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This is the summary of days 11 to 20 where we discuss Elon Musk’s obscene wealth, scams and the lack of access to payment portals in Jamaica, Direct Democracy possibilities, welfare and leisure, LPG gas in Jamaica and a salad recipe at the end.
I’m Aleya, and I founded Fastfrwrd.info. I have been carrying out a Carbon Neutral Strike where I avoid oil, gas and plastic as much as I can. I have been posting daily updates since Earth Day, April 22, 2025 on this process as well as with my musings about the world as it is now.
Transcript:
Today is now day 11: I need to arrange my junk in the house while there is light.
I’ve been collecting my garbage. I now have a box for plastic bottles and a box for metal cans
Gonna tackle the packaging trash soon.
Day 12: I carpooled and took public transportation and had salad, chips and plantain chips. Also a coke so i saved the bottle it will go in my collection. I’ve saved all my garbage and will duly brickify it
Day 13: I stuck to the diet today having tomato and veganaise sandwiches – they need olives, I think I’ll have some muesli with dates. I’m not sure of what all i ate actually.
Day 14: There’s too much hate in the world. I’m not gonna hate someone whose ‘crime’ is loving. There’s enough hate. I accept love that isn’t manipulation or traumatic. End of story. No time for nothing else.
Day 15: Had a cinnamon roll, some chocolate covered peanuts, some ripe plantain chips and I got a bottle of water from someone. I’m not eating well. This need fi sort ouuuuut!!
Day 16: I question accidents these days. I think we are incredibly intentional.
I was at work and my shift started and I just felt so bogged down and miserable and i knew it was the precursor to me just crawling out of my skin, not happening but I sensed its presence. I called it a low level anxiety feeling. Immediately my colleague asked ‘what did you eat today?’
An apple, I said.
Go and eat something he and my manager stated. So I got rice and peas and steamed vegetables and lettuce and tomato and banana chips. I felt better. And then I went back to work and the day ended well, including a bonus! Then later I had some caramel crunch and Ovaltine biscuits. I brought home all my trash. I’ll be bricking it.
Day 17: Languages are kept alive by changing them. The reason Latin died is because it atrophied under crystallization of the grammar and vocabulary. They froze the language in time. Languages that are alive. They change and optimize and chase trends. All the ‘left’ did was optimize language for inclusion. That is how languages that are alive work, they are modified with slang, corrections, optimization as we said and modernization of the language.
Day 18: A Maturation
Elon Musk holds sizeable Paypal stock. I do not want to support him by making use of the platform. As a Jamaican they suspect us of scamming and have shut us out of earning through the portal (no worries though we can still buy stuff and enrich others so good, right good?).
Jamaicans don’t get to have access to payment portal earnings, we have to found entities elsewhere in industrial nations and benefit them for their so-called more secure financial markets in order to earn.
However Elon Musk is out here promising techno-Heaven and a lot of people don’t see that as a scam, he is the richest man in the world for it, evading taxes, taking resources, profiting from his free publicity to climb ranks in society and have influence. I don’t care if you don’t think he’s a scammer. His obscene wealth is a scam. All excessive wealth is. The person doesn’t do more work, the workers do more work and the CEO profits. It’s a scam. So don’t tell me Jamaica has too many scammers because if Elon Musk and the like weren’t scamming millions from the public with the illusion of a CEO’s importance keeping the GLOBE poor and criminal at times as a result which they then blame on us and prevent us from gaining wealth through modern channels…
What the actual FUCK.
Paypal, I cannot cash out because the Xoom money transfer shops they set up are no longer in operation.
Stripe I have to reside in a western nation or set up an entity and therefore feed money to a western nation.
Payoneer I have to set up a Hong Kong entity.
I tried to sign up for a company called Fygaro and they said they would call me to set up my bank account, they haven’t called me or I’ve missed their calls due to my crazy work schedule.
Let me tell you something about the wealthy! They do not possess much more than the rest of us. They may possess a better education, a powerful network and no background worries about food security or maintaining a roof over their heads. The rest they can buy. If they want to write a book they hire a ghost writer. If they want to sound good to the public they hire a publicist.
If they want to seem affable they can choose a script that sets them up as the good guy with writers working to hone their words for years to do it just perfect and make you fall in love with the actor. And then they are coached on how to maintain the illusion during interviews.
If they want to seem stylish they hire a stylist educated in presentation and trends. And suddenly we think: oh this celebrity is so original! People are paid to manufacture this image.
If they want to create an innovation they sometimes merely provide the vision and the framework and their employees fill in the rest!! The real work and brilliance is in the workers who are educated by the government, assisted to come to work and provide wealth by government roads, cost of living kept low due to government subsidies on food-fuel for the human machine and actual fuel for the vehicles moving the human machines and their things.
If they want to solve an issue they needn’t provide the solution, they instead provide the money to find the appropriate resources to solve the issue.
