I would love to fight this but it is seeming like an inevitability. If you have the means, it’s time to leave the big cities. Sell your houses for what I consider to be an insanely high price (given today’s market) and buy a plot of land with a well for the same money. Once everyone gets on this boat the city houses will be cheap and farm houses expensive. You get bonus points if your country house is over 250 miles from the city.
The death of cash brings a social credit system (linked to corporate control like conspirologist says), and the alternative is a regression to bartering - which will be made illegal. If you live in the country this is possible. A split cord of wood is worth three honey wagon visits. Frozen raspberries trade for fresh honey at about 3:1 pound for pound. Bakers are setting up and now deliver once a week, and they accept Wild game and berries. The weird thing is that we have other “job” jobs, but wondering when they will end...gotta buy flour somehow and that doesn’t grow in the mountains. Fortunately, gold does. The only hurdle for newcomers is overcoming that label - the sooner you move, the newer you aren’t. Alaska is great, by the way.
Yep. We are going to need to set up an entire parallel economy at some point, so we had better start thinking about mechanisms and tactics right now. With lots of people out of work, it might be possible to jump-start a local currency by partnering with farmers. Unemployed people do work, get paid in the new currency, and use the new currency to buy food. Now the farmers can use the currency to buy whatever labor they need from the workers. The pay rate of the workers sets the value of the currency, at least at first. Once you have this kind of back-and-forth going, other people and businesses will be more willing to get involved. The biggest challenge will, of course, be counterfeiting. If you start to have real success and the ruling class can't shut you down through the law, they'll try to devalue your currency. I don't have a good answer to that.
Nobody is that much off the grid nowdays, and the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. Imagine a currency that cannot be debased, controlled by government or any organization, that can be used over the internet and in person, and can tokenize things like gold, silver. For those off grid, pay in the silver. For smart folk, keep your silver on deposit somewhere and use the tokenized version.
Its not true, these systems can be proven mathematically, it is a great power we can use to free us forever of the hiearchy, if only people would come down from tge fucking trees and see it.
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WhyNoDonuts ago
I would love to fight this but it is seeming like an inevitability. If you have the means, it’s time to leave the big cities. Sell your houses for what I consider to be an insanely high price (given today’s market) and buy a plot of land with a well for the same money. Once everyone gets on this boat the city houses will be cheap and farm houses expensive. You get bonus points if your country house is over 250 miles from the city.
The death of cash brings a social credit system (linked to corporate control like conspirologist says), and the alternative is a regression to bartering - which will be made illegal. If you live in the country this is possible. A split cord of wood is worth three honey wagon visits. Frozen raspberries trade for fresh honey at about 3:1 pound for pound. Bakers are setting up and now deliver once a week, and they accept Wild game and berries. The weird thing is that we have other “job” jobs, but wondering when they will end...gotta buy flour somehow and that doesn’t grow in the mountains. Fortunately, gold does. The only hurdle for newcomers is overcoming that label - the sooner you move, the newer you aren’t. Alaska is great, by the way.
itsALWAYStheBANKERS ago
Live in an area with like minded people. Create your own barter economy and scrip to support it. We dont need bankers.
waucka ago
Yep. We are going to need to set up an entire parallel economy at some point, so we had better start thinking about mechanisms and tactics right now. With lots of people out of work, it might be possible to jump-start a local currency by partnering with farmers. Unemployed people do work, get paid in the new currency, and use the new currency to buy food. Now the farmers can use the currency to buy whatever labor they need from the workers. The pay rate of the workers sets the value of the currency, at least at first. Once you have this kind of back-and-forth going, other people and businesses will be more willing to get involved. The biggest challenge will, of course, be counterfeiting. If you start to have real success and the ruling class can't shut you down through the law, they'll try to devalue your currency. I don't have a good answer to that.
glennvtx ago
cryptocurrency
Ddboomer ago
You won’t have internet if your off the grid ...
glennvtx ago
Nobody is that much off the grid nowdays, and the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. Imagine a currency that cannot be debased, controlled by government or any organization, that can be used over the internet and in person, and can tokenize things like gold, silver. For those off grid, pay in the silver. For smart folk, keep your silver on deposit somewhere and use the tokenized version.
Ddboomer ago
Anything on the internet can be hacked and controlled.
glennvtx ago
Its not true, these systems can be proven mathematically, it is a great power we can use to free us forever of the hiearchy, if only people would come down from tge fucking trees and see it.
Ddboomer ago
If the sheeeat hits the fan...your crypto will mean ZERO
glennvtx ago
IF the shit hits the fan, all of these things will be worth zero.
Ddboomer ago
Exactly! Food, shelter, water and some cloths.
glennvtx ago
Bullets, medicine, alcohol ( both cleaning and drinking ) water, food are the best trading materials.
Ddboomer ago
Exactly.