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I've got an actual professional to archieve and format all of this blog on a CD-ROM. I haven't got a copy of it yet, but I'm thinking this thing will be better than sliced white bread. It does cost $10 plus shipping, figure another $4 or so, which might be a bit on the higher side. But I think I'm worth it. Depending on how much the production company charges per copy, my cut will be about $5 to $6. That isn't too much to ask for over five years of work and nearly two million words of pure brilliance. Here is the link to order:
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Friday, June 01, 2012
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
r and r
R AND R
Henceforth and forever more ( or until I change my mind ), the new daily blog will be here:
http://jamesmdakin.blogspot.com/
Starting February 2nd 2012, this will be your Monday through Friday blog. I’m doing this for several reasons. First, one of these days I’ll get off my dead ass and compile the entire five and a quarter years of the Bison Blog together and charge you for the privilege of reading it ( like I do the old newsletter ). Don’t worry, a mere $3 or so. If I actually cleaned it up and indexed it I would charge more, but I don’t know if I’m that motivated. Secondly, I need a clean break from the Best Survivalist Blog Of All Time. My new blog will of course be strongly leaning towards prepping and such, but I want the freedom of occasionally writing about whatever and I don’t need the troll brigade crying about that article having nothing to do with the apocalypse. I understand why they did that before. They were getting info on one subject and expected that. Okay. But as I said yesterday, I’ve saturated the topic and am just repeating myself. If I need to take a day off and write about something else, I want to do so. I know I did that before, but I always tried to tie it into survivalism. I want the freedom to do that more often ( and, sure, it is my blog and I can write what I want to, but when you have financial supporters, there are certain expectations that must be met ). Oh, and I’m going back to a 7 am posting. Tomorrow’s article will be one written previously and held in reserve. So, I’ll write on my lunch break and you get it the next morning.
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Today’s article is R&R. Not Rest And Relaxation but rice and rimfire. Well, wheat or any other grain and rimfire or any kind of ammunition. For the prepper that has most everything, I can’t think of two other items that make more sense for unlimited stockpiling. Either for personal use of barter. Not that I like the idea of trading ammunition. Once our empire collapses ( and, one assumes, the globe follows as the oil runs out ), that will be the last of the high quality ammunition ever manufactured again. But let’s say you have an infection that will kill you without an antibiotic. Then it doesn’t matter. Your life is worth it. So your extra ammo becomes a life and death stockpiled item. You can plan to try to never sell it, but just in case you have to it will be available. Let’s say you have your five years of food, your ten thousand rounds of Russian bolt ammo. Your solar panels. Whatever. You already have a reasonable amount of precious metals ( not enough to drain your savings, but enough as an insurance hedge ). Mostly, you have everything you need. If you buy anymore it will just be duplicating. Or covering disasters so outside mathematical probability it seems silly to worry about ( like the Mayan thing ). If you continue to buy R&R, you have an investment worthy of multi-generational savings of true wealth.
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Once the oil runs out, we will NEVER again be able to grow grain at such an insanely low price ( the lowest paid worker being able to buy a day’s calories for under three minutes of work ). And ammunition will become utter crap compared to today’s modern machine automated items. It will be mid seventeenth century quality, not twenty-first century. Now, once everyone goes to black powder, and once the die-off is over and sustainable organics start feeding us again, your investment is still secure. Because it was so cheap to procure, you shouldn’t ever lose value on it on a purchasing power basis. Granted, there is a bit of an expiration issue. Some grains last longer than others, and no matter how well stored, eventually ammo will start to turn. But it should last enough to make it through several generations. And it is far more affordable than gold. For the price of one ounce of gold, you can buy almost a ton of wheat. In a famine, how much gold do you think you can get for five years worth of food? And once most folks have wasted all their rimfire on squirrels, how much silver do you think you can get for those rounds when folks are hungry?
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This is one of the best cost verses returns I can think of. Cigarettes are too expensive ( if your area will grow tobacco, I’d invest in seeds and training for that ). Booze can too easily be homemade ( although of course, not until there is a food surplus ), but still too expensive even if it is a good initial trade item. And not only are R&R great returns, they are great items for yourself, regardless of a potential market. If you never sell it, they can at least keep you alive. Matches are easily substituted. There might be some demand for needles or sewing stuff, but I’d wager there are enough already around that it will take years before a demand develops. And you can’t eat matches or needles. Or kill something with them to eat ( as an aside, you might think about having traps, then selling that food for yet more rimfire ).
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By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there.
Henceforth and forever more ( or until I change my mind ), the new daily blog will be here:
http://jamesmdakin.blogspot.com/
Starting February 2nd 2012, this will be your Monday through Friday blog. I’m doing this for several reasons. First, one of these days I’ll get off my dead ass and compile the entire five and a quarter years of the Bison Blog together and charge you for the privilege of reading it ( like I do the old newsletter ). Don’t worry, a mere $3 or so. If I actually cleaned it up and indexed it I would charge more, but I don’t know if I’m that motivated. Secondly, I need a clean break from the Best Survivalist Blog Of All Time. My new blog will of course be strongly leaning towards prepping and such, but I want the freedom of occasionally writing about whatever and I don’t need the troll brigade crying about that article having nothing to do with the apocalypse. I understand why they did that before. They were getting info on one subject and expected that. Okay. But as I said yesterday, I’ve saturated the topic and am just repeating myself. If I need to take a day off and write about something else, I want to do so. I know I did that before, but I always tried to tie it into survivalism. I want the freedom to do that more often ( and, sure, it is my blog and I can write what I want to, but when you have financial supporters, there are certain expectations that must be met ). Oh, and I’m going back to a 7 am posting. Tomorrow’s article will be one written previously and held in reserve. So, I’ll write on my lunch break and you get it the next morning.
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Today’s article is R&R. Not Rest And Relaxation but rice and rimfire. Well, wheat or any other grain and rimfire or any kind of ammunition. For the prepper that has most everything, I can’t think of two other items that make more sense for unlimited stockpiling. Either for personal use of barter. Not that I like the idea of trading ammunition. Once our empire collapses ( and, one assumes, the globe follows as the oil runs out ), that will be the last of the high quality ammunition ever manufactured again. But let’s say you have an infection that will kill you without an antibiotic. Then it doesn’t matter. Your life is worth it. So your extra ammo becomes a life and death stockpiled item. You can plan to try to never sell it, but just in case you have to it will be available. Let’s say you have your five years of food, your ten thousand rounds of Russian bolt ammo. Your solar panels. Whatever. You already have a reasonable amount of precious metals ( not enough to drain your savings, but enough as an insurance hedge ). Mostly, you have everything you need. If you buy anymore it will just be duplicating. Or covering disasters so outside mathematical probability it seems silly to worry about ( like the Mayan thing ). If you continue to buy R&R, you have an investment worthy of multi-generational savings of true wealth.
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You can purchase anything, not just the linked item. Enter Amazon through my item link and then go to whatever other item you desire. As long as you don’t leave Amazon until after the order is placed, I get credit for your purchase. Thank you.
