Trap?

Just a quick opinion/ thought dump post. I guess like some/many other people I'm noticing an increasingly tighter financial situation what with being driven over tax thresholds (with increasing tax percentages to boot) and rising living and business costs particularly higher borrowing rates. Basically the end result for me is tighter budgets to spend on birding and nature projects which is a bit worrying as it's the raison d'etre of what we do.  

Like everyone I presume I don't relish the idea of being trapped in a survival mode where you have to work just to pay bills and living costs with no extra funding for purposeful, meaningful or fullfilling pursuits. That's basically slavery, where you live to serve the system and simply pay tributes to another group of people through costs and taxes. 

Life has always been like this where the objective has always been to maintain at least some freedom and control over your own life while benefiting from contributing to a wider society through various obligations but it seems that in more recent years that a trap has been sprung which is driving more people into states of enslavement. To me it feels like a net being dragged in and there is a need to swim away from the mouth of the net before it closes. 

With global financial indices being at all time highs and violentally osscillating over the last few weeks in relation to long term conflict worries, AI risks and SpaceX IPO speculation there is a constant noise/chatter of the possibility of an unprecendented financial crash, one that reflects the current unprecendented overvaluation of global markets and equities. In theory we could be looking at the biggest pump and dump in history and if such an event does occur it will re-set the world as we know it , bringing in emergency restrictions of freedom, spending, asset control and takeover, pricing, digital currencies and digital identification, digital scoring systems and the establishment of global AI systems. In the name of personal safety and economic stability there is a fundamental risk to overall freedoms driving more and more people into the trap - a complete and suden closure of the net.  

There is a lot of opportunity in a global system re-set and re-boot particularly with regards to ecological recovery so such a thing could have some positive implications. However positioning oneself to benefit from the positive opportunities is an extremely hard thing to plan for especially in the peak choas tthat proceeds such fundamental change- that may or may not even come. 

It all feels like a bit of a trap, with no matter which way you turn, there doesn't seem to be a clear way out. It may not all be bad, but some of it certainly could be. A better planned global society seems like a good idea (with the help of AI), in theory it seems like a better idea than an unplanned society following the irrationality of the markets (that give us 'planned unplanned societies that benefit market players at the expense of ideological outcomes) but we all know the history of centrally planned systems where in an attempt at suppressing human nature to fit into ideological plans you end up awakening demons. How will AI and any post mega financial crash rescue mission get around that- who knows?  How will anyone of us get out of this trap if such a thing happens? I guess will have to find the way out once it is fully sprung ?