Monday 13 June 2011

max out or move out?

I've got a sense for the zeitgeist of the moment.
point: MAXING OUT LEADS TO MOVING OUT

MAX OUT?
Being that humans are not being eaten by dinosaurs (just joking)
or by animals, we have a need for danger.
We also will kill others to get more stuff, like chimps do.

The real problem we have now is this MAXING out of everything.

We're not meant to max out.
The Earth is not meant to max out.
Finance is not meant to max out.
Fractional banking and leveraging are not meant to be maxed out.
This is why we're on the edge of a crash. BUTT, I blame the Greeks. xD
there's no room for failure. no rest. no hope. no equality. no clean water.
no democracy. no work.
MAXimally negative results for the rest of us
I don't care how well-built anyting is, running it at max
all day, every day will make it come apart at the seems.

Ha-Joon Chang said that we should have a LESS efficient financial system.
[his interview is at 3:00. I just found this. B4 the interview Hajoon argues with Peter Schiff but Schiff embarrasses himself by shouting all the time. I have tended to follow Schiff too. But Chang 1 Schiff 0. LISTEN to Chang!]

MOVE OUT?

'Small' Farmers (a few hundred acres) cannot make money because the
supermarkets are maxing their profits by cheating the farmers.
The only farmers making money are agri-business 5000 acre
farms, full of Monsanto crap. That's the max out business model of farming.

Nevertheless, the price of food is going through the roof because
of finance maxing out on speculation
(every other investment that was previously maxed out is now dead)

We started out by hunting and gathering. Not my family, our genus.
We learned to farm and so we had surplus. we traded, sat around
and drew stuff, learned to write and had plenty of wars.

the modern model of farming is
BIGGER = BETTER.

This is wrong.
It's wrong because of the environmental damage,
the requirement for technology, and thus cost.
I don't know how many generations your family is from
living on a farm. Me? 2 generations.
The lower the number, the better.
We understand what farming can become.
small holdings, and oriented towards self-suffiency and bartering.

Transfer from the city to a small town.
Take a pay cut, if you have to. ..if you have a job.
Live in the country. Buy an acre and plant stuff.
Keep a few animals. chickens, etc.
Feed yourself and your family.
Barter with your neighbours.
Use your cash wisely.
Then you get to survive.

This takes you completely out of the
maxing-out culture of the city.
The maxing culture feeds the government and the banks
and the big stores that are all screwing us.

Maxing is out.

This video advises the same thing:

-Costick67 ~(8^P