<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[🛡 Surviving Tomorrow]]></title><description><![CDATA[Futurist Jared A. Brock prepares you for what's coming.]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nEKw!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F665b1039-730b-4ed1-8338-71d4d9f3c9c4_1280x1280.png</url><title>🛡 Surviving Tomorrow</title><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:53:38 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[jaredabrock@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[jaredabrock@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[jaredabrock@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[jaredabrock@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[$10 Lattes Are Just the Beginning]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inflation isn't going away. That's the point.]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/10-lattes-are-just-the-beginning</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/10-lattes-are-just-the-beginning</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:13:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAq5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1625ef67-6e96-48d0-9bae-dfd2b2ed5635_790x464.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAq5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1625ef67-6e96-48d0-9bae-dfd2b2ed5635_790x464.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAq5!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1625ef67-6e96-48d0-9bae-dfd2b2ed5635_790x464.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAq5!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1625ef67-6e96-48d0-9bae-dfd2b2ed5635_790x464.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAq5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1625ef67-6e96-48d0-9bae-dfd2b2ed5635_790x464.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAq5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1625ef67-6e96-48d0-9bae-dfd2b2ed5635_790x464.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAq5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1625ef67-6e96-48d0-9bae-dfd2b2ed5635_790x464.png" width="790" height="464" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1625ef67-6e96-48d0-9bae-dfd2b2ed5635_790x464.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:464,&quot;width&quot;:790,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAq5!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1625ef67-6e96-48d0-9bae-dfd2b2ed5635_790x464.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAq5!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1625ef67-6e96-48d0-9bae-dfd2b2ed5635_790x464.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAq5!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1625ef67-6e96-48d0-9bae-dfd2b2ed5635_790x464.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rAq5!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1625ef67-6e96-48d0-9bae-dfd2b2ed5635_790x464.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Half a decade ago (remember Covid?) I published a theory:</p><p><strong>That the government was lying about inflation and it would destroy millions of lives.</strong></p><p>Fast-forward to this past weekend, where I nearly choked to death at the grocery store upon sighting a package costing C$2 for a <em>single slice of ham</em>.</p><p>This, followed by my horror at discovering a latte is now ~C$10 and a chocolate croissant is the same. Forty bucks for a couple to go out for coffee.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a 100% reader-supported publication and the price hasn&#8217;t changed, ever. Become a paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p><strong>Inflation has made life miserable for billions of people.</strong></p><ul><li><p>Homelessness in America is up 33%.</p></li><li><p>Canadian poverty is through the roof.</p></li><li><p>The U.K. housing crisis is at record levels.</p></li></ul><p>But don&#8217;t worry! Politicians say inflation is almost back to their target 2% annual compound theft-of-your-purchasing power.</p><p>But here&#8217;s the truth:</p><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The cost of living&#8221; crisis </strong><em>will not</em><strong> go away because it </strong><em><strong>cannot</strong></em><strong> go away.</strong></p></blockquote><p>To paraphrase Bill Clinton&#8217;s campaign slogan: <em>It&#8217;s the inflation, stupid</em>.</p><p><strong>Here&#8217;s how it works:</strong></p><ol><li><p>You deposit $100 in the bank.</p></li><li><p>Your deposit is the ammunition that enables the banksters to create $100 in new debt-money out of thin air, a credit which they lend to a borrower at interest (which is <strong>still a biblical sin</strong>.)</p></li><li><p>Congratulations! Your nation&#8217;s money supply has just inflated by $100, meaning the purchasing power of your money is guaranteed to decrease as prices go up. Meaning more people will have to borrow&#8230; meaning the doom spiral will only get worse&#8230; forever.</p></li></ol><p>There isn&#8217;t a politician in Parliament/Congress who cares about this, because their masters are <em>the very lords of credit</em> who profit from this demonic money-multiplying system.</p><p>It&#8217;s called fractional reserve banking, and until it is abolished along with interest, prices will continue to rise.</p><p><strong>Guaranteed</strong>.</p><p>And remember: That fake 2% inflation the politicians keep lying about&#8230; that&#8217;s a 2% fake/10+% real price hike <em>on top of all the previous price hikes</em>.</p><p>Prices don&#8217;t return to their original levels and then re-inflate again.</p><p>If a loaf of bread was $5 and experienced 12% real inflation last year and 8% real inflation this year, that loaf now costs $6.05&#8230; 21% cumulative inflation. When real inflation is 10% next year, that loaf is now $6.66&#8230; 33% higher than three years earlier.</p><p>In case you&#8217;re wondering:</p><p>Real inflation&#8202;&#8212;<em>&#8202;when you inflation rising prices, shrinking quantities, collapsing quality, and the move to suscriptions instead of permament ownership&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;</em>is well over 10% per year.</p><h3>How much longer can you survive?</h3><p>Do the actual math.</p><p>Right now.</p><p>Compound it out.</p><p>Okay fine, I&#8217;ll do it for you:</p><p>Next year, your pay will buy you <strong>90.9%</strong> of what it does today.<br>Year 2: 82.6%<br>Year 3: 75.1%<br>Year 4: 68.3%<br>Year 5: 62.1%</p><p>By the end of year seven, the value of your pay will be chopped <strong>in half.</strong></p><p>In the year 2023, you will have 48.7% of today&#8217;s purchasing power.</p><p>Who am I kidding?</p><p>It will probably be far worse.</p><p>That&#8217;s the magic of compounding, kids.</p><p>It destroys lives.</p><h3>What you can/can&#8217;t do</h3><p><strong>1.) We cannot tighten-our-belts out of bankers hyper-inflating the economy</strong>. <br>The vast majority will never be able to cut their bills to the bone because inflation will keep raising those bills.</p><p><strong>2.) Nor can the vast majority outwork/outrun/outpace inflation.</strong> <br>You can work three full-time jobs like a mule and in twenty years and it will still buy you less than it does today.</p><p><strong>3.) Nor can the vast majority invest their way out of this by enslaving others via stocks and bonds. <br></strong>Nor should they.</p><p>The entire Mammonomics system must burn.</p><p>Basically the only thing people can do in the meantime is <strong>band together in communities and get off the fiat-money grid</strong>.</p><p>It&#8217;s time to start building counter-economies and lighting spiritual fires.</p><h3>In Conclusion</h3><p><strong>There is no cost of living crisis.</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s purposeful inflation caused by willful greed.</p><p><strong>Let bankers inflate the money supply &#8594; prices go up &#8594; governments cut services and increase taxes = compounding debt until literal slavery.</strong></p><p>It <em>will not stop</em> until interest and fractional reserve banking are abolished.</p><p>I hope this article makes you righteously angry.</p><p>I hope it makes you hate greed, fractional reserve banking, interest, inflation, and theft.</p><p>I hope it makes you want to stop collaborating with evil and sell all your banking stocks, real estate stocks, rental properties, and bonds.</p><p>&#8220;Hate was is evil, hold fast to what is good.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><h3>Buy books that will make you smarter:</h3><p><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/God-Named-Josh-Uncovering-Christ/dp/0764239627">A God Named Josh</a></em> will help you see Jesus like you&#8217;ve never seen him before (even if you&#8217;ve been going to church for 40+ years.)</p><p><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Named-Lucifer-Uncovering-Myth-Busting/dp/076424048X/">A Devil Named Lucifer</a></em> will teach you how to resist Satan and actually use him to advance the kingdom of God.</p><p><em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1999522451/">A Year of Living Prayerfully</a></em> will make you laugh in the moment and smile for years afterward.</p><p>Your friends and fam will thank you for getting them copies, too.</p><h3>Invite Jared to speak at your church/conference/event</h3><p>Choose from topics including Christian economics, the sin of interest, debt and jubilee, landlording, building wealth, true generosity, the real Jesus, myth-busting the devil, prayer, and more. Contact via <a href="https://www.jaredbrock.com/">JaredBrock.com</a></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 Interesting Things You Might Like]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plus an update on the stolen barbecue]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/10-interesting-things-you-might-like</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/10-interesting-things-you-might-like</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:49:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TN86!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60fd2bc0-01ad-4621-bf62-a626a8f943e1_800x448.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TN86!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60fd2bc0-01ad-4621-bf62-a626a8f943e1_800x448.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TN86!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60fd2bc0-01ad-4621-bf62-a626a8f943e1_800x448.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TN86!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60fd2bc0-01ad-4621-bf62-a626a8f943e1_800x448.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TN86!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60fd2bc0-01ad-4621-bf62-a626a8f943e1_800x448.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TN86!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60fd2bc0-01ad-4621-bf62-a626a8f943e1_800x448.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TN86!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60fd2bc0-01ad-4621-bf62-a626a8f943e1_800x448.png" width="800" height="448" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/60fd2bc0-01ad-4621-bf62-a626a8f943e1_800x448.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:448,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TN86!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60fd2bc0-01ad-4621-bf62-a626a8f943e1_800x448.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TN86!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60fd2bc0-01ad-4621-bf62-a626a8f943e1_800x448.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TN86!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60fd2bc0-01ad-4621-bf62-a626a8f943e1_800x448.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TN86!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60fd2bc0-01ad-4621-bf62-a626a8f943e1_800x448.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>1. The BBQ Saga</h3><p>As you know, someone <a href="https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/on-getting-robbed">stole our BBQ a few weeks ago</a>.</p><p>Last Sunday at church, a lovely human gave us a new.</p><p>Currently trying to decide if we chain this one to the wall, install a tracking device, fill it with glitter bombs, rig it with an electric shock device, or surround it by bear traps.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Become a paid subscriber to support Surviving Tomorrow.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>2. Working Holiday</h3><p>We have some friendly Germans (oxymoron? jokes) staying at our house this week, so we&#8217;re off to the southeast English coast on a home exchange.</p><p>f you want to help kill Airbnb as much as I do, <a href="https://www.homeexchange.com/?sponsorkey=alanandamy-60911">join the fun and stay for free all over the world</a>.</p><h3>3. Kicking Screen Addiction</h3><p>For those who read about my <a href="https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/my-1-internet-addiction">#1 Internet addiction</a>, I&#8217;m pleased to report I&#8217;m no longer jonesing for Twitter on an hourly or even daily basis.</p><p>The trick?</p><p>I had to cut <em><strong>all</strong></em> feeds out of my life. (Except for YouTube, strangely.)</p><p>Even <em>thirty seconds</em> on Reddit or the Substack feed makes me want to hop back on X.</p><p>Say no to drugs, kids!</p><p>Speaking of drugs&#8230;</p><h3>4. Maple Protein Latte</h3><p>I don&#8217;t regularly drink tea or coffee or any other form of caffeine because it does nothing for me (DNA-test-confirmed.)</p><p>But I like the taste of espresso&#8230; when mixed with dairy and sugar.</p><p>Obviously, this is a terrible reason to start regularly imbibing coffee.</p><p>But I recently concocted a nice little treat:</p><p>120ml espresso (is that a lot?)<br>300ml Nutrino milk<br>20g maple syrup<br>=<br>248 calories, 21 grams of protein, and a giant mug of yum.</p><h3>5. Calm Focus</h3><p>Don&#8217;t like the mid-caffeine jitters, the post-caffeine crash, or the chronic anxiety from daily caffeination?</p><p>Buffer it with L-theanine.</p><h3>6. Cavity-Reversing Toothpaste</h3><p>Nanohydroxyapatite.</p><p>Game-changing.</p><p>Helps reverse cavities, heals micro-cracks, whitens, cleans, remineralizes.</p><p>Highly recommended.</p><h3>7. Circadian Repair</h3><p>My chronotype: the Wolf.</p><p>Night owl.</p><p>Ideal: Go to bed at 4AM, get up at noon.</p><p>But it&#8217;s terrible for you, especially in winter when the sun sets at 4PM.</p><p>Then I discovered <a href="http://calibrate.day">Calibrate.day</a>.</p><p>Now I&#8217;m consistently waking up 60&#8211;90 minutes earlier than I&#8217;ve done for the past few decades, without an alarm.</p><h3>8. Parking Tickets</h3><p>On my first day as Prime Minister, I will ban private corporations and public councils from charging for parking.</p><p>Two weeks ago in a tiny village in Wales, we got hit with a $94 parking ticket. I took video of the spot to prove there was no sign anywhere in sight.</p><p>A sniveling bureaucrat replied with a document outlining the appeal process:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S7ei!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc4cd4f9-de44-4e3f-ad23-f82a7896d419_402x529.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S7ei!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc4cd4f9-de44-4e3f-ad23-f82a7896d419_402x529.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The fact that there is a complicated flowchart for appealing a charge that shouldn&#8217;t exist in the first place gives you an idea of how unfathomably corrupt bureaucrats are.</p><p>Can you imagine how many people must be involved in a scheme like this?</p><p>The answer is 82,000.</p><p>That&#8217;s right&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;there are <strong>82,000 people</strong> in the U.K. who <em>aren&#8217;t</em> building houses, nursing the elderly, stopping crime, or farming land because they are sitting in an office draining worker bank accounts 24/7.</p><p>In total, they cost us &#163;7,000,000,000 per year.</p><p>Enough to house all 300,000 homeless people in the U.K. three times over.</p><p>The real killer is the TIME wasted.</p><p>Last year, these vampires slapped the nation with over 20 million fines, costing the country the equivalent of more than 1,000 full-time jobs, or hundreds of entire human lives.</p><p>(In case you&#8217;re wondering what will happen when we ban paid parking&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;corporations will go out of business unless they provide free parking. It&#8217;s that simple. It forces them to build whatever amount of parking is sufficient to retain customers. They can absolutely pass that cost along to customers via microscopically higher prices, but they no longer get to profit from lending. Interest must be abolished.)</p><h3>9. Ancient Home Education</h3><p>Our eldest starts school in the fall.</p><p>We&#8217;ve enrolled him in a classical homeschool structured around an ancient Greek learning system called the <strong>Trivium</strong>.</p><p>The word <em>trivium</em> itself is Latin, meaning roughly &#8220;the place where three roads meet.&#8221;</p><p>It&#8217;s a form of meta-learning that teaches students <em>how </em>to learn, so they can then apply the trivium to any sort of study or subject of interest.</p><ol><li><p><strong>Grammar</strong> (Ages 5ish-10ish)<br>Learning the language of a subject. (IE, for automotive: brakes, gaskets, torque, horsepower, etc)</p></li><li><p><strong>Dialectic</strong> (Ages 11ish-13ish)<br>The science of logical reasoning. Thinking, arguing, and arriving at truth via disputation/Socratic questioning/thesis-antithesis-synthesis.</p></li><li><p><strong>Rhetoric</strong> (Ages 14ish-16ish)<br>Communicating elegantly and persuasively through essays, debate, public speaking, formal disputations, commentaries, etc.</p></li></ol><p>The fine folks who developed the Trivium were geniuses who intuitively understood childhood development:</p><p>Young children memorize easily &#8594; grammar stage.<br>Adolescents argue naturally &#8594; logic stage.<br>Older students seek self-expression &#8594; rhetoric stage.</p><p>Understand it.<br>Reason about it.<br>Communicate it.</p><p>I wish I&#8217;d been schooled in the Trivium!</p><p>Our four-year-old&#8217;s course of study for the fall includes:<br>Latin<br>Theology<br>History<br>English<br>Geography<br>Science<br>Art<br>Maths</p><p>It&#8217;s daunting for the parents, but our boy is raring to go.</p><p>Of course, our goal is <em>not </em>to raise &#8220;educated&#8221; children.</p><p>Our singular goal is to raise kids who <strong>love God and people</strong>.</p><p>So the real task will be centering Christ in every subject.</p><h3>10. Reading not non-fiction</h3><p>Historically, I&#8217;ve read several dozen books per year&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;exclusively non-fiction.</p><p>Happy to report 2026 was the year I finally cracked into fiction!</p><p>It started after I read two of childhood favorites to my four-year-old&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;<em>Danny Champion of the World</em> and <em>The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar</em>.</p><p>Now I&#8217;m devouring novels by P. G. Wodehouse (I&#8217;m loving his Psmith character), Ian Fleming (followed by the Bond films), Evelyn Waugh (followed by the <em>Decline and Fall</em> mini-series), and Tom Sharpe (follwed by the <em>Porterhouse Blue</em> mini-series.)</p><p>Evidently, I only like highly stylized, fast-moving, entertaining, satirical, slightly wicked, masculine, 1930s&#8211;1970s British fiction with a strong authorial voice.</p><p>Plus Dan Brown.</p><p>I&#8217;m currently slogging through Dan Brown&#8217;s new (and way-too-long) <em>Secret of Secrets</em>.</p><p>The good parts are great.</p><p>I love the subject matter&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;non-local consciousness.</p><p>Pairs well with the bit of research I&#8217;ve been doing on GABA and retrocausality.</p><p>But that&#8217;s an article for another time&#8230; possibly in the past!</p><h3>Your turn</h3><p>Hit reply or comment below to share your top book recommendations, favorite films, health hacks, and best discoveries of 2026.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's A Wild God Story For You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Can God make you vomit in the middle of the night to further His purposes?]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/heres-a-wild-god-story-for-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/heres-a-wild-god-story-for-you</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:16:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zSDm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdfa4f3b3-b81e-4e8a-ac70-68b1dc75e97b_800x458.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zSDm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdfa4f3b3-b81e-4e8a-ac70-68b1dc75e97b_800x458.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zSDm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdfa4f3b3-b81e-4e8a-ac70-68b1dc75e97b_800x458.png 424w, 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Know any Michiganders in the area? Please hit reply and let me know!</em></p><div><hr></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, become a paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>We were supposed to leave at 9:00 A.M. for a week in Wales for Michelle&#8217;s work.</p><p>But we wanted to leave the house perfect for our <a href="https://www.homeexchange.com/?sponsorkey=alanandamy-60911">Home Exchange</a> guests, a cute little family from France.</p><p>One thing led to another, and we didn&#8217;t end up leaving until 1:30 P.M.</p><p>We drove for miles&#8230;</p><p>And then our car overheated.</p><p>We&#8217;d already spent over $1,500 on it in the past two weeks, replacing both radiators.</p><p>This time it was the cooling pump and related bits and bobs, costing nearly $800.</p><p>We limped it back to the shop.</p><p>Then rented a car at the eye-watering $1,100. (Thanks bankers for inflating the money supply and devaluing everyone&#8217;s money.)</p><p>We didn&#8217;t end up leaving town until 5:00 P.M.</p><p>Over seven hours later, past 1:00 A.M., we were on the home stretch in Wales.</p><p>Suddenly Michelle exclaimed, &#8220;Pull over right now, I need to puke.&#8221;</p><p>This has never happened in our eighteen years of marriage and decades of knowing each other since we were twelve.</p><p>I pulled over, she got out, and waited for the worst.</p><p>About thirty seconds later, a car drove by, then turned around and came back.</p><p>A young gal in her early twenties hopped out.</p><p>&#8220;Do you need any help?&#8221;</p><p>Michelle and I both looked up. &#8220;Daisy?&#8221; [Name changed for privacy.]</p><p>Daisy was just as suprised as we were.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s you!&#8221;</p><p>Daisy had been a kid in the church youth group we helped lead years earlier when we lived in Wales.</p><p>What a strange coicidence.</p><p>I gave her a big hug and we chatted while Michelle tried not to vomit.</p><p>We later learned that earlier that day, her brother has said to here, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen Jay and Concord in a while, I miss them.&#8221; Then that evening, her cousin&#8217;s face had swollen up, and Daisy had driven her to the hospital, where the doctors said she was fine and her face went back to normal, so they drove home, which is how Daisy came to our aid.</p><p>I sensed God was up to something.</p><p>&#8220;Come to church next Sunday,&#8221; I said.</p><p>Daisy said she&#8217;d try, and drove off.</p><p>Michelle immediately felt better.</p><p>Sunday came. Daisy sat with us. After the service, we swapped stories about how we ended up passing each other on such a random road at such a random time.</p><p>&#8220;God is pursuing you, Daisy,&#8221; I said.</p><p>She nodded yes, clearly.</p><p>&#8220;Do you want to become a Christian?&#8221; I asked.</p><p>She immediately said yes.</p><p>&#8220;Do you want to become a Christian right now?&#8221; I asked.</p><p>She said yes.</p><p>Michelle double and triple checked that this is was Daisy really wanted&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;there can&#8217;t be any sort of pressure about such a massive decision&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;and then led her in a prayer of salvation.