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Once the oil runs out, we will NEVER again be able to grow grain at such an insanely low price ( the lowest paid worker being able to buy a day’s calories for under three minutes of work ). And ammunition will become utter crap compared to today’s modern machine automated items. It will be mid seventeenth century quality, not twenty-first century. Now, once everyone goes to black powder, and once the die-off is over and sustainable organics start feeding us again, your investment is still secure. Because it was so cheap to procure, you shouldn’t ever lose value on it on a purchasing power basis. Granted, there is a bit of an expiration issue. Some grains last longer than others, and no matter how well stored, eventually ammo will start to turn. But it should last enough to make it through several generations. And it is far more affordable than gold. For the price of one ounce of gold, you can buy almost a ton of wheat. In a famine, how much gold do you think you can get for five years worth of food? And once most folks have wasted all their rimfire on squirrels, how much silver do you think you can get for those rounds when folks are hungry?
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This is one of the best cost verses returns I can think of. Cigarettes are too expensive ( if your area will grow tobacco, I’d invest in seeds and training for that ). Booze can too easily be homemade ( although of course, not until there is a food surplus ), but still too expensive even if it is a good initial trade item. And not only are R&R great returns, they are great items for yourself, regardless of a potential market. If you never sell it, they can at least keep you alive. Matches are easily substituted. There might be some demand for needles or sewing stuff, but I’d wager there are enough already around that it will take years before a demand develops. And you can’t eat matches or needles. Or kill something with them to eat ( as an aside, you might think about having traps, then selling that food for yet more rimfire ).
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Anyone can submit a guest article. No minimum word length, no writing skill necessary ( just get the idea across ). You retain copyright ( this must be your original writing ) and I’ll just use the once. I’ve yet to turn down an article, just don’t use the N Bomb or libel another that can sue me. Send by e-mail ( please, label as “guest article” so I can find it easily later ). Payment will be your removal from my enemies list.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
our decline is better than yours
OUR DECLINE IS BETTER THAN YOURS
Before I say anything else, please note that I will continue to post drivel until either the day I die or it becomes uneconomical to do so ( for instance, if a tax was levied on the Web ). But there will be big changes afoot here. I’ll continue to post here Monday through Friday. Even if I really went south I’d still post at least once a week ( don’t worry, I don’t think it will come to that ). I just think I don’t care all that much anymore. I’ve posted for five years, almost every waking hour thinking about the subject of our collapse. I think I’m bored. Not only am I bored, I think it is getting harder and harder coming up with fresh subjects. I’ve always had my down periods, and then rebounded. I’ve always repeated, but managed to make up for it with new insights. I just think all that is getting harder and harder. I’m not burned out as far as being able to write, but burned out as far as being so inspired and motivated. Most of you are faithful minions and I want to keep this together, but I can’t help but wonder if its gone from me bringing up new things to ponder to just us sitting around and rehashing the same crap. I’ll keep writing, but this won’t be my main purpose in life anymore. I’m going to stop spending so much money buying books for research, and I’m going to stop caring so much if the Amazon commissions drop. If I’m not spending $120 a month on books, it won’t matter if I don’t get double that amount in commissions and Google ads and book revenues. This is going from a consuming all encompassing passion to just a hobby. And really, how long is it going to hold together anyhow? The post office and the Internet are both on borrowed time. Netflix is a business model in trouble, and so are blogs relying on ads. Last weekend I sat for hours and just pondered the upcoming pit project. It was a nice change of pace from trying to pull an article out of my butt. I think it is time for more Jim time. And it is necessary that I pull myself off the extra money tit before I become addicted. And the “spoiling myself with expensive books” tit. That one will be harder, but the extra money is going to preps. Some part of this is naked fear we are almost at the edge. I’m going to get serious about reloading components and especially rimfire. I played “big heepum business tycoon” role long enough. Time to stop investing in a micro-business and just go for more supplies. I’ll of course blather more on this another time.
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NPR was interviewing some author who wrote a book on North Korea. You know, that relatively harmless country we love to have lined up as a back up Evil Regime Of The Ages just in case a few ragheads with rocket launchers kick our ass in Afghanistan and we have to declare it pacified and desert it ( I’m sure most Afghans are wondering what friggin country we think we are rebuilding when they are still living in tribes ). We have to have SOME country to hate. It gives the sheeple something else to worry about in between Super Bowl Wardrobe Malfunctions, lest they shift their gaze to Quantitative Easing #6. It was fiction, but based on his stay there. Diane Rheem and him were breathlessly droning on how comical that government is. For instance, the one tourist hotel open only had two floors available. Our brave intrepid writer snuck around the deserted floors and noticed how all the other rooms were being stripped of fixtures to keep up appearances in the two open areas. And this was supposed to make us all superior and feel good about our standard of living. Really? Who has bridges falling into rivers? Who has vacant houses being copper mined, and the copper shipped over to China? At least the North Koreans are keeping their raw materials in house. Then he went on about how everyone is brainwashed. Really? Who supposedly has a Constitution? Who’s nation is full of uneducated idiots that think indefinite detention without charges is Constitutional? We blindly go alone with the Kenyans declarations of a dictator and spew about how we are the freest country on earth, and THEY are the brainwashed ones? Then there was some other nonsense about incompetent spying. I’m not sure how competent the TSA is compared to any Third World group of wanna-be KGB goons. Perhaps they are more professional than those jack booted thugs in, say, the Congo, but I wouldn’t put the rent money on that wager.
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In short, we are as sad and pathetic as North Korea, but far more dangerous as we have more precise nuclear missiles. We have nothing to be gloating about. Yes, I love the idea of America. Too bad it’s a foreign land I’ll never find. And no, I wouldn’t
rather be living in Korea. But if we lie to ourselves and pretend nothing is amiss, nothing will ever change. You can’t fix a problem you don’t admit to having. But I think the thing that really chaps my ass is they insult our intelligence assuming we will buy into this crap. Of course, it could just be it underlines of apathy. Or it could be the Wet Spaghetti Theory Of Propaganda. Throw enough half baked notions against the wall and some is apt to be done enough that it will stick. Bombard us with enough manure and something is going to grow. Repeat a lie enough times and the most resistant will eventually just accept it so it stops bothering them. So why do I cry and you listen? Perhaps its just our brand of circus to entertain us through the collapse. Cheers.
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Anyone can submit a guest article. No minimum word length, no writing skill necessary ( just get the idea across ). You retain copyright ( this must be your original writing ) and I’ll just use the once. I’ve yet to turn down an article, just don’t use the N Bomb or libel another that can sue me. Send by e-mail ( please, label as “guest article” so I can find it easily later ). Payment will be your removal from my enemies list.
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By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there.
