If you are tired of Big Tech stealing your personal data, government surveillance, censorship and digital control over your purchases then you need to know about a fabulous online alternative called Qortal. Qortal is developing a rapidly expanding collection of open source apps that replace the need for the internet with the privacy and stability of a decentralized, peer-to-peer network. There are no central servers to congest traffic flow and censor content. Distributed information can not be lost if individual nodes go down. Users can remain anonymous while they browse and use the encrypted apps like:

Q-mail - a replacement for E-mail
Q-tube - a replacement for YouTube
Q-chat - which enables you to easily start your own chat group in seconds
Q-blog - which enables you to easily start your own blog or news group in seconds
Q-shop - where you can advertise your goods and services and create your own storefront
Q-share - where you can torrent files, programs, music, whatever without surveillance
The variety and quality of the apps just keeps expanding as more users join the open source development team.

Qortal also has its own crypto coin called the QORT which you can earn by creating your own node and becoming a minter. QORTs can also be obtained by using the Q-trade app to convert other coins like Bitcoin or Litecoin into QORTs. To fully participate in Qortal you need to have a few QORTs in your account. Requesting them from other users in the chat should bring an almost immediate donation.

The vision of the founders of Qortal is to create a private, decentralized, peer-to-peer network that will surpass the speed, security and freedom of the existing internet… and they are well on the way to achieving that. Start a local Qortal node in your own town or city to network, chat, email and file share with family and friends privately without censorship or surveillance. As free speech and independent thinking are increasingly censored and criminalized, the need for Qortal becomes obvious.

You can access Qortal’s shared public node anonymously at 
https://hub.qortal.link/

To read more about Qortal visit 
https://qortal.org or https://qortal.dev or download the free pdf book “Blockchain Use Cases” at https://qortal.dev/ebook

When you first visit Qortal it may seem like there is nothing to do there except view the testosterone-drenched ramblings of the minters and developers. The General chat can get a little bit crude at times, but have faith and click on the apps button on the left side of the main page and explore the apps that I mentioned above.

Personally, I believe that simply duplicating existing internet programs and apps without introducing significant new innovations in the liberty, freedom and sovereignty domains is like being a “Rebel Without A Cause”. To stand out, Qortal must motivate and enable all people to participate in the Great Transition that is urgently needed to annihilate crony crapitalism and stop the technocratic takeover of “civilization”.

The sheer insanity of this level of wealth concentration motivated me to take a deep dive into the stats. Most people grew up believing that becoming a millionaire would make them rich. One million dollars was a fortune and the ticket to freedom. Lotteries today still feed off that idea. So consider the reported wealth of the richest man on earth, Elon Musk. If Elon sorted his wealth into 1 million dollar stacks, he would have 342,000 of them. Let that sink in... the wealth of 342,000 millionaires all owned by one man. How can an economy that enables such a ridiculous concentration of wealth be acceptable to any reasonable human being? Have Elon Musk, or Mark Zuckerberg, or Jeff Bezos truly helped society enough to deserve such extraordinary wealth?

What makes this even more insulting and unacceptable is that most of Donald Trump's inner circle of power includes people from the Forbes list. Do you think these people give a rats ass about what's in the best interest of our society at large? Do they really have any understanding or respect for what it is like to be a "normie" working stiff? I doubt it, yet we let them continue to rule us and keep us dependent on their debt-based, profit-driven money scams.

The Forbes list reports the wealth of 3,028 billionaires with a combined wealth of just over $16 Trillion. Bear in mind that this list only includes people whose wealth data is publicly available. It does not include private money or money hidden using shadow accounts and aliases. It also excludes unreported criminal and illegal wealth. I spent days sorting and analyzing the raw data that Forbes provided and I am happy to share with you a few of the summary tables that I compiled.
The first table ranks the top 100 billionaires according to their net worth and reveals their age, country, source of wealth and industry. (sorry but to share the info on all 3,028 billionaires would take 58 pages)

The second table ranks the 78 countries that have billionaires by the number of billionaires in each country. It also shows what percentage of the global total each country has.

The third table ranks the top 16 industries within a country that generated the most billionaires. The 40-country totals at the bottom of the page reveal a lot about profit. Of course, finance and tech lead the pack.

The fourth table shows the number and percentage of billionaires that came from the top 16 industries in each of the top 40 countries. Overall, 97% of all billionaires in the top 40 countries came from the top 16 industries.

The last two tables name and rank the top billionaires in the United States and Canada. 50 of the 901 Americans and 40 of the 76 Canadian billionaires are shown. See how many names you recognize. Notice that Elon Musk’s net worth ($342 billion) is almost equal to the combined wealth of all 76 Canadian piggies ($359 billion).