</p><div><hr></div><p>&#8220;God as pursuer&#8221; has been a major theme in our lives this year.</p><p>It seems He&#8217;s pursuing a <em>lot </em>of people right now.</p><p>Last week at our church small group, we read the Parable of the Lost Coin, the Parable of the Lost Sheep, and the Parable of the Prodigal Son. The small group leader gave us all a coin and asked us to pray for the &#8220;lost coins,&#8221; the people in our lives who need Jesus. While we were praying, her teenage son texted from camp to say he&#8217;d just become a Christian.</p><p>God doesn&#8217;t want anyone to live life or the afterlife apart from Him. So he searches like a shepherd looking for lost sheep.</p><p>Some people run the other direction.<br>Some people try to stand their ground and fight.<br>Others come home to their Father.</p><p>The choice is ours, every day, and every moment.</p><p>Sometimes it takes thousands of dollars worth of car repairs and endless hours of driving in the dark and a swollen face and nausea to get people&#8217;s attention.</p><p>It was worth it.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Getting Robbed]]></title><description><![CDATA[My neighbor recently put his barbecue in the back alley.]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/on-getting-robbed</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/on-getting-robbed</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:39:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AuwJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a8fcfdd-bb0b-4521-8986-1261e4c6f974_800x450.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AuwJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a8fcfdd-bb0b-4521-8986-1261e4c6f974_800x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AuwJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1a8fcfdd-bb0b-4521-8986-1261e4c6f974_800x450.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>My neighbor recently put his barbecue in the back alley.</p><p>&#8220;What&#8217;s up with the barbecue?&#8221; I asked.</p><p>&#8220;We got a new one. You can have this one if you want.&#8221;</p><p>Fab.</p><p>It was absolutely filthy and didn&#8217;t have wheels, but I parked it in your back yard and waited for the weather to improve.</p><p>A few weeks later, our church small group was over for our weekly supper gathering and the sun came out.</p><p>I bought some charcoal, cleaned out the BBQ, and sparked a flame.</p><p>The barbecue was a bit rusty, a tad wonky, the lid doesn&#8217;t close right, and it&#8217;s lop-sided due to its lack of wheels.</p><p>But it worked. We grilled about a dozen pounds of meat&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;beef burgers, lamb kebabs, wieners, steaks, and a South African sausage that hissed like a spitting cobra when you poked it.</p><p>Nearly two dozen of us ate like kings while basking in the sunset.</p><p>It was my four-year-old&#8217;s first charcoal barbecue.</p><p>He said it was &#8220;the best day of my life.&#8221;</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. Become a paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Our back yard isn&#8217;t fenced.</p><p>Just a half-wall beside the sidewalk.</p><p>We&#8217;ve gotten to know dozens of people over that half-wall. Sometimes we serve tea and scones. Sometimes we share desserts. Sometimes we leave out books and other items that quickly get scooped by people in need.</p><p>The whole world can see our back yard.</p><p>And the barbecue.</p><p>Our small group left around 10pm.</p><p>At 4:15am, a man in a hoodie between 40&#8211;60 trespassed into our back yard, picked up the wheelless barbecue, and penguin-waddled off.</p><p>Our neighbor&#8217;s CCTV captured the footage.</p><div><hr></div><p>My wife went through the five stages of grief quite quickly.</p><ol><li><p>Denial</p></li><li><p>Anger</p></li><li><p>Bargaining</p></li><li><p>Depression</p></li><li><p>Acceptance</p></li></ol><p>My son woke me up and excitedly informed me of the theft.</p><p>Surprisingly for the whole family, I didn&#8217;t get angry.</p><p>Because I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot recently about two of the weirder principles of Christian economics:</p><div><hr></div><p>In Luke 6:35, Jesus commands his followers to &#8220;<strong>lend, expecting nothing in return</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>When Jesus says nothing, he means nothing.</p><p>The &#8216;nothing&#8217; here doesn&#8217;t just mean &#8216;no interest.&#8217;</p><p>It means no principal, either.</p><p>Check out the verse before, Luke 6:34&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;&#8220;If you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, to get back <em>the same amount</em>.&#8221;</p><p>Christians lend, expecting to never be repaid. To be robbed. If we lend to someone who refuses to repay even when they can afford to do so, that&#8217;s theft. That&#8217;s between them and God. Great riches accrue to our kingdom account for being robbed.</p><p>&#8220;Robbed?!&#8221; we might say. Yes, robbed. In Luke 6:30, Jesus commands his disciples, &#8220;<strong>Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods, do not demand them back</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>God&#8217;s ledger remains unchanged.</p><p>In fact, not seeking repayment when robbed adds to your heavenly account.</p><p>Psalm 37:21 says, &#8220;The wicked borrows but does not pay back, but the righteous is generous and gives.&#8221;</p><p>Hebrews 10:34 says, &#8220;You joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.&#8221;</p><p>Jesus himself puts this into practice by giving Judas Iscariot control of their company&#8217;s money purse, despite knowing he was a thief, perhaps as a way of inviting him to a life of integrity. Jesus takes the old law of only lending interest-free to fellow Jews, and fulfills the law&#8217;s intention by extending total grace, even to enemies.</p><p>Every time a Christian gives, lends, forgives a debt, or is robbed and doesn&#8217;t demand repayment, their eternal bank account grows richer. In this way, our lending truly reflects the character of our God. God has lent us everything, we have repaid nothing and can&#8217;t repay anything, yet He doesn&#8217;t hold it against us. God is not a debt collector, He&#8217;s a debt canceler. (Luke 7:41&#8211;43)</p><p>Christian economics is WILD, isn&#8217;t it? You can see how it absolutely repulses non-Christians and fake Christians. Christian economics is all about the character of Jesus. Christian lending is focused on mercy, not monetary gain.</p><div><hr></div><p>Christians hold a lot of things in tension. <br>We love sinners (ourselves included) but hate sin (especially our own.)<br>We champion grace but also truth.<br>We don&#8217;t demand our stuff back from thieves, but we also seek justice.</p><p>Psalm 10:15&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;&#8220;Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call his wickedness to account till you find none.&#8221;</p><p>Isaiah 1:17&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;&#8220;Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.&#8221;</p><p>Jeremiah 22:3&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;&#8220;Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.&#8221;</p><p>So my four-year-old and I launched an official investigation.</p><p>Not for vengeance, retribution, or punishment.</p><p>Not to get our barbecue back.</p><p>Just to make our neighborhood a place of justice and safety and generosity and friendship. After all, the barbecue belongs to God and anyone who needs it can use it anytime.</p><p>Our plan: Gather evidence, submit it to the cops, pray the state does their biblical job (Romans 13:4&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;the state is &#8220;the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God&#8217;s wrath on the wrongdoer.&#8221;)</p><p>We went door-to-door with a pen and paper, checking CCTV cameras, laughing and commiserating with our countless neighbors who&#8217;d also been robbed.</p><p>It was fun. And memorable for my little boy&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;perhaps it will even be the earliest memory he retains in adulthood.</p><p>It was a wonderful chance to build relationships and tell them about Christianity&#8217;s most suppressed economic theology.</p><p>I may have even scored myself an honorary grandmother.</p><p>We&#8217;re hoping to have a robbery party and invite everyone we interviewed over for a meal.</p><div><hr></div><p>Sadly, the trail eventually went cold.</p><p>The thief got away with it.</p><p>It&#8217;s a shame, because I was hoping to give him the wheels.</p><p>I also thought it would be fun to ask to borrow the barbecue next time we need it for a church small group supper. (He&#8217;d get an invite too, of course.)</p><p>I&#8217;m still not angry.</p><p>I&#8217;m mostly just sad for the thief.</p><p>What is going on in an adult male&#8217;s mind and heart and soul and spirit that makes him steal a non-necessity at four in the morning?</p><p>If he needed twenty bucks, he could&#8217;ve knocked on our door.</p><p>Heck, if he needed a barbecue, he could&#8217;ve just knocked on our door.</p><p>As for the Brock family, we&#8217;re back to being barbecueless after just one brilliant, memorable, delicious community feast.</p><p>That&#8217;s okay.</p><p>Job 1:21 comes to mind.</p><p><em>Naked I came from my mother&#8217;s womb, and naked shall I return.<br>The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away.<br>Blessed be the name of the Lord</em>.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>PS&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;We&#8217;re currently visiting Wales while a young family from France stays in our home for free. Next month, we&#8217;re staying in someone&#8217;s centuries-old home by the sea. All for free&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;no need to use Airbnb and rob locals of homes. Check out <a href="https://www.homeexchange.com/?sponsorkey=alanandamy-60911">Home Exchange</a>.</strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain's New New New New New Unelected Prime Minister]]></title><description><![CDATA[The (dis)United Kingdom has yet another unelected Prime Minister.]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/britains-new-new-new-new-new-unelected</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/britains-new-new-new-new-new-unelected</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:34:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8em3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9be845ba-6340-4348-906c-ea4c33d740fe_800x452.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8em3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9be845ba-6340-4348-906c-ea4c33d740fe_800x452.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8em3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9be845ba-6340-4348-906c-ea4c33d740fe_800x452.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The (dis)United Kingdom has yet another unelected Prime Minister.</p><p>That&#8217;s six PMs in the past seven years.</p><p>Seven in the past ten years.</p><p>Five of whom grabbed the PMship without a general election.</p><ul><li><p>Theresa May snuck in via David Cameron&#8217;s resignation over failing to keep the U.K. in the E.U.</p></li><li><p>Boris Johnson back-stabbed May.</p></li><li><p>Liz Truss&#8217;s unelected PMship literally didn&#8217;t outlast a head of lettuce.</p></li><li><p>Rishi Sunak took over from Truss and then called it quits early.</p></li><li><p>And now we have Andy Burnham, the self-titled &#8220;King of the North.&#8221;</p></li></ul><p>Here&#8217;s everything you need to know about Andy:</p><p>He&#8217;s a chameleon.</p><p><strong>Been weaseling his way toward the PMship for decades.</strong></p><p>Stands for nothing.</p><p>Except power for Andy Burnham.</p><p>I can&#8217;t stand people like this.</p><p>You need to have a WHY if you want power.</p><h4><strong>A few good whys:</strong></h4><ol><li><p>You want to abolish fractional reserve banking.</p></li><li><p>You want to abolish interest.</p></li><li><p>You want to end for-profit land-lording.</p></li><li><p>You want to destroy inflation.</p></li><li><p>You want to create deflationary sovereign money to build 10 million homes.</p></li><li><p>You want to jubilee all debt.</p></li><li><p>You want to save England from cultural annihilation.</p></li></ol><h4>A bad why:</h4><ol><li><p>Because you&#8217;re Andy Burnham and you want power just because.</p></li></ol><p>Sadly, the U.K. now has to put up with three years of Mr. Power Grab.</p><p>The only thing Burnham has been consistent about over his 20+ years of climbing the greasy pole is his ideological inconsistency.</p><h3>So what can the good people of Britain expect from their new overlord?</h3><p>Let&#8217;s be SUPER charitable.</p><p>Absolute best case scenario, Burnham somehow manages to whip his party into voting for&#8230;</p><ul><li><p>devolving 1% of Westminster&#8217;s power to the cities</p></li><li><p>slightly more public involvement in public transport (yes, public transport is mostly privatized in the U.K.)</p></li><li><p>a tiny bit more integration of healthcare and social care</p></li></ul><p>That&#8217;s about it.</p><p>U.K. PMs are powerless to do any meaningful good because <a href="https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/the-end-of-british-democracy-5-unelected">anti-Brits made it impossible</a>.</p><p>Conversely, if a new unelected PM wants to wreck all sorts of havoc, he can do so with zero resistance.</p><p>Now let&#8217;s look at the certain downsides&#8230;</p><ol><li><p>He&#8217;s a self-identified &#8220;soft-left&#8221; &#8220;aspirational socialist,&#8221; meaning the country can expect way more national debt and increased taxes to fund way more handouts so millions who can work don&#8217;t have to work, including millions who aren&#8217;t even British.</p></li><li><p>Never ever forget that he is a globalist who worked as a minister for Tony Blair. Over the next three years, expect him to let in another million people the British people overwhelmingly do not want and have been consistently voting against for 50+ years.</p></li><li><p>Also like his forebears, expect him to blather on endlessly against antisemitism while simultaneously enabling the spread of Islam in the U.K., making the nation materially less safe for Jews and everyone else.</p></li></ol><p><strong>In other words, the country who </strong><em><strong>didn&#8217;t </strong></em><strong>get to vote in Andy as their PM should expect more or less more of the same, except definitely more, because </strong><em><strong>that&#8217;s how compounding works</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p><p>Britain is desperately poor, drowning in debt, hammered by taxes, crushed by shareholder prices, flooded by people who rape their daughters and stab their sons, and ruled by narcissistic puppets who work for powers hostile to the British family.</p><p>Andy Burnham will guarantee 2&#8211;5% more of this, because that is what his globalist backers want, and all Andy wants is personal power.</p><p>Where there are no shepherds, the wolves devour the sheep.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>PS &#8212;FREE HOLIDAY WEEKEND ON ME</strong></p><p><strong>For those who read my post about my new favorite <a href="https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/the-airbnb-killer-the-best-thing">Airbnb Killer</a>, there was some sort of glitch with my referral code, so use alanandamy-60911 if you want those two free night stays.</strong></p><p><strong>Here&#8217;s the full link:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.homeexchange.com/?sponsorkey=alanandamy-60911">https://www.homeexchange.com/?sponsorkey=alanandamy-60911</a></p><p><strong>Let me know if that does/doesn&#8217;t work!</strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. Become a paid subscriber to help us reach another 500K readers.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Airbnb Killer (The Best Thing I've Discovered This Year)]]></title><description><![CDATA[As long-time readers know, I caps-italics-bold HATE Airbnb.]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/the-airbnb-killer-the-best-thing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/the-airbnb-killer-the-best-thing</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:21:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nEKw!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F665b1039-730b-4ed1-8338-71d4d9f3c9c4_1280x1280.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pcPH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F101fcbd3-f010-43fc-ba59-4bedde56b334_800x248.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>As long-time readers know, I caps-italics-bold <em><strong>HATE </strong></em>Airbnb.</p><p>Like, with a raging biblical hate.</p><p>Romans 12:9&#8202;&#8212;&#8202; &#8220;Hate was is evil; hold fast to what is good.&#8221;</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>The very nature of Airbnb, like all forms of for-profit land-lording and for-profit lending, is evil.</p><p>Airbnb is particularly insidious because landlords outbid local families for homes, then turn would-be family homes into unregulated and unstaffed hotels that destroy the fabric of communities.</p><p>The result? It&#8217;s left millions<em> </em>of families homeless, made shelter for expensive for everyone else, and leaves thousands of villages ghost-towns in the off-season.</p><p>I don&#8217;t hate Airbnb hosts and I don&#8217;t hate Airbnb guests, but I hate that anyone is sociopathic enough to look objectively and the situation and still plow ahead with <strong>making families homeless</strong>.</p><p>It&#8217;s the exact sort of thing Jesus sends people to hell for (Matthew 25:31&#8211;46.)</p><p>I&#8217;ve written against Airbnb at length if you want to know the truth of how genuinely evil and perverse it is:</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/open-letter-to-airbnb">An Open Letter to Airbnb</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://survivingtomorrow.org/an-open-letter-to-airbnb-users-451ebd9ba4eb">An Open Letter to Airbnb Users</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/airbnb-is-the-crassus-of-real-estate">Airbnb Is the Crassus of Real Estate</a></strong></p><p>At this point, I&#8217;ve said basically everything I want to say about Airbnb. <br>It needs to die.<br>It needs to be killed, along with every other form of for-profit lending.<br>People matter more than extractive profit.</p><p>We need better things to replace it.</p><p>I wrote on Facebook a few weeks ago:</p><blockquote><p>Imagine a business that was Airbnb but free.</p><p>We could call it Sharebnb.</p></blockquote><p>A friend DM&#8217;d me and said:</p><blockquote><p>Have you ever heard of <a href="https://www.homeexchange.com/?sponsorkey=alanandamy-60911">Home Exchange</a>?</p></blockquote><p>Yes, the same Home Exchange from the Christmas movie <em>The Holiday</em>.</p><p>I&#8217;d seen it two decades earlier, but it didn&#8217;t have a ton of homes on it at the time, and it was only possible to do synchronized reciprocal swaps.</p><p>In other words, it had very limited optionality at the time.</p><p>Little did I know that they merged with another startup a year or two later, cracked non-synchronized and non-reciprocal swaps, and the thing has exploded.</p><p>Today, you can stay in 500,000+ homes across 155 countries.</p><p>Basically, you sign up, create a profile for your home, pay your membership fee, and then you can either:</p><p>a.) reciprocally swap houses with people all over the world, or</p><p>b.) you can book places using your Guest Points (GP) to stay at people&#8217;s houses <em>even if they aren&#8217;t staying at yours</em>.</p><p>Every time someone stays at your place non-reciprocally, they give you Guest Points which you can then spend on nights elsewhere.</p><p>We&#8217;ve already stayed in Oxford on a reciprocal swap, and just booked two nights by the beach in the Lake District for our 18th anniversary this weekend on points from our initial signup.</p><p>If you like to travel but don&#8217;t like supporting Airbnb or wasting money on hotels, so this is a no-brainer for free accommodations.</p><p>Use my referral code <strong>alanandamy-60911</strong> and we both get an extra 250 points (which gets you an extra 1&#8211;2 nights of free accommodations.)</p><p>I used my friend&#8217;s code when I signed up. The cost for one year was &#163;190/U$235, and with all the bonuses, it got us a total of 1550 points once we were fully set up. (We got 250 free points for using the referral link, 650 free points for setting up our profile&#8230; so we&#8217;d earned six free nights prior to even buying a membership&#8230; and 650 points for becoming a paid+verified member.)</p><p>So for U$235, you get 7&#8211;10 nights of free accommodations, <em>plus</em> whatever extra swaps you do, <em>plus</em> whatever Guest Points you earn and spend.</p><p>The <em>average</em> family of four using Home Exchange saves over U$2,200 per year that would&#8217;ve gone to profiteers.</p><p>Note that hosts DON&#8217;T get the membership money. The money goes to the platform and they use it to run the thing and to insure your house up to $1 million in case a guest decides to burn it to the ground or whatever. It also pays for theft protection, cancellation protection, 24/7 emergency assistance, etc.</p><p>Our friends have used their points for a beachside place in Mexico, Istanbul, a yurt on Vancouver Island, all over the world. They&#8217;re currently in Taiwan on Guest Points while someone is at their place on Guest Points.</p><p>We have a family from France staying in ours on Guest Points while we&#8217;re in Wales in a few weeks, and we have a couple from Germany visiting in August on Guest Points, which we&#8217;re then using for a family summer holiday week by the Suffolk coast.</p><p>My suggestion? <a href="https://www.homeexchange.com/?sponsorkey=alanandamy-60911">Sign up</a> for free, set up your profile+house profile+ get verified to rack up points, then pay when you realize you&#8217;d be stupid not to!</p><p>It takes a minute to get the hang of it, but if you&#8217;re organized and methodical you can hack an unbelievable amount of free travel. The platform even connects you with an Ambassador to teach you have to maximize your holidays.</p><p>Most importantly, <strong>it kills Airbnb&#8217;s world-destroying business model</strong>.</p><ul><li><p>No one spends any money for holiday accommodation</p></li><li><p>No landlords make a cent of profit</p></li><li><p>No landlord outbids a local family for their would-be house</p></li><li><p>No family is forced into homelessness</p></li><li><p>No house sits empty all off-season</p></li><li><p>No community gets torn apart</p></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.homeexchange.com/?sponsorkey=alanandamy-60911">Home Exchange</a>.</p><p>I love it as much as I hate Airbnb!</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Want to thank Surviving Tomorrow for saving you thousands just now? Become a paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Age of Trillionaires]]></title><description><![CDATA[What we should do about it]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/this-age-of-trillionaires</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/this-age-of-trillionaires</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:02:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M66k!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61292669-5e07-4445-a00b-bb5e6067e317_800x409.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M66k!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61292669-5e07-4445-a00b-bb5e6067e317_800x409.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M66k!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61292669-5e07-4445-a00b-bb5e6067e317_800x409.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>How are you feeling about Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire?</p><p>Do you wonder how a rocket ship company can be worth $2.02 trillion when it lost $4.94 billion last year?</p><p>Are you aware of how exactly Elon scammed his way to becoming a trillionaire?