now, if i was stuck in an end of civilization setting, i could build all the modern appliances. They are quite easy/simple machines. However, most people do not comprehend what is going on inside them; the manufacturers make them as impossible to work on as possible, so you have to call their service techs.
Now, if we break down the appliance into simple pieces, and make CNC machinery and plans for building each piece, then we could get normal people to build the parts of appliances in their garages. And if we get a bunch of people to make all the parts, then we could assemble appliances locally.
And this is my path toward sovereignty.
Building the pieces.
Every piece is actually quite simple. Even the electronics. And, broken down to this level, almost anyone can learn to make each piece.
Unfortunately, most pieces are not something you can just 3D print, however, with a CNC mill, most of the pieces can be simply machined.
After we get a person set up to make each piece, then we get a computer system to match up people who need parts (assemblers) and people who make parts (manufacturers). And this can scale, with more people joining and providing and building a network of suppliers and users.
Assembling the pieces
Now, not everyone can put together a washing machine or a refrigerator, but many can. All those men in the 60s who could work on their own cars could be trained to assemble appliances.
So, we will see some people assemble their own appliance, but many people will look for someone local to assemble what they need.
We get these people into computer system, and we have all the pieces for someone, who knows nothing, to come and ask for an appliance to be assembled for them.
Further, if we have enough of the pieces, the exterior box is not needed to be standard. It just has to hold all the parts in their proper places.
Like, a fridge can be any color you can imagine. The shelves, even the box can be tailored to what is really wanted.
Many people will take assembling an appliance to art form.
When you have so many suppliers, you can't be stopped
The system loves to make an example of someone in order to get them to stop. However, if we had hundreds of part suppliers, the system is really incapable of doing much to it. Especially since no one is actually doing anything wrong.
The system loves to regulate everyone from ever competing with them. Rots-child said that competition is a sin. And, so they use the state apparatus to make it almost impossible to compete. And then the make economies of scale such that no other corporation startup can compete with them.
However, they have one really big problem. Their amount sold cannot go beneath a certain number, else they start losing money and will go out of business. They can't make one at a time.
A person making parts in their garage, with paid off machinery, can make zero parts. There overhead is practically nothing. So, economically, they cannot be forced out of business.
With many, many suppliers, the state would be pretty much powerless to do anything.
So, if we could make refrigerators in our garages, we would have a great deal more freedom than we have now where we have only the choice of crappy refrigerator A or crappy refrigerator B.
I believe there is a lot of profit in each refrigerator, since they are shipped half way around the world, and then sold by a retailer at at least 30% markup.
With a system that makes a refrigerator only after it has been ordered, so much of the costs involved in manufacturing can be avoided. We can have so much more efficient of a system. We can make so much more durable and long lasting appliances, because we are not tied to producing so many every year. We won't even think about planned obsolescence.
So, not only will distributed manufacturing bring us better products, and more local people having a good job (or side hustle), it saves so much pollution from being made.
This is truly a path towards sovereignty.
This is something really cool about south America... Many people can and/or will experiment until they figure out how. Almost nothing is garbage here. If it can't be fixed, the good bits can be mixed and matched and made into a functional machine. "Put it together (again) with wire," is a refrain you hear often...¡atarlo con alambre!
Independence is freedom.
Schools no longer provide education, instead delivering children indoctrination, because the current state of technological development is decentralization of the means of production is more economically profitable than centralization, mass production. Of the several reasons this is the case, the fact that individual production eliminates parasitic losses, such as profits to owners of factories that mass produce goods, taxes on wages, sales, profits, and shipping, wholesale, brokering, and retailers, is the largest in terms of economic impact.
If you need a toaster and work a job to acquire the money to purchase the toaster, there are many points along the way to your purchase of the toaster that invite parasitic losses. Your wages are taxed, as are the wages of everyone that makes the toaster. The owner(s) of the factory(s) making toasters take a cut as profit, or ROI on the manufacturing investment in making toasters. The products need to be shipped, either to you, or to a market where you go to make your purchase, and the shippers get a cut, as does the retailer. When you make a toaster in your garage none of these parasitic losses impact the value of your production. If you make a toaster for your own use, just as if you grow a potato and eat it, there is no taxable event that extracts the value of the wealth you create. There are no taxable wages earned by you producing your toaster. There is no wholesaler, nor any shipper of the toaster, nor a retailer to sell it to you. There is not corporate profit, nor sale that is taxed. All the value of your production inures to you when you make your own toaster.
