What does most of this have to do with poverty?

So the blog got retitled Joy of Poverty. Yet how does economic reformation, insights into Life, and logic have anything to do with Poverty?

It could just as easily be called Joy of Freedom.

Poverty IS freedom!

Why?

Consider the drug addict. Within their world getting the drug hit IS freedom. That blissful moment when they are satisfied and the worries and struggles of the world seem far away seems like freedom.

But for someone looking on the outside all they see is someone desperately rushing around trying to get their drug and then a period of inactivity while they consume it and then its back on the tread mill of searching for the next hit. This is not freedom but a cage crafted by the drug and the brain.

Well seriously what is the difference between that and most organisms!

We have some image of what we "want" we search for it until we find it, or we think of something else we want. If we find it all is good for a while but soon the search starts again. If we don't find it obviously the search continues. And if we stop that search we will just divert to a new one.

Being on the treadmill of desire is not freedom. Looked out from "outside" it is clearly not freedom.

So being "outside" is critical to seeing slavery in action and so understanding freedom. Indeed all the slave or prisoner wants is to be "outside" the prison. Being "inside" is actually a euphemism in English for being in prison. Outside is deeply linked to freedom in English at least. But it appears that until the prisoner knows there is somewhere outside the prison they don't see the bars.

The mind is a cage, exactly as portrayed in the Matrix. The issue of poverty is covered there.

Logic is a formal way to approach the question of outside, and so freedom.

Economics is currently built around desire, consumption and production. It is an economics of slavery. That needs to change.

Discovering the Joy of Poverty, or finding that happiness that is not dependent on drugs and searching is the key to this blog and Life.