</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow needs your help to reach more readers. Become a paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>It was surprisingly simply and unsurprisingly evil:</p><ol><li><p>He convinced the Nasdaq (a tech stock exchange) to waive important requirements that apply to every other company (fast-tracking, getting rid of the minimum float requirement, changing the index weighting, no track record of profitability.)</p></li><li><p>Because index funds and ETFs that passively track the Nasdaq-100 must buy shares to match the index composition and weights, and SpaceX is now part of the Nasdaq-100, but by having so few public shares available, <em>Musk concentrated the buying pressure and inflated the index weighting, effectively forced millions of pensioners to buy massively overpriced stock</em>. <strong>If you have a retirement account in the US/Canada/UK, there&#8217;s a 99% certainty you just got screwed by the world&#8217;s first trillionaire</strong>.</p></li></ol><p>As a Christian, I hate this crap.</p><p>The lack of integrity of this sort of dishonest financial engineering is morally evil.</p><p>But for now, let&#8217;s reluctantly set aside the fact that Elon Musk became a trillionaire by forcing unknowing old people to exorbitantly overpay for microscopic slices of his rocket company.</p><p>Let&#8217;s go deeper.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Millions of trillionaire sycophants say, &#8220;Yeah, but it&#8217;s just paper net worth, it only becomes real when he sells his stock.&#8221;</h3><p>This is a nonsense lie.</p><p>Because he won&#8217;t sell his stock, ever.</p><p>It&#8217;s called BUY BORROW DIE.</p><p>Every billionaire does it.</p><ol><li><p>They buy assets that increase in value over time.</p></li><li><p>They borrow for dirt cheap against those assets.</p></li><li><p>They die having never paid a penny of income tax, dividends tax, and capital gains tax in their entire lifetime.</p></li></ol><p>Think about it: If you can borrow lifestyle cash at 5%, but your stocks are going up by 10%, you&#8217;d be crazy to claim income and pay income tax. So long as debt stays cheaper than your increase in share value, you can borrow an <em>unlimited</em> amount of money to upgrade your lifestyle, buy more stock, wash, rinse, repeat.</p><p>Don&#8217;t worry, it gets worse: Bankers simply print that money to lend to the billionaire <em>out of thin air</em>, inflating the money supply, which makes your money worth less and your cost of living go up.</p><p><em><strong>The world&#8217;s first trillionaire just robbed you again!</strong></em></p><p>More than <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax">half of all American billionaire wealth</a> is now <strong>permanently held hostage</strong> as unrealized gains&#8230;totally untaxable by the public&#8230; yet billionaires can borrow cheaply against their wealth to fund their <a href="https://survivingtomorrow.org/jeff-bezoss-500-million-superyacht-proves-we-need-an-obscenity-tax-daad4a4dbe25">absurdly lavish lifestyles</a> and <a href="https://jaredabrock.substack.com/p/infinite-wealth">weaponize their wealth</a> to amass ever more power and control of the global economy. If we don&#8217;t stop them, they&#8217;ll own the whole world <em><a href="https://jaredabrock.substack.com/p/infinite-wealth">within our lifetime</a></em>.</p><p>Elon knows the billionaire tax evasion scheme well:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgPn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e09dabe-6769-4a8e-8cfe-004ea1ffa367_583x197.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kgPn!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0e09dabe-6769-4a8e-8cfe-004ea1ffa367_583x197.jpeg 424w, 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href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/savingandinvesting/the-big-short-investor-michael-burry-says-elon-musk-may-want-to-sell-tesla-stock-to-cover-his-personal-debts-and-compares-the-current-market-to-the-dutch-tulip-bubble/ar-AAQuZMw">88 million shares pledged as collateral on personal debts</a>.</p><p>Elon also knows that <em>we</em> know about the billionaire tax evasion scam:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b0_9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F607636ab-0d21-4681-8c4a-64b21c51cc61_588x263.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>(By the way, the fix for the billionaire borrow-instead-of-pay-taxes scam is well-known and super-simple: Either don&#8217;t let billionaires borrow again stock, or if a billionaire borrows against stock, it triggers income tax at 50% of the current stock price, treating it like a partial distribution.)</p><div><hr></div><h3>Millions of trillionaire sycophants say, &#8220;Elon deserves to be a trillionaire.&#8221;</h3><p>Does he, though?</p><p>Like, really?</p><p>Sure, he&#8217;s smart, but that&#8217;s God-given, not self-generated.</p><p>Sure, he works hard and long and smart, but not <em><strong>one million times</strong></em> harder or longer or smarter.</p><p>While millions of workers in the U.S. toil for a minimum wage of $7.25/hour, there are CEOs in America that make over $100 million per year&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;over 6,000 years of minimum wage work. The average CEO-to-worker pay for large firms is nearly 300 to 1. (To be clear, CEOs don&#8217;t work 300 times more hours or expend 300 times more calories of effort. As empirical studies have proven, they don&#8217;t even produce 300 times more value for shareholders.)</p><p>Musk didn&#8217;t even start Paypal, Tesla, or SpaceX.</p><p>Shareholder capitalism would have you and the rest of humanity believe whoever is paid the most money surely must have contributed the most value to society. This is obviously a lie. The richest people alive are not centabillionaires and trillionaires because they did more work, but <em>because they monopolized more assets</em>.</p><p><strong>No shareholder billionaire has ever earned their fortune and there&#8217;s a simple way to test this</strong>:</p><p>How large would Elon Musk&#8217;s net worth be without the hundreds of thousands of suppliers and workers who made Tesla and SpaceX what they are today?</p><p><em>None of us would&#8217;ve ever heard of Elon Musk</em>.</p><p>What&#8217;s really neat? If none of Musk&#8217;s sprawling globalist multinational corporations ever existed, <em>all of these workers would still have jobs</em>. With no massive monopolies killing competition and evading taxation, many workers would be receiving more pay and much better working conditions.</p><p>If no workers worked for centa-billionaire Jeff Bezos, what would his net worth be? Zilch. But would authors, publishers, and booksellers cease to exist? Obviously not.</p><p>Each worker is an entrepreneur who creates their own job. If a shareholder couldn&#8217;t extract a profit off a worker, they would never hire workers. Workers create their own jobs by creating new usable value for society. The only reason shareholders are able to extract a profit off the work of others is the monopolization of God&#8217;s free natural resources. Shareholder profits&#8230; including trillionaire profits&#8230; are the ultimate inefficiency and the ultimate economic corruption.</p><div><hr></div><h3>&#8220;Tax the rich!&#8221; ISN&#8217;T the answer</h3><p>Tax-and-redistribute doesn&#8217;t fix the problem.</p><p>There are several major psychological problems with taxing billionaires to redistribute the wealth to people in need. The psychology of taxation is something we don&#8217;t talk about often enough, and I believe it&#8217;s time we bring it to center stage:</p><h4>1. Taxing billionaires makes them feel like something has been taken away from them.</h4><p>A few years ago, my baby son Concord was playing happily in my lap. Michelle handed me a bottle of breastmilk. Concord didn&#8217;t ask for it, but I gave it to him anyway. A minute later I pulled it away, and he screamed bloody murder. Why? Because I took it away.</p><p>Billionaires are like screaming babies.</p><p>If we never gave it to them in the first place, they wouldn&#8217;t scream when we take it away.</p><h4>2. Taxing billionaires gives them the false impression that it was their money in the first place.</h4><p>Elon Musk&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;the <a href="https://survivingtomorrow.org/elon-musk-is-our-generations-marie-antoinette-fde6b9e0ca95">Marie Antoinette of our generation</a>&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;is the textbook example of someone who genuinely thinks his money is <em>his</em>.</p><p>This is a techno-grifter who&#8217;s received tens of billion in corporate socialism at tax-payer expense, using <em>our currency, our educated workforce, our infrastructure, our judiciary and property rights, our military and policing, and our economy</em>, and he thinks he&#8217;s the only person who gets to decide how he gets to spend the wealth we collectively created as a society?</p><h4>3. Taxing billionaires gives them the false impression they actually &#8220;earned&#8221; all that money.</h4><p>It is mathematically impossible to &#8220;earn&#8221; a billion dollars in a democratic society. (America is a nearly-rules-free-market metaverse that believes a single homo sapien can create a billion dollars in &#8220;value,&#8221; but people who live in reality understand this is societal hogwash.)</p><p>If you worked a job that paid $50 per hour ($100,000/year), you&#8217;d have to work full-time for 10 million years to properly earn a trillion dollars.</p><p>It&#8217;s just not possible in a democracy of rational citizens.</p><h4>4. Taxing billionaires gives them the false impression that they are entitled to trillions of dollars of worker-created wealth.</h4><p>Workers create 100% of every company&#8217;s value. Billionaires &#8220;earn&#8221; their money by extracting value from the planet, their suppliers, their employees, their customers, and taxpayers.</p><p>The moral truth is that <em>all</em> American wealth belongs to the American people, and democracy should ultimately decide how it is distributed, re-distributed, or ideally&#8230;</p><h3>We need fair PRE-distribution</h3><blockquote><p><em>&#8220;</em>Every billionaire is a policy failure<em>.&#8221;&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;Dan Riffle</em></p></blockquote><p>We need to forget about fruitlessly trying to tax billionaires and re-enforcing their elitist mindset in the process&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;we need a fairer <strong>pre</strong>-distribution that reflects our commons values.</p><p>What could this look like, practically?</p><p><strong>Level 1: </strong>Imagine if every single worker in America was <em>automatically</em> enrolled in a union that fought against corporations to secure them higher wages, more ownership, better and safer working conditions, and the lion&#8217;s share of the value they create.</p><p><strong>Level 2: </strong>Imagine if every adult American was entitled to a truly living-wage job guarantee so they could decline low-paying private-sector jobs that require them to make a profit for shareholders, thus creating a market condition that forces companies to compete against democracy to pay workers closer to their fair share.</p><p><strong>Level 3: </strong>Imagine if all company stock had to be fairly distributed to the workers of each company. Or you could only have companies with non-exploitative business models where shareholders can&#8217;t passively flay a profit off the work of others, IE, co-operatives, partnerships, not-for-profits, for-benefits, sole proprietorships, etc</p><p>Now imagine if we did all three things. What would happen? Workers would <a href="https://survivingtomorrow.org/welcome-to-subscription-serfdom-6609cb5969fd">re-gain the purchasing power that has been stolen from them since 1971</a>, and then some.</p><p>If we did these things, elites would no longer have the economic power to undermine democracy.</p><p>If we did these things, the people would have a real stake in the nation they&#8217;re building.</p><p>If we did these things, we&#8217;d end up with a world without billionaires and trillionaires.</p><p>And we&#8217;d be mathematically far richer for it.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Surviving Tomorrow is approaching 4,000,000 reads by more than 575,000 unique individuals. <a href="https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/">Become a paid supporter</a> to help my work reach more people.</strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[🇬🇧 The End of British Democracy - 5 Unelected Prime Ministers In 10 Years]]></title><description><![CDATA[Is Britain ungovernable?]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/the-end-of-british-democracy-5-unelected</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/the-end-of-british-democracy-5-unelected</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:32:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!chrt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F494d9057-d548-434e-a484-e1187dd0fba7_800x450.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!chrt!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F494d9057-d548-434e-a484-e1187dd0fba7_800x450.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!chrt!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F494d9057-d548-434e-a484-e1187dd0fba7_800x450.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!chrt!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F494d9057-d548-434e-a484-e1187dd0fba7_800x450.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!chrt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F494d9057-d548-434e-a484-e1187dd0fba7_800x450.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!chrt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F494d9057-d548-434e-a484-e1187dd0fba7_800x450.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!chrt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F494d9057-d548-434e-a484-e1187dd0fba7_800x450.png" width="800" height="450" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/494d9057-d548-434e-a484-e1187dd0fba7_800x450.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:450,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!chrt!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F494d9057-d548-434e-a484-e1187dd0fba7_800x450.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!chrt!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F494d9057-d548-434e-a484-e1187dd0fba7_800x450.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!chrt!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F494d9057-d548-434e-a484-e1187dd0fba7_800x450.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!chrt!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F494d9057-d548-434e-a484-e1187dd0fba7_800x450.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">PM Keir Starmer is out. The fifth PM in a row not to finish their full term.</figcaption></figure></div><p>If you&#8217;re American/Canada/Aussie/French/Finnish/Dutch/German/etc, you need to understand what&#8217;s happening in Britain because it&#8217;s going to happen to you next.</p><p>As predicted, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has now be forced to resign.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, become a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>God knows what dirt his <a href="https://medium.com/surviving-tomorrow/trump-epstein-the-fall-of-the-uk-prime-minister-2e59f222b66d">Epstein-network handlers</a> threatened to expose.</p><p>For those keeping score, by the time Andy Burnham becomes the unelected Prime Minister in mid-July, the U.K. will have endured six Prime Ministers in the past seven years. Seven in the past ten years. Five of whom seized the top job <strong>without being elected by the nation in a general election</strong>.</p><p>Can we <em>please</em> shut up about &#8220;democracy&#8221;?!</p><p>Rule #1: Live not by lies. It creates a culture of liars.</p><p>Trust erodes &#8594; society collapses. It&#8217;s a tale as old as time.</p><p>So let&#8217;s say the Labour Party (which stopped representing labour when Starmer ousted Corbyn) crown &#8220;King of the North&#8221; Andy Burnham as their new Prime Minister.</p><p>Then what?</p><p>There&#8217;s a saying in Parliament: &#8220;You pull the levers of power and nothing happens.&#8221;</p><p>Starmer voiced basically the same thing: &#8220;As Prime Minister&#8230; every time I go to pull a lever, there are a whole bunch of regulations, consultations, arms-length bodies that mean the action from pulling the lever to delivery is longer than I think it ought to be.&#8221;</p><p>This isn&#8217;t a bug of the system&#8230; it&#8217;s the system designed to do exactly that.</p><p>The U.K. is not a democracy&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;it&#8217;s a quangocracy.</p><p>A quick history lesson:</p><p>After WWII, the aristocrats lost the power to control Britain for their own private profit. Every soldier came home and demanded the right to determine their family&#8217;s future.</p><p>So, the elites publicly championed democracy while privatizing most areas of government into &#8220;Non-Departmental Public Bodies.&#8221; They were public in name, but private in practice, with no ministerial department overseeing them. Thatcher created nearly 250 of these. There were over 3,000 at their height. These behemoths eventually became know as quangos&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisations.</p><p>Quangos are&#8230;</p><ul><li><p>funded by the people (at huge expense with near-zero accountability)</p></li><li><p>tasked with carrying out public functions/services (which, as we&#8217;ll see in a second, they do <em>terribly</em>)</p></li><li><p>not overseen by democratically-elected officials</p></li></ul><p>Today, more than 300 of these anti-democratic bureaucrat-controlled institutions dominate British life:</p><ul><li><p>The British tax department (similar to the IRS and CRA) rents over 600 of its offices from companies registered in&#8230; wait for it&#8230; tax havens.</p></li><li><p>Military recruitment is privatized, leading to&#8230; surprise surprise&#8230; a shortfall of over 100,000 recruits. After all, if all the roles were filled, taxpayers wouldn&#8217;t need to pay tens of millions to private recruitment companies.</p></li><li><p>No department wastes taxpayer money than the National Health Service (NHS), which is national in name but largely privatized and growing more so each day.</p></li><li><p>The Serious Fraud Office rarely prosecutes serious fraud.</p></li><li><p>The Office for Students has led to some of the highest university costs in the world.</p></li><li><p>The UK Health Security Agency was a disaster during Covid.</p></li><li><p>The Prison and Probation Service ensures prisons are overcrowded, prisoners are accidentally released, and conditions are abhorrent.</p></li><li><p>The Border Force has been unable to stop the illegal entry of more than 1 million fight-age men from countries and religions that hate Britons.</p></li><li><p>The Office for National Statistics lies about inflation and immigration numbers every single day.</p></li><li><p>Ofwat (the water agency) allows the private water companies to (literally) pour feces in British rivers and raise water bills while delivering dividends to shareholders while refusing to do the &#163;90+ billion in repairs they&#8217;re legally behind on doing.</p></li><li><p>The Bank of England has impoverished the nation, plunging tens of millions into poverty, and indebting the nation to the tune of trillions.</p></li></ul><p>So it doesn&#8217;t matter who the new unelected Prime Minister is.</p><p>They can pull all the levers and gears and switches they want&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;none of those doo-dads are attached to the engine.</p><p>Is Britain ungovernable?</p><p>Of course not.</p><p>It&#8217;s just not governable by any democratically-elected government.</p><p><strong>What we&#8217;re seeing is what happens when national power is taken out of the hands of the &#8220;elected&#8221; government and put in the hands of a supranational power structure</strong> that doesn&#8217;t give a damn about the British family.</p><p>The elites pick the bureaucrats, the bureaucrats do their bidding.</p><p>For instance, Keir Starmer never mentioned killing old people in his campaign. Nor introducing Orwellian digital ID. Yet as soon as he got into power, he tried to do both things <em>twice</em>. Why? Because that&#8217;s what his overlords put him there to do.</p><p>We&#8217;re witnessing the next stage in the globalist empire, the stage that the Canada and France and every other Western nation is facing:</p><p><strong>The end of the veneer of democracy.</strong></p><p>Global power-players&#8230; the American Empire, Israel, and Islam&#8230; are warring for control of Britain.</p><p>They&#8217;re doing the same in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, and every other Western nation that was peaceful and prosperous. Nation states are just carrion&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;meat carcasses to be plucked apart by vultures.</p><p>What can Britons do about this?</p><p>Can they &#8220;vote harder&#8221;?</p><p>I&#8217;m doubtful.</p><p>Let&#8217;s say a real reformer came on the scene. Someone advocating to abolish all quangos and bring them all under democratic oversight. Someone advocating to end globalist corporate control. Someone advocating to end of private money-creation.</p><p>Would the globalist powers not do everything in their power to undermine, overwhelm, or destroy such a person and their movement?</p><p>There&#8217;s only one way to find out.</p><p><strong>Stop throwing away your vote on establishment parties and throw your weight behind moral movements.</strong></p><p>Otherwise, you&#8217;ll end up like the U.K.&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;desperately poor, drowning in debt, flooded by people who rape your daughters and stab your sons, hammered by taxes, crushed by shareholder prices, and ruled by narcissistic puppets with no power to make anything better for anyone even if they wanted to, which they most definitely don&#8217;t, because they don&#8217;t work for you.</p><div><hr></div><p>PS&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;Surviving Tomorrow is approaching 4,000,000 reads by more than 575,000 unique individuals. <a href="https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/">Become a paid subscriber</a> to help my work reach more people.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerned About Immigration? Blame the Bankers]]></title><description><![CDATA[When you follow the money, the endless stabbings make mathematical sense]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/concerned-about-immigration-blame</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/concerned-about-immigration-blame</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:23:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NDMD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbd50f60-d63e-46fb-9267-b4506b910d4c_610x466.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NDMD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbd50f60-d63e-46fb-9267-b4506b910d4c_610x466.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NDMD!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdbd50f60-d63e-46fb-9267-b4506b910d4c_610x466.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Last week in the U.K.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Last week, a Sudanese man tried to behead a mentally-handicapped British citizen in broad daylight on the streets of Belfast. (Sudan is 94.7% Muslim)</p><p>Stabbed him in the eyes and tried to saw off his head before a bunch of brave Brits stopped him.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; I need your help. Become a paid subscriber to help us reach another 575,000 people.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>This happens on a monthly basis here in the U.K.</p><p>The U.K. now also suffers from the highest number of annual recorded rapes in Europe, directly correlated to the increase in adult males from the Middle East and Africa. (Facts aren&#8217;t racist&#8212;in 1980, prior to the Blairite immigration tsunami, there were around 1,225 recorded rapes. Last year it was <em><strong>74,265</strong></em>.)