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CASH OUT GET OUT


A minion wrote in the comments section that Gold Sack warned all the moneyed class that the US economy was about to crash and spelled it all out in over fifty pages of summery ( one assumes the Britannica version is the original form was much longer ). I replied sarcastically, as is my want, that I could have summed it up much better. To whit, Malthus was God, he was right, cash out and get out. Now, of course I was just trying to amuse my minions. Rich people don’t believe in collapse. They believe in paper currency banking. Even the gold bugs believe in gold certificate banking. Banking requires a smooth functioning economy with intact trade. So, basically, they were being told that this particular nation was doomed and to move elsewhere, wherever that is that rich bitches move to in turbulent times. One assumes a Third World craphole where they may lord it over the peasants and buy their labor cheaply. Because when you are rich, it ain’t never rich enough. Here in America, not only do the great unwashed believe themselves to be equal, there are those vulgar middle class who assume they can join the Beautiful People. Sure, most will fail, thinking debt can buy wealth, but some might be knocking at the door. Best to move somewhere else. Rich fools study money. They don’t study history. Their lose, not ours. But my point to all this rambling and drivel is that I highly amused myself with the term Cash Out And Get Out, so that is today’s article.

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On my way to hating everyone and pointing out everyone’s faults, you might get the wrong idea that I want everyone to die. Well, okay, I do, but only if it is painless for me. Since that is not the case, I have to wish everyone luck in surviving and even try to help them out with ideas. When I talk about junk land and living in a tent and whatnot, a lot of you get glazed looks and tune me out. You don’t want to live like a hobo until you have to, and the wife thinks she never will. So the thought of a sawdust toilet is met with the same reaction to, say, animal sacrifice. But, honest injun, I don’t expect most people to live that way. I present it as advice to be used when you are flat out broke with no other options. It is the cheapest, most frugal way to live. I live that way to easily pay my child support and still have 25% of my minimum wage left over. When I’m done with that, I’ll live that way to be free. Financially free, worry free, etc. But I know it isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. You don’t have to live like I advocate. You can live closer to a conventional on-grid lifestyle. All you have to do is leave your present location. Yes, totally off-grid, totally debt free, living on half of one income, all that is great. But if your idea of survival for the future is Backwoods Home, let me suggest something much more practical and easier, cheaper and safer. Just move to another suburb.

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Look, living in town is dangerous. But living in the city, working a job that sucks so you can one far away day move to the perfect country estate, that is much more dangerous. If you can’t get the wife to move out to junk land in a trailer, and you will never have enough saved up to buy twenty acres with fields and pasture and a bubbling brook, at least move far away from the city to a much safer area. You don’t have to guess that the big city is dangerous. We all already know it, tiptoe around the fact, try to insulate ourselves from it, have statistics to prove it. But already, police don’t go to certain parts of town. Just like some of the worse tropical African mega-cities. Infrastructure is already failing and safe water is sometimes not assured. Any natural disaster means complete and perpetual lose of that infrastructure. Just like an illegal slum in Latin America. Living near people will get a lot more dangerous, but there will still be a world of difference between small towns and big cities.

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We all know that small towns lose jobs. All the corporations moved to the city, and until recently, affordable commuting meant Mom And Pop stores were beat out by the city mega-stores a hundred miles away. Few jobs, not as affordable living. But cities are the most vulnerable to disruptions of all kinds. They are the most dangerous. Now, before the economic collapse gets really ugly, is the time to cash out and get out. Go move to “Suburgatory” ( I find it very interesting that the new TV season has a show, Suburgatory, Suburb Purgatory, where the New York family moves out of the big city to a suburb ). It is so far from perfect it isn’t even funny. But if you do it right you avoid a lot of riotous crowds, live in a far lower crime area, yet keep the wife happy and maintain all conveniences. It is far better than holing up in the city like you were the only human left after a zombie apocalypse. It is SOME kind of positive action. You can reduce your stress. We all know it is going to end sometime. Be one step closer to safety just in case it happens sooner than you think. Don’t be afraid of a pay cut. Those will be forced on you in the future anyway ( pink slip, pay freeze during inflation, hours cut, whatever ). Embrace it now, keeping it under your control. If it takes baby steps to relocate, at least it is a step instead of an abstract plan never acted on.

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