I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

A misquote of Harriet Tubman.

In this episode, we're going to be really talking about two topics in one.

I wanted to shoot two separate episodes here, one on the topic of how to escape wage slavery and a second one on a related topic

that I called society as a pyramid scheme but these are two such related topics

so interlinked

that you need to hear them both together

because they work off of each other.

So the two takeaways that I want you to remember

from this episode is that firstly you're a wage slave and secondly

that society is a pyramid scheme.

But just what that means requires a bit of explanation because people are really in denial about this.

And it's a pretty, it's one of those bitter pills that a lot of people don't like to understand.

So first what you got to understand

is that slavery is a really pernicious thing.

People think that all, well, slavery, if I was a slave, I would just escape.

No, you wouldn't.

Because when you're a slave, you don't know you're a slave.

Huh? You get that?

People overlook the obvious here.

If you're real... people overlook the obvious here.

If you're really a slave, you don't know that you're a slave. So it can take you many decades, many years before you have the epiphany, the inside that, oh, I'm a slave, oh, then you can escape.

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