If you are reading this while living under an authoritarian regime and you need help, blink twice now.
Hopefully, you’ll be one of many people who can just brush off this awkward attempt at a joke and laugh. But realistically, you may also be one of many more who are living in countries that are experiencing a steady decline in freedom—if not a total absence, in the first place.
The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a heavy blow on democracy. While this report by the Freedom House pinpointed the start of the decline to be in 2006, freedom has faced heavy losses in 2021 amidst the economic and political stability caused by COVID-19.
Now, more than ever, we need a platform where we can unite under a common cause.
According to Jason Rigby, there are three main issues you can look at to understand whether or not the place is under an authoritarian regime: illiteracy, fraud, and health.
Authoritarian regimes have a vested interest in keeping their people illiterate because if their people don’t learn, then they don’t know that they deserve any better. This is a strategy that has been tried and tested in the past. Book burning and art destruction have been carried out by the Nazis, and African-American slaves were banned from reading books.
And it’s a reality that persists today. Through TARTLE, our goal is to give oppressed individuals an opportunity to rise above that system. Sign up, work, and learn as you go. TARTLE is the antithesis for authoritarian regimes.
Fraud is also commonplace in authoritarian regimes. After all, when you are invested in maintaining a position and status that harms the quality of living for everybody else, there is little you wouldn’t do to make money. War, strife, and suffering are all opportunities to keep the wealth gap wide and the funds in abundance.
With TARTLE, fraud does not exist. The platform has been developed to make everything transparent. All the transactions are on the blockchain and recorded in a huge public ledger so that no one can make pseudo-copies of your information.
It is not possible for others to take credit for your work, or to give different prices according to where you are located. On the marketplace, we are all human beings and we are all priceless.
Finally, the last prevalent issue in authoritarian regimes is health. People living in a regime struggle not just because they don’t have immediate access to medical support, but also because of scarcity in food supply. These are only available for the one percent, who have all the power and control over the market. The rest of the country will have limits.
We need to take strong and direct action that can help the people on the ground. When you sign up for TARTLE, you have the opportunity to use your personal data to help these people by selling it to organizations that provide humanitarian aid.
We are just giving you the facts. You have the free will and the opportunity to live. Most of us have been taught that we can only care for ourselves and the people we love, one day at a time. With TARTLE, you can be a part of a greater movement. It is possible, here, to make a difference and leave an imprint on the rest of humanity. This is where authoritarian regimes fall.
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With TARTLE, fraud does not exist. The platform has been developed to make everything transparent. All the transactions are on the blockchain and recorded in a huge public ledger so that no one can make pseudo-copies of your information.
Alexander McCaig (00:10):
Look at me, I'm the captain now.
Jason Rigby (00:13):
Yeah. I love that guy's Twitter. He has funny stuff.
Alexander McCaig (00:18):
I like my mornings to be slow and quiet. I want the day to romance me a bit before it tries to fuck me.
Jason Rigby (00:26):
Isn't that great?
Alexander McCaig (00:27):
Thank you, mug.
Jason Rigby (00:30):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (00:30):
Okay.
Jason Rigby (00:31):
That's what we need.
Alexander McCaig (00:32):
All righty.
Jason Rigby (00:32):
So I want to talk to 4.3 billion people right now.
Alexander McCaig (00:35):
And I just teed it up with that comment?
Jason Rigby (00:37):
Yes. Well, that's the perfect comment.
Alexander McCaig (00:39):
Okay.
Jason Rigby (00:40):
4.3 billion people that live in 95 countries live under authoritarian regimes.
Alexander McCaig (00:47):
Is that because they have a cell phone?
Jason Rigby (00:50):
Facebook. That's how all users of Facebook compared to authoritarian regime.
Alexander McCaig (00:56):
Really interesting.
Jason Rigby (00:57):
Yeah. It's not Facebook anymore, it's...
Alexander McCaig (01:00):
Feta.
Jason Rigby (01:01):
Yeah. Whatever it is.
Alexander McCaig (01:02):
Like the cheese.
Jason Rigby (01:02):
It's feta, yeah. But yeah. So, when we think of authoritarian regimes.
Alexander McCaig (01:07):
Yeah.
Jason Rigby (01:07):
And we think of freedom.
