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Originally Posted by Ethersync
Maybe you should move out of "butt fuck nowhere"?
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Let me get this straight. Lets hypothetically say that I didn't have the primary income to support my family, and was required to depend on finding one of these 10 buck an hour jobs.
Your solution (and I'm using me cause he seems to be stuck on this) Would be to sell off my paid for house, and my paid for land that requires almost no monthly upkeep. Sell off my paid for cars. Move into the city next to a bus stop and somehow find a place that cost me less that what I'm currently having to pay now. (Since my house and cars are paid for that means electric/water) So we are talking about 200 a month place for rent... if it includes electric and water. All this so that I would be able to work 40 hours a week to make 400 bucks a week before taxes. Take home about 280 a week. Minus 250 a weeks cause now your paying for that daycare for 2 kids again leaving you 30 bucks to spare, wait you have to now buy a bus pass for yourself and your kids, and also find a daycare that happens to be on that bus route, and also can take you to this great 10 dollar an hour job. Then repeat this twice a day.
Ok so you have what left at this point... 10 bucks a week clear. Party on dude, cause you still have not paid for food, clothing, medicine, the list goes on..
Even in your math your negative before you even started.
Now, take all these people in this situation right now, for real. Explain to me how they are going to magically make this work using your solutions and no welfare. I really wonder if your have really been paying attention the last few years cause the people in this situation RIGHT NOW are not your high school drop outs anymore, but actual skilled labor. Guess what else comes from that skill... education repayment. Opps... so now not only can't they make a living of that skill but they are also paying back the loans it took to get it.
So all these skilled works out there flooding the job markets and taking "anything" they can get... what do you think thats doing in return for the "unskilled" labor force thats always been there in the first place... making things better for them?
You are right about one thing, it is going to to get a LOT worse before it gets better and if your not prepared somehow for it your SOL.
Personally, I have been working toward being able to function off grid. Hence the solar water heat, I have city water, but I also have my own well. Soon I'll be adding solar electric to the system one panel at a time until I can run totally from it. When the shit hits the fan, I want to make sure mines still running.
Where I live people can live off the land. I can fish, hunt, grow food. people out here all watch each others backs. Welfare here is the guy next to you giving you an extra deer he killed cause he doesn't have enough room left in the deep freeze for the meat.
But in your solution you would want everyone in the city next to that bus stop... and thats the last place I would want to be if and when our system collapses.