Before I say anything else, please note that I will continue to post drivel until either the day I die or it becomes uneconomical to do so ( for instance, if a tax was levied on the Web ). But there will be big changes afoot here. I’ll continue to post here Monday through Friday. Even if I really went south I’d still post at least once a week ( don’t worry, I don’t think it will come to that ). I just think I don’t care all that much anymore. I’ve posted for five years, almost every waking hour thinking about the subject of our collapse. I think I’m bored. Not only am I bored, I think it is getting harder and harder coming up with fresh subjects. I’ve always had my down periods, and then rebounded. I’ve always repeated, but managed to make up for it with new insights. I just think all that is getting harder and harder. I’m not burned out as far as being able to write, but burned out as far as being so inspired and motivated. Most of you are faithful minions and I want to keep this together, but I can’t help but wonder if its gone from me bringing up new things to ponder to just us sitting around and rehashing the same crap. I’ll keep writing, but this won’t be my main purpose in life anymore. I’m going to stop spending so much money buying books for research, and I’m going to stop caring so much if the Amazon commissions drop. If I’m not spending $120 a month on books, it won’t matter if I don’t get double that amount in commissions and Google ads and book revenues. This is going from a consuming all encompassing passion to just a hobby. And really, how long is it going to hold together anyhow? The post office and the Internet are both on borrowed time. Netflix is a business model in trouble, and so are blogs relying on ads. Last weekend I sat for hours and just pondered the upcoming pit project. It was a nice change of pace from trying to pull an article out of my butt. I think it is time for more Jim time. And it is necessary that I pull myself off the extra money tit before I become addicted. And the “spoiling myself with expensive books” tit. That one will be harder, but the extra money is going to preps. Some part of this is naked fear we are almost at the edge. I’m going to get serious about reloading components and especially rimfire. I played “big heepum business tycoon” role long enough. Time to stop investing in a micro-business and just go for more supplies. I’ll of course blather more on this another time.
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Please support Bison by buying through the Amazon graphics above and to the right of each article. Or, visit
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You can purchase anything, not just the linked item. Enter Amazon through my item link and then go to whatever other item you desire. As long as you don’t leave Amazon until after the order is placed, I get credit for your purchase. Thank you.
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NPR was interviewing some author who wrote a book on North Korea. You know, that relatively harmless country we love to have lined up as a back up Evil Regime Of The Ages just in case a few ragheads with rocket launchers kick our ass in Afghanistan and we have to declare it pacified and desert it ( I’m sure most Afghans are wondering what friggin country we think we are rebuilding when they are still living in tribes ). We have to have SOME country to hate. It gives the sheeple something else to worry about in between Super Bowl Wardrobe Malfunctions, lest they shift their gaze to Quantitative Easing #6. It was fiction, but based on his stay there. Diane Rheem and him were breathlessly droning on how comical that government is. For instance, the one tourist hotel open only had two floors available. Our brave intrepid writer snuck around the deserted floors and noticed how all the other rooms were being stripped of fixtures to keep up appearances in the two open areas. And this was supposed to make us all superior and feel good about our standard of living. Really? Who has bridges falling into rivers? Who has vacant houses being copper mined, and the copper shipped over to China? At least the North Koreans are keeping their raw materials in house. Then he went on about how everyone is brainwashed. Really? Who supposedly has a Constitution? Who’s nation is full of uneducated idiots that think indefinite detention without charges is Constitutional? We blindly go alone with the Kenyans declarations of a dictator and spew about how we are the freest country on earth, and THEY are the brainwashed ones? Then there was some other nonsense about incompetent spying. I’m not sure how competent the TSA is compared to any Third World group of wanna-be KGB goons. Perhaps they are more professional than those jack booted thugs in, say, the Congo, but I wouldn’t put the rent money on that wager.
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In short, we are as sad and pathetic as North Korea, but far more dangerous as we have more precise nuclear missiles. We have nothing to be gloating about. Yes, I love the idea of America. Too bad it’s a foreign land I’ll never find. And no, I wouldn’t
rather be living in Korea. But if we lie to ourselves and pretend nothing is amiss, nothing will ever change. You can’t fix a problem you don’t admit to having. But I think the thing that really chaps my ass is they insult our intelligence assuming we will buy into this crap. Of course, it could just be it underlines of apathy. Or it could be the Wet Spaghetti Theory Of Propaganda. Throw enough half baked notions against the wall and some is apt to be done enough that it will stick. Bombard us with enough manure and something is going to grow. Repeat a lie enough times and the most resistant will eventually just accept it so it stops bothering them. So why do I cry and you listen? Perhaps its just our brand of circus to entertain us through the collapse. Cheers.
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Anyone can submit a guest article. No minimum word length, no writing skill necessary ( just get the idea across ). You retain copyright ( this must be your original writing ) and I’ll just use the once. I’ve yet to turn down an article, just don’t use the N Bomb or libel another that can sue me. Send by e-mail ( please, label as “guest article” so I can find it easily later ). Payment will be your removal from my enemies list.
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By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there.
Monday, January 30, 2012
frugal move
FRUGAL MOVE
Before we get into the meat of today’s article, and I’m sure there is no hurry because most of you who’ve stuck around a few years have heard it all before and all you new minions will swiftly desert away to a nice safe Yuppie blog where no one panics or gets upset that the middle class way of life is doomed ( and that includes pampered wives, bug out four wheel drives and a job that allows you to buy twenty three semi-automatic weapons ) as soon as I mention such forbidden words as Peak Oil or PODA ( post oil dark ages ) so I’m being a swell fellow and allowing you this heads up to do so, we’ll talk about today’s little news item with Freddie Mac or Fannie May or whichever Federal Reserve Bank bailout recipient it was that just had an “expose” about how they are actually out to hump you dry. I’m not the least bit surprised about this but apparently National Pravda Radio is all atwitter over said event. It seems FM is taking out derivatives betting against its customers being able to get their loans at a lower interest rate. Everyone is shouting “conflict of interest”. I’m wondering when these idiots are going to learn that “they” are indeed out to get you. I’m also wondering how hard it is to figure out that a bank loses money if you pay them less interest. Then I absentmindedly wonder how close to going belly up these folks at FM are if they are STILL playing with derivatives even after the real estate bubble, and how indicative they are of our whole financial system.
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Because that is our main worry, isn’t it? We have no idea when the entire system takes a big wet runny dump. The people in the World Bank or suchlike are crying on cue to sell the idea of more quantitative easing. The gold bugs are crying imminent crash to sell their wares. The freeze dried food guys the same, and I cry Apocalypse Now through good times and bad. But it is just common sense that kicking the can down the road eventually leads to the road running out. We know it is coming but nobody knows when or how bad. I think we should assume the worse just to play it safe. Which means getting the hell out of the big city. Granted, you could die just as easy in a small town, but the odds are better when you get out of an urban jungle. I still think you should bug out now, while there are no hostile crowds in your way, before the government can blockade you in ( the Warsaw Jews put up one hell of a commendable and courageous fight but in the end they were trapped ) and while you can still earn a living while you learn to live off grid ( it ain’t rocket science but it still requires practice and trial and error ). I’ve harped on this for years but I’m still getting that bad feeling like the cliff is near ( although to be fair I’m a bit of a nervous type and might be overreacting rather than picking up on a cosmic vibe only the reptilian part of the brain is tuned to ). Which might be why I’m so up in arms over “saving” the blog from imminent financial ruin. I might just be thinking it is doomed from grid crash and I’m picking up on the wrong worry. But who the hell knows. The nervous weasel makes a lot of wrong calls diving for safety. I’ve harped on junk land not because it is the perfect answer ( I don’t sell perfect, the Yuppie’s do ) but because it is the affordable answer. But I won’t try to resell you on the concept. You will either glom on to it or ignore it as is your wont. Here we just talk money, how to get to your land.
