I have been creating a lot of stuff over the past 15 years. Documentaries, books, online tools, etc.. See www.tromsite.com/ and also its tools page. I have relied 100% on the kindness of others to donate money to me in order to sustain these. All I've done is 100% free, or as we call it trade-free. No ads, no premium subscriptions, no data collection, no BS.

So. I work a lot and I create honest projects. And yet this society I live in, never ever helped me in any way. I create scientific materials and promote science. Promote and enable many open source tools/services. I promote a lot of good projects too. I want to know how this society works from a scientific perspective and showcase solutions to today's problems. I am tempted to believe that I am not a bad human being. Also, not a lazy one. I never take breaks or holidays unless I feel very sick and such.

Ok.

Now in my view this is an undeniable proof that this society is awful, primitive, and very abusive. The fact that I do not get any help from the society itself (no "welfare" programs to help me survive) and I struggle to do good things, is a proof that we, as humans, are not even able to do good things in this world unless we trade those for something else. In other words, unless what we do is restricted only to those who can pay.

Now my argument is that my personal situation is the perfect proof why this trade-based society is a disaster. If I cannot do good things, then no one can. Debate me please. Tell me I am wrong. I am listening.

I think no one can have any arguments against this. I challenge anyone. Go ahead. #tromlive
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Video about popular YouTube channel losing to YouTube itself - their politics and algorithm (people behind it)... 

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The Hated One- YouTube Has Blacklisted My Channel

invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=

FOR THOSE HONESTLY ABLE / FEELING OK TO READ:

Here's a video touching on the subject about not being supported even from a youtube channel which is incentivised.
Even YouTube people, quite popular are also finding it also political and increasingly their channels are going down / pushed out... with new video profiles looking like they are just about half showing more sponsors more than anything!
So like TV again (or even more).

There is an passive-aggressive (and actually just outright agressive removal too) that forces people towards the commercial template or starve / die if they rely on YouTube (Google).
So reduced views are another tactic even if you good, and the algorithm does that well to de-promote people... which is of course them as a person/group doing it.

We have to get around this faceless corporate thing.

Video has some well scripted points showing politics (morals, principles, good ways) means people losing by these bad 'standards'... Video is <10mins

The Hated One- YouTube Has Blacklisted My Channel

invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=

EXTRA READING BELOW IF WANTED:

Many sectors / tactics are trying to serve themselves more than anything... and that's why I say unite and even internally fight to get battle-tested. These guys don't fuck about.

From 9.26 onwards shows the paradox we're in asking for people to support what we know is a bad as money itself, American servers, pandering to other people's politics etc.

invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=

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THE REST IS EXTRA - ONLY FOR THOSE INTERESTED / SEEING CONSTANTS

+ ' MAYBE ' TOWARDS A SOLUTION...
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I think it can be possible to get money and be accepted it from those who have it but not from the typical way of asking those who know already know about money and puke thinking about it (for example his audience is probably fighting these things and you also)
It's hard for the same audience to support it (I offer my time for example to crack this paradox via social leverage). BUT finding those that are happy to give or care but don't want to know details is possible. Creating money circles for happy giving is perhaps something underrated when done right because there are people that want to give and have NO idea what to do... and also don't get why money is circular in the downward spirals
So we need the looong way around this social construct while educating some as in general nobody wants to give by default what is scarce and devaluing. But seeing why it's also good to give or worthless in the end can happen much like people at end of their life who realise what am going to do with this $ now I'm old.

Such a hard life and bad trap we're in where we want to support but money is often not it. At the end of this video, softly we can see and hear as observer that 'making more videos' is not really going to be the solution. I did like his idea of field work and real change but that's also very dangerous and big time - but still maybe just similar to 'making videos'. Already lots out there.
So documentaries perhaps from money up front and lovingly given which could be good. I know you might be doing this in some way... but the spirit of people dare I say somehow is the main thing both in giving and supporting themselves to wake up / learn. I might be talking to myself here - but the learning from limits or coming out from same-same I think for all of us needs to be moved on (including me) and often it needs others to help see / calculate the overview which we can't and see dynamics happening not to stay stuck or in repetition and cracking nuts that are forever there too along the way.

invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=

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