{"id":6563,"date":"2015-03-17T07:43:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T12:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6563"},"modified":"2015-03-17T07:43:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T12:43:20","slug":"the-undebtors-sworn-enemies-of-the-vampires-of-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6563","title":{"rendered":"The Undebtors: Sworn Enemies of the Vampires of Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oftwominds.com\/blogmar15\/undebtors3-15.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i><b>The Undebtors: Sworn Enemies of the Vampires of Debt<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><i>Those who refuse debt, regardless of the sacrifice, are starving the parasitic, exploitive machine; those with debt are feeding it.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>We hear a lot about debtors, and very little about undebtors.<\/b>\u00a0I define an\u00a0<i>undebtor as an individual or entity that has sworn off debt or considers debt a necessary evil that must be paid off as quickly as possible regardless of the sacrifices required to do so.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><b>Undebtors are created by these conditions:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. People with cultural\/familial values that eschew\/fear debt.<\/p>\n<p>2. People who have been crushed by debt in the past and refuse to repeat the experience.<\/p>\n<p>3. People who recognize debt as the status quo&#8217;s favored\u00a0<i>instrument of oppression, control and exploitation.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>4. People who understand that paying off debt is the easiest way to earn a zero-risk significant return on one&#8217;s money.<\/p>\n<p><b>If you pay off a 12% credit card, that&#8217;s the equivalent of earning 12% on your money.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>There&#8217;s no mystery as to the low profile of undebtors in the mainstream media: undebtors are the equivalent of the cross to the vampire-parasites peddling debt.<\/b>\u00a0How can banks and other financial parasites make money off the undebtors? They can&#8217;t, and therein lies the problem for the status quo, which lives off the blood of debt extracted from debt-serfs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Undebtors: Sworn Enemies of the Vampires of Debt Those who refuse debt, regardless of the sacrifice, are starving the parasitic, exploitive machine; those with debt are feeding it. We hear a lot about debtors, and very little about undebtors.\u00a0I define an\u00a0undebtor as an individual or entity that has sworn off debt or considers debt [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[195,4221,4222,1302,4220],"class_list":["post-6563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-debt","tag-debtors","tag-economic-vampires","tag-status-quo","tag-undebtors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563","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=6563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6564,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6563\/revisions\/6564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}