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Anybody can afford to move to a piece of junk land. What not everybody can afford is being able to move all their stuff to it. Your stuff is very expensive to move. A U-Haul is, let’s just ballpark it, about a buck a mile to rent the unit. And about fifty cents a mile for gasoline. This ain’t anything to worry about across the state, but it adds up quick across the country. You need to figure out if it is cheaper to do one of three things. Move it all, move some and replace some, or replace all. Of course, you can start over smaller and cheaper. You can use the excuse of needing to move to drastically par down your possessions if you so desire. Once you stop using your crap as an excuse, you will find that moving is as cheap as a Greyhound bus ticket or a discount plane ticket. Or, just as cheap as the price to fill your gas tank ( if you get thirty miles to the gallon, it will cost only three hundred bucks to move coast to coast, baring mechanical failure ). That U-haul will run you over four grand. Which is more than your land probably cost you. Now, I understand that we are all different. One of you has more tied up in ammunition than four grand, another has tens of thousands of dollars in books needed for reference as you write for a living. I can’t cover everyone’s situation because I don’t know them. I don’t know who has sick relatives, who has a nearby farm to go to, etc.
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I do know that in my own experience, paring my possessions down to a few duffle bags gave me the opportunity to move whenever and wherever I chose. I’ve lived most places other than Yankeeland. And when I hated it I just moved on with little lose. No investment, so no worries. That of course was before my children or most of my wives, but I’ve also just dumped all my prep gear and lit out half way across the country and started over again. Dumping all your possessions allows you to move freely about the country ( I think that was an old Southwest Airlines commercial ) and to start over smarter. I can’t tell you if that is as smart right now, collapse timeframe unknown, but it can’t be much worse than living in an almost guaranteed death trap. In short, moving to a safer place has nothing to do with financial ability and everything to do with your frame of mind. If you want it, it is as easy as can be. But for how much longer?
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Anyone can submit a guest article. No minimum word length, no writing skill necessary ( just get the idea across ). You retain copyright ( this must be your original writing ) and I’ll just use the once. I’ve yet to turn down an article, just don’t use the N Bomb or libel another that can sue me. Send by e-mail ( please, label as “guest article” so I can find it easily later ). Payment will be your removal from my enemies list.
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By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there.
Before we get into the meat of today’s article, and I’m sure there is no hurry because most of you who’ve stuck around a few years have heard it all before and all you new minions will swiftly desert away to a nice safe Yuppie blog where no one panics or gets upset that the middle class way of life is doomed ( and that includes pampered wives, bug out four wheel drives and a job that allows you to buy twenty three semi-automatic weapons ) as soon as I mention such forbidden words as Peak Oil or PODA ( post oil dark ages ) so I’m being a swell fellow and allowing you this heads up to do so, we’ll talk about today’s little news item with Freddie Mac or Fannie May or whichever Federal Reserve Bank bailout recipient it was that just had an “expose” about how they are actually out to hump you dry. I’m not the least bit surprised about this but apparently National Pravda Radio is all atwitter over said event. It seems FM is taking out derivatives betting against its customers being able to get their loans at a lower interest rate. Everyone is shouting “conflict of interest”. I’m wondering when these idiots are going to learn that “they” are indeed out to get you. I’m also wondering how hard it is to figure out that a bank loses money if you pay them less interest. Then I absentmindedly wonder how close to going belly up these folks at FM are if they are STILL playing with derivatives even after the real estate bubble, and how indicative they are of our whole financial system.
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Because that is our main worry, isn’t it? We have no idea when the entire system takes a big wet runny dump. The people in the World Bank or suchlike are crying on cue to sell the idea of more quantitative easing. The gold bugs are crying imminent crash to sell their wares. The freeze dried food guys the same, and I cry Apocalypse Now through good times and bad. But it is just common sense that kicking the can down the road eventually leads to the road running out. We know it is coming but nobody knows when or how bad. I think we should assume the worse just to play it safe. Which means getting the hell out of the big city. Granted, you could die just as easy in a small town, but the odds are better when you get out of an urban jungle. I still think you should bug out now, while there are no hostile crowds in your way, before the government can blockade you in ( the Warsaw Jews put up one hell of a commendable and courageous fight but in the end they were trapped ) and while you can still earn a living while you learn to live off grid ( it ain’t rocket science but it still requires practice and trial and error ). I’ve harped on this for years but I’m still getting that bad feeling like the cliff is near ( although to be fair I’m a bit of a nervous type and might be overreacting rather than picking up on a cosmic vibe only the reptilian part of the brain is tuned to ). Which might be why I’m so up in arms over “saving” the blog from imminent financial ruin. I might just be thinking it is doomed from grid crash and I’m picking up on the wrong worry. But who the hell knows. The nervous weasel makes a lot of wrong calls diving for safety. I’ve harped on junk land not because it is the perfect answer ( I don’t sell perfect, the Yuppie’s do ) but because it is the affordable answer. But I won’t try to resell you on the concept. You will either glom on to it or ignore it as is your wont. Here we just talk money, how to get to your land.
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Anybody can afford to move to a piece of junk land. What not everybody can afford is being able to move all their stuff to it. Your stuff is very expensive to move. A U-Haul is, let’s just ballpark it, about a buck a mile to rent the unit. And about fifty cents a mile for gasoline. This ain’t anything to worry about across the state, but it adds up quick across the country. You need to figure out if it is cheaper to do one of three things. Move it all, move some and replace some, or replace all. Of course, you can start over smaller and cheaper. You can use the excuse of needing to move to drastically par down your possessions if you so desire. Once you stop using your crap as an excuse, you will find that moving is as cheap as a Greyhound bus ticket or a discount plane ticket. Or, just as cheap as the price to fill your gas tank ( if you get thirty miles to the gallon, it will cost only three hundred bucks to move coast to coast, baring mechanical failure ). That U-haul will run you over four grand. Which is more than your land probably cost you. Now, I understand that we are all different. One of you has more tied up in ammunition than four grand, another has tens of thousands of dollars in books needed for reference as you write for a living. I can’t cover everyone’s situation because I don’t know them. I don’t know who has sick relatives, who has a nearby farm to go to, etc.
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I do know that in my own experience, paring my possessions down to a few duffle bags gave me the opportunity to move whenever and wherever I chose. I’ve lived most places other than Yankeeland. And when I hated it I just moved on with little lose. No investment, so no worries. That of course was before my children or most of my wives, but I’ve also just dumped all my prep gear and lit out half way across the country and started over again. Dumping all your possessions allows you to move freely about the country ( I think that was an old Southwest Airlines commercial ) and to start over smarter. I can’t tell you if that is as smart right now, collapse timeframe unknown, but it can’t be much worse than living in an almost guaranteed death trap. In short, moving to a safer place has nothing to do with financial ability and everything to do with your frame of mind. If you want it, it is as easy as can be. But for how much longer?
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Friday, January 27, 2012
when you're in a collapse
WHEN YOU’RE IN A COLLAPSE
Let’s just say, for the sake or argument, that I’m wrong. Let’s just say, acting on supreme ignorance in the face of facts, that Peak Oil never declines in our lifetime and we stay at Bumpy Plateau. In that case, I’d be wrong about collapse and the Druid Dude would be right about long decline. Hey, anything is possible. I’ve always thought a mortgage was a bad idea, but I was twenty years early in my paranoia. I’ve always hated cars, mainly because of the financial drain but also a lot of that is a fierce hatred against the whoring bastard insurance industry for jamming compulsory coverage down our throats. But by and large we still aren’t to the point where you can’t afford a car if you want one. So my timing really sucks on that one. I moved out to junk land only when a combination of economic collapse nationally met local sky high rents ( I knew I’d have to move eventually as rent went up 10% a year ) and then those two combined with the family planning on moving out of the area. In other words, I wasn’t a supreme strategic planner as much as I was just lucky. I’m usually right about the trend, but usually not for the reason I think, and never correct about the timing. I think the total collapse is just around the corner, but look at my track record before panicking.
