Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal!

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal by Joel Salatin
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[@xersys]

They want farming to be illegal to force the average man into wage slavery. You cannot own a man that does not require your permission to live.

[@lithium25693]

there are no laws about farming your own food and eating it laws are for selling it to other people

[@gabrielchuede6688]

my man karl marx was right all this time

[@HSBsoulsurfer]

@@lithium25693 Those laws are coming down the pike though... thanks to lobbying by companies like Monsanto.

[@fliporflop7119]

@@lithium25693 not yet

[@NukeCloudstalker]

There are laws against that outside the US already.

[@4.0.4]

Number one: In 1945, corporations paid 50 percent of federal taxes. Now they pay about 5 percent. Number two: in 1900, 90 percent of Americans were self-employed; now it’s about time for making a time machine and going back to 1933.

[@comicsans1689]

Based and Deus Ex pilled

[@user-zu1ix3yq2w]

Ow

[@tankumaat]

You have to go further back i afraid, illegal laws and taxes came quite soon after US got independence, yes it was more ok than most of the world, but look it now! tea tax was microscopic and two digit tax numbers were unheard, today both parents work full time and get 2.5 times less than, before female vote and lavish social programs with extreme taxes. US is no more, its DEAD!

[@lukassvardkvist9161]

@@tankumaat it's called the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it!

[@chelonianegghead274]

Number one: That's terror. Number two: That's terror.

[@tahak7411]

This book is literally the "do you have a loicence?" meme.

[@Wrkncacnter777]

Oi Moite! Do you 'ave a loicense fer tha' " do you have o loicence?" meme meme?

[@vaxrvaxr]

If you can tell something's illegal these days, you should be grateful. Often it's "nobody really knows if it's legal and so far nobody was willing to find out" or "technically everything we do is illegal but nobody cares and it's totally tolerated until someone we don't like does it".

[@marusdod3685]

ah yes undefined behaviour

[@MizantropMan]

Where I live, as a sport marksman you can conceal-carry anywhere except judgehouse, but for some reason, it's illegal to have full magazines on you in public transit. Nobody is enforcing this, because frankly speaking, it's retarded, people just take the magazine out of the gun and keep it in a pocket, but on paper, it is still illegal, because changing it is apparetly beyond our legislating bodies. Bureocracy is going to be the death of us.

[@gtgunar]

@@stratosphere2323 or know the loopholes.

[@based_mediumchungus1788]

If you don't think oxycodone should be legal for recreational use, you do not support freedom.

[@zinovyrozhestvensky3636]

Easy loophole store magazines on the gun

[@vex6559]

When I was younger, I was full of drive and ideas for businesses. Then I met the reality imposed upon me, and realized that unless I could pull millions out of nowhere...all of those ideas were trash...or effectively illegal, as I'd have to break multiple laws inorder to get started cheaply. It's with everything...and it fxcking sucks.

[@Juiceboxmakes]

Locked down across multiple fronts all the way from the feds down to the local council.

[@christpierre]

Make better businesses, your ideas were trash

[@osirisgolad]

I've been saying this for years: think about how weird and unnatural we are. You now aren't allowed to do any of the things that are part of your most basic instincts. It's not strange that there are so many wayward young people these days, when human nature is regulated against. Most people don't know how to grow or find food, cure what ails us, many of us don't know how to defend ourselves, how to build shelter, how to find answers to basic problems on our own without having some book or institution tell us the "designated solution". In fact, if you try, you will be told that you are trespassing or otherwise breaking the law. This is what many a people around the world meant when they said "they are taking our land". It's kind of ironic how America was born out of the settlers' desire to escape the system, and now the system is more restrictive than ever. I shudder to think what will happen when AI is put to work to regulate people.

[@MrCmon113]

What a bunch of utter rubbish. People have always told each other how to do things better. That's precisely what's our advantage over other animals. If you want, you can live like an animal and never listen to what anyone is telling you and "find food" by digging in the ground.

[@osirisgolad]

@@MrCmon113 We always think we're better than those stupid animals until something unexpected happens. Then we are forced to admit that we are indeed animals.

[@MrCmon113]

@@osirisgolad Even animals have cultures. And many, many animals teach things to their young. You are (or want to be) dumber than a cat.

[@jonettheonly]

@@MrCmon113 What are you talking about? Animals are also capable of passing information to each other, like humans, and that knowledge being passed down the generations, mice as a prime example.

