Your second option has always been available, but you have to make a few sacrifices like not living in a major city. Move out to the country and you can buy your own land for a couple hundred dollars and live as inexpensively as one could in rural Kenya. And thanks to modern technology, you can retain all your modern conveniences (computer, electricity, lights, hot running water, flushable toilets) for not a lot more money
Buy a house in a remote area for ten thousand dollars and homestead. Living expenses are a few thousand dollars a year. It's not the 1840's anymore and you can still retain all the modern conveniences. If you have a free place to live, $5000/year is a lot of money. That's $100/week of goodies from amazon and ebay.
The only way to stop it is to not participate, and get others to stop participating. It's daunting to convince people against what almost all of their peers are telling them right now, but I think it can snowball, and get easier over time.
This is exactly what I did. It's not terribly difficult (after a while, but big learning curve up front) or expensive. I could have done it on a minimum wage salary,especially if I wasn't as lazy and did more work myself rather than pay people. It is simply a different way of living, one that many people choose, and not one lacking in material comforts or insecurities.
Amazon lists dozens (for me at least) of books for $0.01+$3.99 shipping from third parties. It has been a long time since I've bought new book and read maybe 20/year. They make great gifts too when you are done.
I'm a relatively high end techno nerd and don't have a tv so had to fill up my spare time by reading a few bookshelves of history books (mostly early 20th century). I think this is a much easier route than getting a history degree and trying to learn differential geometry and calculus of variations on my own. But I'm pretty lazy, so maybe that's just me.
Yeah, I have a custom, semi luxury, offgrid (solar) 1000sqft house. Three people can very comfortably live there, twelve people can comfortably visit. All year.
No it's not illegal in much of the US. What typically is illegal is to not have a sanitary method of disposing waste or not building to local codes. Those things are done to preserve well water quality and ensure the safety, at least to some degree, of people who may be entering your house in an emergency.
My house is off grid (for a few years now) and it's not Maybe one of those peltier ice chests. If you want to call of something that cools a single can of coke to 10C your refrigerator.
Shipping containers are not structurally sound once you drill a hole in one and need to be framed like a regular house if you don't want to die of suffocation. Or of boredom of being inside a black box.
My friend's parents had an rv with solar panels on the roof. I don't know why. Running the engine for 20 minutes charged up the batteries ore than sitting in he sun all day. They wanted me to help them sell it on CL.
That's funny. I've had similar thoughts (and I'm an engineer (and I'm OK)). I do like to make things, but have never seen a maker space - I have my own tool collection.
I'm fine with that. I never cared about any company that I've worked for. I do a job (I care about my work and do the best I can), they pay me, end of relationship.
Most companies that I've been with, going back as far as the 1980's have had a "don't about the company on anything policy". That includes even saying that you work for xxx because it could imply an endorsement by xxx. It's not a new thing and an easy one to follow.
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sometimes energy, neither of which falls out of the sky.
The overwhelming amount of energy on the planet (well over 99.99999%) does in fact fall out of the sky.
Your second option has always been available, but you have to make a few sacrifices like not living in a major city. Move out to the country and you can buy your own land for a couple hundred dollars and live as inexpensively as one could in rural Kenya. And thanks to modern technology, you can retain all your modern conveniences (computer, electricity, lights, hot running water, flushable toilets) for not a lot more money
Buy a house in a remote area for ten thousand dollars and homestead. Living expenses are a few thousand dollars a year. It's not the 1840's anymore and you can still retain all the modern conveniences. If you have a free place to live, $5000/year is a lot of money. That's $100/week of goodies from amazon and ebay.
The only way to stop it is to not participate, and get others to stop participating. It's daunting to convince people against what almost all of their peers are telling them right now, but I think it can snowball, and get easier over time.
This is exactly what I did. It's not terribly difficult (after a while, but big learning curve up front) or expensive. I could have done it on a minimum wage salary,especially if I wasn't as lazy and did more work myself rather than pay people. It is simply a different way of living, one that many people choose, and not one lacking in material comforts or insecurities.
I live 25 miles from a very small town (population 50) and have DSL. No water or electricity.
TV. :(
OK. I have loser friends.
You mean like The Kindle Flare.
Amazon lists dozens (for me at least) of books for $0.01+$3.99 shipping from third parties. It has been a long time since I've bought new book and read maybe 20/year. They make great gifts too when you are done.
I'm a relatively high end techno nerd and don't have a tv so had to fill up my spare time by reading a few bookshelves of history books (mostly early 20th century). I think this is a much easier route than getting a history degree and trying to learn differential geometry and calculus of variations on my own. But I'm pretty lazy, so maybe that's just me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
3% margin of safety does not seem robust.
You're not the one not getting it.
AKA Googie architecture.
Yeah, I have a custom, semi luxury, offgrid (solar) 1000sqft house. Three people can very comfortably live there, twelve people can comfortably visit. All year.
No it's not illegal in much of the US. What typically is illegal is to not have a sanitary method of disposing waste or not building to local codes. Those things are done to preserve well water quality and ensure the safety, at least to some degree, of people who may be entering your house in an emergency.
My house is off grid (for a few years now) and it's not Maybe one of those peltier ice chests. If you want to call of something that cools a single can of coke to 10C your refrigerator.
Shipping containers are not structurally sound once you drill a hole in one and need to be framed like a regular house if you don't want to die of suffocation. Or of boredom of being inside a black box.
My friend's parents had an rv with solar panels on the roof. I don't know why. Running the engine for 20 minutes charged up the batteries ore than sitting in he sun all day. They wanted me to help them sell it on CL.
$2.85 on ebay.
That's funny. I've had similar thoughts (and I'm an engineer (and I'm OK)). I do like to make things, but have never seen a maker space - I have my own tool collection.
Anyone can make one even before. http://www.science-sparks.com/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I'm fine with that. I never cared about any company that I've worked for. I do a job (I care about my work and do the best I can), they pay me, end of relationship.
No they can't. It's very difficult to fire people even in right to work states.
Most companies that I've been with, going back as far as the 1980's have had a "don't about the company on anything policy". That includes even saying that you work for xxx because it could imply an endorsement by xxx. It's not a new thing and an easy one to follow.