Tuesday, November 27, 2018

nomadism 2 of 2


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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note: free book.  Sorry, no PA fiction today.  But here is a American History book that looks really interesting and doesn't just puke public reeducation camp drivel here .
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18 comments:

  1. The thing about RV’s is that even if you park one on your junk land after it drops dead, they still make terrible shelters. For anyone that plans on using one for this purpose, I’d get an old model and gut it, frame it with 2”x4s” and insulate it well. You could do the same thing with an old moving van or box van, easier. An old trailer is still better yet, since you won’t have to deal with smog certificates.

    You could probably still make a living on Ebay if your needs were minimal, but you would have to rely on selling niche items (i.e. unique or specialized items that 5 year old ornamental kids can’t reproduce in sweat shops to be sold on Ebay for a buck). You can scour the local garage sales to find such items.

    Those kindle suggestions look interesting. I wish listed the firearms one and the history book. If you only had to have one gun, I suppose it would have to come down to a shotgun or a .22, depending on what your hunting or defense needs call for. I’d probably go with a 12ga if it were for myself.

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    1. Of course, it depends on where you live, living in an RV. Florida, I was fine in one, under a large tree. Northern Cali, it took very little to heat as the winters were mild. And price is a factor, just like you can enjoy a movie that costs pennies on Netflix but the same one really sucks if it cost $2 at RedBox.

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  2. Jim, you display a good ability on identifying trends that are whimsical and a fancy bag of goods. Also by breaking it down to the falacies and near deadly end results come collapse, your dirt simple perspectives are not found elewhere. Digital and tech are indeed as lethal as borgs and terminators to the human species. The fake systems of finance, business, and errant government will fail. Manual tools and po'boy methods worked before and will again, out of necessity.

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    1. Hell, I don't have to be smart to Abandon All Optimism Ye Who Enter. That is all my trends are, eliminating wishful thinking. I would say it is embarrassing to get paid for that, but I won't because I don't want to go work at Burger King with 4.5 feet tall 300 pound teenagers.

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  3. Trend following is o.k. in a less populated scenario. If you are early in like an insider trader or pioneer, making direct profit from the trend enterprise then good. Parasitic business to the trend lemmings can be a short life enterprise (vice peddeling, merchantile, etc) Day late, you will lose and be crowded like migrants on a border as an analogy. Being an emplaced part of legacy types of businessess that rarely need to evolve much (saloon, small townie merchant, in demand guild skills) may be best course to bunker up for a collapse or depression era situation. By the time a trend makes news or is disseminated, too late.

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    1. Right, who gets into BitCoin at this point? :)

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    2. Remember the tiny house movement? I loved the idea but people pushed it to hard. Then business got involved & a tiny house all of a sudden became expensive. It also attracted government officials to destroy that opportunity for ordinary people to use as an escape.

      Junk land hovel is so far ahead of the curve! You all know it makes sense.

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    3. RV's are just tiny houses on wheels, so avoid a lot of issues. They have their own, of course. Plus, you look nice and poor.

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    4. I looked at some of those tiny houses before, and yeah, what a total rip off. A cheap one is around $20K, and at best they’re around 120 sq ft. You can probably build a 120 sq ft cabin for around $1k, so unless you need mobility, I’d bypass that option.

      I like Dingo’s junk land hovel idea though. Something like Phil Garlington’s Hogan, that resembles the “Our Gang” club house is probably a low key and inexpensive way to go. But your Darla will be more like Bridget the calender girl, with Sponge Bob dentures :D

      Lifesize! Bridget jigsaw puzzle

      https://farm2.static.flickr.com/1318/697609024_30f5ea2e37_o.jpg

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    5. WHYYYY????? Why do you hate me? Another one I can't unsee. I haven't gotten to the Blue Pill age, but if I was that image would counteract any medication.

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    6. Yeah, I’m a bastard that way :D That was a real thing, and I was wondering if you remembered her. Oh well, you can take solace in the fact that I’d roll her in flour, so you’re definitely a tier or two above me :D

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    7. @anon 4:15pm

      The junk land hovel idea isn't mine. It's Lord Bisons ;-)

      In Dingoland it's not an option. You'd think that a nation with almost the lowest population density on Earth, you'd think that nation would have dirt cheap land available. Sorry. The NWO has this place stitched up.

      Years ago I nearly pulled the trigger on 34 hectares that cost 1/3 a years pay. Thankfully I didn't because in the end Frackers absolutely devastated the area and people were getting really sick. Also it was basically full of druggies.

      I'll make a guest post about my current plan to see if minions can help me flesh it out.

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    8. I think the reason there is so much here was because developers got extra tax breaks. You could subdivide and grade roads cheap, on crappy land, hope for the suburbs to move out in that direction. If not, tax break. So there are a lot of roads to nowhere.

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    9. 6:31-damn, I almost looked again, but the reference isn't worth getting :)

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  4. re:
    Part Three == Sea Gypsies

    I eagerly look forward to your next installment about nomadism. Obviously, and I think we all agree... a balanced investigation is essential before a decision.

    Certainly, and I think we all agree... owning a fixed location requires defending that location. Forking-over taxes on that location for all eternity. Tolerating the neighbors at that location. Putting up with weather drought flood at that location.

    Voting against 'law' and individuals affecting that location.

    And hoping nobody Eminent Domains your location.

    But I could be wrong. As I so often am.

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    1. You raise valid points. They are also LESS evil than nomadism. For the most part. Everyone's situation might vary. Re: sea gypsies. Lake or river gypsies, perhaps. I'd say at sea, the issues are too negative. I'll think on if I want to expand to that concept.

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    2. Owning cheap land is the devil you know. Property taxes? Mine are less than $25 per year. Even with 1000% increase I am okay and by then there would be a tax revolt. You can do things to mitigate known risks. As a nomad there are more unknowns.

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    3. And every gallon of gas has taxes. Which can go up just as much as property tax. Seen the price on diesel? They are using environmental excuses to match its growing scarcity. See the "energy skeptic" if you want to learn more-article was very recent.

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