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Everyone in your neighborhood is given a choice: play in the street or stay out of the street. If more than 50% of people choose to play in the street, traffic is stopped and everyone survives. However, if fewer than 50% play in the street, only those who stayed out of the street survive.

What will you do? BE HONEST.

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To the Honorable Chamber of Deputies,

We are suffering from the intolerable competition of an unceasing rival. A rival who sits in the dark recesses of the copper pipe and the porcelain bowl, and who, with the insolent silence of a siphon, has completely invaded our national market for the disposal of human waste.

This rival is none other than Modern Plumbing.

We, the National Association of Nightmen and Gong Farmers, represent an ancient and aromatic industry. For centuries, we have been the silent sentinels of the midnight hour, courageously plunging ourselves into the abysmal depths of the cesspool to reclaim that which society has seen fit to discard. Our labor is honest; it is fragrant with the scent of tradition; and it is being ruthlessly extinguished by the cold, metallic efficiency of the U-bend.

The Injustice of Gravity

Consider the unfair advantage held by our adversary. We must possess strong backs, iron stomachs, and a total absence of the sense of smell. Our rival, the Pipe, possesses only the mindless pull of gravity. Is it just that a simple incline of two degrees should be permitted to replace the sweat and toil of a thousand sturdy laborers?

When a citizen pulls a chain, he is not merely flushing away a nuisance; he is flushing away the livelihood of his neighbor! He is committing an act of economic treason against the brave men who once stood waist-deep in the "soil" of our great nation.

The Economic Consequences

The disappearance of the Gong Farmer is not merely a loss of local color; it is a catastrophe for the circular economy. Consider the benefits of our continued existence:

• The Fragrance of Commerce: If you ban the flush toilet and restore the open cesspit, you immediately stimulate the perfume and pomander industries. A city that smells of its own citizens is a city that buys more lavender!
• Employment for the Bold: What will become of the men who know no fear? Without pits to empty, these rugged souls will wander the streets, their shovels idle, their buckets dry.
• The Virtue of the Shovel: Plumbing fosters a "cowardice of the porcelain." By making waste vanish with a mere flick of a lever, we cultivate a fragile generation of citizens who lack the intestinal fortitude to confront their own consequences, preferring to flush their responsibilities into the abyss rather than face their own feces.

The Presage: Peril of the Pipe

Plumbing will not be satisfied with the mere replacement of the Gong Farmer. Let no man believe himself secure behind a desk or a storefront, thinking this watery revolution stops at the privy door! If you allow the Gong Farmer to be replaced by a hollow tube, you concede the very principle of your own utility. Once society accepts that a task may be performed by an unthinking apparatus simply because it is "cleaner" or "faster," the floodgates are opened to your own destruction.

• To the Water-Bearers: If they can move sewage through a pipe, why not the very essence of life? One day, the insolence of indoor faucets will steal your buckets and your dignity, rendering the sturdy arm of the carrier a relic of the past!
• To the Clerks, Scribes, Computers, and Calculators: You laugh as we lose our shovels, but beware: the machine-mind is coming for your ledgers. If a man’s waste can be managed by a siphon, how long until your precious logic is treated with the same automated indifference?
• To the Spinners and Weavers: Your looms are already trembling. Your craft is being devoured by heartless machines that know nothing of the artisan's touch. Long live Captain Ludd!

By accepting the Siphon, you subscribe to a philosophy that values the result over the exertion. You are building a world where the human hand is a nuisance and the human back is an antique. We Gong Farmers are merely the first to be washed away; unless you stand with us now, you shall all find yourselves discarded by the same cold, metallic "progress" that currently threatens our pits!

Our Humble Request

We do not ask for much. We only ask for the protection of our right to labor in the dark. We petition you to pass a law requiring the following:

1. The immediate sealing of all pipes with a diameter exceeding one inch.
2. A mandatory "clogging tax" on any residence that does not feature a traditional backyard hole.
3. The requirement that all waste must travel at least five miles by bucket before it may be permitted to touch a pipe.

By shutting out the water-closet, you will keep the doors open to renewed prosperity. You will hear the melodic clinking of buckets once more, and the air will be filled with the robust, unmistakable scent of a nation that protects its own.

Do not let the "flow of progress" wash away the salt of the earth. Reject the pipe; embrace the pit!

In May 2020, the Fed changed the definition of M1 to include Savings Deposits making an artificial jump on the M1 graph in May 2020.

M1

Before May 2020, M2 was calculated as:

M2 = M1 + Savings Deposits + Small Time Deposits + Retail Money Market Funds

In May 2020, the Fed changed the definition of M1 to include Savings Deposits. So the "new" math for M2 effectively became:

M2 = (M1_new) + Small Time Deposits + Retail Money Market Funds

Because Savings Deposits were already inside M2 (just in a different sub-category), moving them into M1 didn't change the total sum of M2.

The "jump" you see in M2 during 2020 isn't a glitch. It is the actual record-breaking 27% growth in money supply caused by the policy response to the pandemic.

M2

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

In this presentation, Chris Calton, a housing and homelessness research fellow at the Mises Institute, argues that California’s severe housing crisis is the direct result of "democratic socialism"—which he defines as the democratization of private property rights through NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) activism.

Calton traces the crisis back to three influential books published in the 1960s that birthed three overlapping movements:

1. The Democratization of Urban Planning

• Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961) by Jane Jacobs [05:03].
• The Movement: While Jacobs initially sought to stop the government-led "urban renewal" (which demolished low-income housing via eminent domain), her call for "bottom-up" planning empowered wealthy neighborhood groups [07:52].
• The Impact: Planning power shifted from experts to "citizens advisory committees." These groups, often comprised of retirees and housewives with free time, pivoted from protesting government overreach to blocking private development to preserve the "status quo" of their neighborhoods [09:43].

2. The Politicization of Environmentalism

• Source: Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson [11:22].
• The Movement: This book transformed environmentalism from non-political conservation (like litter cleanups) into a highly politicized legal force [12:42].
• The Impact: Groups like the Sierra Club began lobbying for strict land-use regulations.
  • CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act): Signed by Ronald Reagan in 1970, it was intended for public projects but was expanded by court rulings to cover private housing [16:50]. This created a "vehicle for lawsuits" used to delay, downsize, or extort developers [19:08].

3. The No-Growth Movement

• Source: The Population Bomb (1968) by Paul Ehrlich [19:41].
• The Movement: Resurrecting Malthusian fears of overpopulation, this movement targeted housing directly as a way to "stop growth" [21:14].
• The Impact: Local governments began using roundabout ways to block permits, such as controlling utility hookups. In Marin County, the Water District board engineered "man-made droughts" by refusing to build new reservoirs, effectively halting new home construction for years [23:04].

Conclusion: The "Zucchini Lady" Phenomenon

Calton concludes by citing the "Zucchini Lady" of Berkeley—a woman who famously protested a two-story house because its shadow would affect her garden—as the face of modern NIMBYism [00:50]. He argues that by allowing the "mob" to vote on what a private owner can do with their land, California has abolished private property rights in all but name, leading to $2 million median home prices for tiny, century-old houses [04:18].