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OPPORTUNITY COST

Have you ever considered the opportunity cost of prepping?  Not from the standard of cost.  We are all pretty focused on cost of preps.  As in, how to minimize cost and maximize return.  That seems to be about the only argument out there.  Gatekeeper of the 10% says you must have twenty acres in the boonies with babbling brook and pasture and woods and fields of swaying grain, pallets of ammunition for large arsenals of semi-auto’s and if you don’t you are unworthy of survival ( a standard line going back to the movement in the ‘70’s, one guru after another parroting the official line “the poor need not apply”.  With the exception of Kurt Saxon who published his own books to be heard, may he be blessed for eternity ).  In the Fifties when everyone made Union wages and yet strangely houses were affordable even with higher labor costs, you could easily build a fallout shelter in your basement.  It was affordable by all, which was a good thing since the FedGov ( who started the Cold War by positioning the Soviet Union as a foil to continue the wartime armaments production in fear of an economic contraction-thank you Uncle Sugar for endangering humanity so your defense industry companies could stay profitable ) whipped up the Russians and then stopped building or stocking civilian fallout shelters.  The Congress-critters were of course protected, but Joe Average had to fend for himself.  Not a bad thing, really, given the strategic advance of decentralization, and the natural propensity of citizens to value their own hide far more than our loving benevolent Big Daddy government would.

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So, really, prior to the Seventies, survivalism wasn’t really just a rich mans game.  Rather, it was a working mans.  My theory is that after the poor rose up in righteous indignation in the ‘60’s and rebelled against being cannon fodder for imperial adventures, the rich had to bribe them off.  That worked of course, but as a natural human nature response, the rich now hated the poor with a much brighter intensity.  Before, during the Great Depression, the rich had to make some concessions to the poor or face open armed rebellion ( with a LOT of trained combat vets willing to get involved.  The mobsters doing drive-bys wasn’t the only reason gun control started-the ingrate poor were not going to lay down and starve gratefully ).  The government went socialist only to the extent it needed to quell rebellion.  And of course they ended up on the right end of the stick ( the wrong end of the stick was the sponge part used to wipe your ass in Roman public toilets, in case you didn’t know the origins of the saying ) by making that work for themselves.  Prior to this, the poor were cannon fodder and machinery bait, but then they became a real threat for the first time.

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Let me tell you, the rich hate giving anyone their money just as much as the poor do.  So of course there is going to be resentment.  Just as a White American resents spending a trifle to keep the Indians alive after we stole all their land.  Just as we resent giving Arabs money for oil when we should get it for free ( see, you thought I hated rich bitches with extreme prejudice.  Of course I do-but I’m not fond of hypocritical poor, either ).  We are so brainwashed today that we hate Union members as if they were communists.  Which, yes, they are, but without Unions we work in unsafe conditions for starvation wages.  Which would you rather have?  Socialist working conditions or fascist ones ( such as in Germany and the workers are involuntary Jews )?  Just remember, voting Republican votes for the party that colonized the South and sent all the jobs overseas ( and voting Democrat votes for global imperial occupation AND gun control-so just don’t vote ).

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If the poor were resented for taking money to NOT rebel against starvation, once they engaged in actual open rebellion in the Flower Power decade, now they were hated and feared.  Not just simple resentment but actual Mau-Mau Rebellion filling your pants fright, loathing and hatred.  It wasn’t bad enough the poor had to rebel, now the Poor Blacks did?  What was a pasty rich boy to do?  One answer was to demonize the poor so as to eventually have the broad consent of the electorate to ignore and penalize them ( even, ironically, most poor people ).  The Mises Institute, and all of such ilk were one subsidized method.  The Reagan Revolution another ( I’m a big fan of Ron, regardless of his evils which I explain away as the fault of Bush Sr. ruling behind the throne after Ronald and Nancy entered dementia city.  I also know I’m excusing one tool of the elites even as I demonize others ).  In a very short time, the rich ( or more accurately, the aspiring rich-which I call the 10% ) were our hero’s ( think Michael Douglas’ character in “Wall Street” ) and the poor were criminals and racists.  Or criminal racists which was allowed if you were Black-but NOT if you were White.  Think of Political Correctness as having an added advantage of fueling racism on both sides ( as well as sexism and other “ism’s” ) to understand its appeal to the elite.

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So now you have all the slightly better off’s turned against the working poor.  Class warfare to the advantage of the .01%.  Have the 10% hate on the 90%, and the 90% resentful of the target they can see.  This has permeated every level of our culture, so why should it be a surprise to any of us that the elites Butt Boys bark for a treat and are given one to continue the propaganda that the rich deserve to survive the apocalypse the elites will cause ( increased populations help the rich-always have.  More cannon fodder and more peasants in the field.  The propaganda that the poor procreate for their version of Social Security might be true, but is classical misdirection )  and the poor are scumbag jag off’s?  If you are one of the Pullers Of Levers, someone that owns more assets than the GDP’s of several European countries combined, social engineering is a very affordable hobby.  Why would that have stopped at Rockefeller?  Anyway, that’s enough of hating rich humpers.  Tomorrow, more on opportunity costs for preppers-and this time moving past the above described “the poor deserve to die” paradigm.  We’ll talk about what it cost in missed opportunities to prep.

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