</p><p>It&#8217;s the same story every time a non-Brit knifes a Brit: The British government ferociously condemns the protests that follow the stabbings, but write off the terrorists as &#8220;lone wolves&#8221; with &#8220;mental illness&#8221; and &#8220;no apparent ideological motive.&#8221;</p><p>This lie-filled approach has single-handedly pushed the majority of European voters to the political right, in desperate hope that anti-liberals will find a way to send the millions of immigrants home and restore some semblance of civilization.</p><p>What no one seems to understand is that <strong>bankers caused this</strong>.</p><p>Here&#8217;s how it works:</p><h4>Step 1</h4><p>Just over a century ago, bankers convinced corrupt politicians to give bankers the monopoly on money creation.</p><h4>Step 2</h4><p>Ever since then, bankers have been inflating our money supply by creating debt-based credit-money out of thin air.</p><h4>Step 3</h4><p>Inflating the money supply leads to price inflation. Your money is worth less, and it buys less.</p><h4>Step 4</h4><p>America exports much of that inflation to the 100+ countries that use the $USD. Same for a few other countries with currencies that others use as a reserve currencies (the pound, euro, etc.) Some, not all. Americans, Brits, and Europeans still suffer inflation, it&#8217;s just not 20&#8211;100% like many African and South American countries that rely on the $USD, &#163;, etc.</p><h4>Step 5</h4><p>Each year, tens of millions of impoverished third-world folks reach the point of desperation and decide to flee their homeland due to poverty and&#8230; ahem&#8230; &#8220;religious&#8221; violence. That&#8217;s a major immigration <strong>push factor</strong>.</p><h4>Step 6</h4><p>Meanwhile, corporations back in the U.S./U.K./Europe want to keep prices as low as profitably possible, despite inflation pushing prices up. So what do they do? They ignore domestic voters and flood the U.S./U.K./Europe with cheap third-world labor. That&#8217;s the major immigration <strong>pull factor</strong>.</p><p>The push factor of poverty and the pull factor of corporations are a match made in heaven for out-of-control, nation-swamping immigration.</p><p>Even if 100% of the citizens of the U.K. or France or Sweden voted to send back every single foreigner, it wouldn&#8217;t matter.</p><p><strong>Corporations want cheap labor, and impoverished people want a better life.</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s an unstoppable combo.</p><p>Unless you stop the bankers.</p><p>Ban fractional reserve money-printing and interest, and suddenly banking becomes a not-for-profit utility that actually serves humanity instead of enslaving it.</p><p>Inflation disappears at home and abroad.</p><p>Prices go down.</p><p>Our money buys more.</p><p>Our taxes go down.</p><p>Our economies recover.</p><p>Our nations rebuild.</p><p>Foreigners no longer need to leave their home countries due to first-world impoverishment, and governments have a clear reason to deny them entry.</p><p>With no foreigners to exploit, corporations will have to significantly raise wages for domestic workers.</p><p>Shareholder profits will fall, weakening the noose on humanity.</p><p><strong>Getting rid of the cause of inflation&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;bankers printing money&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;is a win-win for everyone who isn&#8217;t outright evil.</strong></p><p>Especially for people who don&#8217;t love being stabbed in the face.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Surviving Tomorrow is approaching 4,000,000 reads by more than 575,000 unique individuals. <a href="https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/">Become a paid supporter</a> to help my work reach more people.</strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[My #1 Internet Addiction]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's bad, people]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/my-1-internet-addiction</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/my-1-internet-addiction</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:27:55 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fW3Z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb19aa11e-0ec0-4652-9717-45c56f4d50a0_800x450.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fW3Z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb19aa11e-0ec0-4652-9717-45c56f4d50a0_800x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fW3Z!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb19aa11e-0ec0-4652-9717-45c56f4d50a0_800x450.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Help us reach 4,000,000 more people. Become a paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>It&#8217;s not p*rn, thank God. Making the documentary <a href="https://over18.carrd.co/">Over 18</a> (SFW) saw to that.</p><p>I gave up Reddit when it went public and BlackRock/Vanguard/JPMorgan bought a huge chunk.</p><p>Facebook never became an addiction thanks to <a href="https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/news-feed-eradicator/fjcldmjmjhkklehbacihaiopjklihlgg?pli=1">Facebook News Feed Eradicator</a>.</p><p>Never got into Instagram (I don&#8217;t own a cell phone.)</p><p>Too old for TikTok.</p><p>Twitter never did it for me&#8230;</p><p>Until Elon bought it, re-branded as X, and launched what is for my money the world&#8217;s most addictive algorithm.</p><p>Here&#8217;s how I know this is true:</p><p>My 2026 New Year&#8217;s resolution was to give up X (and BBC radio) for the year.</p><p><strong>It&#8217;s been 159 days and I still want to go on X thirty times a day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</strong></p><p>My cravings have not diminished <em>in the least</em>.</p><p>In fact, they&#8217;ve <em>shifted</em>.</p><p>A few months after I put X on pause, my brain went hunting for feeds.</p><p>It started when my computer crashed. My new one didn&#8217;t have Facebook News Feed Eradicator. Facebook showed me a recent photo of dear friend. I liked it. For the next week, the occasional pop over to Facebook was like having a reunion with hundreds of people I hadn&#8217;t seen <em>online</em> in over a decade.</p><p>My brain wanted more.</p><p>It then found a feed on Substack</p><p>That&#8217;s right: Two feeds replaced one feed.</p><p>But the two feeds still aren&#8217;t fulfilling my brain&#8217;s craving for variable reward stimulus half as much as X. I want X. I want it now.</p><p>Remember, my scrolling is limited to my laptop, so it&#8217;s still like 1/20th of a normie. I don&#8217;t scroll in line, scroll in between meetings, scroll while waiting for appointments, scroll on dinners or holidays with my family. My nearly-70-year-old father-in-law scrolls at least 5X more than I do.</p><p>Plus, I use Adblock + Ghostery + uBlockOrigin, so I don&#8217;t see ads and tracking is decimating.</p><p>Am I trying to rationalize my addiction?</p><p>Absolutely.</p><p>We&#8217;re almost all addicted:</p><ul><li><p>Over a billion people use their phone <em>compulsively</em>.</p></li><li><p>Teenagers are on screens as many hours each week as a <em>full-time job</em>.</p></li><li><p>The average adult with a phone will spend an average of over <em>5 years of life </em>scrolling.</p></li></ul><p>Once Facebook thought I was properly hooked, it started serving less relational content and more political content.</p><p>Same with Substack.</p><p>Then there was a straw that broke this old camel&#8217;s back.</p><p>Last week, I went for a walk in the woods with my wife and kids and father-in-law. He had a cell phone in his pocket. We somehow got onto the topic of J.K. Rowling, and I told him how she decided to stay in the U.K. and pay taxes because taxpayers had supported her while she wrote Harry Potter, decimating her billionaire status.</p><p>This is what my Substack feed showed me a few hours later:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LwKu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53da7a9a-2599-4404-9728-73f184390720_406x420.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LwKu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F53da7a9a-2599-4404-9728-73f184390720_406x420.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This was not a coincidence.</p><ul><li><p>My father-in-law&#8217;s phone heard the conversation.</p></li><li><p>Apple&#8217;s AI used his link to my wife and my voice ID to sell this data to God knows how many people who are building a dossier on all of us.</p></li><li><p>One of them, Substack, stuffed this in my feed.</p></li></ul><p>It happens all the time.</p><p>I had a conversation with one of my friends about a wonderfully revolutionary book called <em>The Patient Ferment of the Early Church</em> and immediately afterward, she started getting sourdough posts.</p><p>I now have a folder containing dozens of such instances.</p><p>Just think of how quick the algorithms silo people into echo chambers.</p><p><strong>Try this for yourself. </strong>Like 10 pro-Israel posts if you&#8217;re anti-Israel, or 10 anti-Islam posts if you&#8217;re pro-Islam, and watch how fast the algorithm starts feeding you what it thinks you want to hear.</p><p><strong>Remember: Divide and conquer is their business model</strong>.</p><h3>So what have I learned?</h3><ol><li><p>I am undeniably addicted, and not just to X. I cannot imagine how much worse it would be if I had a phone and was into gaming and p*rn. And there I go rationalizing again.</p></li><li><p><em>The feeds themselves</em> are the problem. The variable reward&#8230; a little humor, a little anger, a little inspiration, a little cuteness, a little lust, a little fear, a little more anger&#8230; is keep the brains of billions searching for a hit. It&#8217;s skyrocketing anxiety and division while killing drive and productivity. The end result? Everyone&#8217;s too exhausted to do anything but keep scrolling, allowing trillion-dollar companies to bombard us with ads for stuff we don&#8217;t need at costs humanity cannot afford.</p></li><li><p>Like everyone else, <strong>I will always be addicted to feeds</strong>. Feeds are addictive. They are engineered to be addictive. It&#8217;s like heroin. Heroin will never not be addictive. The key is simply to not do heroin. The key is to get all feeds out of my life.</p></li><li><p>At what target am I aiming? I want to limit my dopamine hits to five major things: Time with God, time with people, work time, gym time, and time in nature.</p></li></ol><h3>How about you?</h3><p>Which feeds do you like the most? <br>Where do you find yourself scrolling absentmindedly?<br>How have you cut back or cut feeds out of your life? <br>Comment below.</p><h4>PS&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;Surviving Tomorrow is approaching 4,000,000 reads by more than 575,000 unique individuals. Please become a paid supporter to help my work reach more people.</h4><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[6 Signs That Total Surveillance Is Coming FAST]]></title><description><![CDATA[5 things you can do to protect yourself]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/6-signs-that-total-surveillance-is</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/6-signs-that-total-surveillance-is</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:51:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G9zw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5156c80-521f-4684-99df-a4ee2ce77645_800x450.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G9zw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5156c80-521f-4684-99df-a4ee2ce77645_800x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G9zw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa5156c80-521f-4684-99df-a4ee2ce77645_800x450.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Facebook recently demanded my passport.</p><p>Wise.com asked me to log in with my face or fingerprint.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is approaching 4 million reads by 500+K people. Please become a paid subscriber to support our growth.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Mastercard wants my voice ID.</p><p>Where do these corporations (and their shareholders&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;check your portfolio)&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;get off?</p><p>As many of you know, I don&#8217;t own a cell phone, but let me tell you, the more companies demand my privacy and personal information, the more I hate them, ditch them, and fight against them.</p><p>Of course, I can&#8217;t hold back the tide.</p><p>No alone, at least.</p><p>The reality is that billions of people are sleep-walking into the lake of fire and are about to get torched by total global surveillance.</p><p>I&#8217;m tracking six major developments:</p><h3>1. The biometric market Is exploding</h3><p>Face biometrics liveness checks by banks etc are expected to more than double by the end of next year.</p><p>Roughly a billion fools have already surrendered their Face ID and fingerprint to Apple+Google and their thousands of corporate and government partners, all to say the unfathomable effort of typing in 4&#8211;6 passwords digits.</p><p><strong>The establishment&#8217;s reason</strong>: &#8220;To counter deep fakes!&#8221;</p><p>Or maybe&#8230; we could just have real physical banks again and bank shareholders could make slightly fewer billions.</p><h3>2. Governments are mandating biometrics at borders</h3><p>By the end of 2026, the US CBP will requires biometric for all non-citizens.</p><p><strong>The establishment&#8217;s reason</strong>: &#8220;To stop terrorism.&#8221;</p><p>Or maybe&#8230; we could just halt the #1 most violent ideology in world history from having free movement into Western countries. Don&#8217;t let in people who believe certain things, full-stop. Beliefs foment actions; it&#8217;s really just that simple. For everyone else, they can just talk to a human border officer like that past few centuries.</p><h3>3. Mandatory digital ID</h3><p>There are at least 197 digital ID schemes running globally. 49 African nations have it banking, healthcare, or elections. EU Digital Identity Wallets are thundering ahead. US states are gang-pressing mobile driver&#8217;s licenses. UK PM Keir &#8220;Stalin&#8221; just announced he&#8217;ll try again to pass digital ID, even though it got squashed less than a year ago.</p><p><strong>The establishment&#8217;s reason</strong>: &#8220;For your security and convenience.&#8221;</p><p>Or maybe&#8230; it&#8217;s the opposite of security and I&#8217;m happy to have a little bit of inconvenience to remain free. My doctor&#8217;s name is John. My name is Jared. Neither of us need a digital ID because we actually know each other. A physical driver&#8217;s licenses has worked fine for over half a century. Banks and hospitals can and should go back to in-person if necessary. I&#8217;ve manned voting stations at several national elections&#8230; it is not difficult to identify someone in person.</p><h3>4. Multimodal and continuous authentication is becoming the new norm</h3><p>By 2030, expect face + fingerprint + voice + behavioral to be standard identification practice.</p><p>Yes, behavioral.</p><p>That nasty list includes:</p><ul><li><p><em>&#8220;Gait analysis: Walking patterns captured via accelerometer/gyroscope (stride length, rhythm, posture).</em></p></li><li><p><em>Device handling: How you hold your phone (angle, rotation, dominant hand), how it moves with you, grip pressure, and orientation changes.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Keystroke dynamics: Typing rhythm, speed, pressure on keys, dwell time (how long a key is held), flight time (pauses between keys), and error patterns.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Mouse/cursor movements: Speed, acceleration, trajectory, click patterns, scroll behavior, and fluidity of movement.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Touchscreen/gesture interactions: Swipe speed/direction/pressure, pinch/zoom patterns, tap force, scrolling habits, and finger positioning.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Voice/speech patterns (sometimes overlapping): Cadence, inflections, speaking rhythm (beyond pure voiceprint).</em></p></li><li><p><em>Smart watch physical data (blood pressure, heart rate, sleep waves, etc)</em></p></li><li><p><em>Other patterns: Eye tracking/movements, signature/handwriting dynamics, navigation habits (e.g., how you move between app fields or websites), session timing, and even cognitive behaviors like hesitation or decision-making speed.&#8221;</em></p></li></ul><p><strong>The establishment&#8217;s reason</strong>: &#8220;Stronger verification for fraud prevention.&#8221;</p><p>Or maybe&#8230; we don&#8217;t need stronger verification. We actually need <em>less things that need verifying</em>. I don&#8217;t own a phone because owning a phone enables sociopaths to track me against my will.</p><h3>5. Corporate-Government Integration</h3><p>US agencies like ICE are expanding facial recognition apps and AI agents, partnering with Ring/Flock camera networks to expand their tentacles.</p><p><strong>The establishment&#8217;s reason</strong>: &#8220;To combat crime.&#8221;</p><p>Or maybe&#8230; we just do what El Salvador did: Actually round up and jail on the criminals so there&#8217;s literally no need to even lock your doors.</p><p>Crime flourishes because the biggest criminals (supra-national government) need you to live in real danger so they can control your life.</p><h3>6. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and programmable money continue to press ahead</h3><p>Literally no one except psychopathic power-worshippers want this one, but at least 146 countries (representing 98% of global GDP) are actively pilot projects running, with three countries already up and running.</p><p><strong>The establishment&#8217;s reason</strong>: &#8220;To counter crime and secure monetary infrastructure.&#8221;</p><p>Or maybe&#8230; we jail the criminals and go back to cash. When the government&#8217;s AI can monitor, turn off your money at will, and make you legally homeless in a literal nanosecond, it&#8217;s game over.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Of course, none of this surprises Christians in the least.</h3><p>1,930 years ago, all the way back in ~96AD, one of our prophets had a vision and saw the following:</p><p>[A beast] &#8220;causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.&#8221; (Revelation 13:16&#8211;17)</p><p><strong>Who in their right mind would ever consent to this?</strong></p><p>If you read the context, this under-the-skin payment option only arises after extreme chaos&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;war, hyperinflation, famine and disease, and a Middle Eastern army killing a third of humanity. Then along comes an entity&#8230; what can really only be described as an AI super-intelligence&#8230; who brings temporary order at an unforgivable cost.</p><p>The Greek word for mark is <em>charagma</em>, meaning stamp or engraving. We can already embed implantable, bio-compatible micro-chips in the skin for payment processing. (They&#8217;re about the size of a flat grain of rice.)</p><p>The entity will force this on the entire world &#8220;for your safety, security, and convenience.&#8221;</p><p>For those curious about how you&#8217;re currently being acclimatized to accept the mark, it goes something like this:</p><p>Pay with cash &#8594; pay with a card &#8594; pay with your phone &#8594; pay with your watch &#8594; pay with an embedded chip where your watch use to be.</p><p>Or pay using your Neurolink-style head-chip instead of paying with your smart glasses.</p><p>Unless new national leaders turn their nations around, these six tech developments will continue to compound and accelerate.</p><h3>What you can do</h3><h4>1. Say no.</h4><p>Just simply refuse.</p><p>Be bloody belligerent (but in a kind, fun, friendly, but lethally-firm way.)</p><p>When I go to airports and they try to use facial recognition, I put my hand in front of the camera. I&#8217;m then directed to a real human being, who checks my documents, asks me a few questions, makes a real human connection, and sends me on my way.</p><p>Bank in person. Bank less.</p><p>Don&#8217;t shop anywhere that doesn&#8217;t accept cash. Tell them why and give them a chance to re-consider earning your business. Post negative reviews and spread the word so they change their mind.</p><p>Pay with cash. Work for cash if you can. Tell businesses you support them specifically because they allow you to pay with cash. Accept cash if you run a business. Just this morning, I paid my greengrocer in cash and he rounded down my total, &#8220;Because you paid in cash.&#8221; Why should Mastercard/Visa/Stripe get 2.9% + $0.50 of every transaction under the sun (at<em> 50% profit margins </em>due to their monopoly) while passing our private information on to thousands of corporations and hundreds of governments?</p><p>Tell everyone who demands a phone number that you don&#8217;t own a cell phone, and/or that you don&#8217;t give your personal details to strangers.</p><p>The phrase &#8220;<em><strong>I am extremely uncomfortable with you pressuring me and trying to invade my privacy</strong></em>&#8221; still works wonders on most non-satanic humans.</p><p>Hurl your smartphone in the nearest river.</p><p>Take a sledge hammer to your smart devices.</p><p>Recycle your smart appliances.</p><p>If you have house cameras, get ones that are air-gapped and stored on a local network with no possibility of grid connection.</p><p>Disconnect.</p><p>Get offline.</p><p>The existential costs do not outweigh the incremental, marginal, so-called benefits.</p><p>Refuse to participate.</p><h4>2. Vote against the powers that be at every available option</h4><p>Stop throwing away your vote on the popular parties.</p><p>Voting for the lesser of two evils is still collaborating with evil.</p><p>Fund godly leaders.</p><h4>3. Divest</h4><p>Sell all stocks and bonds in all companies that uses these wicked technologies.</p><p>It&#8217;s sinful/evil/immoral to profit from the enslavement of humanity.</p><p>Yes, you&#8217;ll have to sell it all, because they&#8217;re all getting in on the racket.</p><p>Use the money to pay off your debts, buy land, and help others do the same.</p><h4>4. Get land</h4><p>I cannot stress how vital this is. We are rapidly approaching a day where those who refuse to get chipped will be excluded from the global economy. They will only have three options to survive:</p><ol><li><p>Steal. Virtually impossible in the age of total surveillance.</p></li><li><p>Black market. You&#8217;ll essentially be a slave, doing labor/services/prostitution/etc for people who have the mark and access to the global economy.</p></li><li><p>Live off the land. Ideally in community with other resistors. When no one can buy and sell goods and services without the mark, being able to generate food and shelter outside the money system will be essential for physical survival.</p></li></ol><h4>5. DO NOT TAKE THE MARK</h4><p>Apologies for getting weird, but I&#8217;d be a very bad Christian indeed if I didn&#8217;t at least warn you of the Christian perspective&#8230; which, of course, you have complete and total free will to accept or reject; I&#8217;ll love you either way:</p><p>By accepting the mark, not only will you surrender total control of your entire life to a deeply anti-human entity, but the mark is going to make you physically sick (Revelation 16:2), and then it&#8217;s going to spiritually damn you forever (Revelation 19:20, Revelation 14:9&#8211;11.)</p><p>Refusing to participate in an economic system that inevitably leads to destruction will make you deeply unpopular.</p><p>In Matthew 10:22, Jesus says, &#8220;You will be hated by all for my name&#8217;s sake. But the one who endures to the end will be saved.&#8221;</p><p>Accepting total global surveillance is your choice.</p><p>Choose like your life depends on it.</p><div><hr></div><h4>PS&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;Surviving Tomorrow is approaching 4,000,000 reads by more than 575,000 unique individuals. Please become a paid supporter to help my work reach more people.</h4><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. 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Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 16:24:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ig1n!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffdb5bcb-5367-4fd6-a0de-00c537fc77ef_800x460.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ig1n!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffdb5bcb-5367-4fd6-a0de-00c537fc77ef_800x460.