[@themageofspace5516]

@@jonettheonly though you are right that they can do that, they won't be able to reach what humans have achieved at least with their current limitations or A LOT of time fair more then humans also it depends on the animal

[@jackanghoff8320]

This stuff is even more rage inducing when you see all of the things large meat processing operations are allowed to do. I bought a steak the other day and realized that it wasn’t a piece of meat but several small pieces of meat literally GLUED together. They are allowed to use GLUE to trick you into buying something other than what you thought you were buying, but god forbid an actual person sells you a good piece of meat without a loicense.

[@higginswallop5009]

How did you know it was glue?

[@MizantropMan]

The license is to prevent the spread of disease, sonce regular people can't check the meat as easily and such. As long as the animal isn't sick, the meat ain't rotting and they do not torture the animal too much, it's a free-for-all in those meat plants.

[@jackanghoff8320]

@@higginswallop5009 You can pull the sections apart and glue stretches between them.

[@coreygossman6243]

@@MizantropMan Yeah because butchering your own meat was only done by regular people for 6500 years with great success. Meat processing plants do almost nothing except visual inspection to make sure your meat is not contaminated. It's not regular people that are the problem. Regular people have common sense and know not to eat a cow that was infested with worms, or to give that meat to their neighbor. The problem is greedy pieces of shit behind closed doors at the little management office next to the meat processing facility, who would gladly sell you poisonous meat to grow their company 3%, and who pass laws to keep a regular guy from selling chickens to his neighbor (which again, has been the basic foundation of civilization for 6500 years).

[@ericglenn9984]

When you're letting steak make you rage. You need Jesus. Forgive those who've wronged you. Don't hold on to the bitterness in you're heart. Forgive not for them but for yourself.

[@M1America]

That reminds me of how Walmart lobbied for increasing the minimum wage. I am guessing their logic behind that is that it will hurt us, but it will hurt our competition a whole lot more. Very sad.

[@tr1084]

@@george89047 Regulatory capture. There's an entire field of study around it and I feel it in my own industry.

[@debtminer4976]

Hurt them? Basically the same as having an advertising budget, or an army of lawyers on call at all times. Paying millions, to wipe out your competition, is a drop in the bucket, at their level. Also, keep in mind, our minimum wage in the 50s, 60s, and 70s was much better than today, as we had strong money. They pulled the greatest scam ever, when they devalued the money.

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

There was actually a recent case of a wholesaler coming out in support of a higher minimum wage and people lauded him as a hero, if he defends a higher wage it means Walmart has no excuse for paying such low wages! Nevermind that he employs less people per store than any Walmart and his employees are often more qualified than retail workers so he won't be affected by minimum wage laws as much as Walmart. (we could also get into the discussion that Walmart is essentially subsidized by the government but that's another topic in itself)

[@trucid2]

Higher minimum wage helps drive mom and pop shops out of business

[@hal1227]

I used to work in architecture, but switched to cs. I tell you all the zoning regulations, are so much stipulating creativity, new ideas are totally stalled and out of the question , so that everything looks the same. We live in a totally messed up, - overregulated world...

[@trucid2]

The building code reminds me of the rules in the bible about which foods tou can't eat and when.

[@Ashkimbo]

le grenfell tower has arrived

[@knpstrr]

Like living in The Fountainhead

[@theItalianshamrock]

You got a permit for that comment??

[@mantis_toboggan_md]

Government: Empowers corporations & penalizes small businesses Reddit: See?! Capitalism doesn't work! Communism is the answer!!

[@BeHappyTo]

I'm not a communist, but take into consideration that open free and unmedled-with market leads exactly to this situations. Big corps will have influence over the government and gather more money and more power.

[@goddamnkids75]

>he thinks unbridled capitalism is to blame for the government giving contracts >he thinks that regulatory market practices don't constrain the small working class/proletariat from allowing them to sieze their own means of production >he probably supports the military-industrial complex that's a massive drain on the economy Communists: WE NEED TO GET RID OF THE OLD WAY Smh, the government should have a light touch.

[@JH-wg2dc]

"Communism is when the government does stuff."

[@texyodar3741]

Communist: Goverment just an instrument, that works in favor of the ruling class. People that live in capitalism: Goverment don't care about people, and work in favor of capitalists. Comments: Haha, thoese commis, they are defenetly wrong and laughable.

