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NOMADISM 2

Yesterday we covered how it is no longer all that cheap to live on the road, mostly due to the parasite class monetizing that freedom.  And that was with me soft peddling the whole Peak Oil aspect ( AND the PetroDollar collapse AND the soon to fail financing for fracking ).  Looking at RV nomadism from a self sufficient aspect, you are setting yourself up for failure by the increased complexity of your fuel and mechanic needs.  Staying on junk land requires little to nothing above Stone Age Tech. An RV requires the cooperation of Saudi Arabia.

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So, in theory, you being a survivalist and all, why in the name of Sweet Jesus would you want to make yourself this vulnerable ( okay, granted, caches and a place to park once out of fuel IF you could avoid the tax collectors armed agents, this is viable.  Relying on today’s vulnerable infrastructure, however, is not )?  And the answer is, why, the Jay Oh Bee.  The Locust book thinks we are going to have an exact replay of the Great Depression and if you are mobile you can follow the jobs.  That is why I hated that book.

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Is that RV sea worthy?  Because all the jobs are going overseas.  As long as the planet relies on petroleum for everything, and it has to because we cannot eat without it at this point, there will be Oil For Jobs.  Everything will be robotized.  Yes, even service jobs.  And, no, Spanky, creative content is NOT protected.  They might not use robots to write or film, but they also know how to use numbers against the individual.  Offer self employment options and watch all the lemmings rush down the cliff towards Chinese Peasant Pay levels of compensation.

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You used to be able to earn a living on E-Bay?  Well, now you get to compete with a Chinese company that is two cousins on a couch with an Internet connection and a plastics factory next door ( their Uncle Cho runs it, so they get a Family Discount negating the need for buying in bulk ).  In the race towards razor thin profit margins, can you compete?  With Amazon Kindle, everyone is an author.  Their costs approach a one time $50 to buy a used desktop computer from the thrift store ( although it is nice you can get a free Internet upload site at the public library ).

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With YouTube, nobody can be an amateur anymore.  If you don’t have professional quality clips, no one watches you.  And as it is, even a great product doesn’t necessarily make you anything other than pocket change ( if you use it as a platform to advertise another profit center, that should work okay.  But it doesn’t negate the millions to one competition you face ).  Indirectly, this is robots taking your job, as a computer allows millions to compete with you, for far less customers than ever before.

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If you work harder than everyone else, with less costs than anyone else, you can succeed at a micro-business level.  But following jobs that pay less all the time, by employing a strategy that costs more all the time, when less and less jobs are out there, that is a recipe for eventual disaster.  Please remember and never forget,  we will NOT see a human replacement for machines.  Not until AFTER the die-off.  BEFORE that time, humans can NEVER outperform petroleum.  Never.  The global infrastructure has been built for them, not you.  You cannot scale up to compete.  You can scale DOWN.

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You can organically grow your food to feed yourself more efficiently than machines, but you cannot do that for a lot of people.  Just you.  You MIGHT be able to craft transportation more efficiently, but even that is facing competition ( needing to grow your own leather for shoes, verses plastic shoes ).  And that is about all you can do efficiently.  Everything else has you outclassed by using petroleum.  It is a game you cannot win, not on their level by their rules.  So you MUST plan around everything being automated, robotized and obsoleted.

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Chasing jobs that don’t exist is a losing strategy.  Decentralizing is where you need to focus on.  Needing LESS, not more, of the Mammon Heroin they push for great profits.  Now, sure, you can combine these two.  RV around until the jobs disappear, and then park it for good on your junk land once you have no choice.  Just beware of the infrastructure you MUST create in order to survive the ordeal.  You must have the skill and financing to always stay mobile.  You don’t have to be in an RV, it could be RV-like.  A van, or converted whatever.

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This also gives you some breathing room. Say, you own a van now.  You simply transition to living out of that for the time being as you are working, then buy junk land and prepping supplies with the rent you no longer have to pay.  This costs pretty much nothing.  But it sure as hell isn’t RV living either.  It is much more primitive.  When most folks speak of RV Nomadism, they mean a comfortable house on wheels.  It might be narrower than even a mobile home, but it is still house-like.  That is what costs so much, duplicating that luxury.

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This is simply the Luxury Tax, the extra money you get screwed out of because “being uncomfortable” is such a horrible idea that the mind simply boggles ( “Oh, My, God!, Becky.  How did people live here before air conditioning?” ).  That is what RV Living boils down to. People desperately trying to live in luxury on a budget.  It cannot happen, when Financialization Meets Job Destruction.  All the trends are against you.  Drive to the summer watermelon picking job?  Mexico is doing our produce now.  If any fields survive, they will get repurposed.

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If I was a California farmer, I wouldn’t pay extra for labor if Mexico was undercutting me.  I’d mangle all the produce mechanically and use it to raise pigs or cows, rather than try to sell the carefully hand picked produce for too low of a price.  Corn doesn’t make you money, whiskey does.  The same will be applied to produce.  Trends.  Follow the trends, not how things used to be.  Oil trend is up in price and down in availability.  Job trends are fewer paying less.  You never play to the opponents strengths, and trends are an opponent, make no mistake.

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