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The nifty thing is that people only have to grasp the economic benefits of making bespoke stuff for themselves, rather than buying mass-produced crap at Walmart, for us to win.

That's all it takes to end the flow of our wealth, our production, to institutions and the parasites they support with our resources.

This is why I am not an advocate of revolution, violent protests, or war. Those are the tools of imperial might, of institutional manipulation, and conquering subject peoples. We don't need to conquer anyone.

We just need to be free, and all we need to do to be free is stop paying our overlords.

Kinda hard to see that not happening as the ability to do that becomes cheaper and better every day, and the cost of tyrannical government captured by banksters gets worse and more expensive every day.

That comment makes me so much clearer on your perspective on the matter that 3D printing improves the fact that there is nothing to stop the sharing of quality information that’s freely shared from one person to the next — which will, in turn, reduce the cost of living and help us to get the things we need to live!