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ig1n!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fffdb5bcb-5367-4fd6-a0de-00c537fc77ef_800x460.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Things are getting spicy on the island with the most sensitive of taste buds.</p><p>The current Prime Minister is Keir Starmer finished.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Like Surviving Tomorrow? Become a paid subscriber to support all of Jared&#8217;s social justice work.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Five of his ministers resigned last week, and the buzzards are circling, including a.) his former Health Minister (another buddy of Jeffrey Mandelson, who was pedophile Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s bestie), b.) his former Deputy Prime Minister (a woman with no qualifications for the job, who recently dodged some tax trouble), and c.) the current mayor on Manchester (the self-proclaimed &#8220;King of the North.&#8221;)</p><p>Starmer&#8217;s options:</p><ol><li><p>Beg, bribe, and threaten his MPs to continue to back him.</p></li><li><p>Let the Labour Party decide his fate with an internal vote, in which case he will likely lose and one of the three challengers listed above will become the unelected PM.</p></li><li><p>Nuke his party for turning on him, call a general election, and watch his party get destroyed at the ballot box.</p></li></ol><p>Even if he somehow staves off a Labour Party rebellion via #1 or #3, when the 2029 election rolls around, British voters will not be giving him a second turn.</p><h4><strong>So what are the other options?</strong></h4><ul><li><p>No eyes are on Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch. Her &#8220;conservative&#8221; globalist party mauled the country like a rabid jaguar for fourteen years and won&#8217;t be re-elected for at least a generation.</p></li><li><p>No eyes are on the Liberal-Democrat leader Ed Davies. The party is full of pro-European globalists who can&#8217;t decide where they stand, with their party leader having to resort to Slip &#8217;N Slides and bungee jumping to draw attention in the last election.</p></li><li><p>Some eyes are on Green leader Zack Polanski, a Polish Jew who hates Israeli, loves Islam, and has been dodging taxes for the past three years. The most exposure he gets, the worse his party does, because, frankly, he is nuts. Open borders + free-for-all drugs doth not a nation make.</p></li><li><p>Most eyes are on Reform leader Nigel Farage, a blowhard fake-right-wing carnival barker with crypto sponsors and alleged ties to Russia.</p></li></ul><p>At present, polls suggest Reform is going to crush all comers at the 2029 election.</p><p>But there&#8217;s one tiny little problem:</p><h4>A wheat farmer from the Cotswolds.</h4><p>In 2029, he&#8217;ll be 71.</p><p>He used to be a member of Nigel Farage&#8217;s Reform party, until he realized that Farage is just a globalist opportunist and not a real conservative, and when Lowe started diverging from the Reform line, Farage booted him from the party, called the police, and tried to politically assassinate Lowe.</p><p>It failed spectacularly.</p><p>The curmudgeonly old farmer snapped back like a Rottweiler, threatened to sue, started his own party called Restore UK, and absolutely <em>crushed </em>the Reform party in all ten of its seats at the local elections last week.</p><p>The man&#8217;s name is <strong>Rupert Lowe</strong>.</p><p>He worked for a bunch of huge (and hugely evil) London city banks before moving into old-age-home profiteering, then into directorships of various land-lordy-type rentier extraction schemes, then chaired the Southampton Football Club. Bagging a net worth in the &#163;30 million range to perpetually reap unearned profits off the backs of workers, he settled into Cotswoldian farming and a seat in Parliament.</p><h4>Restore UK</h4><p>The farmer&#8217;s platform can be summarized:</p><ol><li><p><em>&#8220;Reverse mass immigration through large-scale deportations: Prioritise detaining and deporting all illegal migrants (estimated up to 2 million), foreign criminals, and non-contributors (IE those on benefits, unable to speak English, or failing to integrate). Abolish the asylum system. Introduce a &#8220;Red List&#8221; for high-risk countries.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Abolish inheritance tax, slash corporation tax, slash public services. (He&#8217;s a huge fan of Margaret Thatcher.)</em></p></li><li><p><em>Scrap Net Zero goals so energy companies can drill and frack.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Ban the burqa/niqab, Sharia law/courts, and cousin marriages, restore self-defence rights so British people can protect themselves from Muslim violence.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Have a referendum to reinstate the death penalty.</em></p></li><li><p><em>Outlaw Digital ID.&#8221;</em></p></li></ol><p>As you can imagine, this platform has proven <em>extremely</em> popular with rich people, shareholders, the working class who see their houses/jobs/benefits going to non-Brits, the countless families who&#8217;ve children have suffered horrors at the hands of the r*ape gangs, anyone who hates seeing their high street get taken over by ethnic gangs, anyone who doesn&#8217;t want Orwellian surveillance, and anyone who wants fewer than 9.6 million crimes to be committed per year. Basically 80% of British people want these things.</p><p>To his domestic and foreign detractors who call him racist, Islamophobic, etc, he repeatedly says just three words:</p><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t care.&#8221;</p><p>His supporters have a more charming slogan:</p><p>&#8220;Aim high, vote Lowe.&#8221;</p><p>Restore&#8217;s polling already hovers near 10%, even though Rupert&#8217;s name recognition is still extremely low and Restore doesn&#8217;t even appear on most polling surveys.</p><h4>Reform are quaking in their boots.</h4><p>They&#8217;ve even scaled back their flamboyant branding and copied Restore&#8217;s low-key fonts in their advertising.</p><p>The battle royale takes place on June 18th in a little constituency called Makerfield.</p><p>Makerfield is a traditionally working-class area in Greater Manchester in the northwest of England.</p><p>Until last week, it was the seat of MP Josh Simons, a devious colluder in Starmer&#8217;s inner circle who led a technocrat think tank to purge the party of progressives and tried to foist Orwellian digital ID on the British people.</p><p>Simons, sensing blood in the water, resigned his seat so Andy &#8220;King of the North&#8221; Burham can run in a by-election, not doubt in exchange for perks and positions in the future.</p><p>If Burham wins, he becomes an MP and can trigger a leadership contest to challenge Starmer, aiming to become the country&#8217;s unelected PM.</p><p>Rupert Lowe is having none of it.</p><ul><li><p>Restore has declared they&#8217;ll run a candidate, a local businesswoman.</p></li><li><p>Reform is running a candidate (a plumber) to not appear weak, and is bemoaning Restore for &#8220;splitting the right vote,&#8221; as though they are automatically entitled to votes without earning them.</p></li><li><p>Labour is running Andy Burham, with Burham&#8217;s backers throwing the kitchen sink at Makerfield in hopes of overthrowing Starmer.</p></li><li><p>The Green party wants to capitalize on their momentum and continue to cannibalize the left-Labour vote.</p></li><li><p>The Cons and Lib-Dems will run candidates to pretend they&#8217;re still relevant.</p></li><li><p>Even the Monster Raving Looney Party has fielded a candidate.</p></li></ul><p>If Labour loses, Andy Burham can&#8217;t challenge Keir Starmer.</p><p>If Reform loses, it puts them on the back foot while Restore grabs all the momentum.</p><p>The stakes are high for the two leading parties.</p><p>Everyone is going to throw <em>everything </em>at this.</p><p><strong>This might be the highest turnout by-election in U.K. history.</strong></p><h4>Rupert Lowe&#8216;s challenges</h4><ol><li><p>He&#8217;s a Margaret Thatcher fan. Even most conservatives not begrudgingly admit that selling off the nation&#8217;s assets for pennies on the dollar, only to have them be rented back to us for top dollar, was a terrible idea.</p></li><li><p>He&#8217;s in favor of the death penalty. As a Christian, I cannot brook the killing of anyone because Christians believe humans are created in the image of God. Lock murderers in prison for life and make them work to pay their own way and their economics costs to society. The death penalty sends a message to your nation that humanity isn&#8217;t a thing worth protecting at all cost.</p></li><li><p>His policies lead to more neofeudal rentier extraction. Lowe wants to make it easier for parasitic investors to bid up and monopolize the nations assets in order to extract more interest, rents, and profits. More vampires <strong>&#8800; </strong>more wellbeing.</p></li><li><p>Like everyone else, he&#8217;s ignoring the fundamental economic problem. Because of inflation, tax money buys less each year&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;guaranteeing tax rises, service cuts, more crime, worse pay, and a rising cost of living for all&#8230; <em>forever</em>. He needs to abolish fractional reserve. No more letting bankers inflate the money supply by printing money out of thin air.</p></li><li><p>He&#8217;ll continue to punish working, employment, spending, development, and entrepreneurship, while rewarding parasites. He should abolish income tax, national insurance, VAT, council tax, and business rates, replacing them with Georgist land value taxes, economic rents taxes, and Pigovian charges on negative externalities. This is fundamental justice and great economics.</p></li><li><p>Did I mention he&#8217;s a Margaret Thatcher fan?</p></li></ol><h4>He&#8217;s touched a nerve</h4><p>Whether cosmopolitans, globalists, liberals, and internationals like it or not, the indigenous British family are a deeply conservative bunch.</p><p>But they haven&#8217;t had a genuinely traditional, paternalist, country-loving, moderate, pragmatic conservative option since Harold Macmillan in 1957&#8211;1963.</p><p>Some people think Rupert Lowe is the chosen one, the &#8220;true&#8221; conservative to counter the popular Farage fake-conservativism.</p><p>While there&#8217;s no doubt Lowe is the only man in Parliament who is serious about protecting Brits from immigrant crime and violence, Lowe&#8217;s brand of conservatism is actually more of a mix of laissez&#8209;faire, small state, market-is-God neoliberalism than real British conservatism. 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Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 15:57:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WteI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84acb3b5-cd4f-477c-8894-7d5d7cc36271_800x450.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WteI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F84acb3b5-cd4f-477c-8894-7d5d7cc36271_800x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><blockquote><p>&#8220;The landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed&#8230;&#8221; <br>&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;<em>Adam Smith</em></p></blockquote><p>As many of you know, this former landlord (of four units) has been preaching a fact for over six years now:</p><p><strong>That landlords are taking over the economy and will inevitably collapse the economy.</strong></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow needs you! Become a paid subscriber to support Jared&#8217;s activism.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>It&#8217;s inescapable math:</p><ol><li><p>Banks would rather lend to a real estate investor than a local working family, because a.) landlords can afford to pay more (because they&#8217;ll be reaping rents) and b.) landlords are more likely to repay the bank (using rent money. Does anyone think the average working family will still have a job 25&#8211;40 years in the AI-dominated future?)</p></li><li><p>Landlords outbid would-be homeowners. They then maximize their gains from the rental unit, and use the profits to outbid more would-be homeowners for houses.</p></li><li><p>Rinse and repeat, compounding their exploitative gains until the masses own nothing and are forced to pay more in rent to stay sheltered than they would&#8217;ve to own, had landlording been banned and/or landlords been banished to the moon.</p></li><li><p>The more workers are forced to pay to stay sheltered, the less they can spend on everything else, which destroys jobs, which destroys more jobs, which destroys more jobs. The end. Landlords win. (And then usually get hung or beheaded&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;sometimes both&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;when the revolution starts.)</p></li></ol><p>Here&#8217;s the fun part:</p><p><strong>Someone just ran an economic model and proved this thesis.</strong></p><p>(Not that we needed to run a simulation. We could just look at all of economic history.)</p><p>Right now, it takes 12 years of wages to buy a house in the U.K. The simulation started with 1,000 houses, 1,000 housing units, 3% population growth, and a few other conservative factors.</p><p>They ran the simulation.</p><p>By turn 100&#8230;</p><ul><li><p>it took 25,640 years of wages to buy a house</p></li><li><p>rent constituted 99.5% of the GDP</p></li><li><p>the landlord/renter wealth gap was 5,058X</p></li></ul><p><strong>If you understand this, this should be all you need to hear to outlaw for-profit landlording immediately.</strong></p><p>If you still want to keep landlording, then we need to talk about beheadings again&#8230;</p><p>Because the simulation folks also calculated a Revolutionary Pressure Index.</p><p>As landlords take over an economy and life becomes unbearable for workers, revolutionary pressure rises as in a pressure cooker. Eventually, things explode. They have no choice&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;workers and their children will literally die if they can&#8217;t force the government to reform landlording.</p><p>You can actually calculate a revolt probability. For instance, no one is revolting if jobs pay well, housing is affordable, and the cost of living is easily attainable for the vast majority. But if you&#8217;re paying 80% of your income for bread as French labourers did in 1788, get ready for the French Revolution.</p><p>Right now, the U.K. is around 48 on the Revolutionary Pressure Index, roundabouts the 1929 Weimar unrest phase. (Leading to Hitler becoming Chancellor in 1933.)</p><p>When the Revolutionary Pressure Index hits 80 (at turn 78 in the simulation), revolt is all but guaranteed and landlords get crushed.</p><p>The author of the piece thinks this will happen in 2028.</p><p>Best case scenario, we&#8217;re <strong>20&#8211;30 years from total national collapse</strong>.</p><div><hr></div><h3>What you can do</h3><p>At the government level, we just need to <em>tax for-profit landlording out of existence</em>. It&#8217;s that simple. No financialization of housing, no investors holding shelter hostage at the cost of human life.</p><p>There are important things you need to do, too:</p><ol><li><p>Stop being part of the problem. Sell your rental properties, real estate stocks and bonds, and banking stocks and bonds right now.</p></li><li><p>Do everything you can to help others get out of renting and into home stewardship before things get <em>significantly </em>worse.</p></li><li><p><strong>Never</strong> throw away your vote by voting for establishment political parties.</p></li><li><p>Share this article with a landlord and/or a tenant.</p></li></ol><div><hr></div><p>For those interested, you can check out the simulation results <a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-193993250">here</a>.</p><h3>Explore my books, films, and courses</h3><p><a href="https://thepublishingcourse.com/">The Publishing Course</a> (<a href="https://thepublishingcourse.com/">how to get published</a> and make money writing)</p><p><a href="https://redlightgreenlightfilm.carrd.co/">Red Light Green Light</a> (<a href="https://redlightgreenlightfilm.carrd.co/">human trafficking documentary</a>)<br><a href="https://over18.carrd.co/">Over 18</a> (<a href="https://over18.carrd.co/">pornography addiction documentary</a>)<br><a href="https://josiahhenson.carrd.co/">Redeeming Uncle Tom</a> (<a href="https://josiahhenson.carrd.co/">slavery documentary</a>)</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Prayerfully-Curious-Traveler/dp/1999522451">A Year of Living Prayerfully</a> (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Prayerfully-Curious-Traveler/dp/1999522451">book on prayer</a>) <a href="https://www.jaredbrock.com/">Download for free</a><br><a href="https://beardedgospelmen.com/">Bearded Gospel Men</a> (<a href="https://beardedgospelmen.com/">men&#8217;s devotional</a>)<br><a href="https://agodnamedjosh.com/">A God Named Josh</a> (<a href="https://agodnamedjosh.com/">book about Jesus</a>)<br><a href="https://adevilnamedlucifer.com/">A Devil Named Lucifer</a> (<a href="https://adevilnamedlucifer.com/">book about the devil</a>)</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. 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Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:00:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WGGR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F245fc695-cf76-4fa1-a52b-cb3dea358e9c_800x575.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WGGR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F245fc695-cf76-4fa1-a52b-cb3dea358e9c_800x575.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WGGR!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F245fc695-cf76-4fa1-a52b-cb3dea358e9c_800x575.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This is the story of an Irish teenager, a puppet politician, a secret-leaking gay Lord, his pedophile bestie, and the President of the United States.</p><p>Buckle up folks, because the truth is gloriously stranger than fiction&#8230;</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow exists thanks to paid subscribers. Become one right now! Thanks for your support.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>At the top of the pyramid are &#8220;The Overlords&#8221;</h3><p>Who are they?</p><p>No knows for certain.</p><p>Maybe CIA.</p><p>Maybe Mossad.</p><p>Maybe the Rothschilds.</p><p>We mere mortals may never know on this side of eternity.</p><p>The Overlords want global power, including over the United Kingdom.</p><p>So they recruit agents.</p><h3>Below the Overlords is Jeffrey Epstein</h3><p>Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein helps global elites make money and rape children, no doubt secretly documenting all of it so he has power over the world&#8217;s most powerful people.</p><p>His right-hand-gal is Ghislaine Maxwell, the daughter of a media mogul widely alleged to have Mossad ties who was eventually buried in Israel with Mossad attendees.</p><p>A former Israeli military intelligence officer named Ari Ben-Menashe claims he met Epstein and Ghislaine in the eighties, with both already working with Israeli intelligence.</p><p>Epstein meets with former Israeli PM Ehud Barak ~30 times in a five-year window.</p><p>Epstein &#8220;suicides&#8221; himself in 2019.</p><h3>Below Jeffrey Epstein is Peter Mandelson</h3><p>Born the same year as Epstein, the self-proclaimed &#8220;Prince of Darkness&#8221; is a gay politico who turns the traditionally-left-wing Labour Party into the globalist corporatocracy-loving party it remains today, first under PM Tony Blair (where he&#8217;s forced to resign twice amidst scandal.)</p><p>Mandelson becomes friends with Epstein by 2002 and the next year is calling him his &#8220;best pal,&#8221; with Epstein paying Mandelson and his partner Reinaldo Avila da Silva tens of thousands of pounds, and Mandelson reportedly giving Epstein high-level dirt from the U.K.</p><p>After Epstein&#8217;s pedo conviction in 2008, Mandelson and Epstein remain besties, with Mandelson still allegedly forwarding sensitive government info to Epstein for his clients to profit from.</p><h3>Below Peter Mandelson is Morgan McSweeney</h3><p>A directionless Irish teenager drops out of college and spends months living on an Israeli kibbutz. When he returns to the British Isles, he moves to England and takes a job at Labour HQ under Mandelson. Mandelson eventually gets himself appointed to the House of Lords and re-enters government as a minister under Gordon Brown.</p><p>Mandelson and his protege remain connected for the next 25 years, with McSweeney increasingly relying on Mandelson for advice.</p><h3>Below Morgan McSweeney is Keir Starmer</h3><p>Keir Starmer marries a Jewish woman. The family belongs to the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St John&#8217;s Wood. Starmer touchingly describes the family&#8217;s Friday night Shabbat dinners as a &#8220;rock in the week.&#8221;</p><p>Eerily similar to Mandelson with Blair, McSweeney purges the Labour Party of &#8220;antisemitic&#8221; lefties including Jeremy Corbyn (who was/is anti-Israel and pro-Islam), then uses his Israeli-funded think tank Labour Together to ensconce his own man, the deeply unpopular political outsider Keir Starmer as the head of the party.</p><p>(McSweeney&#8217;s machinations are astounding: Starmer becomes an MP in 2015, is made a shadow secretary <em>the following year</em>, and takes over the part just <em>four years</em> after that.)</p><p>Starmer&#8217;s handler McSweeney plays a central role in choosing Labour candidates for the upcoming election, with Peter Mandelson reportedly involved. Whistleblowers say the pair purged those they didn&#8217;t like and installed candidates favorable to the Overlords.</p><p>(This is almost certainly the case for my &#8220;local&#8221; MP. He&#8217;s never even lived in my constituency. He&#8217;s actually from 260 miles away, where he&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;wait for it&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;ran a pro-Israel think tank.)</p><h3>10 Downing Street</h3><p>McSweeney eventually gets Starmer elected Prime Minister thanks to Boris and Truss nuking the Conservative Party, but winning with a smaller vote share the leftist Corbyn <em>lost </em>by.</p><p>Starmer makes McSweeney his 10 Downing Street Chief of Staff.</p><p>McSweeney makes Starmer make Peter Mandelson the UK&#8217;s ambassador to the USA with top-level security, despite failing security checks and being an obvious threat to U.K. national security.</p><p>All is well.</p><p>Keir Starmer basks in the dubious glory of PMhood.</p><p>Morgan McSweeney rules 10 Downing Street. (Why a foreign national is allowed to run the British state is beyond me.)</p><p>Peter Mandelson is the nation&#8217;s highest foreign diplomat to the world&#8217;s most powerful nation.</p><p>The Overlords are happy.</p><p>No one knows Peter Mandelson&#8217;s connections to Jeffrey Epstein, and very few know Peter Mandelson&#8217;s connections to Morgan McSweeney, and even if they did, whatever.</p><p>The triumvirate will live happily ever after and keep the Overlords pleased as punch.</p><p>And then a certain orange-skinned billowy-haired fellow ruins their fun&#8230;</p><h3>Donald Trump</h3><p>Donald J. Trump gets re-elected.</p><p>Under sever pressure from Congress, he releases the Epstein files.</p><p>Peter Mandelson is mentioned 5,938 times.</p><p>Starmer fires Mandelson to save his own butt.</p><p>Starmer then &#8220;resigns&#8221; McSweeney to save his own butt.</p><p>Starmer fires the civil servant who approved Mandelson, to save his own butt.</p><p>Epstein is dead.</p><p>Mandelson is out.</p><p>McSweeney is out.</p><p>Is Starmer is next?</p><p>The popular theory is that when (not if) Labour gets destroyed at the upcoming May 7th local elections, suffering massive defeats to the new fake conservatives (Reform) and the LGBTQIslamic communists (Green), that Starmer will have to resign.</p><p>But the Overlord-Epstein-Mandelson-McSweeney-Starmer network planned for this possibility:</p><ol><li><p>Starmer can still blame his fiascoes on others (like his finance minister Rachel Reeves) and throw them under the bus.</p></li><li><p>There&#8217;s no one strong enough to lead the Labour party. His handlers purposely surrounded Starmer with unfathomably incompetent and compromised politicians. Dammy Lammy, Angela Rayner, Shabana Mamood, Wes Streeting&#8230; not a single one of his ministers is capable or popular enough to replace him.