money verses wealth

MONEY VERSES WEALTH

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Even though I kept repeating myself that silver was for the economic collapse instead of the civilization collapse, I want to balance the scales of discussion from money to wealth.  Silver is just money.  Wealth, for a time, will be the other, OTHER precious metal, ammunition, and obviously what should always be first, food.  Money shouldn’t be as important as we view it today.  Sure, it is somewhat important.  You can’t barter a truckload of broccoli for a FLIR scope.  But it is only a means of exchange, for the actual items we desire.  If you have food, shelter and protection, money is far less important. 

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And yes, food production is far more important than storage food, itself more important than money, but we can’t overlook the fact that the asshumps in charge have control of the production of food.  Homesteaders are on the right path, but they fundamentally forget that all that hard work feeding themselves is under the permission and control of the bankers and their buttboys the government.  You don’t need a thirty year mortgage on a farm to learn how to farm.  Anyone can learn how to farm, for free.  No one else wants to do the grunt work.  If farming is your thing, don’t confuse land title ownership with the ownership of that land.

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So for now, I focus on food storage.  I don’t discount production, I just don’t focus on it.  Production has so many problems that in my own circumstances I am better off with extra storage.  Fifteen years ago, I would have been better off focusing on production.  Now, I’m too old for that crap.  Storage must suffice.  Just remember that production isn’t the ONLY answer, nor is storage, for everyone.  Your mileage may vary.  I choose storage as a partial mitigating strategy to the issues of production monopoly as well as the desire to avoid the money economy to the best of my ability.  Hell, why not? After all, This Suckers Going Down.

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So, before you concentrate on money ( such as silver ), do you have enough wealth?  How is that food storage coming?  I know, wheat kernels are problematic.  You don’t need 400 pounds per year if it is too expensive.  A third of a pound a day is plenty of fresh greens and fiber, if you stock up on white flour.  What is a 25 pound sack of white flour now?  Something like $7.  Even if that whole wheat costs you a buck a pound mail order, ten pounds a month plus thirty of white flour cost you a whopping $20 maximum.  It isn’t ideal, and it isn’t all you want to store, but it is a very good bare bones diet to help you survive if you never get the extra you want, or it is a great core diet with the extras. 

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Are you stressed about Mylar bags and buckets costing twice what your food does?  Just trash pick plastic food containers ( and beg from your neighbors and coworkers ).  Drink all your soda from two liter bottles, rather than from fountain dispensers.  Rinse them out, then put them outside in the sun, opening face up, and they are bone dry in an hour or less.  Fill with flour and sugar ( sugar is twice the price of flour but about the same as rice, has extra calories per pound AND is a great condiment with calories ).  Boom, done, glorious wealth in a bottle.

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It isn’t as pretty as silver.  But it is STILL a consumable just like silver is.  Okay, silver can be a lifelong store of money, but to turn it into wealth, items you need, you must consume it.  And that two liter bottle full of flour which cost you literally just pennies, you don’t look at that as wealth ( compared to the silver ), but should.  Now, I know I am playing fast and loose with the definitions of wealth and money.  I consider food the ultimate form of wealth, although you may not.  That just means you are too used to the abundance of food we have as normal, but it is emphatically NOT.

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Us Dirt People, we’ve only ever had food as wealth.  We never had money, until recently, and you do understand that even far before closing the gold window and Saudi control over OPEC pricing oil in dollars, we were always using the surplus energy we had as a one time mining of extraordinary wealth.  We confuse that with money, but for a few hundred years we ignored the Malthusian norm of starving overpopulated peasants and wallowed in a food surplus.  We thought we were rich, which we were, but then thought extra food was normal and extra money was not, and chased the money.  Forgetting what wealth was. 

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All of our White People Problems?  That is due to our surplus of food.  Without food, all of our “problems” don’t mean dingus.  Who cares if you can fill up the SUV tank, or if the newest movie wasn’t as good as it should be, or if you were too old to pop out yet another kid from your VaginaATM, if you had to worry about eating.  Right now, you think you have actual problems, and you can’t be bothered with food storage.  Oh, rent is coming due.  Oh, I’m saving up for the wives birthday, a FLIR scope that you are positive she secretly wants. 

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You have the luxury of doing this now because food is the easiest thing in your universe.  You don’t have to worry that a 52cent bottle of flour could keep you alive for two days ( if you keep tamping it down, you can squeeze three pounds in rather than two, but I trust you see my point ).  So you don’t take your pocket change and fill up yet another bottle with flour.  Are you SURE you have your priorities straight?  Right now, you can go to Sportsman’s Guide and buy rimfire for 5.1 cents a round delivered.  You didn’t go last week, so now you are paying an extra tenth of a cent each.  Now you need to spend $99 for free shipping, and the bucket of bullets went from $70 to $72 ( subject to change, I am writing this 6-10-18 ). 

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I’m not saying rimfire has to be your priority.  I’m saying that 26cents a day food and 5cent ammunition is REAL wealth, and right this very second cheaper than dirt.  And that will change drastically.  At the same time that silver goes from derivative market manipulation actually under the cost of production price to Rare As Gold, your food will go from one thirty second of an hour of minimum wage ( literally less than two MINUTES of work ) for a days starvation diet to much more of a days labor.  In good historical times, food was STILL at a minimum of three hours of daily wages ( on a twelve hour work day ).  That is your price of wheat going from 25cents to almost 25 DOLLARS, in today’s prices.  And, those were in GOOD times.  Famines and wars saw prices far higher.

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That is the wonder of petroleum.  Which you are ignoring with all your might.  Buy these insanely undervalued assets NOW.  Before you worry about money.

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