TROM

   { WIP, still being researched. Was trying to reach the Tio guy but he
   didn't respond. ~drummyfish }

   TROM (The Reality Of Me) is a project running since 2011 that's educating
   mainly about the [1]harmfulness of trade-based society and tries to show a
   better way: that of establishing so called [2]trade-free (in the sense of
   WITHOUT trade) society. It is similar to e.g. [3]Venus Project (with which
   TROM collaborated for a while), the [4]Zeitgeist Movement and our own
   [5]LRS -- it shares the common core of opposing money and trade as a basis
   of society (which they correctly identify as the core issue), even though
   it differs in some details that we (LRS) don't see as wholly
   insignificant. The project website is at https://www.tromsite.com/.

   TROM was started and is run by a Romanian guy called Tio (born June 12
   1988, according to blog), he has a personal blog at
   https://www.tiotrom.com and now lives mostly in Spain. The project seems
   more or less run just by him.

   The project is funded through [6]Patreon and has created a very impressive
   volume of very good quality educational materials including books,
   documentaries, memes, even its own [7]GNU/[8]Linux [9]distro
   ([10]Tromjaro). The materials TROM creates sometimes educate about general
   topics (e.g. language), not just those directly related to trade-free
   society -- Tio says that he simply likes to learn all about the world and
   then share his knowledge.

   The idea behind TROM is very good and similar to LRS, but just as the
   [11]Venus project it is a bit [12]sus, we align with many core ideas and
   applaud many things they do, but can't say we 100% support everything
   about TROM.

Summary

   { WATCH OUT, this is a work in progress sum up based only on my at the
   moment a rather brief research of the project, I don't yet guarantee this
   sum up is absolutely correct, that will require me to put in much more
   time. Read at own risk. ~drummyfish }

   good things about TROM:

     * It identifies trade/money/[13]capitalism as the root cause of most
       problems in society -- this we basically agree with (we officially
       consider [14]competition to be the root cause).
     * It has TONS of very good quality educational materials exposing the
       truth, breaking corporate propaganda, even showing such things as
       corruption in [15]soyence and [16]open source etc. -- that's extremely
       great.

   bad things about TROM:

     * It is based on [17]fight culture and [18]hero culture (judging by the
       content of the book the origin of most problems, creating superheroes
       and stating such things as "the world needs an enemy"), which we
       greatly oppose, we (LRS) don't believe a good and peaceful society can
       worship heroes and wars. Hopefully this is something the project may
       realize along the way, however at this point there is a great danger
       of falling into the trap of turning into a violent revolutionary
       [19]pseudoleftist movement.
     * TROM refuses to use [20]free (as in freedom) licenses! Huge letdown.
       Tio gives some attempt at explanation at
       https://www.tiotrom.com/2022/08/free-software-nonsense/, but he
       doesn't seem to understand the concept of free culture/software very
       well, he's the "it don't need no license I say do whatever you want"
       guy.
     * [21]Bloat, a lot of bloat everywhere, Javascript sites discriminating
       against non-consumerist computers. Tio isn't a programmer and seems to
       not be very aware of the issues regarding software, he uses the
       [22]Wordpress abomination with plugins he BUYS etc.
     * There seems to be signs of [23]atheist/iamverysmart/neil de grass
       overrationalism, some things are pretty cringe and retarded, see the
       following point.
     * From Tio's blog TROM seems to be just his one-man project, even though
       he may employ a few helpers -- not that there's anything wrong about
       one man projects [24]:) -- Tio is very determined, talented in certain
       areas such as "content creation" etc., however he dropped out of
       school and lacks a lot of knowledge and insight into important areas
       such as technology and free culture while talking about them as if he
       knew them very well, this is not too good and even poses some dangers.
       He really loves to write about himself, shows great signs of
       narcissism. Hell, at times he seems straight from /r/iamverysmart,
       e.g. with this real cringe attempt at his own theory of black holes
       https://www.tiotrom.com/2021/11/my-theory-about-black-holes/. Of
       course it's alright to speculate and talk about anything, but
       sometimes it seems he thinks he's a genius at everything { Not wanting
       to make fun of anyone though, been there myself. :) ~drummyfish }. His
       eagerness is both his great strength and weakness, and as TROM is HIS
       project, it's the strength and weakness of it as well. Don't blindly
       follow TROM, takes the good out of it, leave the rest.

See Also

     * [25]Venus project
     * [26]Trash Magic

Links:
1. harmful.md
2. trade_free.md
3. venus_project.md
4. zeigeist_movement.md
5. less_retaded_society.md
6. patreon.md
7. gnu.md
8. linux.md
9. distro.md
10. tromjaro.md
11. venus_project.md
12. sus.md
13. capitalism.md
14. competition.md
15. soyence.md
16. open_source.md
17. fight_culture.md
18. hero_culture.md
19. pseudoleft.md
20. free_culture.md
21. bloat.md
22. wordpress.md
23. atheism.md
24. lrs.md
25. venus_project.md
26. trash_magic.md