first world wealth 4

FIRST WORLD WEALTH 4

Far too many of us think of our preps as investments. As if we are going to realize a return on it. Preps are only consumption. The assets you have saved up, like food and ammo? Consumed. The money you've saved for unemployment? Inflated into nothing or used up while no more is coming in-consumed. Any business investment? Whittled away to nothing as more and more customers have no money, at the same time the Warlords pencil pushers tax it all away. Silver? Gone to survive the property tax inflation.

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( The only defense against that is to live in your dwelling until the taxman takes it, then pack up the U-Haul and find a rural squat. You'll probably keep it if you can fight for it. Not every jurisdiction can drone or SWAT your ass, especially if they don't know exactly who is ambushing them. I cover this subject in another article ) Even junk land is temporary, as most likely unless it is really out of the way, waves of immigration will overrun you ( I'm talking Easterners into Europe displacing all residents immigration, not the relatively tame Replacement Workers we have now ).

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Now, as I said, all forms of preserving your savings are necessary, needed and advisable. You just need to understand that they are all consumable. Temporary. They are currency you must pay getting to the other side of the die-off. You need cash for unemployment and relocation. You need the junk land to locate to ( again, just like silver, cheap now and gone soon. So either invest or forever hold your peace ). You need all that buried food and ammunition to live. The silver might be the only thing you can use in the final phases of government collapse.

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The business you create is only going to be good enough, at the very best, to get some income in after unemployment. For a short period. We aren't talking about a slow collapse here, remember? Things will keep getting worse until a tripping point ( when you actually start going over the waterfall ), after which everything fails close enough to all at once. And skills? Skills themselves will have no meaning of value beyond survival. Everyone is going to have to learn the same skills and having them at the beginning is NOT currency.

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Remember that you need to clearly identify skills. Are those skills keeping the Oil Age paradigm alive, or are those skills keeping you alive post oil and post salvage? Oil Age skills are only good for trying to keep a dying system alive, such as car mechanic, communications expert, pill popper doctors, and combat expert. All the so called skills called for are usually just a lame attempt to keep the luxury and sloth alive. People that hate walking want cars. People relying on electronic communications don't want to leave the compound to face danger.

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Folks who insist on relying on modern medicine don't want to exercise, eat properly or go through the pain of naturally building up disease immunity. Folks who don't want to spend every day patrolling and living in the woods to become proficient guerrillas want to replace all that with volume of fire. Do you see where I'm going with this? You grew up embracing shortcuts and want to keep them. That is NOT the kind of skills Darwin is going to pay for. I'm not saying the skills aren't nice to have, I'm saying very shortly it won't pay to rely on them.

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The kinds of skills you need, old timey crap like farming and mounted patrols and horse breeding and all things solar economy geared, none of these are skills that are difficult. They just need practice. Your first time making your own yarn, the thing will look like a lumpy abortion. Your first animal you butcher is going to probably waste a lot of meat from your ineptitude. Just like the first appliance you took apart, putting it back saw “extra” parts and other parts lost. You'll gain the skills, not to worry. All those prepping items you stockpiled will see you through the learning curve ( mostly. OJT for combat won't be as forgiving ).

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The one thing I would suggest that would be a true investment would be tools. The tools needed to make everyday items, and duplicate tools stashed in case of theft or fire. Again, this is for Old Timey skills. The specialty tools that China can churn out dirt cheap right now that will be a huge pain in the ass post Industrialization. Buying saw blades in bulk right now, and fabricating them yourself out of metal scrap later are worlds apart. The dollar store has saw blades for a buck, for goodness sake. How hard would it be to buy dozens under that price, bulk purchasing?

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Not to say those saws are desirable-it was merely illustrative. With enough practice, anyone can be a competent carpenter. Learning that skill now isn't that important. But investing in the carpentry tools? It is going to be rare that anyone does that. I know a lot of you are already all over tool investment. It makes no sense not to. But what about enough of those tools? Even here, one is none. How many wedges do you have for firewood? As if only you will ever need one, or it will last forever, or it won't be stolen.

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If you want to actually preserve your wealth, after the wheat and ammo and cash savings and land and silver, I would say, tools. Lots of tools, and duplicated. Manual tools, and manual tools that save resources rather than consume them. For instance, a tool that shaves off leather to form cord, that saves you from having to stockpile or make fabric thread. It is the same principle of investing in resources that save resources, currently. Insulation, south facing windows and an Earth Tube shave off most it not all carbon fuel use.

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While we have First World wages, invest in the items for an easier transition to Third World living. NOT investments in keeping your First World lifestyle.

( .Y. )

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note: an Alfred E Neuman moment.  Surely you all caught the news when Douche Bank ( Deutsche Bank out of Germany ) laid off a butt ton of employees, prompting calls of the new Lehman Moment?  They are thought to have a $96 TRILLION exposure on the derivatives market ( the total global amount is estimated to be 1.2 Quadrillion ).  And they are at this time losing a billion dollars a day as fund managers withdraw in panic.  Given how little cash is on hand to cover derivatives ( the worst of the '08 boys had fifty to seventy times exposure to assets ), one wonders how quick this is going south.  Just saying.
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