[@oslier3633]

@@BeHappyTo you have been pozzed by the corporations.

[@evinhendry3560]

The regulatory state wasn't created by the people/small business owners to crush large corporations. It was created by large corporations to crush the people and small business owners.

[@victoriap1561]

Eh my guess it was in part created because a lot of people got food poisoning. A lot of small businesses have terrible sanitation.

[@haydencapps]

​@@victoriap1561so is food poisoning less common or more common today?

[@jakeq3530]

​@@victoriap1561 Do we really need the government to protect us from food poisoning? Really? I don't feel the need for the government to protect me...just the borders of my country and that's it. Everything else they need to mind their own damn business. I can discern what is safe for me to eat and what isn't.

[@Raccoonov]

Very interesting. I live in Russia, and lots of people are starting to go to rural areas for living, growing own foods, living off-grid and eventually make some money fro that by selling stuff to city dwellers and inviting them to come to these farms and experience this eco lifestyle. And the facts that you've mentioned about the regulations and amusement park taxation etc, this is actually starting to gain traction here in Russia, and what you've said actually helped me to see where it's all going to, and it's kind of really triggering, just as you said, even I'm not an American, but Russian. Thanks for the exposure, Luke! Greatly appeciate! Good luck, man!

[@marusdod3685]

you better go rural now

[@honkhonk8009]

Make sure you get guns before Putins dumbfuck ass does some redditor shit and fucks everyone over again.

[@karimmoop9560]

Communism.

[@fugazi4427]

Ami go Home

[@user-up1id5rv2m]

Nice, I'll be driving to Russia next in my camping van, I hope I can get there must of my food from local smaller farms, directly or on the market. It's always better than buying it in the supermarket.

[@MyLinuxToyBox]

I worked as a manager in a factory egg farm. We allowed allowed local agriculture classes to make walk through visits. It turned into a major problem with FDA because of contamination. Jeez eggs are in shells how do visitors contaminate them. The weirdness of some of the laws is a pain.

[@zuiop9993]

I am not very familiar with agriculture, but isn't the problem that the chicken may get sick? It is quite common to have a lot of them in small spaces so deceases can spread very quickly. Especially since the food quality is usually not very high and is chosen for quick weight gain which makes the chicken more susceptible to infections. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[@MyLinuxToyBox]

@@zuiop9993 I was in the industry almost ten years. No diseases, it it very important to maintain a clean environment and be sure diets and inoculations are correct. A disease farm looses millions of dollars. It can take up to two years to get it back in a productive cycle. That s the motivation to prevent it.

[@zuiop9993]

@@MyLinuxToyBox Two years? I wouldn't have thought it would take that long. Thank you for your answer.

[@LinuxUser00]

The FDA does NOT want local community groups to see the conditions of factory farms.

[@extragirth64]

As somebody who grew up on a poor farm I know exactly what you mean but I also know it's more difficult in USA than it is in Canada where I am from (but it's still pretty bad.) The problem is that America's Agriculture Department is insanely huge compared to other countries, it's why Monsanto has so much power. I even suspect USA treats their Agricultural Department as an extension of their Defense Department. You would think USA would not have this problem considering how much autonomy every state has but nope, it's all a waste.

[@david52875]

Thank Wickard v. Filburn for that

[@JohnDoe-ef3wo]

Good eye. It actually does!

[@extragirth64]

@Toask For me "poor" was more relative to everyone else where I lived. I know what you mean based off of other experiences I heard of but my Dad still needed to work another job on top of his farm to sustain his family. And like I said, we still considered poor relative to everyone else. If my Dad was completely relying on his own farm with beef, I'd say we would have been "poor poor". There's a KZbinr named Greg Judy who is mostly about beef farming and it bothers him that it's common for small farmers to get another job (or two) just to maintain a normal income. These people were doing an important job for society, heck, the most important job, making food and they barely get by. If my Dad could make one change in his early life of coming to Canada it would be to avoid beef and go primarily into grains. He would have had a much easier time, especially if you consider the land prices back then in the early 80s.

[@adigabear]

11:37 "Go goo- ... Go out and get it" Almost slipped and said the evil company name :^)

[@addygreen8919]

I always used Google, because it was just faster and cleaner than other websites. But I am now using Startpage.com and it's basically the same search engine without Google-Services and tracking.