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But here is my point. Even if I’m wrong, I could be right. As they say, when your neighbor loses a job it is a recession but when you lose your job it is a Depression. The same can be said of a collapse verses a decline. During a decline, you could very well end up dead or penniless and homeless. Let’s go back a short period in history. How about just the first half of the last century? You weren’t alive then, but it isn’t such oldie and moldy history that you might want to discard it. When the Bolsheviks overthrew the Czar, and Russia turned into the Soviet Union, Russia was never in a collapse. In general, food still got into the cities and you didn’t have mass casualties. Not die-off levels anyway. Society was never in danger of collapsing. But if you got caught in between warring factions, you ended up dead. Even if you didn’t starve, you probably had malnutrition and health issues. Did you get enough fuel? In short, you were in a collapse, personally. Looking back, in a macro sense, life in general went on. But even without a collapse, a large segment of the society suffered. Look at Germany at the end of WWII. Civilians were dying left and right. Starvation was rampant ( between the end of the fighting and the relief shipments from the US, there was plenty of time for plenty of folks to starve ). History shows a change of leadership, a continuity of governance. But people still died. Calling this a long decline rather than a collapse was technically true looking at the vast forest. Looking at the trees individually tells a different story.
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Now, people die everyday. Just because you are one of them doesn’t mean civilization is collapsing. I’m talking here instead of mass death and destruction that is hidden in the bigger trend. How can you call Rome a slow decline when invading barbarians sacked the city ( killing all males and violated the females and selling the children into slavery ), food shortages caused malnutrition which exasperated the effects of widespread plague, and hyperinflation wiped out your savings? That was a civilization collapse to the people that went through it. Because it took a few hundred years before the city was a deserted overgrown meadow doesn’t mean people didn’t die as if it were a collapse. Die-offs are messy. I’d state that the majority did NOT slowly adjust over several generations. The majority died violent deaths. How else do you have such a severe population drop? Remember that civilization collapse is resource depletion. To get the population back into equilibrium with the diminished productivity of the land, most must die. And most do not die peacefully in their sleep.
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Assuming that we do stay at the Bumpy Plateau ( the term describing the maxed out production of oil with blips up and down but staying within a certain range ), civilization per se has not yet collapsed. But far below that general trend, a lot of messy reconfigurations are going on. Tribes are fighting, natural disaster victims are receiving no help, infrastructure is not being replaced, quality of life declines and the unnatural death rates increase. Just like we’ve been seeing for the last five years or so. Do you honest injun really think New Orleans fifth ward, the island of Haiti ( okay, half the island comprising the country ), or Japans industrial city are ever going to be rebuilt? Do you think it will be safe to fish the Gulf within our lifetime? Do you think crime is going to decrease in Detroit? Who thinks stability will return to the middle east? The place is falling apart and slapping a fresh coat of paint in the front room doesn’t change things. We are already looking in the rear view mirror of the start of the decline, and there is no guarantee that a general collapse won’t happen. And a greater than even probability that your own personal collapse can occur any time. Sure, all the survival writers called for evacuation of urban areas in the seventies. And they were wrong. What did they lose? Future book sales. If you are wrong and stay where you are, what do you lose? Your life. Wake up about what you are betting.
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Let’s just say, for the sake or argument, that I’m wrong. Let’s just say, acting on supreme ignorance in the face of facts, that Peak Oil never declines in our lifetime and we stay at Bumpy Plateau. In that case, I’d be wrong about collapse and the Druid Dude would be right about long decline. Hey, anything is possible. I’ve always thought a mortgage was a bad idea, but I was twenty years early in my paranoia. I’ve always hated cars, mainly because of the financial drain but also a lot of that is a fierce hatred against the whoring bastard insurance industry for jamming compulsory coverage down our throats. But by and large we still aren’t to the point where you can’t afford a car if you want one. So my timing really sucks on that one. I moved out to junk land only when a combination of economic collapse nationally met local sky high rents ( I knew I’d have to move eventually as rent went up 10% a year ) and then those two combined with the family planning on moving out of the area. In other words, I wasn’t a supreme strategic planner as much as I was just lucky. I’m usually right about the trend, but usually not for the reason I think, and never correct about the timing. I think the total collapse is just around the corner, but look at my track record before panicking.
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But here is my point. Even if I’m wrong, I could be right. As they say, when your neighbor loses a job it is a recession but when you lose your job it is a Depression. The same can be said of a collapse verses a decline. During a decline, you could very well end up dead or penniless and homeless. Let’s go back a short period in history. How about just the first half of the last century? You weren’t alive then, but it isn’t such oldie and moldy history that you might want to discard it. When the Bolsheviks overthrew the Czar, and Russia turned into the Soviet Union, Russia was never in a collapse. In general, food still got into the cities and you didn’t have mass casualties. Not die-off levels anyway. Society was never in danger of collapsing. But if you got caught in between warring factions, you ended up dead. Even if you didn’t starve, you probably had malnutrition and health issues. Did you get enough fuel? In short, you were in a collapse, personally. Looking back, in a macro sense, life in general went on. But even without a collapse, a large segment of the society suffered. Look at Germany at the end of WWII. Civilians were dying left and right. Starvation was rampant ( between the end of the fighting and the relief shipments from the US, there was plenty of time for plenty of folks to starve ). History shows a change of leadership, a continuity of governance. But people still died. Calling this a long decline rather than a collapse was technically true looking at the vast forest. Looking at the trees individually tells a different story.
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Now, people die everyday. Just because you are one of them doesn’t mean civilization is collapsing. I’m talking here instead of mass death and destruction that is hidden in the bigger trend. How can you call Rome a slow decline when invading barbarians sacked the city ( killing all males and violated the females and selling the children into slavery ), food shortages caused malnutrition which exasperated the effects of widespread plague, and hyperinflation wiped out your savings? That was a civilization collapse to the people that went through it. Because it took a few hundred years before the city was a deserted overgrown meadow doesn’t mean people didn’t die as if it were a collapse. Die-offs are messy. I’d state that the majority did NOT slowly adjust over several generations. The majority died violent deaths. How else do you have such a severe population drop? Remember that civilization collapse is resource depletion. To get the population back into equilibrium with the diminished productivity of the land, most must die. And most do not die peacefully in their sleep.