</p></li><li><p>Plus, Starmer holds the nuclear option: He can always kamikaze the Labour party by calling an election, ensuring 75&#8211;90+% of Labour MPs lose their seats.</p></li></ol><p>In other words, there&#8217;s a chance the U.K. will have to endure another three years of Starmer and the Overlords running Britain.</p><h3>The Overlords</h3><p>Let&#8217;s say the Israelis are behind all this.</p><p>What might their motives be?</p><ul><li><p>The U.K. is a nuclear nation</p></li><li><p>The U.K. is the 7th largest economy is the world</p></li><li><p>The U.K. is being flooded with Muslims (4+ million legal, 1+ million illegal and rising by thousands per month.)</p></li><li><p>Those Muslims are tactically voting and <em>now have their own bloc in the U.K. Parliament</em> that lobbies 24/7 against Israel</p></li><li><p>Anti-semitism is on the rise in the U.K.</p></li><li><p>Israel wants the U.K. to be a supporter of Israel (via investment, weapons sales, global politics and diplomacy, etc)</p></li><li><p>Israel doesn&#8217;t want the U.K. to become a nuclear-arms Islamic-controlled country</p></li></ul><p>So it makes sense that they&#8217;d want a pro-Israel U.K. Prime Minister, chief of staff, top ambassador, etc.</p><p>To be clear:</p><ul><li><p>Islam has an unbroken 1,400-year history proving itself as an ideology of conquest, rape, slavery, and murder, having taken over 53 countries and killing 3X more people than the next worst ideology</p></li><li><p>Israel has every right to oppose Islam for Islam wanting to wipe Jews off the map</p></li><li><p>Antisemitism in the U.K. and elsewhere are unacceptable</p></li></ul><p>But is this ugly mess&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;involving a pedophile trafficker, his gay secrets-leaking bestie, his Irish protege, and his automaton PM&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;really the best way to go about getting what they want?</p><p>If anything, it seems like it&#8217;s backfiring:</p><ul><li><p>Islamists are now disproportionately <em>over</em>-represented in U.K. Parliament</p></li><li><p>Antisemitism is up sharply in the U.K., with yet another attack <em>last week</em></p></li><li><p>U.K. public sentiment is turning against Israel, especially with younger people</p></li><li><p>The Green party (fun fact: nearly all Muslim countries have Green flags) is surging in the polls and could potentially form the next government in 2029, ensuring Britain falls forever.</p></li></ul><p>Perhaps the U.K. is a cautionary tale of the side effects of global geopolitics and the machinations of power-hungry forces.</p><p>I don&#8217;t like foreign interference in any nation&#8217;s politics.</p><p>I&#8217;m of the mind that one should attempt to <strong>win one&#8217;s argument in a nation&#8217;s court of public opinion</strong>, not by seizing their levers of power.</p><p>If you&#8217;re the 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Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:32:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LNve!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5cabe2df-852e-4282-87c9-9e42ab747fa7_800x450.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LNve!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5cabe2df-852e-4282-87c9-9e42ab747fa7_800x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LNve!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5cabe2df-852e-4282-87c9-9e42ab747fa7_800x450.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>It&#8217;s tax-time here in the United Kingdom.</p><p>Like most things in this Mammon-worshipping country, it&#8217;s complicated.</p><p>Back in Canada, our tax year ran from January 1st to December 31st. That made sense.</p><p>Here in the U.K., it inexplicably runs April 6th to April 5th.</p><p>This means, unlike in most sane countries where the government presents the &#8220;2026 budget,&#8221; the UK presents their 2026/7 budget. It&#8217;s a sign of genuine mental derangement.</p><p>But it has me thinking about taxation.</p><p><strong>Today I want to share 9 brief Christian perspectives/ideas/principles about taxation, along with 4 things you can practically do to navigate the worst of it.</strong></p><p>This is just a conversation. Don&#8217;t get (too) worked up if you&#8217;re an atheist. ;)</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow exists because of paid supporters. I can&#8217;t do this without you, so please join today. My babies thank you!</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h3>1. Taxes are the result of fallenness</h3><p>In the beginning, there was no taxation.</p><p>In the beginning, there was no scarcity.</p><p>No scarcity, no economics, no need for taxation of any kind.</p><p>Taxation was not part of God&#8217;s perfect plan.</p><p>Taxation is a direct result of humanity&#8217;s rebellion against the word, will, and way of God.</p><p>Throughout the Bible, tax collectors were viewed among the worst of the worst alongside sinners and prostitutes; corrupt symbols of a corrupt system that shouldn&#8217;t even exist and will not exist in the Kingdom of God.</p><div><hr></div><h3>2. Taxes are permitted by God</h3><p>Because He refuses to violate human free will, God allows plenty of horrible human behavior.</p><p>Like kingship, which God warns will lead to horrible outcomes (including heavy taxation! See 1 Samuel 8:10&#8211;18)</p><p>But Romans 13:6 says it pretty clearly: &#8220;Pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><h3>3. You are not accountable for how wretched governments spend your tax dollars</h3><p>It isn&#8217;t biblically mandated, but mad respect to those who risk life and livelihood to donate the portion of their tax bill that would&#8217;ve been used to fund war/abortion/euthanasia/etc to charities that save lives instead.</p><p>In Matthew 22:15&#8211;22, Mark 12:13&#8211;17, and Luke 20:20&#8211;26, Jesus is asked whether it&#8217;s lawful to pay taxes to Rome. Jesus says, &#8220;Give to Caesar what is Caesar&#8217;s.&#8221;</p><p>The Caesar from Jesus&#8217;s teenage years to his crucifixion was a paranoid and depraved despot named Tiberius Julius Caesar. He withdrew to Capri and oversaw a reign of terror and political purges, even of his closest allies.</p><p>Ancient writers accuse him of unbelievable cruelty and sadism, including the raping and strangulation of virgins, inventing new forms of torture which I cannot bring myself to write, desecration of corpses, and engaging in extreme sexual behavior including the abuse of boys and girls (even infants) and breaking the legs of those who complained. He killed or forced the suicide of his own adopted son, daughter-in-law, two of his grandsons, his closest advisor and his children, and hundreds of senators, equestrians, and elites, including one who carried a coin with his image into a latrine.</p><p>And what does Jesus do with the coin bearing the image of such a profoundly evil man?</p><p>Jesus tells a crowd to <em>give him money.</em></p><p>Taxation isn&#8217;t the hill Jesus thinks we should die on.</p><p>Rest assured, at the end of days, Tiberius Julius Caesar will stand before God and pay for his actions. God is justice and justice <em>will </em>be served.</p><div><hr></div><h3>4. We should treat poverty like war</h3><p>Under the old law in Deuteronomy 14:28&#8211;29, the people of God paid a special 10% tax every three years that was specifically earmarked for people in need, working out to ~3.33% per year to help the very poorest of the poor.</p><p>Most countries today spend 2&#8211;4% of GDP on their militaries.</p><p>How much more should we be investing in loving the poor under Jesus&#8217;s law of love?</p><div><hr></div><h3>5. No one in poverty should be taxed</h3><p>It is wrong to extract taxation from anyone who cannot afford to feed and shelter their families. This is evil and wrong.</p><p>Over 1 in 5 people in Britain lives in poverty (14.2 million people including 4+ million children), yet the government still smashes millions will taxation.</p><p>In 2019/20, you didn&#8217;t have to pay tax on your first &#163;12,500 in income.</p><p>But that figure has been frozen near there since then. Government after government insists they &#8220;aren&#8217;t raising income taxes&#8221;, but in reality, inflation is ensuring more and more poor people are forced to pay.</p><p>The current tax-free threshold of just &#163;12,570 is frozen until at least 2030/31.</p><p>That&#8217;s the equivalent of taxing someone who made just &#163;6,500 in 2019/2020. You can&#8217;t live on that. Not even close. It&#8217;s utterly demonic.</p><p>Interesting, under the old law, the tithe on livestock kicked in at animal #10, meaning the first nine were tax-free, and only one cow was due out of the first nineteen. Not to mention that all non-agricultural produce remained completely untaxed. This ensured tax relief for the poorest families, in addition to the other types of support they received.</p><div><hr></div><h3>6. No one wealthier should receive taxation payouts from people who are poorer</h3><blockquote><p>&#8220;Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees&#8230; to turn aside the needy from justice.&#8221;&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;Isaiah 10:1&#8211;2</p></blockquote><p>In my country, the government taxes millions of struggling young working people and hands out free money every month to over three million <em>millionaires</em>.</p><p>This is a gross injustice.</p><p>This is not a just form of redistribution that Christians support.</p><p>Proverbs 22:16 says, &#8220;Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth or gives to the rich will only come to poverty.&#8221;</p><p>Support needs to be based on true need. 2 Corinthians 8:13&#8211;14 makes this pretty clear: &#8220;For I do not mean that others should be eased and you burdened, but that as a matter of equality your abundance at the present time should supply their need, so that their abundance may supply your need, that there may be equality.&#8221;</p><p>The focus should always be on meeting the needs of the <em>least</em>, not the richest.</p><div><hr></div><h3>7. We should stop taxing good behavior</h3><blockquote><p>&#8220;Woe to those who decree unjust laws, and the writers who keep writing oppression, to deny justice to the needy and to rob my poor people of their rights.&#8221;&#8202;<em>&#8212;&#8202;Isaiah 10:1&#8211;2</em></p></blockquote><p>Human beings run on incentives and disincentives.</p><p>We need to <strong>stop punishing work</strong> with income tax and payroll tax.</p><p>We need to <strong>stop punishing commerce</strong> with sales taxes and VAT.</p><p>We need to <strong>stop punishing development</strong> with property tax.</p><p>To give you an idea of taxation under Moses, it looked something like this:</p><ul><li><p>10% <strong>Levitical Tithe</strong> (10% of all agricultural production was given to the religious workers for their service. See Numbers 18:21&#8211;24; Leviticus 27:30&#8211;33)</p></li><li><p>10% <strong>Sanctuary Tithe</strong> (10% for annual celebratory feasts to be eaten by the contributing family and their religious leaders. See Deuteronomy 14:22&#8211;27)</p></li><li><p>10% <strong>Charity Tithe</strong> <em>every 3rd year</em> (laid up in urban storehouses for religious workers, refugees, orphans, and widows. See Deuteronomy 14:28&#8211;29)</p></li><li><p><em>One-time</em> <strong>Temple Tax</strong> (A half-shekel&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;roughly 2 days of wages&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;payable once in a lifetime by every male over the age of 20. See Exodus 30:11&#8211;16)</p></li></ul><p>In other words, the annual tax burden was 20% for two years, then 30% in the third year, but 10% of all three years was for parties, and the whole tax system was more of an act of worship, sharing, and mutual support that worked out to an annualized rate of ~23.33%, and even that was only on the produce of the land.</p><p>(Later, when the fallen institution of human kingship took over, new taxes emerged. 2 Kings 23:35 reports one taxation was in proportion to an assessment of people&#8217;s wealth.)</p><p>Notice how there was a small tithe on what the land naturally produced, but <em>not</em> on wealth produced by working with your hands.</p><p>This is why I loathe income taxes: Income tax on earned wealth punishes people for adding their labor to God&#8217;s free natural resources to create new useable value for others.</p><p>Quite interestingly, under the Mosaic law, all monetary income earned from non-agricultural work (fishermen like Peter, artisans like Paul, traders like Lydia, and craftsmen like Jesus) was exempt from income taxation.</p><div><hr></div><h3>8. We should start taxing bad behavior</h3><blockquote><p>&#8220;And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.&#8221; <br>&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;<em>Matthew 24:12</em></p></blockquote><p>Tens of <em>trillions</em> in economic crime goes unpunished every year. Here&#8217;s how:</p><p>Capitalism thrives on privatizing gains to the self, while externalizing costs to others. The Cambridge economist Arthur Pigou famously observed that when the production of an item generates negative externalities, the private market will <em>overproduce</em> the item, even beyond what is socially optimal.</p><p>In other words, capitalism makes it easy, acceptable, and wildly lucrative to turn a profit despite horrible costs for others. Examples include industrial overfishing, deforestation, cigarette production, and the oil industry filling the ocean and our bodies with microplastics.</p><p>An honest, fair, God-honoring, humanity-respecting market would ensure a product&#8217;s price includes <em>all </em>of its cost to humanity.</p><h4>Tax poison</h4><p>While corporate shareholders poison Britons with the highest level of Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs) in Europe, U.K. taxpayers will be forced to spend over &#163;225 billion (U$300+ billion) this year on healthcare.</p><p>It is good and moral and godly to bear each other&#8217;s burdens when it comes to things like car accidents, birth defects, genetic diseases, and other health problems outside human control.</p><p>But is it really fair that healthy people who make healthy choices should have to pay the consequences of other people&#8217;s willfully bad decisions?</p><p>Frankly, a Big Mac meal should cost $50.</p><p>Oreos should cost a tenner.</p><p>Alcohol should be for special occasions, not bingeing every weekend.</p><p>Nicotine products must include a health insurance surcharge that fully covers 100% of the cost of nicotine-related healthcare costs.</p><p>Any and all seed oils, artificial flavors and colors, synthetic sweeteners, endocrine disruptors, trans fats, PFAS, and DNA-damaging substances in or on foods must pay their own way.</p><p>This will obviously raise the price of these items to <strong>true cost</strong>, which will give shoppers with a choice: <em>Is it worth it</em>? Many will stop buying in favor of healthier options. This will give corporate shareholders with a choice: <em>Will we create a healthier version of this product</em>? Those who don&#8217;t will likely go under. Those who do will win, the nation will be healthier, and healthcare tax expenditure will fall.</p><h4>Tax pollution</h4><p>Nations spend tens of billions per year on healthcare costs due to corporations polluting our air, water, and land.</p><p>Any company that emits nitrous oxide, tropospheric ozone, CFCs, HCFCs, HFCs, PFCs, sulfur hexafluoride, nitrogen trifluoride, VOCs, particulate matter, heavy metals, POPs, pathogens, radioactive contamination, etc, must price in the full amelioration of their product.</p><h4>Tax litter</h4><p>Do bananas really need to come in a plastic bag? Absolutely&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;if you&#8217;re trying to stretch shelf-life in order to maximize profits for shareholders.</p><p>Want to get rid of plastics in the ocean and microplastics in your baby&#8217;s bloodstream? Tax plastic out of existence.</p><h4>Tax land monopolization</h4><p>This is the big one. Land monopolization without recompense to everyone else is theft. Land hoarders should have to pay a fee to the community for their exclusive enjoyment of what rightfully belongs to all.</p><p>A Land Value Tax is &#8203;&#8203;empirically the fairest tax. It reduces land speculation (land-hoarders benefiting from a rise in land values thanks to community efforts), encourages efficient land stewardship (decreasing blight and empty plots), and it&#8217;s non-distortionary (not discouraging productive activities like working, saving, building, or trading.)</p><p>People across the political spectrum have supported LVTs, including Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Stuart Mill, and Winston Churchill. Milton Friedman quipped that it is the &#8220;least bad tax.&#8221;</p><p>Having an annual land monopolization charge immediately stops people from hoarding land, which drops land prices so nearly all can afford to be sheltered, and the tax money can help the truly needy.</p><h4>Tax exploitation</h4><p>The Bible differentiates between earned money (from working with your own hands) and profit (from extracting a profit off the work of others.)</p><p>We should tax interest out of existence to wean society off debt.</p><p>We should tax rent profits out of existence to wean landlords off property hoarding.</p><p>We should tax dividends and some capital gains to move the economy away from $10+ trillion multi-national shareholder monopolies like BlackRock in preference to non-exploitative business models like co-operatives, for-benefits, trusts, not-for-profits, charities, partnerships, and sole proprietorships.</p><h4>Tax crime</h4><p>This one is something no one talks about, but it&#8217;s a no-brainer.</p><p>Let&#8217;s say one of the countless Muslim rape gangs in the U.K. abuses 100 little boys and girls in Manchester.</p><p>The cost to those children is huge&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;a lifetime of trauma, therapy, etc.</p><p>The cost to society is vast&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;police investigations, years of court battles, decades of jail time for the gang members.</p><p><strong>What do the rapists get?</strong></p><p>They get sexual gratification, followed by years of free food, free shelter, free electricity, free heat, free water, free clothing, a free weekly money allowance to spend on snacks and phone calls, free legal advice, free education and training, free healthcare, free prescription meds, and free dental care (something even taxpayers on the outside can&#8217;t get!)</p><p><strong>What do taxpayers get?</strong></p><p>They get to foot the bill.</p><p>It costs taxpayers &#163;56,000 (U$76,000) per year to house one inmate. <br>High-security can cost over &#163;130,000 (U$177,000) per year per inmate.</p><p>THIS IS NOT JUSTICE.</p><p>True justice requires all criminals to repay:</p><ol><li><p>Their <em>full</em> cost to society</p></li><li><p>Society&#8217;s lost opportunity cost</p></li><li><p>Full restitution to their victims</p></li></ol><p><strong>Full cost to society</strong></p><p>Criminals in prison should be working 60+ hours per week for $0 to cover their own costs.</p><p><strong>Society&#8217;s lost opportunity cost</strong></p><p>If no one committed crime, we wouldn&#8217;t need cops, bailiffs, judges, court stenographers, jail builders, wardens, guards, janitors, etc. All these people could have been working productive jobs to actually build <em>up </em>society, rather than maintaining a cost-free life for criminals.</p><p>Criminals owe society the compounding wealth they lost.</p><p><strong>Full restitution to their victims</strong></p><p>Criminals have a direct obligation to compensate their victims, too.</p><p>In the Bible, the amount of restitution varied per crime. <br>120% in Leviticus 6:4&#8211;5<br>200% in Exodus 22:7<br>400% in Luke 19:8&#8211;9<br>500% in Exodus 22:1</p><p>Instead of taxpayers being forced to pay tens of billions each year to support criminals, crime should be a <strong>$0 budget line</strong> on federal tax budgets because crime, like poison, pollution, litter, and land monopolization, <em>should pay for itself</em>.</p><p>Anything less is injustice.</p><div><hr></div><h3>9. Justice decreases the need for taxation</h3><p>Politicians ignore this reality because they are unjust.</p><p>I don&#8217;t know why the public doesn&#8217;t clue in to this one.</p><p>Some example:</p><ul><li><p>If you allow dishonest money and bankers to inflate the money supply by printing debt-based interest-money out of thin air, inflation guarantees $1 billion in tax dollars buys less next year, meaning incoming service cuts or tax rises. But abolishing this injust does the opposite&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;a strengthening currency buys more each year, so you can provide just as much service on less taxation.</p></li><li><p>If you ban profit on lending (interest on money-lending, rent profit on shelter-lending, etc), the poor and middle class keep significantly more of the wealth they create (economists estimate 30&#8211;50% of the price of everyday items is actually embedded profit on lending.)</p></li><li><p>If you obey the Bible, ban land hoarding (Isaiah 5:8), and restore land rights to all (countless passages), you decrease the cost of living drastically and eliminate homelessness.</p></li><li><p>If you jubilee all debts every seven years&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;national debt, student debt, mortgage debt, all of it&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;then your nation&#8217;s need for taxation falls through the floor.</p></li></ul><p>Economic justice erases most of the need for taxation.</p><p>The Bible is extremely clear: Obedience to God opens His storehouses of blessing.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Tying it all together</h3><p>Okay, let&#8217;s imagine if&#8230;</p><ul><li><p>We invested 3% of GDP in helping people become permanently un-poor.</p></li><li><p>We stopped taxing everyone below the poverty line.</p></li><li><p>We stopped using tax money to enrich the rich.</p></li><li><p>We stopped taxing work, commerce, and development.</p></li><li><p>We started taxing poison, pollution, litter, land monopolization, economic exploitation, and crime at their full cost.</p></li><li><p>We got rid of dishonest money and strengthened our currency.</p></li><li><p>We banned profit on lending, stopped land hoarding, restored land resource rights to all, and forgave old debts.</p></li></ul><p>Would taxes go up or decrease?</p><p>Would poverty increase or decrease?</p><p>Would justice continue to suffer or would it &#8220;roll down like waters&#8221;? (Amos 5:24)</p><p>The answers are obvious.</p><p>The Christian view on taxation obliterates the current Mammon-worshipping model.</p><div><hr></div><h3>What you can do practically</h3><p>Obviously this article is not tax advice, it&#8217;s a theological perspective.</p><p>Here are some things you may might to consider regarding tax:</p><h4>1. Explore how to legally avoid as much taxation as possible</h4><p>No verse in the Bible encourages illegal tax evasion. Dishonesty and fraud are sins.</p><p>Christian pay what is <strong>legally </strong><em><strong>owed</strong></em><strong> or </strong><em><strong>due</strong></em>. Romans 13:6&#8211;7 says, &#8220;For this reason you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God&#8217;s servants&#8230; Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>On the other hand, in Matthew 17:24&#8211;27, Jesus even pays a tax that he argues he doesn&#8217;t even owe.</p><p>On the other other hand, nowhere in the Bible does it command Christians to <em>maximize</em> their tax burden.</p><p>In Matthew 10:16&#8211;23, Jesus warns that persecution is coming and the thing to do is flee. That&#8217;s exactly what happens in Acts 8:1&#8211;4. The murder of Stephen causes the Jerusalem church to scatter far and wide.</p><p>You don&#8217;t have to let your government abuse you. You can minimize your tax burden as much as legally possible.</p><p>And if you have the ability to move elsewhere and feel called to do so, then go. Some choose to go where they&#8217;re treated least-abusively. Others choose to go where they&#8217;re treated slightly-less abusively. Radicals sometimes end up in places that are significantly <em>more</em> abusive because that&#8217;s where God is calling them to advance His kingdom.