Alexander McCaig (01:09):
Okay. Well, I can't bring both of them together. That doesn't work. The way I see it is, only the government, whoever that is, maybe it's a ruling Monarch or something, they have full freedom.
Jason Rigby (01:19):
Right.
Alexander McCaig (01:19):
Everybody else, you just have to kneel down and do whatever they say.
Jason Rigby (01:26):
Yeah. I mean...
Alexander McCaig (01:27):
There's no there no free will for you.
Jason Rigby (01:28):
You have no entitlement to anything.
Alexander McCaig (01:30):
No. What do you... The state owns everything.
Jason Rigby (01:32):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (01:32):
Everything's been nationalized. Your life in a sense has been nationalized. What you thought was privacy. Nationalized.
Jason Rigby (01:38):
Right.
Alexander McCaig (01:39):
They can walk in your house, do whatever they want, whenever they choose to do so. They can look at your phone, get your logs, read your information whenever they choose to do so. They can pull you and interrogate, lock you up for no reason whatsoever because they can.
Jason Rigby (01:51):
And there's three things that usually you can see when you see these authoritarian regimes.
Alexander McCaig (01:55):
And what are those?
Jason Rigby (01:55):
Because I want people to understand this. One is illiteracy.
Alexander McCaig (01:59):
Oh, are you saying like countries that are extremely authoritarian?
Jason Rigby (02:02):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (02:02):
Will have large amounts of...
Jason Rigby (02:03):
Of illiteracy.
Alexander McCaig (02:04):
Illiteracy.
Jason Rigby (02:05):
So they don't want you to learn. So if you're living, if you're one of these 4.3 billion people, the best thing you can do is find books, go online and learn.
Alexander McCaig (02:15):
Well, we saw it in Nazi Germany.
Jason Rigby (02:17):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (02:18):
Book burning.
Jason Rigby (02:19):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (02:19):
Right? We saw it during the American Revolution.
Jason Rigby (02:24):
Yeah, there's no libraries.
Alexander McCaig (02:25):
Anything that's happened in America, they said when you educate a man, you liberate a man.
Jason Rigby (02:29):
Right, yes.
Alexander McCaig (02:29):
That's why they didn't allow slaves to read back in the day. These things are constant.
Jason Rigby (02:33):
So we have illiteracy, right?
Alexander McCaig (02:34):
Yeah.
Jason Rigby (02:35):
Now with tartle.co, you can go on there, sign up, learn, work, you have the freedom to do that. Plus, we have others. If you're not in the 4.3 billion people, you have educational access and you can help support The Big 7 to help these people.
Alexander McCaig (02:51):
I get it. So Tartle is the antithesis.
Jason Rigby (02:57):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (02:57):
For authoritarian regimes.
Jason Rigby (02:59):
Here we go.
Alexander McCaig (03:00):
So you can go on Tartle completely free, under your own free will.
Jason Rigby (03:04):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (03:05):
By your choice.
Jason Rigby (03:06):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (03:06):
No constraints. We won't prevent you from using it. You sign up, fantastic. Step one. Now you're going to put in work that you own, not the government.
Jason Rigby (03:16):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (03:17):
Excellent. Congratulations, you are going to receive value for this thing in an account that the government does not own.
Jason Rigby (03:23):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (03:24):
Congratulations, right?
Jason Rigby (03:25):
Yes. Yes.
Alexander McCaig (03:26):
If you need content to educate yourself.
Jason Rigby (03:28):
We need Borat.
Alexander McCaig (03:28):
Yeah.
Jason Rigby (03:29):
Congratulations.
Alexander McCaig (03:32):
Yeah. Congratulations. Very nice. You know?
Jason Rigby (03:34):
Yeah, exactly.
Alexander McCaig (03:36):
The authoritarian regime has clock radio, we have Tartle. Right?
Jason Rigby (03:39):
Yes, exactly.
Alexander McCaig (03:40):
So, and when you go on there, this is the best part. There's so much educational material.
Jason Rigby (03:45):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (03:45):
Because you and I podcast so much to talk about things that are data driven, because we don't really care about the biases. We don't care about having some sort of dogma approach to it.
Jason Rigby (03:57):
Right.
