{"id":49041,"date":"2019-10-20T06:28:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T11:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49041"},"modified":"2019-10-20T06:28:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T11:28:16","slug":"55-ways-to-starve-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=49041","title":{"rendered":"55 Ways to Starve the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

55 Ways to Starve the Beast <\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A term coined in 1985 by an unnamed staffer of the Reagan administration was \u201cStarve the Beast\u201d.  This referred to a fiscally conservative political strategy to cut government spending by paying less in taxes.  So, in the original sense, \u201cthe Beast\u201d was the government, and people were to starve said beast by spending less and using loopholes to pay less in taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the Beast is a whole lot bigger.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These days the Beast has a lot more tentacles than just the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The system now consists of the government and all aspects of corporatism.  Big Agri, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Food, Big Banking, and Big Oil, to name a few.  It seems that now it\u2019s the Beast that\u2019s doing the starving, as small businesses close because they can\u2019t compete with WalMart<\/a>, bigger chains are run out of existence by Amazon<\/a>, the family farm is on its way out<\/a> because it can\u2019t compete with the huge, subsidized mega-farms, and people are going bankrupt<\/a> because they can\u2019t pay the outrageous medical bills\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These mega-corporations aren\u2019t there to make our lives better or easier. They\u2019re there to make as much money as possible and they\u2019ll run you over if you get in their way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Please note that there are Amazon links in this article to show you the books I recommend. You may be able to find these books from local sellers<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I first wrote this article in 2013, Big Tech wasn\u2019t quite as prevalent. I\u2019ve added some recommendations from the comments over the years to expand this list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps more of us need to starve the beast.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it convenient to starve the beast and avoid doing business with mega-corporations or to work around funding endless wars that kill and maim our young people while enriching the Military-Industrial Complex<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, but it\u2019s time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

55 Ways to Starve the Beast A term coined in 1985 by an unnamed staffer of the Reagan administration was \u201cStarve the Beast\u201d.  This referred to a fiscally conservative political strategy to cut government spending by paying less in taxes.  So, in the original sense, \u201cthe Beast\u201d was the government, and people were to starve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[27392,5756],"class_list":["post-49041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-liberty","tag-starve-the-beast","tag-the-organic-prepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49042,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49041\/revisions\/49042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}