[@needthistool]

@@addygreen8919 True patriots use DuckDuckGo. And true SISSY patriots use Ecosia.

[@niet4252]

@Lenny McLennington this comment has aged quickly

[@c4call]

Almost said goodle on a video on a platform owned by goodle

[@EhKurd]

Isn’t this true for any type of business? My family had started a small restaurant that ultimately failed and it was like everything was there to fuck you over. You quickly realize if you don’t do illegal things, there’s just no way to succeed. Its despairing to see how the big guys can get away with so much while the small family business are in constant threat of inspectors ruining you.

[@honkhonk8009]

Thats why when a commie says "HOLD MUH CORPO ACCOUNTABLE!!!!!!!! TAX THEM!!!!", their just being litteral tools and NPC's lmfao. When Biden hired those 80k IRS agents, he didnt hire them to go after the 1%, or the billionaires, or the corporations. He hired them to go after the middle class independent contractors who were forced to underreport on certain things to stay legal. Commies are usually the ultra-rich themselves, and seldom have any life experience doing the shit that regular people do. Hasan type people

[@MrEdrftgyuji]

A lot of government regulations and taxes are designed to keep us dependent on employment. In my country (and many others), the income tax rate spikes when you start earning a bit more than what would buy you a reasonable life. Meaning that you have to earn an enormous sum of money to have some left over to save so that you are not dependent on employment income before retirement.

[@honkhonk8009]

Peak communism. Utterly fail to price gouge and billionaires and corpos since their the only class that can avoid these things. Realize you need results, so you end up taxing the middle class even more. Fuck poor people, and fuck welfare leeches. If they want to remain homeless tweakers and drug addicts, let them be. Why do I gotta suffer because of their own incompetence. I just wanna live the lifestyle my parents got. Why the fuck is my taxes going towards these clowns. And thats on the rare case it actually does too, cus half the time it just goes to israel

[@valikmora]

Wow you just described all EU

[@smccrode]

Did he talk about how he can't fix his own tractor (see John Deere vs right to repair)?

[@micah3751]

time to switch to FOSS seeds

[@extragirth64]

@@george89047 This bothers me so much. I heard there was a class action lawsuit against Monsanto in Brazil though. I wish our Canadian farmers would do the same. I mean, they try but it never happens. I know Monsanto bribed some of the bigger Canadian farmers to keep their mouths shut. As far as I see, this business practice will not last very long.

[@iluan_]

George Biotechnologist here, not quite. A lot of the patents regarding GMO's have expired already, like about 300 expired pattents singe 2016. BT-corn? Patent expired; The technology to make virtually any grain BT? Expired; Roundup-ready soy? Patent expired; The base technology to make GMOs using A. tumefacensis? Expired; The technology to make any seed Glyphosate resistant? Expired. Depending on how rigid are the regulations on crops where you live, you could set up a bio-hacking lab and make your own.

[@needthistool]

​@@iluan_ Deep lore. But most people don't know all these details and (rightfully) become very nervous when they start getting letters from super-powerful companies who effectively own some governments have big teams of lawyers to boot. Even if no laws have been broken, arguing this in an open courtroom can cost thousands or tens or hundreds of thousands. I understand that there have been instances where there have been patent-based lawsuits over wind-pollinated crops, at least in past, since it's possible to legally collect samples for genetic testing from some roadsides. Dunno if those have tapered off yet or not. The arrangement reminds me of the "troll patent" firms which file for generic IT-related patents and then they sue others when they come out with similar software/technologies/infrastructure/whatever. They are often successful because most judges are Boomers and most legal systems are not designed to cope with legislating things like software (see: Congress asks Mark Zuckerberg ignorant questions, Seasons 1 and 2)

[@flyinggreencows]

This reminds me very much of music collections agencies in Australia. Over the last few years, I enquired about starting an internet radio station -- legally. The music collection agencies will charge you a quarterly fee based on your total quarterly revenue, but the fee starts from $0 revenue (the first bracket is $0 - $5000). So, what's the fee if you don't yet have any listeners and as such no revenue? Oh, just $4400 per year, and it goes up from there as you build your audience and subsequently earn more revenue. Not so bad once you have a large audience and able to charge for advertising, but the barriers of entry are huge.