Alexander McCaig (03:57):
We just want to tell you the facts.
Jason Rigby (03:59):
That's it.
Alexander McCaig (04:00):
Simple as that.
Jason Rigby (04:01):
It's a free market.
Alexander McCaig (04:01):
And we're not going to tell you how to live your life.
Jason Rigby (04:04):
No.
Alexander McCaig (04:05):
Do it yourself.
Jason Rigby (04:05):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (04:06):
Just be responsible and enjoy the free will.
Jason Rigby (04:09):
So, let me ask you this.
Alexander McCaig (04:10):
What a great day to be alive, everybody.
Jason Rigby (04:12):
It is a great day.
Alexander McCaig (04:12):
I'm jacked up.
Jason Rigby (04:13):
So we have illiteracy. It's the coffee. We have illiteracy. Next, we have fraud.
Alexander McCaig (04:19):
Wait a minute. Is it e-literacy or illiteracy? Are you under an authoritarian regime?
Jason Rigby (04:23):
Yes I am. I'm an employee for Tartle.
Alexander McCaig (04:26):
You're only saying this to make us look good.
Jason Rigby (04:33):
To make us look good?
Alexander McCaig (04:34):
Yeah. Your character's cracking, Jason. Pull it together.
Jason Rigby (04:36):
I'm falling apart. Help me.
Alexander McCaig (04:38):
Get us a new Jason.
Jason Rigby (04:40):
Bless me, Lord.
Alexander McCaig (04:41):
Yeah.
Jason Rigby (04:43):
Yeah, so fraud would be the next one. So we see governments with mass amounts of fraud.
Alexander McCaig (04:47):
Yeah.
Jason Rigby (04:49):
Anytime you have an authoritarian regime. They love war. They love strife. They make money off of it.
Alexander McCaig (04:53):
Yeah. Anytime there's conflict, they're making money. And they're also tied in with their national bankers there in the area.
Jason Rigby (04:58):
Yes. Contractors, everything.
Alexander McCaig (05:00):
Somebody's got to hold the money for the government.
Jason Rigby (05:02):
Yeah. They're making all the money.
Alexander McCaig (05:03):
So the banker has to a hundred percent be in with it. We've seen this with the Vatican during the forties, they opened up their own sovereign bank, which no one could touch. And that allowed for funding for the Nazis. That also helped them get papers, so the Nazis could go to Argentina.
Jason Rigby (05:16):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (05:17):
You know what I mean? Authoritarian regimes do whatever they want.
Jason Rigby (05:20):
Do whatever they want. So, we have fraud, which we've gone through huge steps to make sure that Tartle, there's no fraud involved in Tartle.
Alexander McCaig (05:29):
No one can defraud this system.
Jason Rigby (05:31):
Right.
Alexander McCaig (05:31):
Okay? You can't come in and say, "Oh, I'm going to corner the market on pricing."
Jason Rigby (05:35):
Right.
Alexander McCaig (05:36):
Everything is 100% transparent. There's also a massive blockchain lattice, a huge ledger, publicly available for everyone to see how the stuff's going back and forth. So no one can make just like pseudo copies of information that's otherwise not theirs.
Jason Rigby (05:48):
Right.
Alexander McCaig (05:48):
Right? It's yours, solely yours, your choice to share it under consent at the specific price, which everyone can see. And also, on top of that, it's not oh, I'm going to come in and we have this map up here, right? I'm going to pay more for people in the US and less for in Nigeria. What does that mean? The people in Nigeria will be like, "Absolutely not. This is not going to happen. You're not going to buy it for us, for such an undercut price." All humans are worth the same value. We're all human beings.
Jason Rigby (06:14):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (06:14):
We're all priceless.
Jason Rigby (06:15):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (06:16):
But our information, we could say stupid things. Right? We do it all the time.
Jason Rigby (06:20):
Oh yeah.
Alexander McCaig (06:20):
Look us in the United States.
Jason Rigby (06:21):
Look at me.
Alexander McCaig (06:22):
I say stupid shit constantly. Yeah, you for example.
Jason Rigby (06:24):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Alexander McCaig (06:24):
We need a new Jason.
Jason Rigby (06:27):
A 2.0.