There are still such parasitic losses through the acquisition of resources necessary to manufacture toasters, so making a toaster yourself doesn't eliminate all parasitic losses, but it does eliminate most of them (and this is primarily because decentralization has only just begun, so it is using the old centralized system to build the new decentralized infrastructure). This decentralizes both wealth and financial assets (money), by not enabling parasites to extract the wealth you create (your toaster) for their own benefit. The rich have centralized wealth, concentrated it in their own wallets. So, decentralization eliminates the ability of the rich to concentrate wealth in their wallets, and enables folks with merit to keep the wealth they create. The rich oppose this, and they are very good at opposing decentralization, as they have demonstrated by centralizing wealth enough to become rich. While there are myriad parasitic mechanisms that the rich have managed to impose, which makes getting rich complex and difficult to understand in full, the principle of parasitic losses is simple and easy to understand, and making yourself what you need is how to avoid all of them. Kids taught this understand it easily, and this is why schools don't teach them.
Today tech advance increasingly makes it possible to yourself make what you need. Across every field of industry decentralization of the means of production is the cutting edge of tech advance. Whether it's food, power, household goods, or medicine, by adopting the most advanced tech you can become able to yourself provide the modern goods and services that create the blessings of civilization. One of the quirks of centralization is planned obsolescence. A company making refrigerators profits from selling their products, so if they don't sell products every year they don't make profits every year. I have a 97 year old neighbor whose father purchased a Kelvinator refrigerator in 1940, and whom has been using that refrigerator for 85 years. Refrigerators can be built to be very robust and durable. He put the refrigerator some years ago out on his porch, where the sea air here on the coast caused it to rust, and the door handle mechanism broke as a result. Because I do not have the means to manufacture that door handle, and Kelvinator no longer makes and sells that part either, his refrigerator no longer is useful to him, even though the cooling mechanism still works properly. Planned obsolescence strikes again!
The ability to manufacture that part is potential to me. I just haven't got there yet. The necessary tooling to shape and carve metal into the specific shapes in the door handle mechanism in 1940 weighed many tons. Today such tooling will fit on a tabletop. Such work is too messy for my kitchen table, however, and is better suited to a workbench in the garage, and I don't have a tabletop CNC machine yet. The recent advent of such table top machining capabilities means that those tools are still very early in development, and aren't yet widely distributed, but in due time I expect them to be part of every household, just like toasters and refrigerators. One of the most recent developments in decentralization is the introduction of FOSS AI, such as Deepseek. While the commercial introduction to AI we are availed focuses on text and images, where such FOSS AI as Deepseek will prove most useful and beneficial is in automating production. In 1940 only a skilled machinist trained thoroughly in the use of a 10 ton device would be able to produce the parts necessary to a Kelvinator door handle. This is why everyone didn't have such a capability when technology was in such a primitive state. Using AI to run a table top CNC machine in the garage, manufacturing such a door handle can be automated. Rather requiring a skilled machinist that has taken many classes, and then apprenticed to a master machinist for years, a person with only an introductory understanding of machining and the servicing and maintenance of such a tool can provide the parts specifications to an AI controlled CNC tool that only weighs a few pounds.
Centralization is barbaric. It is a relic of primitive technology. The future is decentralization, and decentralizing the means of production simultaneously decentralizes possession of wealth. Possession of independent means is the best definition of wealth, and as should be obvious, that wealth is synonymous with freedom, because it enables the capacity to prevent being oppressed. The future is freedom - but only for those that take responsibility for meeting their own needs. Free men make their freedom.
Thanks!
Would you consider publishing this post translated into Spanish as well?
You may take my words and do whatever you want with them. No copyright is claimed.
That said, i would hope you translate it well. If machine translated, someone should clean it up, please. And, i would like some acknowledgement. But, these aren't only my ideas, they have come from many people talking and writing about this subject.
Excellent. I can do that. Make it a good translation... Sure, they aren't new ideas to me either.. But to many still they are and you've written this quite nicely. And thank you
Would this be the same a decentralized manufacturing? Imagine it being setup in such a way that the blockchain would reward each participant in the process for completing their part and submitting verification.
It does not have to, but it would be the easiest thing to put all the transactions on a block chain. Manufacturing -> Verified testing -> Assembly -> Verified testing -> Consumer
Then you can follow any part through the whole network.
And, you can have payments done through it, with smart contracts that when the Consumer pays, all get paid.
But, you might just have each person in line sending satoshis
Whats this, whats this! You lied! haha./. very good
its all -part of decentralisation really isnt it.. it is just NUTS how we mostly wear one of five brands of shoes.. EVEN in remote India or Africa! the list goes on. .. until .. we are free'd x
Yes, i had an insight, when looking through my title cards.
It was like, "yes, this is what i think sovereignty looks like"
Do you know how easy it is to make shoes? That is what is really funny, when you see $100 Nikkes
Decentralized manufacturing could really change how we think about independence, sustainability and access to durable goods. The system already has a lot of control when we just accept mass production
More control than you might think.
You would be surprised that man things you think are valuable, are not, and things you think as throw away, are actually very valuable.
And, it is done through price setting.
Those Nikke shoes, for over $100. $5 to make.
That $10 toaster costs $10 to make. But also, that $100 toaster, costs $10 to make.
The price dynamic is serious 😂