[@mauldus]

Btw, there’s a similar effect happening to off-gridders and homesteaders. Lots of things are just illegal in many states.

[@Gnohio]

>implying im not already anti-bureaucrat

[@horatiopugwash9183]

Any book with an entire chapter devoted to bacon is a must read in my opinion. 🐷

[@amfortas]

Muh land of the free is literally the most regulated western country

[@3nt3_]

Ever been to Germany?

[@RosalioRedPanda]

But nowhere near the most well regulated.

[@RosalioRedPanda]

@Viper you can’t take a dump without a license but not in the good way. My country can hardly do anything well.

[@user-fp9pd7fz7h]

I guess you never went to the European Union. We literally had a regulation what angle of bend a cucumber is allowed to have.

[@canodepvc2837]

Looks like you dont know about Brazil...

[@crud420]

saladins book on industrial farming and fake organic farming was required reading in one of my english classes in middle school, for months a bunch of 13-14 year olds had to debate corn syrup and monsanto lmao

[@NorthernChimp]

I remember my class at the same age, I just can't imagine that 🤣

[@OnSiteTrav]

You had a great teacher!

[@the_primal_instinct]

This is the future of software and the internet. If we need safe food, we need safe virtual space don't we.

[@niicopanda]

As a small farmer who has been HEAVILY influenced by Salatin (and still can't get my damn wireless adapter to work under any distro...), this was an awesome intersection of interests!

[@AAaa-uj9yj]

What do farm? I farm veg and cut flowers? Have you tried solus? They are great for driver suport.

[@bruderdasisteinschwerermangel]

> there's a whole chapter on bacon alright, I'm listening

[@amfortas]

😂

[@nickc3856]

redditor moment

[@whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat]

_Everything I want to do is illegal_ Wait, that's illegal.

[@punkrockllama]

working on the end of production line of food. it's amazing how when something like ecoli breaks out they can track it back to the employee at the farm who didn't wash their hands after taking a poo.

[@TehKorwinMikke]

The whole plebbit&4pleb-tier idea of "let's develop our gubbamint according to science and engineering xD" comes from a fundamental lack of understanding about how engineering and science are done in the real world.

[@1111Tactical]

Yes, science and engineering are not institutions, they are processes

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

Meanwhile city slaves are slaying "tHeSe lAwS aRe gOoD, tHeY aRe fOr oUr oWn sAfEtY!!!"

[@user-ju6zx3rm8d]

The EU in a nutshell

[@simonjesusbeliever3467]

Liberty over security any day

[@kmann100500]

​@@simonjesusbeliever3467 you should move to Somalia then.

[@enermaxstephens1051]

Anyone surprised that farmers have also been "think of the children'd" to death? Although like any industry, the worst dregs have brought down hyper regulation on everyone else with their evil deeds.

[@salvatoreshiggerino6810]

People may think he's engaging in hyperbole with that tank, but look at Waco. Sure, David Koresh may have been a pretty loopy guy, but in this clown world they call us the crazy ones.

[@MM-doremifaso]

You are lucky and don't know it. In Germany everything is more overregulated than in the US. In Germany the government forces you to have a health insurance and for everything you want to do you need a insurance. You also need permissions for everything, e.g. you are not allowed to renovate your house or flat, you need to get a permission from the government for everything you want to do.

[@user-ju6zx3rm8d]

same in the Nordics, it's ridiculous

[@bolo2393]

The US is like that, but they can't keep up with their own overinflated bureaucracy.

[@bradenanderson5087]

It's exactly the same in the US. Penalties for not having health insurance, can't drive without auto insurance, can't remodel without the right permits, etc.

[@mauldus]

Wow! My permaculture interests have finally crossed into my FOSS interests. Did KZbin tip you off? BTW, Salatin is a legend in the permaculture community. What tipped you off to the book?

[@kenmondo5195]

His surname is Venetian, "salatìn" in our Venetian language means "a little salty". Well, such salty book

[@crazyduck6668]

Before I click I thought you gonna talk about terminal based torrent program....

[@tiberiusmagnificuscaeser4929]

Transmission-cli is what Luke uses I think

[@socialbeingdc9788]

This is not a revelation. It hasn’t been for at least 150 years. This is how contemporary capitalism works. Big corporations have the state under their heel, force through any laws, regulations etc to stifle the competition. Or, if the competitor wants to survive, make him pay through the nose. It’s called monopoly. The most refined way of exploitation.