Alexander McCaig (06:27):
No, but that point being that with the free market we have in place, the prevention of fraud through our technological mechanism we have engineered.
Jason Rigby (06:39):
Right.
Alexander McCaig (06:39):
And all this transparency, it's set up for your favor.
Jason Rigby (06:44):
Yes. A hundred percent.
Alexander McCaig (06:45):
No authoritarian person's going and come and be, "Oh, I got this. I'm going to pull some levers. Put this in my power." Can't happen.
Jason Rigby (06:51):
No, they can't take the work that you've done away.
Alexander McCaig (06:53):
They'll never take it away from you.
Jason Rigby (06:54):
Yeah, and they can't fraud. They can't take your wallet away.
Alexander McCaig (06:57):
That work's logged to you. You know what it reminds me of? People going to work, something great happens, the boss pats the other person on the back. I did 90% of the work.
Jason Rigby (07:04):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (07:04):
What are you congratulating him for?
Jason Rigby (07:06):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (07:07):
Well, on Tartle, we got a whole log. Guess what? You did do 90% of the work. Congratulations. Right?
Jason Rigby (07:12):
Yes. Yeah, and it's all on the individual.
Alexander McCaig (07:15):
Yeah.
Jason Rigby (07:16):
The individual's sovereign rights.
Alexander McCaig (07:17):
Oh, juicy.
Jason Rigby (07:19):
Yes. That's the beautiful part.
Alexander McCaig (07:20):
Really juicy. Yeah. No, it is beautiful. It's poetic.
Jason Rigby (07:22):
Yes. And then-
Alexander McCaig (07:23):
Is this when you're romancing me? Am I getting romanced?
Jason Rigby (07:29):
Before the morning.
Alexander McCaig (07:29):
Yeah. I'm getting romanced right now.
Jason Rigby (07:29):
And then the last one is health.
Alexander McCaig (07:31):
Oh.
Jason Rigby (07:31):
So we see illiteracy, fraud and health.
Alexander McCaig (07:33):
Oh, so you're saying there's a decline in health?
Jason Rigby (07:35):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (07:35):
Because there's a lack of access to not only places where they can keep themselves healthy.
Jason Rigby (07:40):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (07:40):
Food supplies.
Jason Rigby (07:41):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (07:41):
All that other good stuff is only saved for those who have the power to control it.
Jason Rigby (07:45):
Right.
Alexander McCaig (07:45):
Everyone else is going to be just naturally limited.
Jason Rigby (07:47):
Right.
Alexander McCaig (07:47):
What are you going to do?
Jason Rigby (07:49):
But even when we look at our Big 7, we're hitting all of these.
Alexander McCaig (07:54):
Well, of course we are. Economic equalization.
Jason Rigby (07:55):
Yes, yes.
Alexander McCaig (07:56):
Right? These people, if they are financially disincentivized or disenfranchised, or any words you want to use. Financially screwed.
Jason Rigby (08:04):
Right.
Alexander McCaig (08:04):
Right? You can help them out.
Jason Rigby (08:06):
But specifically we have public health. That's one of our Big 7.
Alexander McCaig (08:08):
Public health is right here.
Jason Rigby (08:10):
Illiteracy is educational access. Fraud is economic equalization. People can, if you're blessed to be in the United States, UK, I mean, there's some forms of authoritarian regime here, but...
Alexander McCaig (08:23):
But in developed countries, there's more opportunity.
Jason Rigby (08:26):
And I want to get into, and we'll get into this, into freedom and what it means and how you can tell.
Alexander McCaig (08:31):
Okay.
Jason Rigby (08:32):
Because there's little indications that people may not realize, because there's a lot of people that live in countries, I talked to someone the other day that was in the Philippines.
Alexander McCaig (08:38):
Yep.
Jason Rigby (08:38):
And they love their president.
Alexander McCaig (08:40):
But he's a dictator.
Jason Rigby (08:41):
He's a dictator. Yeah, it's an authoritarian regime.
Alexander McCaig (08:44):
Yeah.
Jason Rigby (08:45):
But people are like, "I love him."
Alexander McCaig (08:46):
Are you saying you love him because you are in fear of what would happen if you say you don't?
Jason Rigby (08:50):
No, he can come on. I would love to have him on the podcast. That'd be awesome.