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Assuming that we do stay at the Bumpy Plateau ( the term describing the maxed out production of oil with blips up and down but staying within a certain range ), civilization per se has not yet collapsed. But far below that general trend, a lot of messy reconfigurations are going on. Tribes are fighting, natural disaster victims are receiving no help, infrastructure is not being replaced, quality of life declines and the unnatural death rates increase. Just like we’ve been seeing for the last five years or so. Do you honest injun really think New Orleans fifth ward, the island of Haiti ( okay, half the island comprising the country ), or Japans industrial city are ever going to be rebuilt? Do you think it will be safe to fish the Gulf within our lifetime? Do you think crime is going to decrease in Detroit? Who thinks stability will return to the middle east? The place is falling apart and slapping a fresh coat of paint in the front room doesn’t change things. We are already looking in the rear view mirror of the start of the decline, and there is no guarantee that a general collapse won’t happen. And a greater than even probability that your own personal collapse can occur any time. Sure, all the survival writers called for evacuation of urban areas in the seventies. And they were wrong. What did they lose? Future book sales. If you are wrong and stay where you are, what do you lose? Your life. Wake up about what you are betting.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
evolutionary biology
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY
Evolutionary biology is one of those simple concepts that should have been obvious but is hard to sell because of such things as political correct thinking ( an oxymoron to be sure ). Humans have evolved physically to solve problems. Now, if you argue with other educated religious scholars about the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin, this might not be the kind of theory you want to go embracing. Odds are, you will be burned at the stake for your troubles with independent thinking. Dogma can’t allow the most obviously innocent dissention into the conversation for fear of such mental activity. So, even though Darwin was a religious dude and simply said that God created the earth and evolution also, most folks tend to side with the idiot that did a few back of the envelope calculations and concluded that God created the earth whole clothe like three thousand years ago and that was that, end of argument. And just to light a fire under said religious folk, then you have equally baffling theories which worship at the scientific alter purporting that everything evolved from a primordial ooze. Which isn’t any more logical than the existence of God. But if I said that then said same scientists would have “proven” just fifty years ago that plate tectonics was wild quackery. Anyway, evolutionary biology might not be the end all and be all as a theory, but it certainly makes a bunch more sense than sociologists blathering on about “blank slates”. Which might have made sense at one time as there was little else to take its place but now compared to evolutionary biology it sounds pretty retarded. The blank slate theory blames ( or credits ) everything to environmental factors. These advocates are, say, purple haired fat lesbians that claim that if you raise a boy around ponies and tea sets he will be all in touch with his feminine side and be all loving and when he hits puberty he’ll grab the first male butt he sees and try to have carnal relations with it ( actually, the gay gene already gave way to the gay chemical imbalance, but that doesn’t sell in the PC crowd ). The evolutionary biologists on the other hand claim that male and female are born hard wired in their behavior because they evolved those characteristics to survive better.
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Anyone that has ever had a child knows this instinctively ( well, they start to know it after a few months- before that they are too sleep deprived to know much of anything ). Which is why lesbians are the chief guilty party for holding views to the contrary. The idiots are living in book theory instead of reality. Other characteristics have evolved to help us survive as a species. Culture, for one. We don’t conform to any old cultural trait. We wouldn’t learn how to be pony playing tea sipping butt pirates if our parents were plastic penile pumping carpet lickers. Culture has to reinforce what is already programmed into our brains. Boys are naturally aggressive. When you encourage that by letting them brain each other with rocks and tree branches, everyone is happy, even the boys with dented heads. When you penalize them in a sports team for being “mean” or “competitive” and give trophies for participation, everyone grows up maladjusted and confused ( and probably wanting to be gay even if they can’t pull it off ). And evolution is not a quick process ( except in catastrophic circumstances when all other traits are suddenly extinct ). You need a fairly stable long term situation ( which is why we still retain all our hunter gatherer traits- ten thousand years of farming is nothing compared to hundreds of thousands of years of killing bison and picking berries ).
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What does this have to do with survivalism? Easy. If you try to work against your programmed nature, you will lower your odds of survival. Right now, you are living as if the modern economy is how we are programmed to live and thrive. As if accumulating intangible wealth to acquire a mate is a viable strategy. Yes, right now that is what will attract a mate. But from a evolutionary biology standpoint, you are still a hunter gatherer. How good are you at hunting and gathering? I’m not saying that is a viable survival strategy after the collapse. There are way too many people, even after a 95% die off, and far too few animals. I’m saying that everything that has been culturally programmed into us is not a viable survival strategy. Women’s lib, the neutering of the males, all that sort of rot. Any female that sits there and cries to me about how oppressed women were a hundred years ago is as good as stewpot food. She has no idea how females have survived up until the modern era. They are the ones that lead males around by the gonads. The females are in charge, and the guys like it that way as long as they are able to act like they run things. And by the way, apropos to little, I’d like to throw in the fun filled fact as to why the female hourglass figure is so appealing. Fat on the breasts and thighs are signs of enough body fat for a healthy pregnancy, but show the right kinds of fat. Fat stomachs can easily point to health problems like diabetes and intestinal parasites. Males choose this body type as a preference, that body type is reproduced more, in time you get more of it. Evolutionary biology.
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I just got done reading three books on this subject ( although at the time I didn’t realize they all followed said theory ). The Red Queen, Why Wealthy Men Have More Daughters, and The Dark Side Of Man. Of the three, I’d recommend The Red Queen.
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Evolutionary biology is one of those simple concepts that should have been obvious but is hard to sell because of such things as political correct thinking ( an oxymoron to be sure ). Humans have evolved physically to solve problems. Now, if you argue with other educated religious scholars about the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin, this might not be the kind of theory you want to go embracing. Odds are, you will be burned at the stake for your troubles with independent thinking. Dogma can’t allow the most obviously innocent dissention into the conversation for fear of such mental activity. So, even though Darwin was a religious dude and simply said that God created the earth and evolution also, most folks tend to side with the idiot that did a few back of the envelope calculations and concluded that God created the earth whole clothe like three thousand years ago and that was that, end of argument. And just to light a fire under said religious folk, then you have equally baffling theories which worship at the scientific alter purporting that everything evolved from a primordial ooze. Which isn’t any more logical than the existence of God. But if I said that then said same scientists would have “proven” just fifty years ago that plate tectonics was wild quackery. Anyway, evolutionary biology might not be the end all and be all as a theory, but it certainly makes a bunch more sense than sociologists blathering on about “blank slates”. Which might have made sense at one time as there was little else to take its place but now compared to evolutionary biology it sounds pretty retarded. The blank slate theory blames ( or credits ) everything to environmental factors. These advocates are, say, purple haired fat lesbians that claim that if you raise a boy around ponies and tea sets he will be all in touch with his feminine side and be all loving and when he hits puberty he’ll grab the first male butt he sees and try to have carnal relations with it ( actually, the gay gene already gave way to the gay chemical imbalance, but that doesn’t sell in the PC crowd ). The evolutionary biologists on the other hand claim that male and female are born hard wired in their behavior because they evolved those characteristics to survive better.
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Anyone that has ever had a child knows this instinctively ( well, they start to know it after a few months- before that they are too sleep deprived to know much of anything ). Which is why lesbians are the chief guilty party for holding views to the contrary. The idiots are living in book theory instead of reality. Other characteristics have evolved to help us survive as a species. Culture, for one. We don’t conform to any old cultural trait. We wouldn’t learn how to be pony playing tea sipping butt pirates if our parents were plastic penile pumping carpet lickers. Culture has to reinforce what is already programmed into our brains. Boys are naturally aggressive. When you encourage that by letting them brain each other with rocks and tree branches, everyone is happy, even the boys with dented heads. When you penalize them in a sports team for being “mean” or “competitive” and give trophies for participation, everyone grows up maladjusted and confused ( and probably wanting to be gay even if they can’t pull it off ). And evolution is not a quick process ( except in catastrophic circumstances when all other traits are suddenly extinct ). You need a fairly stable long term situation ( which is why we still retain all our hunter gatherer traits- ten thousand years of farming is nothing compared to hundreds of thousands of years of killing bison and picking berries ).