[@valikmora]

Or plutocracy

[@alissondamasceno2010]

I wish I could remember topics with such clarity after reading an entire book haha

[@joshmnky]

Mother-in-law runs her small daycare out of her home. She doesn't need a license for 4 kids, but believes all daycare providers should. She learns later that if she loses her license, she'll no longer be able to even have the 4 kids. Local inspector is a POS and hits her with every small violation possible. Online requirements are most of them, because the online system doesn't work and she can't take the tests. She's talked to half the state government, and no one is beholden to anyone else or wants to help. Her partner gets cancer, and can't stay with her because license would require him to be a resident. If he's a resident, she'll lose her Medicare. She provides a vastly greater service to these kids than larger institutional daycare, but the state heavily favors them. They also completely turn a blind eye to anyone who doesn't pursue a license, while these have a history of dubious practices. They really doesn't give a crap about childrens' well-being. It's all about making administrative jobs and having an unearned sense of power.

[@LARPANET_3087]

@6:30 this is why the tax code keeps getting more and more complex. The more complicated it gets, the playing field is shifted. Large corporations that can hire teams of expensive tax attorneys and creative accountants can survive in a taxation environment where smaller businesses struggle to stay open. As in industry, finance, tech, same goes for farming!

[@GameplayzOfficial]

As a libertarian and new linux user, I know the frustation of regulations a.k.a rules enforced by government agencies to keep the market leaders from getting competitions from new business.

[@karenwang313]

Big corporations love regulations since they're the only ones who can afford to be up to code. The little guy can't afford to absorb fines or hire the department of lawyers need to understand all these regulations so they just can't compete. It's the crippling flaw of capitalism.

[@bolo2393]

If it's regulated it isn't capitalism

[@kmann100500]

@@bolo2393 fuck off to Somalia then.

[@terriblehumanbeing8117]

it wasn't real capitalism

[@aamird5760]

*knock knock* FBI FBI! _DOOR EXPLODES_

[@zoompt-lm5xw]

Great content man. Just keep that path. Complexity is one of the biggest curses of our times.

[@fabiandrinksmilk6205]

In 2015, the EU made patents on seeds legal. Before that, vegetable and fruit seeds were open source in the sense that anyone could make a cross between seeds creating innovation throughout the agriculture sector. Instead, companies like Monsanto and Syngenta are patenting lots of seed breeds that could for example be resistant against certain plagues or pesticide poisons (Monsanto also makes pesticide poisons btw). Farmers now have to buy their seeds at the big corporations for a higher price or risk their harvest. They also don't replant their own seeds anymore, since the big corporations could sue them for using patented seeds, even if they just find slight signs of their patented seeds.

[@slackerengi2401]

As a engineering student I love older stuff, simpler is always better

[@joelschwed7177]

Loving the recent uploads Luke. Keep it up!

[@daveinthemicrowave]

I could spend the rest of my life reading laws and I would die before I understood them all.

[@martinrea8548]

I worked for a while in Pharma, making sure the machines operated the way they were designed to. In the beginning I was stunned by the amount of time and paperwork needed just to clear one machine. I asked a more experienced colleague about this; how is it that a machine that costs maybe 500,000 to manufacture can cost up to 1,000,000 to validate? Well, he told me, that's the idea, to make meeting the regulations so expensive that only the big corporations can afford it.

[@Rodolfo17987]

You sell a house you pay taxes, you buy a house you pay taxes, you own a house you pay taxes, you will the house your son pays taxes. So in your lifetime you basically give a house for free to the goverment just for the privilege of paying and having somewhere to live. And that's just for having a house.

[@AlexZanderMuro]

reminds me of one of the stories i heard from mrs. uihlein (president of Uline, the box and everything else company) about when she was building her new headquarters in WI. she ended up having to pay a 10k fine for every lightbulb installed in the place, because there was some ordnance stating the max power draw of any lightbulb you could install, but the ones she had wanted for the facility were above that limit by a few watts. gubmit is crazy

[@al-du6lb]

I read most of this book a couple years ago, and I know what you mean about getting you triggered. I actually had to set the book down because it was getting me down. I've read other Salatin books too, and they are not all like this, but this one was.