However the acclaim goes to the CEO who in fact profits literally off the backs of others and their efforts to craft the image and self worth of the hoarder on top.
They do not deserve it. It’s not theirs and it never was. No one is that valuable. NO ONE. This is the scam of more than the century or millenium but instead a fundamental conundrum in human society since time immemorial.
What is a fair division of the spoils of labour?
We have been scammed.
I need a freaking payment portal to earn money from my work ethically. I do NOT want Paypal.
+ Ok. So google play console for developers pays out via bank transfer to Jamaica. So I’ll make the game app and host in-app purchases and manually redistribute the payouts to the people from the marketplace until i figure out an automation.
Day 18 end and 19 beginning:
+ If we had direct democracy we could vote on the education budget and broaden it for upskilling the populace with new, ecological and modern skills. We would vote to be paid to learn. We could achieve the same with representative politics but why bother.
+Government also secures a state that would allow the stockpiling of resources. I believe we should all be given a radius of our own each and can make use of the resources there provided we outline an ecological use for it. People can attempt as many times as they need to.
They would have to sort out whatever bottlenecks that may occur by trying to get there. If it were exactly where you lived now, that radius now belongs to you. You get it if you work on an ecological plan for it.
Day 19:
+ Regenerative agriculture lessons and learn-by-doing mentorship is offered on any open land that is outside of anyone’s home radius or at their home if they request help gardening. Groups are open to a set number of participants.
With Direct Democracy we would probably pay ourselves to attend quarterly community meetings to discuss the latest issues to vote on. Because we are now the politicians. That same salary for the government would be spent on transportation to town halls.
+ Jamaica was allowed to build Highway 2000 Toll Road on the condition that we did not build any railway competition for vehicles on the toll road, paying for the cost of building the highway. If we had trams and trains we would be able to electrify the grid with clean energy and get rid of wheels and their microplastics in water. This is a moral issue. That agreement must be revised. This is a matter of survival. Railway and trams for Jamaica.
More on the matter: https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2007/02/24/is-highway-2000-stopping-investment-in-jrc/
+ If we invest in ecological upskilling we will be able to engineer our own Hyperlocal technologies to combat climate both low- and hi-tech.
Day 20: + LPG: Jamaica uses mostly liquefied petroleum gas or LPG a low emissions fuel that has about 21% less CO2 and far less other Greenhouse House Gases than other sources for cooking.
+ I don’t like the idea of growing carrots because they have to be washed off with a lot of water to become edible. I’m not into sweet potato and given that potatoes are not good for people with diabetic family history, I probably can’t think of any roots that I would want to plant aside from that.
+ The idea that leisure is not to be attached to welfare. That we don’t give those on welfare enough money to also afford leisure because their focus should be getting a job. Hey no. Leisure and inebriation and sports and activities used to be free. You could grow and collect whatever you needed in your free time to let loose and relax. Then people said we had to pay to access those things. Welfare is not only about money for your basics. I think if we cannot afford to provide people on welfare with a full expense that an adult person requires, yes, requires leisure is a requirement, if we cannot afford them that, then it is time to redistribute wealth appropriately because remember, no one human being is worth that much not even Jesus Christ is worth that much quite literally.
He’s richer than the church. The church could have up to 265Billion but Musk has 330Billion.
Wake up time. Sorry if that sounds condescending.
Back on welfare. I once lived in a house where there were communal elements including food waste prevention programme food collected for free and a ‘pay-what-you-want’ weed stash, and sometimes communal snacks and sweets. At first i thought it was outrageous that not just the food waste prevention goods were communal but also the weed but I grew to appreciate and understand why that’s a flawed viewpoint to say oh well food is communal but treats are off limits. I had to adjust why i thought communal leisure was not important. This is because people were taking my stuff as communal.
Just got rice and peas from the cantine at work. Having it with ketchup. The guy working gave me the rice for free and said he stopped eating animals for two years. The cashier said she wished she could do it. I responded: Its easy.
She responded: No it’s not.
It is and isn’t easy. Once i realize the simple truth that the animal wants to live and have agency, then everything else follows logically and you adjust accordingly. But it isn’t easy in that your choices are restricted because of meat eaters taking up all the shelf space in grocery stores and wholesalers. They take up all the space and leave a small amount for us. So it feels like we have less choice.
But then you discover gardening and see that you can grow all your favourite base ingredients. That requires land. So we work on getting to the point where we are given land please.
I had a pizza last night. It was fine it wasn’t worth the cheat. Next time I cheat it will be to cook a meal.
Had salad for dinner: Kale, snow peas, lettuce, cherry tomato, cucumber, a whole can of corn, and veganaise and sweet chili sauce with cane sugar vinegar and olive oil dressing.
Will retire early to try to do overtime at work tomorrow.