money to bankers

MONEY TO BANKERS

I know what is going to happen here. As soon as the slightest whiff of the grape is shot over the multitudes heads, as soon as the economy is unmistakably imploding, readership here will grow. And they will all want to know the same thing. How do we quickly prepare. And then I'll point them to my early book on the $500 Survivalist ( which would be more along the lines of $750-$1,000 now but the concept stays the same ) and then I'll have lost all the gains I had in readers. Because people are pussies.

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People want Rawlesian Prepping, how to use the credit card to “not only survive but THRIVE” ( the stupidest crapping motto I've ever heard in my entire life, to eclipse modern SJW's “diversity hires can build bridges and defend the nation”. We have already passed the point of thriving, dumb ass, as our carbon fuels supplies contract. It is ONLY about surviving, if you are lucky, and IF you pull your head out of your ass. The only way you thrive in an apocalypse is to do so over a pile of dead bodies ).

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You cannot take Oil Age middle class luxuries with you into the collapse. I mean, you can, but that is only because my definition of luxuries is different than yours. To you, you must have a pimping SUV ride, central heat and air, designer military uniforms and machine guns at the turrets of your concrete castle atop a mountain. To me, luxuries are machine sown and harvested grains and enough ammunition to last you past your enemies stockpile so it isn't you facing a smokeless powder rifle with a spear. Even a rimfire will out distance most arrows ( except from specialty troops ).

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Cars are even now a luxury. To me, they have been my whole life ( when I first started driving, motorcycles were still an extreme low cost option for transportation. This upset everyone collecting taxes, so they filled the roads with illegals driving cars. Their licenses were obtained from Cracker Jack boxes sold in Tijuana. It was not safe to drive on two wheels around them ). You grew up thinking a car was a necessity. Which meant that for your entire life you needed to earn at least twenty percent more. Which enriched others. You are mistaken.

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Even survivalists-and by survivalist I mean “end of civilization” dudes, not pussy pony preppers only concerned with hurricanes, even if I do use the terms interchangeably- cannot distinguish between needs and luxuries. Let me try to make this clear. A NEED is something that keeps you alive and makes you a functioning adult in a tribe. You may not NEED a wife, but spawning is considered kind of normal for the species to survive, and hence could be construed as a need rather than a want. On the other hand, if you won't get married unless they look like Bo Derek, then you are seeking a luxury.

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You NEED a firearm to reasonably defend yourself ( unless you are a really well practiced Stone Age ninja ), but you don't NEED a fancy plastic semi-auto battle rifle. Being able to use it as needed ( the will ), and being reasonably skilled are more important than what type it is. The only way I'd feel I was armed better than a convicted murderer with a knife was if I had several magazines for my poodle shooter, AND I could see him coming from a hundred yards away, AND I had a back-up shooter. His willingness, experience and ruthlessness trumped my equipment, unless I cheated.

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Now, don't get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with luxuries. As long as they aren't all you have ( unless you have the means to comfortable acquire them in quantity ) and as long as you understand that they are nice but not necessary. As long as you have practice with discomfort, luxury is okay. I will just add that this comes with a caveat. Many triumphing armies now ruling then softer civilizations have found themselves defeated after they themselves tasted too much luxury and lost their hard edge.

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Americans have very little experience with hardship. Even those of us who have, if we remain OF this civilization rather than WITHIN ( in other words, requiring its benefits rather than realizing they are temporary ), are still too soft and gooey. We constantly confuse need with want, necessities with luxuries. We MUST have cars only because we thought we needed suburban homes and well paying jobs. It never occurs to any of us to ditch all three. Yes, that is a blanket statement and yes, I understand there are many gray areas. I'm making a generalization.

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The ONLY reason any of this prepping crap is difficult is because we think we need luxuries to survive. When in fact there are very few necessities that they need, and they are not at all beyond the budget of anyone. If you'll recall not too long ago I did an article on a bare bones prepping plan that was, basically, a homeless guy on Food Stamps stocking flour in salvaged two liter soda bottles arming himself with spears made from thrift store kitchen knives. I received a lot of hate over that one.