[@AAAA-cn2qk]

Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal! Driving an automobile; Employment; Privacy; etc

[@facundopanizza]

This make me very sad, 15% taxes is bad for usa, here in Argentina we have 80% in some fields and 50-60% in others, and the people keep voting the same politicians again and again

[@Dedware]

"after having thus taken each individual one by one into its powerful hands, and having molded him as it pleases, the sovereign power extends its arms over the entire society; it covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated, minute, and uniform rules, which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot break through to go beyond the crowd; it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them and directs them; it rarely forces action, but it constantly opposes your acting; it does not destroy, it prevents birth; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, it represses, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupifies, and finally it reduces each nation to being nothing more than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd." Toqueville

[@belabronson3926]

Hey Dedware where did you get this quote from? please give me the book title or what it is you got it from. thx in advance

[@Dedware]

@@belabronson3926 Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

[@belabronson3926]

@@Dedware Thanks a lot Dedware. Have a nice day.

[@MrCmon113]

We live in a society. : ( If I could just dig in the ground with my snout all day, I would be so creative!

[@zyphos9444]

@@MrCmon113 You clearly have no understanding of Tocqueville's positions or the institutions he was criticising in that quote.

[@JeremyAndersonBoise]

Subscribed to your channel at 2:33 - this is deeply relevant to my personal experience.

[@lawlitachi]

Can’t even keep a single hen without neighbours snitching and police coming @ your door

[@teunissenstefan]

same

[@pseudonymity0000]

I don't get tax at point of transfer when it comes to assets. It is still an asset and you cannot get any direct monitory value out of it. You only see and benefit from said value when it is sold. In the Uk, you only pay tax when you dispose of an asset, not when you receive it. You just need to let HMRC know when you got it, so the relevant tax rates at the time can be applied when you do dispose of the asset.

[@williambennett4360]

I would just like to say thank you for normalizing the sound levels between all of your videos.

[@ConnorMBanks]

Hi Luke. Thank you for making videos, I appreciate everything you do. Hope you're having a good day.

[@bruderdasisteinschwerermangel]

Wholesome comments like this are heavily underappreciated

[@attilatorok5767]

my father works in agricultire (self employed we have our own land) and if we count our gains and losses right (and we do trust me) the government makes more money than us from us working

[@victorvaughn2]

Linkola was talking about a very similar thing with modernity and regulations in Finland.

[@CptCPT-dl9lh]

I just want to say, you're looking a lot like the default osrs guy

[@NA.1995.]

Sadly i couldnt fined the book any where in the reigon (Middel east) i found it in Amazon but the shipping is expensive. and i wanted to read it because im intersted in law as a law degree holder.. thank you for the video.

[@kekistanimythology5833]

Joel Salatin was also on JRE. Podcast 479.

[@kekistanimythology5833]

@@donatellosaintandrews531 a little late, but sure, you're welcome.

[@rustyshackleford4370]

"Everything I want to do is illegal!" I live in the most liberal state in the union so I know that feel.

[@milesrout]

Do you know what the word "liberal" means idiot? If everything you want to do is illegal how is that "liberal"?

[@argentorangeok6224]

@@milesrout Calm down, Karen. Everyone knows the modern connotation of the word.

[@mr.osamabingaming2633]

@@milesrout everybody knows what he means, but I agree that the term liberal has been butchered. I always use leftist.

[@brazenbull636]

@@milesrout Liberal: apply govt liberally Conservative: apply govt conservatively These are the intended political meanings of these words..

[@jonathanwarner1844]

Would be interested in what you think of i3wm replacements that can run in Wayland.

[@tcideh4929]

If you a private citizen want to buy a product from another private citizen or private corporation, I would argue any law forcing the seller to comply with X, Y, Z is an infringement on their freedom to sell and earn income. It should be a stamp or approval not a forced check. We place trust in these laws, regulations and companies regardless whether they work or not. It’s literally just a comforter for the masses.

[@pioneerspiritPS]

I never wore and mask nor have taken the CV arm ticket making everything I want to do illegal since I live in Canada.

[@avelinux7556]

Does the book have a sort of conluding reflection or advice of some sort? Or is it just examples?

[@ndudman8]

The regulations put in place, and all the lawfull procedures help to ensure that food is destroyed. Perhaps more people need to actually produce their own food, and not think only of doing to sell, or not as a primary money maker ? So anyone who likes to eat perhaps should be interested in small farming/homesteading and gardening...???

