frugal living 28

FRUGAL LIVING 28

MICRO-BUSINESS + CONCLUSION

No one can live on no money, apart from Stone Age practitioners in the wilds.  Which while having its attractions is sure to be far more of a hardship than just going to a job ten hours a week.  I mean, there’s mountain lions and crap out there and while space between neighbors is great, as is a small village rather than a city, I still have confidence in human numbers rather than the propensity of Mother Nature to refrain from rending me with tooth and nail.  I’m not very good eating, but in the middle of winter I’m sure I’d do.  The trick, as I hope you’d have learned by now, is living in such a way as you need very little.  A micro-business fit’s the bill nicely.  Mine is my writing, and while my talents beg a much bigger reimbursement, I’m happy to have a successful miniature business.  It makes me not a target at all ( of course, not being a target also makes me invisible, but I’m happy not playing that game ).  Nobody else is going to compete with me for my customers because they can’t or won’t live on what I’m living on, plus they haven’t had decades of experience doing this business.  That combination makes me nearly fool-proof, which is high compensation in a league of its own ( in case you don’t get our Perpetual Decline, you need to try to stay ahead of it, and the general population, to be successful in dealing with it.  Just as you don’t fight against nature for the best results, you don’t try to fight a natural phenomena which is what an imperial collapse/resource depletion/civilization decline is ).

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Now, please listen carefully.  Do NOT, allow me to repeat-NOT, get into a business because it will make money.  And by money, I mean a micro-business level of money which is marginal like $200 or $300 a month.  Even with such a small amount, you will still fight with your customers.  Meaning, it will be a mercenary activity and even with getting the best deal in three states, the customer will be resentful.  On the other hand, if you ONLY engage in a business that makes you happy, that you are passionate about, your customer will willingly begrudge you your compensation.  And there are your referrals.  Because you are a hobbyist, only barely charging enough to survive, rather than just one of millions of asshat greedy whores.  By under-charging, and by doing it for love rather than money, you are a better business ( one local example is our bike shop.  He charges a lot, because of rent and lack of winter business, but he is a former pro rider and is doing it as a labor of love, and it shows-I don‘t resent the higher prices ).  This realization came hard to me, as it would most of us raised in this money centric economy, but it is really only just embracing our barter roots.  Being a smaller, tighter knit community, helping rather than hurting your neighbors.  As a HUGE bonus, you have peace of mind and happiness in your life, for once ( yes, I know mowing lawns is few peoples idea of a hobby, for example.  But if you love being outdoors and exercise, and helping others [ say, every ten lawns you give a free service to an older crippled lady without family ], why couldn’t you enjoy it? ).

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Now, everyone has a hobby they would love to do more of, and for a smidgen of survival cash, so I needn’t tell you’re your business in that aspect.  You already know what you can do/want to do ( don’t try to teach your grandmother how to suck eggs-the oddest expression I’ve encountered, and still really not sure why that particular activity is cited, but cool and apropos ).  So let’s move on to quasi-micro-business.  The business of needing less money rather than earning some ( I’m sure you will be using more than one strategy cited here ).  Welfare payments and declaring bankruptcy.  For the longest time, being on welfare was severely frowned upon.  It was/is shameful.  However, this should no longer be the case.  First of all, we are no longer taking other taxpayers money by being lazy.  The government is paying interest on the national debt, and paying a military for garrisoning over a hundred countries, and about everything else they “pay” for is only borrowed ( created out of thin air ).  You are not cheating anybody by being on welfare.  The money will NEVER be paid back.  Don’t listen to Limbaugh or Beck, two rich humper pricks who begrudge having to pay one fifth the percentage of taxes poor people do.  They have an agenda, they are paid shrills for the banker elite.  Pay their propaganda no mind.  Next up, welfare is, literally, the ONLY way to survive in many parts of this country outside of manufacturing crack cocaine or other crime.  Welfare is a bone to suppress revolution by the federal government.  So unless you love the feds, why feel guilty for taking their bribe?  That is a time honored position nomadic tribes had with nearby agricultural centers.  Blacks have no remorse taking welfare, most likely viewing it as compensation, and poor White trash don’t care about it either, with their southern occupational army merely giving them food and beer money to stay quiet.  Getting on Food Stamps alone takes away 80-90% of your money needs if you are living frugally ( just keep in mind that while Food Stamps will continue until the end of the FedGov, distribution problems might make them useless eventually.

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As for bankruptcy, I have no clues to give you, as I declared mine prior to the law changing.  I’ll just say, if applicable, far better to be out of debt than to try to keep earning more money.  The economy is only going to get worse, as will your job security.  In conclusion, I’ve had a lot of fun writing this book.  I’ve churned out a few since “Apocalypse Gun Porn”, which was THE funniest to write because I think that one was my breakthrough realizing I should loosen up a bit and not take myself so seriously in book form just as I had been doing in blogs, but none since were as enjoyable as this one.  Probably because this was the first time I wrote all practice and no theory.  Not something I’ll do much of, because after all my life is boring by choice, but a fun change of pace.  A writer should always take a vacation periodically ( I feel sorry for the fiction writers trapped in a series/character because of economic considerations ).  I hope you enjoyed the journey as well ( and don’t worry, more books are shortly on their way ).

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