The Illusion of Freedom: How Monopolies and knowledge systems steal our Independence
Governments have become investors, and corporations have turned into governments.
Sovereign wealth/Provident funds now operate like hedge funds, channelling resources into private empires. Giants like BlackRock shape policy, monopolies write the rules, and centralized media dictate what’s acceptable and how we should live.
This is happening now. The line between government and private power is blurred—perhaps nonexistent. Yet, the same media tells authorities are in charge. Are they really?
Like everyone, I believe we should be authentic, pursue what we love, and be useful to others and contribute to the society. As we say like, find your passion.
I was trying to find it by working in different fields and projects, eventually I found my calling, but it is not as we think it is, or not as simple as it is.
In the process, I was reflecting and why they way the things are, I wasn’t enjoying them, and they didn’t work out. I kept pushing, experimenting, and observing cycles. Over time, I realized the issue is far bigger than me.
In nature, everything is free; it demands nothing in return. To organize society, we created money as a tool to exchange for labour and goods.
We pay for oil, groceries, and products—not because nature is asking us, but because we’re compensating for the labour behind them & profit. Yet, prices can be increased when systems are made more complex and when things are made not accessible.
We’ve built specializations to make life more comfortable, advancements are made, somehow life is secured, but they haven’t eliminated toil.
Instead, simple tasks are now overly complicated, this creates jobs but also dependency.
We can’t fix a light bulb, repair a car, motor an oven, or handle basic plumbing. We don’t know how to craft wooden furniture or other essentials anymore. These skills are increasingly specialized, often requiring licences to perform in some countries.
This loss of control is showcased as sophisticated, standardized, and outsourced. We’re becoming less self-sufficient, more dependent, and more on more losing control on things.
Technologies and specializations evolve in their own ways, we can’t manage them. It can’t be democratic.
We can make technologies to make our lives easy, cheap, simple and uplifting. Or we can make them more complicated, dependent, hard to manage, difficult to understand and to lose control on them.
We are evolving in this direction, not the other way around, this is not the direction of naturally aligned, harmony with everyone. It’s against the natural laws & our abilities.
Those who control these knowledge systems and infrastructure dictate what’s possible, what can do be done, how it can be done. Who gets exclusive access, who are restricted and so on. This is how we are losing more and more control on them & also on our ways to create income streams.
These are disruptions are showcased as progress, it’s the other way around. Inventions are happening in research labs, all of them are not come into the market. If everything revealed, these power structures won’t hold power which is actual reality.
So overall, It’s not transparent or democratic, they are evolving with monopolistic interests & Govt is funding them.
These industries - Software, medical systems, media systems, education, banking, military and engineering solutions are growing more complex, now with AI technology is becoming like a god & we are going in a direction that we may not able to control any more.
Corporate giants design our tools, frameworks, and knowledge systems, not to empower us, but to disempower our ability to create things & limit opportunities & so that we depend on these systems, eventually they create prices & dictate rules behind the scenes.
They want to absolute control on prices. With competition, control over pricing is not possible. For this, they are creating cycles, they are engineering cycles of inflation, recessions, disruptions, shocks, and wars behind the scenes. Every cycle, they crush competition, acquire small businesses cheaply and remove rivals one by one with one merger/acquisition at a time.
Read this book,
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
This isn’t a free market—it’s an organized power structure protected by patents, laws, subsidies, and branding.
Capitalism isn’t making things, It’s about controlling the right to exclude others from income streams.
These knowledge systems, tools, the templates given by these systems stifles authenticity. These tools, systems dictate us, we can't dictate them, and they are aligned to our nature. Unless we flow their procedures, we can’t make money. It’s not soul aligned, they are artificial systems.
Meanwhile, the mainstream highlights selected success stories, pushing their achievements and false hopes to prevent revolts. These stories pushed in every industry to mask a deeper truth, so that people won’t question it by busy in hustling without changing the systemic rules.
We’re losing control of our systems, our livelihoods, and our ability to shape our future. This isn’t freedom—it’s engineered dependence, loss of control dressed up as progress.
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