[@bolo2393]

If you trust that the government is on your side and here to help you, you haven't had to deal with any of their bureaucracy

[@fossforever512]

It’s because the US has it backward they regulate the individual and not the big corporations When in reality it should be the other way around

[@greatbullet7372]

You are one of the most interesting KZbinrs i know...

[@goldengriffon]

This stuff is maddening, but many of these issues have work-arounds if you only are aware of them. For instance, put property into an irrevocable trust and just change who the trustees (controllers) are. Since the trust owns the property forever, it never technically changes hands and so there are no inheritance taxes to worry about. Of course, there are many details you can be screwed over if you don't seek local legal council (of which I am not) and options vary with time and place. But the important concept to keep in mind is that politicians don't like being screwed over by their own controls; they make themselves loopholes, so the inquisitive common folk can use those loopholes too.

[@JamesPhillipsOfficial]

Regulations exist because "someone died"but also to counter strike lawsuits ie if the final piece of bacon, bought by a customer, gives them food poisoning when it's in - date and there are a growing number of similar claims, despite refridgeration, then we have to assume something has gone wrong with the functional standards of the brand. But more importantly, there is no significant change until someone perishes and links can be established to the Health And Safety standards of that bacon or other food. Lawsuits (sueing) can run into tens of millions of US dollars, bankrupt the farm and burn reputation to the ground But i also understand, beauracracy can be annoying... Been the re, done that

[@jakeq3530]

I remember the rage that filled me when I first learned that it was illegal to collect rainwater... GTFO. Minimal government and regulations on EVERYTHING.

[@esotericcommonsense6366]

Thank God we're watching the system break before our eyes.

[@tfyufgu1311]

This is the best clickbait title ever. Really love the structure of your video. Your video kept my attention span really long.

[@argentorangeok6224]

Reminds me of John Stossel's "Illegal Everything".

[@arkadianriver]

is the problem that the government regulates in general or that "we the people" who run the country would sue each other in a heartbeat? In a way, regulations protect the business owner in a lawsuit. Like incorporating to separate your private livelihood from your business. However, regulations are a double-edged sword for sure and do choke the little guy by the big guys who can afford the legal teams to game the system in their favor. Corruption is definitely the hardest thing to stamp out no matter what the system.

[@colinlpeace]

I can relate so much to this.

[@LePuntano22]

The first time i saw the book shared by a hippie on facebook thought it was just a meme, seems interesting definitely i will read it thanks

[@vdochev]

In Bulgaria if you wanna make bacon, you just make bacon.

[@Wulfex]

I hope there's a whole chapter on the dairy industry. Talk about total corporate takeover

[@tutacat]

This is why in USA, Xlear nasal spray can't say that removing viruses prevents viruses,.

[@WyomingGuy876]

Speaking of Bacon..... I put a pound of it in the air fryer this afternoon and had that for lunch...

[@michalski9141]

lovely

[@pioneerspiritPS]

At what % is taxation voluntary?

[@marc-andrebrun8942]

nice topic about farming & foods; 40 years ago, a japonese farmer wrote the most interesting book I ever read about it : "The one stroke revolution, an introduction to natural farming" by Masanobu Fukuoka; if you don't know it, you may have a look to make comparison, history always make sense; everywhere, the basics liberties are vanishing, it's time for wake up and throw away all the toxic influence of any kind of propaganda (in the sense of edward bernays);

[@notmusics]

the sam hyde of free software

[@needthistool]

>Sam Scam Do you think Luke will get banned from youtube also?

[@hacerdemirel9833]

You are really different one, Luke!

[@Csox513]

Always nice to rant before the weed man rolls up 😎😎

[@poetikceiutlaplik8257]

from where can i borrow one

[@atazoth_rising]

"You'll get mad reading it; I highly recommend this book." 👌

[@10xSRK]

Well shaving is legal, maybe let's start there!

[@NorthernChimp]

It's the same in europe.

[@mthamma1]

is that a wolf blanket in the back? lol

[@jimdeadlock]

I was not able to see the cover of the book at the end because the video was plastered with thumbnails. Why does KZbin do that, it's so annoying.

[@gundulfguy2179]

zoning laws in the us, canada, australia, and some other countries are quite terrible indeed.