Alexander McCaig (08:52):
That'd be great. I'd love to talk to a dictator.
Jason Rigby (08:54):
And my favorite person to have on the podcast would be Putin.
Alexander McCaig (09:00):
Could you imagine? I'd have a blast talking to these people on the podcast.
Jason Rigby (09:01):
I would have a blast talking to Putin, but Mr. Vladimir Putin is definitely, he does tend to run his country a little strict.
Alexander McCaig (09:09):
He absolutely does, and if he could have it his way, he'd probably continue taking the Ukraine.
Jason Rigby (09:15):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (09:15):
Belarus. Just swallow it up.
Jason Rigby (09:17):
Yeah. Yeah, he would love to, what is it? Crimea or whatever.
Alexander McCaig (09:21):
Yeah, Crimea. Kazakhstan, take that back. You know something, Mongolia, you kidding me?
Jason Rigby (09:28):
I wonder if...
Alexander McCaig (09:28):
Hold strong.
Jason Rigby (09:29):
I wonder if Kazakhstan and all the Muslim areas, I wonder if he would want that or not, because he's pretty strong Greek Orthodox, isn't it Greek Orthodox church is the Russian church?
Alexander McCaig (09:38):
I believe that's what it is. Yeah.
Jason Rigby (09:39):
So I'm wondering if he would consider that a threat or not. I don't know.
Alexander McCaig (09:43):
Oh, that's really interesting.
Jason Rigby (09:43):
Because there's a lot of Muslim Russians.
Alexander McCaig (09:45):
You want to know something though? He would never tell you.
Jason Rigby (09:46):
Oh no, he's not, he would just take the land.
Alexander McCaig (09:49):
Why can't people be clear?
Jason Rigby (09:51):
Yeah.
Alexander McCaig (09:52):
Well, you know what the word for clear is in Russian?
Jason Rigby (09:55):
What?
Alexander McCaig (09:56):
[Foreign language 00:09:56].
Jason Rigby (09:59):
That means clear?
Alexander McCaig (09:59):
It's clear. Like that is clear, but all right, listen, let's drop back for a second. Public health, economic equalization, sovereign regimes.
Jason Rigby (10:10):
Right.
Alexander McCaig (10:11):
You can do the work and if you want to help those others, maybe if you are in a developing nation with more opportunity.
Jason Rigby (10:17):
Right.
Alexander McCaig (10:17):
You can share those earnings towards groups that are helping championing those rights.
Jason Rigby (10:22):
Yes, yes.
Alexander McCaig (10:22):
Of those human beings in those areas.
Jason Rigby (10:24):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (10:24):
You can do that through Tartle.
Jason Rigby (10:26):
Yes. Tartle is to me, if we could go to Webster Dictionary or Random House or...
Alexander McCaig (10:32):
I submit words all the time.
Jason Rigby (10:33):
I want to submit Tartle. I want to have freedom, and then under one of the definitions, I want to have Tartle there.
Alexander McCaig (10:39):
That's the coolest thing I've ever heard.
Jason Rigby (10:40):
Yeah, yeah.
Alexander McCaig (10:42):
Like you're going through Webster, right? You're like, all right, freedom, let's talk about freedom.
Jason Rigby (10:46):
Yeah. Talk about [inaudible 00:10:47].
Alexander McCaig (10:46):
Okay. You know, it has like definition one.
Jason Rigby (10:48):
Yeah.
Alexander McCaig (10:48):
Two, three. They're all relatively close.
Jason Rigby (10:50):
We could be third or fourth.
Alexander McCaig (10:51):
They're all relatively close, and the fourth one just says Tartle.
Jason Rigby (10:53):
It just says, "An example of pure freedom."
Alexander McCaig (10:55):
Oh, I love that.
Jason Rigby (10:56):
Yeah.
Alexander McCaig (10:56):
Freedom, choice.
Jason Rigby (10:57):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (10:58):
Your choice.
Jason Rigby (10:58):
Yes.
Alexander McCaig (10:59):
Because it's your data, your thoughts, your body, your mind, your life.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Thank you for listening to Tartle Cast, with your hosts Alexander McCaig and Jason Rigby, where humanity steps into the future and resource data defines the path. What's your data worth?