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What does this have to do with survivalism? Easy. If you try to work against your programmed nature, you will lower your odds of survival. Right now, you are living as if the modern economy is how we are programmed to live and thrive. As if accumulating intangible wealth to acquire a mate is a viable strategy. Yes, right now that is what will attract a mate. But from a evolutionary biology standpoint, you are still a hunter gatherer. How good are you at hunting and gathering? I’m not saying that is a viable survival strategy after the collapse. There are way too many people, even after a 95% die off, and far too few animals. I’m saying that everything that has been culturally programmed into us is not a viable survival strategy. Women’s lib, the neutering of the males, all that sort of rot. Any female that sits there and cries to me about how oppressed women were a hundred years ago is as good as stewpot food. She has no idea how females have survived up until the modern era. They are the ones that lead males around by the gonads. The females are in charge, and the guys like it that way as long as they are able to act like they run things. And by the way, apropos to little, I’d like to throw in the fun filled fact as to why the female hourglass figure is so appealing. Fat on the breasts and thighs are signs of enough body fat for a healthy pregnancy, but show the right kinds of fat. Fat stomachs can easily point to health problems like diabetes and intestinal parasites. Males choose this body type as a preference, that body type is reproduced more, in time you get more of it. Evolutionary biology.
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I just got done reading three books on this subject ( although at the time I didn’t realize they all followed said theory ). The Red Queen, Why Wealthy Men Have More Daughters, and The Dark Side Of Man. Of the three, I’d recommend The Red Queen.
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
perfect decline jobs
PERFECT DECLINE JOBS
Okay, another one I wrote last weekend. I’m going to go over to my web site and add a page on the top 20 fiction books. I’ve been meaning to do that for awhile. Tomorrow I’ll be back on schedule. Here’s an extra tidbit for you- Shwan’s, the frozen food dudes that home deliver, is shutting down a bunch of distribution centers across the country. If you want their slop you’ll have to UPS it. My guess is that will be MORE expensive, and the company was never much of a bargain to begin with. To me, proof that the middle class and luxury spending is sharply contracting ( but don’t worry, North Dakota oil will allow green shoots to grow out of our ass any day now ). They said so, so it must be true. On to our regular article.
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Well, okay, no job is perfect. Because a job is work and work is a four letter word. But then again, the only thing worse than a job is no job ( kind of like the only thing worse than being married is being single ). What we will talk about here is jobs that actually have a future in a general decline and that have close to zero start up costs. But of course there is a catch. There is always a catch. Ain’t nothing free in life and what should be as obvious as my need to state the obvious. Entire generations thought they could get a free lunch ( Union wages, forced hiring quotas, Social Security benefits far exceeding what they paid into the system ) and now that the various levels of government are trying to modify the amount of free downwards the hue and cry from the public is deafening. So I guess most folks know there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch for the other idiots out there but they themselves are privileged and special. Anyways, back to the catch for a perfect job. You can’t expect to make too much money. In the past, rarified salaries were the expected norm. People sold their one hundred grand home for half a million, opened a granite top or a bead and trinket shop and expected to pull in big bucks. They were by gum special. Hey, Special Friggin Education. What moron can’t figure out salaries and home prices can’t grow upwards forever? The wave of the future is for wages to fall. They have stagnated for almost forty years. Through increased productivity, employee paid further education and computerization. Now add oil reduction and exponential debt growth to that and you get actual wage decline. For everyone except those that can steal it. If you can live on less, you will be welcomed in the future.
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Living on less is having no debt and little expenses. No mortgage, no rent, no car payments or its running expenses ( if you think auto insurance is high now, wait for consolidation and more government granted monopolies [ such as mandatory health insurance- Romney or Obammy, both whores to the financiers so be sure to vote carefully! ]. Don’t drive and free yourself ). Grow some of your food. Eat bulk for everything else ( that doesn’t mean a five gallon tub of Gummi Bears ). Now you can live on very little salary. If you can, read a copy of both Possum Living and How To Survive Without A Salary. If your needs are low, your salary can be also. And with a need to little salary, you can provide services poor people ( the only growing demographic ) will want to pay. If you need to pay a mortgage, pay off the truck, rent a retail office, etc., you have already priced yourself out of this market. The perfect, grow in contraction, almost no start up cost jobs are Alternate Energy, Bike Repair and Bike Hauling. Alternate energy is going to be such things as insulating and 12 volt power. Also solar cookers and water heaters. All the needed skills can be self taught online and through old issues of Mother Earth News ( you can buy the first ten years on CD for $20. I wouldn’t bother with much past that date as the corporate scumbags took over around then ). Bike repair is as easy as a book or two and practicing on your own bike. If you go to where folks need you, you eliminate most of your costs. Bike hauling fits in with almost zero operating costs and the growing segment of folks being priced out of the car ownership market ( and the growing old and feeble segment ).
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You can’t sell your expertise at a high mark up with any of these jobs. If you do, the customer himself will perform the job. You want to price yourself under the threshold where it is worth the cost savings to do-it-yourself. For instance, if you charged $100 to install solar panels, most people would figure it out themselves ( perhaps buying $20 in beer to have a buddy come over and help ). If you just charged that $20, most people would conclude the cost savings weren’t worth them learning that new skill ( especially if it was a one time needed skill ). Usually, they could afford to insulate once ( say, using a years tax return ). They would gladly pay you $100 to get sweaty and itchy and finish it in one third the time. But they wouldn’t pay you hundreds ( my son works each summer on roofing. Him and a buddy charge double material cost as labor. Apparently that is much cheaper than from anyone else. And, he actually has high school carpentry training so it isn’t just two yahoos climbing around like monkeys. The community knows he is trained and experienced and works cheap ) or thousands like a contractor wants. Of course, there is always the problem of licenses and permits and required training. You are on your own figuring that out. The next, bicycle mechanics, is easy enough if you are klutz, and really simple if you are mechanically inclined. Which makes it easy to lose customers to do-it-yourself. You can’t expect to emulate retail bike shops and expect to be able to make all your money in tire repairs. Expect the crap jobs like bearing replacements. But by providing a come-to-you service ( their bike might be their only transportation at that date in the future ) free, and working cheap, you should always have some business.
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Bike hauling anyone can do. If they are in shape, own a bike and aren’t too old. If you are cheap enough and can undersell the guy who owns a jalopy truck, you will always have a market. Have a quality bike ( most folks will own a crappy Mart bike ) and a specialty trailer for serious weight ( they sell a trailer that can haul an electrical appliance- but it also handles four big 18 gallon totes or a piece of furniture ). As more folks go back to the city ( as they give up cars and commutes ), the easier your client growth gets. It doesn’t have to be a serious oil crunch. Higher inflation, higher unemployment, higher insurance- all point to decreasing car ownership. Most folks have eaten at the GM trough of death and having once valued their time more than their health ( the poor don’t eat the majority of fast food- office workers and the wealthier workers don’t have time to waste and mostly eat out ) they are only alive due to modern pharmaceuticals. By the time the oil crunch gets serious, they are your built in customers as their health reflects their past eating habits. Your ability to actually peddle enough to haul your own weight in freight without having a heart attack is job security. And as your sickly customers die off, the newly car-less take their place. Most probably didn’t even have the foresight to buy a bike at all but instead had two or three cars.