</p><h4>2. Pay whatever tax Caesar demands without complaint or worry</h4><p>Jesus hints at the idea that taxation is corrupt in Matthew 17:24&#8211;27 and Mark 12:13&#8211;17 when he suggests kings tax others but not their own.</p><p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean we should complain or worry about what we&#8217;re inevitably forced to pay.</p><p>&#8220;Do <em>everything</em> without complaining.&#8221; (Philippians 2:14) Taxation doesn&#8217;t get a complaint pass.</p><p>&#8220;Do not worry about your life.&#8221; (Matthew 6:25) Taxation doesn&#8217;t get a worry pass.</p><p>It&#8217;s difficult, but extremely simple.</p><h4>3. Express gratitude to God for what Caesar gives back in return</h4><p>Many governments in history have enslaved their entire populations.</p><p>Some still do&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;I&#8217;ve been to North Korea, which resembles a slave plantation far more than anything we&#8217;d recognize as a nation state.</p><p>But even the big bad government, the utterly fallen state, can be an instrument of God&#8217;s justice and protection for the poor. Romans 13:4 says the state is &#8220;God&#8217;s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God&#8217;s wrath on the wrongdoer.&#8221;</p><p>1 Thessalonians 5:18 says, &#8220;In <em>everything</em> give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.&#8221; Taxation doesn&#8217;t get an ingratitude pass.</p><h4>4. Get involved in politics or support reformers who care about fair taxation</h4><p>You don&#8217;t actually have to run for office to get involved in politics. (But it really would have to have fewer sociopaths actually holding the reins.)</p><p>Plenty of charities, institutes, foundations, and individuals do great work lobbying for fairer taxation.</p><p>You can stop throwing away your vote on the main establishment parties and support moral candidates instead.</p><p>In the meantime, you can support activists and reformers who are educating, raising awareness, and stirring up public consciousness about the alternatives to the horrid Mammonomics system under which we&#8217;re currently enslaved. Belief and worldview drive policy.</p><p>You can add your voice to the global conversation right now, by acts as simple as sharing this article or these ideas with others.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Your thoughts?</strong></h3><p>What should we stop taxing and why?<br>What should we start taxing and why?<br>Comment or hit reply.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Check out:</h3><p><a href="https://thepublishingcourse.com/">The Publishing Course</a> (<a href="https://thepublishingcourse.com/">how to get published</a> and make money writing)</p><p><a href="https://redlightgreenlightfilm.carrd.co/">Red Light Green Light</a> (<a href="https://redlightgreenlightfilm.carrd.co/">human trafficking documentary</a>)<br><a href="https://over18.carrd.co/">Over 18</a> (<a href="https://over18.carrd.co/">pornography addiction documentary</a>)<br><a href="https://josiahhenson.carrd.co/">Redeeming Uncle Tom</a> (<a href="https://josiahhenson.carrd.co/">slavery documentary</a>)</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Prayerfully-Curious-Traveler/dp/1999522451">A Year of Living Prayerfully</a> (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Prayerfully-Curious-Traveler/dp/1999522451">book on prayer</a>) <a href="https://www.jaredbrock.com/">Download for free</a><br><a href="https://beardedgospelmen.com/">Bearded Gospel Men</a> (<a href="https://beardedgospelmen.com/">men&#8217;s devotional</a>)<br><a href="https://agodnamedjosh.com/">A God Named Josh</a> (<a href="https://agodnamedjosh.com/">book about Jesus</a>)<br><a href="https://adevilnamedlucifer.com/">A Devil Named Lucifer</a> (<a href="https://adevilnamedlucifer.com/">book about the devil</a>)</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[29 Types of Inflation to Watch Out For]]></title><description><![CDATA[How many have you noticed so far?]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/29-types-of-inflation-to-watch-out</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/29-types-of-inflation-to-watch-out</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:41:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sl2P!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86aed2a7-b6d4-4cfe-af5a-efecebda9d95_800x450.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sl2P!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86aed2a7-b6d4-4cfe-af5a-efecebda9d95_800x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sl2P!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F86aed2a7-b6d4-4cfe-af5a-efecebda9d95_800x450.jpeg 424w, 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I can&#8217;t do this without you.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>When I was a teenager, I got a job at Tim Horton&#8217;s, which is this wretched Canadian coffee-and-donut chain owned by globalist vulture capitalists.</p><p>For years, Timmies had been baking their own gigantic donuts onsite, but they&#8217;d just switched to centralized donut production in a mega-factory, with local stores receiving huge cardboard boxes full of these little frozen turds to &#8220;bake&#8221; in what was essentially a giant microwave.</p><p>The new donuts were much, much smaller than the old ones.</p><p>This was not in any way debatable&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;on my first day at work, I held an OG blueberry fritter in one hand and an emaciated new blueberry fritter in the other. V2 was a good 30% smaller.</p><p><strong>This was the moment when I first realized that shareholders are demon-possessed sociopaths:</strong></p><p>The manager handed out these little pieces of paper for us to stand up beside our coffee stations. It was a script of canned responses for what to say when people inevitably complained about the smaller donut sizes.</p><p>It went something like this&#8230;</p><blockquote><p>Customer: &#8220;The donuts are smaller.&#8221;</p><p>You say: &#8220;No, it just looks like that from where you&#8217;re standing.&#8221;</p><p>Customer: &#8220;The donuts are smaller.&#8221;</p><p>You say: &#8220;The donuts are actually still the same size.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>I looked at my manager and said, &#8220;But this is a lie.&#8221;</p><p>She mumbled something and waddled off.</p><p>I had recently become a Christian and decided there was <strong>no way</strong> I going to co-conspire with the devil even if it meant I got fired, so I made a joke of it.</p><p>A customer would come in and say angrily, &#8220;Hey, why are your donuts smaller today?&#8221;</p><p>Each time, I held up the piece of paper, shot them a conspiratorial grin, and said:</p><p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been commanded to read you the following: No sir, it just looks like they&#8217;re smaller&#8230; <em>because they are smaller</em>.&#8221;</p><p>People got quite a kick out of reading the evil responses I was supposed to give to their objections.</p><p>I got dozens and dozens of laughs&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;and loads of tips&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;and managed to avoid losing my job.</p><p>Within a week, people had adjusted to the donut shrinkflation, so the rest of my colleagues stopped blatantly lying to our customer base.</p><p>But let me tell you, <strong>I loathe that vile company to this very day for coercing literal children to lie to adults under threat of being fired.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3>The Inflation Game</h3><p>Over the past few weeks, I&#8217;ve been jotting down all the times I&#8217;ve noticed the effects of inflation around me.</p><p>The lying government says inflation in my country is 3.2% right now, because they are incentivized to lie&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;if they reported the true inflation rate (well over 10%), they&#8217;d have to pay pensioners more, which means they&#8217;d have to tax us more, which means they&#8217;ve lose their jobs. So they lie.</p><p>Our game today is simple:</p><p>Keep track of how many of these signed you&#8217;ve seen recently, then comment with your total number, plus any additional signs of inflation you&#8217;ve been noticing.</p><p>Let&#8217;s help each other tune in and pay attention to how true prices are rapidly hyperinflating and our money&#8217;s purchasing power is crashing.</p><p>_ Self-checkouts at grocery stores</p><p>_ Butter in 200 gram slices instead of 1kg bricks.</p><p>_ Highly-processed (and highly-profitable) vegetarian and vegan &#8220;food&#8221;</p><p>_ Filler ingredients (canola oil in tomato soup?!)</p><p>_ 10 eggs as the new dozen</p><p>_ Five apples in a bag that used to contain six</p><p>_ $1 fee to reserve a library book</p><p>_ $100 to submit a pre-application query to my local county council</p><p>_ Rubbish bins collected less frequently</p><p>_ Mail delivered less frequently</p><p>_ Far less maintenance and non-existent cleaning of public spaces</p><p>_ A Bakewell tart made with raspberry instead of cherry</p><p>_ Half-loaves of bread as the new standard size</p><p>_ A product labels &#8220;Almond Extract&#8221; that is actually 99% canola oil</p><p>_ $250 boots that spring leaks within one year</p><p>_ Artificial colors</p><p>_ Artificial flavors</p><p>_ Artificial sweeteners</p><p>_ Candies that were once full-candy are now half-candy-half-marshmallow</p><p>_ Guinness in 10 packs instead of 12 or 24 packs</p><p>_ A new Guinness ripoff beer for &#163;0.10 cheaper per can</p><p>_ &#8220;Extra large&#8221; onions are the size of the old medium</p><p>_ A product labeled &#8220;Madagascan Vanilla Extract&#8221; that is actually 10% vanilla and 90% invert glucose syrup.</p><p>_ &#8220;Super Tough&#8221; garbage bags that tear with ease</p><p>_ Expiry dates just 1&#8211;3 days away</p><p>_ Fewer organic food options compared to five years ago</p><p>_ Bon Maman strawberry jam now lighter in color, sickly sweet, and visibly containing less fruit</p><p>_ Socks that last weeks instead of years</p><p>_ Products becoming impossible to actually purchase and own for life (you can only access them for a monthly fee)</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>How many of these signs of inflation have you seen?</strong></p><p><strong>What are some other ways you&#8217;re seeing inflation?</strong></p><p>Think:</p><ul><li><p>Prices going up</p></li><li><p>Quantity going down</p></li><li><p>Quality going down</p></li><li><p>Ownership disappearing</p></li></ul><p>Comment below.</p><div><hr></div><h3>How to protect yourself against inflation</h3><p>Let&#8217;s go ahead and assume that a.) politicians will continue lying about inflation, and b.) prices will keep going up, quantity will keep going down, quality will keep going down, and ownership will keep disappearing.</p><p>We would be utterly delusion to not assume these things will COMPOUND and get WORSE in the years ahead.</p><p>What can we do?</p><p>Obviously, we have to stop voting for sociopaths and elite-owned parties. To vote for any of them is to throw away your vote and guarantee the further strangulation of your family&#8217;s future.</p><p>On the day-to-day level, you can take one or more of seven routes to stay ahead of inflation:</p><ol><li><p><strong>You can play the game. </strong>Exploit others as much as possible. Load up on stocks and bonds and rental properties and every possible extractive asset you can find. Bleed others dry. Then burn in hell. (Sorry, I don&#8217;t make the rules.)</p></li><li><p><strong>Start a new country</strong> that bans fractional reserve banking and doesn&#8217;t let bankers inflate the money supply by printing debt-money out of thin air.</p></li><li><p><strong>Overthow your nation&#8217;s establishment</strong> through election or revolution. Abolish interest and fractional reserve. Bring back the gold standard, adopt the Bitcoin standard, or re-start sovereign money creation.</p></li><li><p><strong>Move to Switzerland </strong>(strict on keeping inflation low) or El Salvador (if you want to live that Bitcoin life.)</p></li><li><p><strong>Go semi, hybrid, or totally off-grid</strong>. It&#8217;s just math. Groceries and heat and power <em>will </em>cost more each year, so if homesteading&#8217;s your thing, there comes a point when generating your own food, firewood, and electricity makes WAY more financial sense than working a wage-suppressed job to pay monopoly prices.</p></li><li><p><strong>Buy durable goods while you still can</strong>.</p></li></ol><ul><li><p>Don&#8217;t become a weirdo hoarder, but if you love a certain pair of long-lasting shoes and your feet have stopped growing, buy a few pairs. After all, the price will go up and the quality will go down.</p></li><li><p>Car parts. Light bulbs. Firewood and lumber. A home. Furniture. Raw materials.</p></li><li><p>Any item that will last for years, where the price will go up, and the quality will go down&#8230; it&#8217;s fair game to buy now while you still can.</p></li></ul><p>7. <strong>Ditch fiat currency. </strong><br>Get out of $USD/$CAD/&#163;GBP/etc.<br>Hold your cash in gold, silver, etc.</p><p>This is surprisingly easy to do. I recently used <a href="https://www.bullionvaultaffiliate.com/jaredbrock/">BuillionVault</a> to buy $100 worth of gold and silver in literally four minutes. Plus they gave me 1/4 oz of free silver, a free euro, a free U.S. dollar, and a free British pound, which I immediately used to buy more silver. &#128514; Now that my account is set up, it&#8217;ll take five seconds. Other options include GlintPay, GoldMoney, VeraCash Perth Mint Gold Card, OneGold, etc.</p><p><strong>Note:</strong></p><p>As a Christian, I don&#8217;t believe in storing up wealth on earth, so I&#8217;m not recommending people just sit on Smauglike piles of gold and silver. Money is for spending, giving, and interest-free lending. Saving is for necessities like a house down payment, an upcoming roof repair, car replacement, next week&#8217;s groceries, etc.</p><p>What I&#8217;m saying is that holding <em>any</em> money in $USD/$CAD/&#163;GBP/etc means the <strong>guaranteed compounding devaluation of your purchasing power</strong>.</p><p>But if you don&#8217;t hold your spending money in fiat currencies, <em>it doesn&#8217;t matter to you if fiat currencies hyperinflate.</em></p><p>Think about it:</p><p>If a house costs 10 pounds of gold and doesn&#8217;t change regardless of the USD price, then obviously you win.</p><p>Here&#8217;s what it looks like in picture form:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OSPI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e6b3ad7-4e30-4d2d-ac72-fb9a2ad868fe_667x436.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OSPI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e6b3ad7-4e30-4d2d-ac72-fb9a2ad868fe_667x436.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OSPI!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e6b3ad7-4e30-4d2d-ac72-fb9a2ad868fe_667x436.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OSPI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e6b3ad7-4e30-4d2d-ac72-fb9a2ad868fe_667x436.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OSPI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e6b3ad7-4e30-4d2d-ac72-fb9a2ad868fe_667x436.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OSPI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e6b3ad7-4e30-4d2d-ac72-fb9a2ad868fe_667x436.png" width="667" height="436" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9e6b3ad7-4e30-4d2d-ac72-fb9a2ad868fe_667x436.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:436,&quot;width&quot;:667,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OSPI!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e6b3ad7-4e30-4d2d-ac72-fb9a2ad868fe_667x436.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OSPI!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e6b3ad7-4e30-4d2d-ac72-fb9a2ad868fe_667x436.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OSPI!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e6b3ad7-4e30-4d2d-ac72-fb9a2ad868fe_667x436.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OSPI!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9e6b3ad7-4e30-4d2d-ac72-fb9a2ad868fe_667x436.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Wild, right?</p><p>Let&#8217;s do another one, this time related to food:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Gym!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bdb45a-2fa0-4542-b8f7-68bbd3c2e31c_698x494.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Gym!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bdb45a-2fa0-4542-b8f7-68bbd3c2e31c_698x494.png 424w, 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Gym!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bdb45a-2fa0-4542-b8f7-68bbd3c2e31c_698x494.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Gym!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bdb45a-2fa0-4542-b8f7-68bbd3c2e31c_698x494.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Gym!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F72bdb45a-2fa0-4542-b8f7-68bbd3c2e31c_698x494.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Now look at how gold &#8220;outperforms&#8221; (or rather, holds its value) compared to devaluing fiat currencies.</p><p>If you&#8217;d held all your money in gold instead of $USD for the past ten years, today you&#8217;d have more than <strong>three times as much spending power:</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wHqq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F050177d7-b3a4-4583-b5e8-5ebd2b4ef5b0_720x580.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:07:23 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RpsM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b982b1b-c712-41d8-a769-2d682428962f_800x450.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RpsM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b982b1b-c712-41d8-a769-2d682428962f_800x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RpsM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4b982b1b-c712-41d8-a769-2d682428962f_800x450.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Their plan was simple (and exploitative, though most didn&#8217;t realize it):</p><ol><li><p>Sit on a pension pot and a house or two and watch the value of both soar (thanks to the work, debt, and impoverishment of others.)</p></li><li><p>Cash out to fund their sunset years in an old folks&#8217; home.</p></li></ol><p>They inadvertently shackled their kids and grandkids with suppressed wages, exorbitant prices, and humanity-high housing costs.</p><p>Most Boomers didn&#8217;t have a clue&#8230;</p><p>Many of the millions who <em>did </em>know didn&#8217;t care, because they have low empathy due to toxic lead exposure (true story)&#8230;</p><p><strong>&#8230;but did ANY of them actually do the math?!</strong></p><p>Did no one think about what was going to happen at the end?</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow exists thanks to your generous support. Become a paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><h3>Fact #1:</h3><p>73 million Baby Boomers in the U.S. are at the peak of retirement and are about to need care.</p><h3>Fact #2:</h3><p>Boomers control the lion&#8217;s share of America&#8217;s stock wealth&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;and will liquidate it to pay for care.</p><p>That&#8217;s $25 trillion in stocks.</p><p>What happens when there&#8217;s a mass exodus from the stock market?</p><p>Who is going to buy all these stocks at overinflated prices?</p><p>The answer is: It&#8217;s not going to happen.</p><p>The Boomer stock selloff is going to send the stock market tumbling year over year over year.</p><p>Plus, artificial intelligence will send most companies to zero anyway.</p><h3>Fact #3:</h3><p>Boomers control the lion&#8217;s share of America&#8217;s housing.</p><p>That&#8217;s $19 trillion in home equity.</p><p>What happens when there&#8217;s a mass exodus from the real estate market?</p><p>Who is going to buy all these houses at overinflated prices?</p><p>The answer is: It&#8217;s not going to happen.</p><p>(Unless Boomers continue to flood their homelands with young immigrants who&#8217;ll mortgage themselves for life.)</p><h3>Fact #4:</h3><p>Baby Boomers will all need care homes at the exact same time.</p><p>And there aren&#8217;t <em>nearly</em> enough beds.</p><p>America needs nearly an extra <strong>million</strong> senior housing in the next <em>four years</em>.</p><p>The industry builds less than a <strong>tenth</strong> of that.</p><p>You thought the national median assisted living price of U$74,400/year was bad?</p><p>Exponential demand for old-age homes x chronic supply shortages = care home prices are about to skyrocket.</p><p>Private rooms in nursing homes are already U$130,000/year.</p><p>Do the math. Extrapolate.</p><p>How much will old folks homes cost when:<br>a.) The private equity vampires who own all the old folks homes calculate there&#8217;s tens of trillions in cash to loot?<br>b.) Carer labor shortages persist (due to wage suppression by private equity)?<br>c.) The supply of care home spots is massively constricted?<br>d.) Demand maximizes as a whole generation gets old at the same time?<br>e.) Inflation doesn&#8217;t let up for one second?</p><p>=</p><blockquote><p><strong>The &#8220;golden years&#8221; are going to be a financial bloodbath for the largest generation in U.S. history.</strong></p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h3>What about the United Kingdom?</h3><p>Standard residential care in the U.K. is currently &#163;67,496 per person per year.</p><p>Nursing care is &#163;79,820 per person per year.</p><p>Dementia nursing is &#163;81,328 per person per year.</p><p>Prices are about to go <strong>parabolic</strong>.</p><p>British economic engineering makes things even <em><strong>worse</strong></em> in the U.K., which is rapidly becoming an island of geriatrics and jihadis.</p><p>Compared to the U.S., Britain&#8217;s population is <em><strong>older</strong></em>, they have <em><strong>less</strong></em><strong> </strong>eldercare infrastructure, Boomers control of housing is even <em><strong>more </strong></em>concentrated, care-home supply is basically <em><strong>frozen</strong></em>, the crunch arrives <em><strong>sooner</strong></em>, care costs are soaring <em><strong>faster</strong></em>, and the workforce and funding crisis has <em><strong>no</strong></em> U.S. parallel.</p><p>The U.K. saw just 2.4% bed growth over the past decade while the 65+ population grew 16%. Net supply grew by just <strong>136 beds</strong> last year. Peak Boomer demand hits during 2030&#8211;2035, will full capacity in 2033.</p><p>Bed prices are up 10% this year alone.</p><p>Fees will accelerate 8&#8211;12+% per year for the foreseeable future.</p><p>DO THE MATH.</p><p>National median residential care could <em>easily</em> reach &#163;104,000&#8211;&#163;160,000 per person per year by the mid-2030s.</p><p>Do you know <em>any</em> couple that can afford to shell out &#163;1.5 million in <em>after-tax cash</em> for even five years?</p><p>Remember, only 6% of U.K. care beds are publicly owned. The vast majority are owned by private, for-profit operators. They exist to serve <em>shareholders</em>, not our great and good grandparents.</p><p>The British social care system is <strong>explicitly designed to consume Boomer equity </strong>and funnel it to these shareholders.</p><p>They will get every single farthing.</p><p>Then what?</p><p>What happens when millions of British Boomers have been bankrupted?</p><p>How exactly does one stuff millions of old people into 6% of the beds?</p><p>Does ANYONE believe the corrupt British government will build enough public spaces for all these precious people?</p><div><hr></div><h3>Fact #5:</h3><p>More and more nations are introducing and actively promoting assisted suicide.</p><p>I wonder why&#8230;</p><div><hr></div><h3>What we all must do about this time bomb</h3><p>Boomers have done a very naughty thing in enslaving their kids and grandkids, but most don&#8217;t actually understand what they&#8217;ve done, and it even if they did, it doesn&#8217;t matter, because we are called to honor them anyway.