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Even my Frugal Survivalists have a bare minimum of luxuries they need to survive, and that bar was way above bare ass savagery. Hell, that bar is ABOVE world war surplus guns ( even though you can spend all day butt stroking enemy troops with them, then amuse yourself hitting them with a hammer using them as a set of drums for after combat entertainment, and they still work the next day. Today's plastic Mattel Guns do not have that kind of robustness ). Now, if you have the means to stockpile lots of plastic guns, because there will be replacement issues, and butt ton loads of ammunition, be my guest. But is it REALLY a “need”?

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Let me explain the fundamental difference between the two rifles ( because we've already paid for this viewing platform, extra pixels are essentially free-and I love to hear myself talk ). One was overbuilt. WAY overbuilt. The ammunition had far more range than practical and more knock down power than was needed, and more robustness than needed to survive the abuses of conscripted peasants. That was how bridges and cars and guns were built back then. Even by empires in decline. Then, someone got it into their head that overbuilt was over bought.

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The bean counters took over. The German last ditch desperation to survive as the Soviets were at the gates of Berlin showed up in stamped receivers and plastic stocks and intermediate rounds. And they were fine, for what they were. Bare minimum Better Than Nothing. All robustness was removed. It was cheaper to build a disposable gun, and two of its replacement parts kits, than one heavy duty built like a tank gun. Essentially what it boils down to is eliminating redundancy.

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The designers and manufactures took precedence over the end user. I grant you that yes, the end user needs to meet the needs of the logistics that are available. It is all a balancing act. But where it ultimately ended up was that the end user got shafted. And what is worse is that the end user ended up celebrating poor features as benefits! You have AR fanboys celebrating its light weight as if that virtue is all that matters. Yet, how was that achieved? By using cheaper to use material that was not as robust. I'm not discounted the AR-they are very accurate when used with a proper barrel and ammunition. They can double as a decent submachinegun.

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I'm merely stating that to get that, what was sacrificed was field longevity and robustness. One cannot bayonet or buttstroke without ruining the gun. No, I don't want to be that close, and neither do I want to run out of ammunition. But those things seem to happen regularly out in the field, don't they? To get to the point you don't have to endanger the gun, you have to carry a punishing amount of weight in ammunition. It isn't a problem to eliminate using the gun as a bludgeon, but that is merely indicative of the guns design faults.

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It was made to be made cheaply, or at least in a decentralized manner. Which isn't wrong. The Soviets went TOO centralized, which is a vulnerability. To get their cheaply built gun to be more robust, they had to make them in giant factories. The M-16 doesn't have that vulnerability, but robustness was sacrificed. Everything is a trade-off. It isn't a bad thing to have mom and pops churning out militia rifles so that tens of millions of folks can have a basic issue rifle. The popularity of the AR means there are enough guns in enough hands that the Second Amendment has a better set of sharp teeth than ever before.

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As much as it pains me, the AR might actually win the coming civil war, for all its warts. All those cheap VHS machines ( although inferior to the BetaMax by most metrics ) changed the entire movie business. That itself was a war in one sense. Cheap and everywhere is a dynamic all its own. Hell, I even wonder if the AR has surpassed the AK in raw numbers. Not the M-16. Only about ten million of those were ever produced, from Vietnam to today ( a lot less tip o the spear guys now in the volunteer army ). But the AR's? It seems a lot of numbers manipulations of small arms in civilian hands has been undertaken.

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No way there are “only” three hundred million rifles out there in America. No way is the official number of gun owners “only” 100 million. Remember, that 300 number was only from about twenty years of official numbers, and the system of reporting was voluntary. Throw in all the eight zero percent receivers and the “non-firearm” parts kits, and I would hazard to guess that the AR might be challenging the official AK production numbers of 70-80 million carbines. That kind of production makes up for a LOT of design flaws.

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I really flew off the rails on sticking to the subject of frugal prepping. I'll continue tomorrow.

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