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You can start now, and with very little money. As time goes on you gain reputation and experience. When the serious decline starts, you are in like Flynn. As government teat juice dries up, the difference in earning a few hundred bucks or not a month will make all the difference ( and then, there is always barter for eggs and veggies, etc. Say, you take infirm grandma’s eggs around to her customers and she gives you a cut. Boom. Protein in your diet solved ).
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Okay, another one I wrote last weekend. I’m going to go over to my web site and add a page on the top 20 fiction books. I’ve been meaning to do that for awhile. Tomorrow I’ll be back on schedule. Here’s an extra tidbit for you- Shwan’s, the frozen food dudes that home deliver, is shutting down a bunch of distribution centers across the country. If you want their slop you’ll have to UPS it. My guess is that will be MORE expensive, and the company was never much of a bargain to begin with. To me, proof that the middle class and luxury spending is sharply contracting ( but don’t worry, North Dakota oil will allow green shoots to grow out of our ass any day now ). They said so, so it must be true. On to our regular article.
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Well, okay, no job is perfect. Because a job is work and work is a four letter word. But then again, the only thing worse than a job is no job ( kind of like the only thing worse than being married is being single ). What we will talk about here is jobs that actually have a future in a general decline and that have close to zero start up costs. But of course there is a catch. There is always a catch. Ain’t nothing free in life and what should be as obvious as my need to state the obvious. Entire generations thought they could get a free lunch ( Union wages, forced hiring quotas, Social Security benefits far exceeding what they paid into the system ) and now that the various levels of government are trying to modify the amount of free downwards the hue and cry from the public is deafening. So I guess most folks know there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch for the other idiots out there but they themselves are privileged and special. Anyways, back to the catch for a perfect job. You can’t expect to make too much money. In the past, rarified salaries were the expected norm. People sold their one hundred grand home for half a million, opened a granite top or a bead and trinket shop and expected to pull in big bucks. They were by gum special. Hey, Special Friggin Education. What moron can’t figure out salaries and home prices can’t grow upwards forever? The wave of the future is for wages to fall. They have stagnated for almost forty years. Through increased productivity, employee paid further education and computerization. Now add oil reduction and exponential debt growth to that and you get actual wage decline. For everyone except those that can steal it. If you can live on less, you will be welcomed in the future.
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Living on less is having no debt and little expenses. No mortgage, no rent, no car payments or its running expenses ( if you think auto insurance is high now, wait for consolidation and more government granted monopolies [ such as mandatory health insurance- Romney or Obammy, both whores to the financiers so be sure to vote carefully! ]. Don’t drive and free yourself ). Grow some of your food. Eat bulk for everything else ( that doesn’t mean a five gallon tub of Gummi Bears ). Now you can live on very little salary. If you can, read a copy of both Possum Living and How To Survive Without A Salary. If your needs are low, your salary can be also. And with a need to little salary, you can provide services poor people ( the only growing demographic ) will want to pay. If you need to pay a mortgage, pay off the truck, rent a retail office, etc., you have already priced yourself out of this market. The perfect, grow in contraction, almost no start up cost jobs are Alternate Energy, Bike Repair and Bike Hauling. Alternate energy is going to be such things as insulating and 12 volt power. Also solar cookers and water heaters. All the needed skills can be self taught online and through old issues of Mother Earth News ( you can buy the first ten years on CD for $20. I wouldn’t bother with much past that date as the corporate scumbags took over around then ). Bike repair is as easy as a book or two and practicing on your own bike. If you go to where folks need you, you eliminate most of your costs. Bike hauling fits in with almost zero operating costs and the growing segment of folks being priced out of the car ownership market ( and the growing old and feeble segment ).
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You can’t sell your expertise at a high mark up with any of these jobs. If you do, the customer himself will perform the job. You want to price yourself under the threshold where it is worth the cost savings to do-it-yourself. For instance, if you charged $100 to install solar panels, most people would figure it out themselves ( perhaps buying $20 in beer to have a buddy come over and help ). If you just charged that $20, most people would conclude the cost savings weren’t worth them learning that new skill ( especially if it was a one time needed skill ). Usually, they could afford to insulate once ( say, using a years tax return ). They would gladly pay you $100 to get sweaty and itchy and finish it in one third the time. But they wouldn’t pay you hundreds ( my son works each summer on roofing. Him and a buddy charge double material cost as labor. Apparently that is much cheaper than from anyone else. And, he actually has high school carpentry training so it isn’t just two yahoos climbing around like monkeys. The community knows he is trained and experienced and works cheap ) or thousands like a contractor wants. Of course, there is always the problem of licenses and permits and required training. You are on your own figuring that out. The next, bicycle mechanics, is easy enough if you are klutz, and really simple if you are mechanically inclined. Which makes it easy to lose customers to do-it-yourself. You can’t expect to emulate retail bike shops and expect to be able to make all your money in tire repairs. Expect the crap jobs like bearing replacements. But by providing a come-to-you service ( their bike might be their only transportation at that date in the future ) free, and working cheap, you should always have some business.
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Bike hauling anyone can do. If they are in shape, own a bike and aren’t too old. If you are cheap enough and can undersell the guy who owns a jalopy truck, you will always have a market. Have a quality bike ( most folks will own a crappy Mart bike ) and a specialty trailer for serious weight ( they sell a trailer that can haul an electrical appliance- but it also handles four big 18 gallon totes or a piece of furniture ). As more folks go back to the city ( as they give up cars and commutes ), the easier your client growth gets. It doesn’t have to be a serious oil crunch. Higher inflation, higher unemployment, higher insurance- all point to decreasing car ownership. Most folks have eaten at the GM trough of death and having once valued their time more than their health ( the poor don’t eat the majority of fast food- office workers and the wealthier workers don’t have time to waste and mostly eat out ) they are only alive due to modern pharmaceuticals. By the time the oil crunch gets serious, they are your built in customers as their health reflects their past eating habits. Your ability to actually peddle enough to haul your own weight in freight without having a heart attack is job security. And as your sickly customers die off, the newly car-less take their place. Most probably didn’t even have the foresight to buy a bike at all but instead had two or three cars.
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You can start now, and with very little money. As time goes on you gain reputation and experience. When the serious decline starts, you are in like Flynn. As government teat juice dries up, the difference in earning a few hundred bucks or not a month will make all the difference ( and then, there is always barter for eggs and veggies, etc. Say, you take infirm grandma’s eggs around to her customers and she gives you a cut. Boom. Protein in your diet solved ).
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My e-mail is jimd303@netzero.com
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Anyone can submit a guest article. No minimum word length, no writing skill necessary ( just get the idea across ). You retain copyright ( this must be your original writing ) and I’ll just use the once. I’ve yet to turn down an article, just don’t use the N Bomb or libel another that can sue me. Send by e-mail ( please, label as “guest article” so I can find it easily later ). Payment will be your removal from my enemies list.
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By the by, all my writing is copyrighted. For the obtuse out there.
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