</p><p><strong>Gen X/Millennials/Gen Z/Gen Alpha:</strong></p><ol><li><p>Send this to every single Boomer you know. Don&#8217;t let them be blindsided.</p></li><li><p>Don&#8217;t repeat the choices of your grandparents.</p></li><li><p>Get ready to love, serve, and help them. This is your duty before God.</p></li></ol><p><strong>Boomers:</strong></p><ol><li><p>Wake up. <br>The game is <strong>OVER</strong>. <br>You <em>cannot</em> win. <br>You are too old to buy your way out of this. <br>An old folks&#8217; home is going to cost you <strong>$200,000+ per person per year</strong>.<br>A couple in the U.K. will be forking out &#163;200,000+ per year until bankrupt, then have to find somewhere to stay while they languish on a public waiting list that will almost certainly outlive them.<br>They told you what to do, you listened, and now you&#8217;re going to lose.</p></li><li><p>Sell it all <strong>now</strong>.<br>Get out of the stock market before AI+the Boomer selloff takes it to zero.<br>Give every cent to your kids and grandkids so they can get out of debt, buy homes, and start businesses, so they can actually help you. <br>Hand your houses over to your kids and grandkids. <br>Build yourself a pretty unit in their attic, garage, or back garden.<br>It&#8217;s up to your kids and grandkids now.<br>THEY are your retirement plan. <br>THEY are your old-age care plan. <br>THEY are your old folks&#8217; home.<br>Set them up <strong>now</strong>, before it&#8217;s too late for <em>both</em> of you.</p></li></ol><p>(If you don&#8217;t have kids and grandkids, join a church, find some young Christians you trust, give them everything, and become family.)</p><p>The math suggests you have less than <strong>two years</strong> before this whole thing goes sideways for Boomers. Start now or ignore at your peril.</p><p><strong>This is the game, people.</strong></p><p>Boomers <em>will</em> go bankrupt if they aren&#8217;t willing to do what they should have done all along&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;actually really <strong>think about the future</strong>, <em>including</em> the one that will exist after they&#8217;re dead and gone.</p><p>&#8212;</p><p><strong>Hit reply or comment to tell me your thoughts, ideas, questions, and reactions.</strong></p><div><hr></div><p>Want to get published or make money from your writing?<br>Watch the trailer for <em><a href="https://thepublishingcourse.com/">The Publishing Course</a></em>.</p><h3>Explore my books and movies:</h3><p><a href="https://redlightgreenlightfilm.carrd.co/">Red Light Green Light</a> (<a href="https://redlightgreenlightfilm.carrd.co/">human trafficking documentary</a>)<br><a href="https://over18.carrd.co/">Over 18</a> (<a href="https://over18.carrd.co/">pornography addiction documentary</a>)<br><a href="https://josiahhenson.carrd.co/">Redeeming Uncle Tom</a> (<a href="https://josiahhenson.carrd.co/">slavery documentary</a>)</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Prayerfully-Curious-Traveler/dp/1999522451">A Year of Living Prayerfully</a> (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Prayerfully-Curious-Traveler/dp/1999522451">book on prayer</a>) <a href="https://www.jaredbrock.com/">Download for free</a><br><a href="https://beardedgospelmen.com/">Bearded Gospel Men</a> (<a href="https://beardedgospelmen.com/">men&#8217;s devotional</a>)<br><a href="https://agodnamedjosh.com/">A God Named Josh</a> (<a href="https://agodnamedjosh.com/">book about Jesus</a>)<br><a href="https://adevilnamedlucifer.com/">A Devil Named Lucifer</a> (<a href="https://adevilnamedlucifer.com/">book about the devil</a>)</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Will A.I. Play Out?]]></title><description><![CDATA[This essay was written by a human using their analog brain]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/how-will-ai-play-out</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/how-will-ai-play-out</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:30:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S4CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfbc3d91-2abf-4df6-8d3f-c2b39f23315b_800x450.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S4CO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfbc3d91-2abf-4df6-8d3f-c2b39f23315b_800x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S4CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfbc3d91-2abf-4df6-8d3f-c2b39f23315b_800x450.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S4CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfbc3d91-2abf-4df6-8d3f-c2b39f23315b_800x450.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S4CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfbc3d91-2abf-4df6-8d3f-c2b39f23315b_800x450.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S4CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfbc3d91-2abf-4df6-8d3f-c2b39f23315b_800x450.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S4CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfbc3d91-2abf-4df6-8d3f-c2b39f23315b_800x450.jpeg" width="800" height="450" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cfbc3d91-2abf-4df6-8d3f-c2b39f23315b_800x450.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:450,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S4CO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfbc3d91-2abf-4df6-8d3f-c2b39f23315b_800x450.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S4CO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfbc3d91-2abf-4df6-8d3f-c2b39f23315b_800x450.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S4CO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfbc3d91-2abf-4df6-8d3f-c2b39f23315b_800x450.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S4CO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfbc3d91-2abf-4df6-8d3f-c2b39f23315b_800x450.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Assuming human nature doesn&#8217;t change&#8230;</p><h3>1.) A.I. destroys millions of human jobs</h3><p>Remember when the iPhone came out and one item replaced your watch, alarm clock, calculator, phone, scanner, camera, notebook, and wallet?</p><p>Imagine how many hundreds of millions of jobs will disappear when Elon Musk&#8217;s Optimus robot becomes your house cleaner, lawyer, bookkeeper, accountant, banker, gardener, landscaper, massage therapist, physiotherapist, chiropractor, doctor, pharmacist, dentist, personal trainer, fashion consultant, shopper, cook, tutor, babysitter, psychotherapist, accountant, bodyguard, dogwalker, pet groomer, plumber, electrician, roofer, painter, roofer, air conditioning maintenance person, car mechanic, pool cleaner, barber/hairstylist, car washer, home security system, air quality monitor, self defense trainer, yoga instructor, self-defense coach, manicurist, psychotherapist, marriage counsellor, and personal assistant.</p><p>Plus it will generate articles, books, podcasts, TV shows, and movies custom-made just for you, in real time.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h3>2.) A.I. creates &lt;1% of the jobs it destroyed</h3><p>Capitalist sycophants and other Mammon worshippers still haven&#8217;t come around on this one yet, but they will.</p><p>A.I. is unlike any technology in human history.</p><p>This is it.</p><p>All previous technologies have replaced manual tasks.</p><p>The techbro goal for AI is to replace human <em>thought</em>.</p><p>A.I. is the omni-machine.</p><p>All previous technologies did a thing.</p><p>A.I. will do <em>every</em>thing.</p><p>At least, it will do everything <em>the shareholder economy is willing to pay for</em>.</p><p>&#8220;Non-productive&#8221; things like loving your neighbor, taking care of children, caring for the environment, and serving dying grandparents will still be done by humans, but don&#8217;t expect a fat paycheck from the AIconomy. These things don&#8217;t have any &#8220;value&#8221; to shareholders.</p><div><hr></div><h3>3.) Elite-controlled governments refuse to tax the rich</h3><p>Nothing new here.</p><p>Despite the mounting joblessness crisis&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;it will rapidly approach Great Depression levels in the next five years&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;governments will NOT meaningfully re-distribute the gains accruing to the billionaire and trillionaire class.</p><div><hr></div><h3>4.) Governments ramp up borrowing from elite-controlled banks to support millions of jobless families.</h3><p>Politicians aren&#8217;t doing this out of the good of their hearts.</p><p>They know they&#8217;ll lose power if they don&#8217;t.</p><p>So long as the people have bread for their childredn, they won&#8217;t cut off Marie Antoinette&#8217;s head.</p><p>In our lifetime, Universal Credit/UBI/Welfare/Income Support will be the way most people subsist.</p><p>You think government debt levels are crazy today?</p><p>The 2030s will say, &#8220;Hold my robot-crafted beer.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><h3>5.) Bankers print that money to lend out of thin air</h3><p>Because that&#8217;s what bankers do.</p><p>When governments come knocking to borrow trillions in cash to keep their people from rioting, the banks will fire up their money-printers.</p><p>Of course, taxpayers will have to pay back this made-up money and interest with real work, but that&#8217;s a problem for the bottom 99%.</p><p>Printing more money will obviously inflate the money supply, which means&#8230;</p><div><hr></div><h3>6.) Price inflation follows rapidly</h3><p>See: math.</p><p>As trillions of extra dollars flow into the economy to keep the jobless masses from starving, the deluge of cash will make the Covid money-print look like a light shower.</p><p>Ten years from now, your weekly grocery shop will be 3&#8211;10X what you&#8217;re currently paying. Don&#8217;t even think about your energy bills or rent.</p><div><hr></div><h3>7.) Inflation = everyone except the elites gets materially poorer</h3><p>&#8230;even though half the population will be paper millionaires, and those with jobs will make six figures.</p><p>Extra zeroes don&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re materially richer.</p><p>I&#8217;m already a literal centra-trillionaire:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DCl3!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc8478be-05b4-4ca8-bb15-d8283dee3779_800x397.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DCl3!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc8478be-05b4-4ca8-bb15-d8283dee3779_800x397.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DCl3!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc8478be-05b4-4ca8-bb15-d8283dee3779_800x397.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DCl3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc8478be-05b4-4ca8-bb15-d8283dee3779_800x397.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DCl3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc8478be-05b4-4ca8-bb15-d8283dee3779_800x397.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DCl3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc8478be-05b4-4ca8-bb15-d8283dee3779_800x397.png" width="800" height="397" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dc8478be-05b4-4ca8-bb15-d8283dee3779_800x397.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:397,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DCl3!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc8478be-05b4-4ca8-bb15-d8283dee3779_800x397.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DCl3!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc8478be-05b4-4ca8-bb15-d8283dee3779_800x397.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DCl3!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc8478be-05b4-4ca8-bb15-d8283dee3779_800x397.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!DCl3!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc8478be-05b4-4ca8-bb15-d8283dee3779_800x397.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><h3>8.) Prices continue to compound until society breaks</h3><p>We&#8217;ll look at today&#8217;s government debt figures and chuckle at how small a few trillion seemed.</p><p>That is, when we aren&#8217;t weeping because the cost of everything is beyond our wildest imagination.</p><p>(Some governments might even re-price&#8230; lob off a few zeroes&#8230; to give the <em>illusion</em> that price inflation isn&#8217;t totally out of control.)</p><p>Compounding inflation <strong>always</strong> leads to civil wars and revolutions.</p><p>That&#8217;s why the elites are gold-rushing for A.I. control of politics, surveillance, the military, and money itself, <em>before</em> the breaking point.</p><p>Then they can quell the inevitable uprisings and usher in an A.I.-controlled neo-feudalism for all.</p><p>M&#8217;lord.</p><div><hr></div><h3>The clock is ticking</h3><p>We have 6&#8211;18 months to make Christian Economics go <strong>global</strong> or humanity is in MAJOR trouble.</p><p>Christonomics basics include:</p><ul><li><p>Sustenance rights for all (food, shelter, heat, etc.)</p></li><li><p>Honest money that doesn&#8217;t lose its value.</p></li><li><p>No profit on lending (including shelter.)</p></li><li><p>Jubileeing debt.</p></li><li><p>Contributive work instead of parasitism.</p></li><li><p>The end of wealth hoarding.</p></li><li><p>Fairness-based taxation.</p></li><li><p>A robust social safety net for the poor, the vulnerable, and the elderly.</p></li></ul><p>(PS &#8212;if you wan early access to my new book on Christian economics, message me <a href="https://www.jaredbrock.com/">here</a>.)</p><p>Everyone needs to know that a moral, loving, just, reasonable, sustainable, mathematically-sane alternative to <strong>shareholder techno-slavery</strong> exists.</p><p>To paraphrase the poet:</p><p><em>Do not go gentle into that dark night&#8230;</em></p><div><hr></div><p>Want to get published and make money from your writing? <br>Check out the trailer for <em><a href="https://thepublishingcourse.com/">The Publishing Course</a></em>.</p><h3>Explore my books and movies:</h3><p><a href="https://redlightgreenlightfilm.carrd.co/">Red Light Green Light</a> (<a href="https://redlightgreenlightfilm.carrd.co/">human trafficking documentary</a>)<br><a href="https://over18.carrd.co/">Over 18</a> (<a href="https://over18.carrd.co/">pornography addiction documentary</a>)<br><a href="https://josiahhenson.carrd.co/">Redeeming Uncle Tom</a> (<a href="https://josiahhenson.carrd.co/">slavery documentary</a>)</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Prayerfully-Curious-Traveler/dp/1999522451">A Year of Living Prayerfully</a> (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Prayerfully-Curious-Traveler/dp/1999522451">book on prayer</a>) <a href="https://www.jaredbrock.com/">Download for free</a><br><a href="https://beardedgospelmen.com/">Bearded Gospel Men</a> (<a href="https://beardedgospelmen.com/">men&#8217;s devotional</a>)<br><a href="https://agodnamedjosh.com/">A God Named Josh</a> (<a href="https://agodnamedjosh.com/">book about Jesus</a>)<br><a href="https://adevilnamedlucifer.com/">A Devil Named Lucifer</a> (<a href="https://adevilnamedlucifer.com/">book about the devil</a>)</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[How to Make $500K From Your Writing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Introducing my newest project]]></description><link>https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/how-to-make-500k-from-your-writing</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/p/how-to-make-500k-from-your-writing</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jared A. Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:33:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q03Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe807b7e5-1ad2-49a9-8938-84189a7fe92a_800x443.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q03Y!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe807b7e5-1ad2-49a9-8938-84189a7fe92a_800x443.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!q03Y!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe807b7e5-1ad2-49a9-8938-84189a7fe92a_800x443.png 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Since literally hundreds have asked, Michelle and I have been working on a stealth project for a couple of years now, and today&#8217;s the day we share it with the world.</p><p>If you dream of publishing a book someday, <strong>read on</strong>.</p><p>If you can barely spell your own name, please <em>send this to a writer friend</em>.</p><h3>Let Me Guess Where You Are Right Now&#8230;</h3><p>You&#8217;ve got a book inside you. Maybe you&#8217;ve already started writing it. Maybe you&#8217;ve finished a manuscript but have no idea what to do next.</p><p>You&#8217;ve Googled &#8220;how to get published&#8221; a hundred times and gotten a hundred different answers. You&#8217;ve scrolled through Twitter threads, watched free YouTube videos, and maybe even bought a course or two that left you feeling more confused than when you started.</p><p>You&#8217;ve thought about querying agents but the process feels like shouting into a void. You&#8217;ve considered self-publishing but worry your book won&#8217;t be taken seriously. You&#8217;ve wondered if traditional publishing is even possible without connections.</p><p>Meanwhile, last year readers bought more than 2 <em>billion</em> books.</p><p>Where&#8217;s yours?</p><h3>The Real Cost of Waiting</h3><p>Every month you spend &#8220;figuring it out on your own&#8221; is another month your book isn&#8217;t on shelves. Another month your ideas aren&#8217;t reaching readers. Another month of lost royalties, lost speaking opportunities, and lost momentum.</p><p>I know because I lived it. I spent <strong>years</strong> banging my head against the wall trying to get published.</p><p>Years of rejection letters. (Over 700 rejections!)</p><p>Years of confusion about the process.</p><p>Years of wondering if I was doing it all wrong.</p><p>And here&#8217;s what I discovered after investing over <strong>$25,670</strong> in my writing career&#8202;&#8212;&#8202;including $10,000 for one course and $1,500 for a single hour of consulting:</p><p>That investment has paid itself back more than <em><strong>20 times over.</strong></em></p><p>The question isn&#8217;t whether you can afford to invest in your writing career. The question is: <strong>can you afford not to?</strong></p><h3>Who Am I to Teach You This?</h3><p>I&#8217;m not some &#8220;guru&#8221; who wrote one eBook and now sells courses.</p><p>Here&#8217;s my actual track record:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!glTY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cab1c68-7ec6-4d66-81a3-34c98fcf3c9a_800x453.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!glTY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cab1c68-7ec6-4d66-81a3-34c98fcf3c9a_800x453.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!glTY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cab1c68-7ec6-4d66-81a3-34c98fcf3c9a_800x453.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!glTY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cab1c68-7ec6-4d66-81a3-34c98fcf3c9a_800x453.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!glTY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cab1c68-7ec6-4d66-81a3-34c98fcf3c9a_800x453.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!glTY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cab1c68-7ec6-4d66-81a3-34c98fcf3c9a_800x453.png" width="800" height="453" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9cab1c68-7ec6-4d66-81a3-34c98fcf3c9a_800x453.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:453,&quot;width&quot;:800,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!glTY!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cab1c68-7ec6-4d66-81a3-34c98fcf3c9a_800x453.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!glTY!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cab1c68-7ec6-4d66-81a3-34c98fcf3c9a_800x453.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!glTY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cab1c68-7ec6-4d66-81a3-34c98fcf3c9a_800x453.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!glTY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9cab1c68-7ec6-4d66-81a3-34c98fcf3c9a_800x453.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>This Is the World&#8217;s Most Transparent and Least-BS Publishing Course</h3><p>Let me be brutally honest with you upfront:</p><p><strong>&#10007; </strong>This course will <strong>NOT</strong> teach you how to write.</p><p><strong>&#10007; </strong>This course is for <strong>non-fiction only.</strong> Do not buy this if you don&#8217;t write non-fiction.</p><p><strong>&#10007; </strong>This is not a &#8220;get rich quick&#8221; scheme. Publishing is a long game.</p><p>What this course <em>will</em> do is show you exactly how to <strong>GET PUBLISHED.</strong> The entire process, from idea to bookshelf, laid bare with zero fluff.</p><p>Most publishing courses are taught by people who&#8217;ve published one book, or worse, people who&#8217;ve never published at all. They give you theory. I give you the <strong>exact playbook</strong> I&#8217;ve used to build a six-figure writing career with six published books.</p><p>The Publishing Course is more in-depth and more specific than anything else I&#8217;ve seen out there. It took our team <strong>hundreds of hours</strong> to shoot and edit.</p><h3>119 Videos. 13+ Hours. Everything You Need.</h3><p>A deep-dive into insider author tactics that most writers never learn. Here&#8217;s exactly what you&#8217;ll master:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mnGn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8ede007-41d1-465d-b7fa-261c901686d6_800x563.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mnGn!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8ede007-41d1-465d-b7fa-261c901686d6_800x563.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mnGn!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd8ede007-41d1-465d-b7fa-261c901686d6_800x563.png 848w, 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Brock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:27:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Suta!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa87a6c80-f886-4a6a-84bc-07afae2a7a91_800x450.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Suta!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa87a6c80-f886-4a6a-84bc-07afae2a7a91_800x450.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Suta!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa87a6c80-f886-4a6a-84bc-07afae2a7a91_800x450.jpeg 424w, 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y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>As most of you know, I&#8217;m neck-deep in writing a book on Christian economics along with an eight-week 10+ video course.</p><p>And one of my New Year&#8217;s resolutions was: &#8220;Talk to more people honestly about money.&#8221;</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.surviving-tomorrow.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">&#128737; Surviving Tomorrow is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Can I ask you a few money questions?</p><p>Feel free to answer <em>as many or as few as you like</em>, in <em>as much or as little detail as you like</em>, and point form is totally fine!</p><p>You can: <br>1.) <strong>comment below, </strong>or if you prefer to answer privately, you can hit <br>2.) <strong>reply to the email</strong> or <br>3.) <strong>message me through <a href="https://www.jaredbrock.com/">my website</a></strong>.</p><div><hr></div><p>1. What are your biggest money worries and fears?</p><p>2. What are your biggest money-related challenges?</p><p>3. Finish this sentence as many ways as you like: &#8220;When it comes to money, I wish&#8230;&#8221;</p><p>4. Practically speaking, where do you get your financial advice and guidance from? What are your sources?</p><p>5. When it comes to econ/finance/money, what do you want to get more clarity about?</p><p>6. Where are you downright lost in the weeds or unsure of the moral position? (Any/all questions/musings/wonderings you have about econ/finance/money/saving/investing/interest/landlording/stocks/bonds/retirement/etc.)</p><p>7. Do you budget? How do you &#8220;do&#8221; money?</p><p>8. How often do you and your partner intentionally sit down for money conversations?</p><p>9. What are your current plans for old age?</p><p>10. 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