I eat very well for ~$250/month/3 people. Granted I have a large garden, but it's not the primary sources of calories . The trick is to have youtube and be able to follow cooking directions.
This guy built a crappy little house for a few thousand dollars (I did the same thing). You can save quite a bit of money this way until you can pay cash for something better. An engineer friend lived in a truck for 5 years (work showers), then paid cash for a nice house (in 2009).
How do you objectively define excess? I can live very well (in the US) on under $20k/year, but most people consider that poor. Subjectively, I would say anything higher than $30k/yr is excess, do you agree? The world median income is under $10k/yr. Most people in the US are greedy then, no?
I know two people who've gone bankrupt (I know because I was on the list they had to submit to the courts as a creditor; they still have to pay income tax on borrowed un-repaid money). Didn't appear to affect their lifestyle much if at all.
I've been to Soviet Russia (Stalingrad (now St. Petersberg)) and lived in it personally, first hand.` Have you? I agree with the poster who said he'd take free market capitalism over socialism ANY DAY.
I earn far less than my parents, yet somehow work less, own a (much) larger house, have more free time, take more vacations, have visited 4 continents (things my parents never did) and my house is stuffed full of gadgets (there's almost nothing I don't own, at least in representation) my parents had crap and lived in a small house.
If you took me and everything I own back to 1970 I would be considered very well off.
How hard is it to build a drone? They were used in WWII and around decades before then. It's fairly common for individuals to build high performance aircraft in their garages.
Hey, have you seen outerzone? Someday in about 2 years, it will be my goal in life to build all of these. I have plans for the Saggita XC, but am currently building a large workshop. I guess that with modern flight stabilization systems, anything can be made flyable.
I'd be really happy with a drywall bot right now.
In your civil unrest scenario, what happens when said generic bots are affordable on the scale that a cell phone that even the poorest own them?
Is a thermostat, the olden honeywell kind with a big spring and mercury switch, an AI? It knows when to turn the AC on and off to keep its human owners comfortable.
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Hey, I remember those! I always wondered what they were called and where they went. Had them a few times in the 70's.
you can literally live off it and nothing else
Much like the sweet potato?
The poorest people on Earth eat the best because they know how to cook.
It takes less time than going out to eat.
disturbingly neutral. Like scientifically engineered inoffensive blandness.
So English food?
Happy now?
That explains why it's green. Or does it?
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This guy built a crappy little house for a few thousand dollars (I did the same thing). You can save quite a bit of money this way until you can pay cash for something better. An engineer friend lived in a truck for 5 years (work showers), then paid cash for a nice house (in 2009).
Zero debt (a large part of the reason I was able to do this). No kids. Family sizes have been shrinking since the 1960's.
How do you objectively define excess? I can live very well (in the US) on under $20k/year, but most people consider that poor. Subjectively, I would say anything higher than $30k/yr is excess, do you agree? The world median income is under $10k/yr. Most people in the US are greedy then, no?
I know two people who've gone bankrupt (I know because I was on the list they had to submit to the courts as a creditor; they still have to pay income tax on borrowed un-repaid money). Didn't appear to affect their lifestyle much if at all.
Sweden and Norway are not socialist. They are mixed economy like the US. And most of the rest of the world.
I've been to Soviet Russia (Stalingrad (now St. Petersberg)) and lived in it personally, first hand.` Have you? I agree with the poster who said he'd take free market capitalism over socialism ANY DAY.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=why+aren%27t+there+more+employee+owned+companies%3F&t=ffab
If you took me and everything I own back to 1970 I would be considered very well off.
People don't know what's in their best interest. They need to be ruled and controlled. Sure they will complain, but it's for their own good.
How hard is it to build a drone? They were used in WWII and around decades before then. It's fairly common for individuals to build high performance aircraft in their garages.
Kites, rc cars, unoccupied google autonomous cars, paper airplanes, male bees Mars rovers, New Horizons.
Mesozoic: Average temperatures were also higher than today by about 10C.
Grass fed, gluten and cage free, non-GMO, etc, etc, etc.
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I'd be really happy with a drywall bot right now.
In your civil unrest scenario, what happens when said generic bots are affordable on the scale that a cell phone that even the poorest own them?
Is a thermostat, the olden honeywell kind with a big spring and mercury switch, an AI? It knows when to turn the AC on and off to keep its human owners comfortable.
Because it happened with computers so it must be more dangerous because I do not understand computers.