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But Mike, come on now. You KNOW that there is something that should be said (in a good way & job) for a good & honest individual. However few & far between we are. I see your point, and honesty WILL trump everything else. Because if you’ll lie to me, you’ll steal from me. Those 2 things almost always go hand in hand.
Handle design has changed for the worst. Shovels, rakes, most any hand tool today is not for all day use because nobody does.
i havent left the yard in a week, money disappears if i go to town so its best to stay home and chip away at the homestead where value is created instead of expended. make machine, collect resource, run resource through machine, build lasting physical asset from resource, avoid debt.
Quote from: moodnacreek on March 30, 2021, 10:03:16 AMHandle design has changed for the worst. Shovels, rakes, most any hand tool today is not for all day use because nobody does.Now that is an interesting and pertinent observation. I've been having no end of grief finding decent hay fork, shovel etc... handles not to mention axe handles since leaving a collection of self-preped billets behind. It's not like it was when you'd think ahead and plant your ash around the property anticipating a regular need for keeping tools in condition and then making them to suit yerself. At the same time these overly bulky handels available at the farm store, we won't even go into fiberglass, they're yet another example of a loss of refinement brought on by, for one thing poor working practices and this ever creeping tendency to over engineer, the engineering mind having a disconnection from actual working conditions.
If you really want to delve into it; I think you can trace every bit of our social downfall to "women's lib". Raising children takes two parents. Fathers need to serve a purpose beyond being sperm donors and paying child support. Women who think they can "do it all" are only short changing their children.
the dollar being slowly and steadily ruined is at the heart of all these issues. the costs continually rise, the margins continually shrink, the regulations continually expand. its an accepted truth, that there are "two ways to enslave a nation, by the sword and by debt." well we know we arent being enslaved in open combat, but if you cant see the debt slavery then youre a fool. it is coordinated and calculated. i took action to get off the dollar when my awareness grew around 2010-12. taking what i had then and converting it into real assets .. literally just a big hardware store in boxes in a cash-bought field with low taxes and few regs, is the only thing that allows us to do well now and it would be so much harder to be starting it now.. so dont wait. it only gets harder with time. we are doing well on a single $13/hr income... and thats a medical job with an associates degree and 20 years experience. that whole climb the ladder concept is a pure lie here. theres no ladder to climb unless you own the ladder and exploit other people's debt leverage, paying them just enough to show up. and i say that exploit part lightly. it isnt the ladder owners fault if someone else is broke and takes a job offer at market rate. matthew 20 gives us God's opinion about it. all he cares about is that the employer and employee honor their agreements.. not that you had a collective bargaining agent get you the best deal and "fair" blah blah blah. fair is suffering for your mistakes, and not someone elses. when government makes everything fair they are simply distributing a more equal misery to all. the country is being conquered by decree, insurance, and money printing. the only way you can fight it is to be out of debt, collect things that retain their value and utility without expiration, and not having anything nice enough to need insurance. it is a very abnormal life for anyone born in the USA after vietnam. or should i say the USSA?as for the kids work ethic.. i dunno. i am doing the very best i can but television is a problem. i am extreme about limiting it or taking it away but theyre already addicted to watching youtube vids as soon as i turn my back. you can make literally millions of dollars by youtubing your minecraft or nerf wars sessions with absolutely no talent so it is very hard to tell a child that you wont make money playing games. you are lying to them.. it might be the most potential they will ever have. but who knows what the new stupid jackpot will be in a decade. its not possible to know how to set them up for future success anymore because someone keeps moving the cheese. mine will not have smart phones until they buy them with after-tax dollars of their own, im not doing it.. flip phone at best and im holding off as long as i can on that. but every other 10yr old has an Iphone even if they live in a trailer it seems.. and you cant stop your kid from seeing porn on a phone of some other kids on the bus. thats the biggest issue.. youve lost control and the ability to shelter them. the only thing the school is teaching them is about racism. racism and a funny math that makes absolutely no sense at all. i can sense the reprogramming that nashville is dictating and if it werent for the needed socialization, i would take them out of school completely. the crap theyre learning is worthless, except how to behave around strangers and deal with crowds without anxiety. as for my family. we are free and can stay free without a handout if we avoid the pitfalls. money has become a false wealth, if your assets were cash based they cut in half just in 2019/20 from a near doubling of the M2 money supply, so im glad i didnt have any to lose, it was already converted to stable storage. throw in a stock market collapse at some point and a lot of life savings will evaporate. but bloomberg and the wall street journal arent training people to see if their souls are content or if their marriages and relationships are intact. they train us to measure all things in dollars.. that are becoming worthless anyway. i make certain that i have few dollars because they are continually leaking. if you had a car that peed out motor oil, would you fill it on friday to leak all over the driveway until empty monday morning? you fill the minimum until you can replace the car.. to me the car in that analogy is the wealth storage vehicle, the currency. i havent left the yard in a week, money disappears if i go to town so its best to stay home and chip away at the homestead where value is created instead of expended. make machine, collect resource, run resource through machine, build lasting physical asset from resource, avoid debt.I really like your theory.
I really like your theory.
Modern forestry practices use very large felling machines; the guy with a chainsaw is disappearing. When baby boomers are gone, there won't be anyone left, more or less, with felling skills. What negative impacts do you foresee this as having on forestry and woodlot landowners?For instance, let's say there is a woodlot owner who had necessary skills but has reached an age where, for safety reasons or just not wanting to work so hard, he no longer wants to use his chainsaw skills to fell trees for firewood, thinning or timber stand improvement or land-clearing now and then. He is willing to pay someone to do it. Who's going to do it? Loggers with the big equipment won't because the job is too small; it's too much hassle to move the equipment. As for hiring a skilled feller, they are disappearing.
Why in the heck did we try to stop immigration? The only large group of people wanting manual labor and we build a wall to keep them out???
There isn't anything that keeps me up at night but if there is anything that greatly concerns me about the future it is automation.
Ian, plot out the welfare enrollment next to the mechanization of society curve and youll see an alarming relationship unfold. those who are for whatever reason ill equipped to keep technological pace, are obsoleted and discarded by it. change happens fast now with these crisis. terrorism? no fly lists. virus? work by zoom. poof.. insta-change. there is a welfare saturation point that is exploited by the cloward and piven strategy. bread and circus brought down plenty of empires past and technology makes us even less immune than in the horse and candle ages. look how fast you can distribute a trillion dollars.. and just how fast the recipients can blow it then need another shot next week.regarding handymen. its strange how in my life when i chose one thing to become for success, i was never successful at it. the lotto ticket had always been moved before i got there so i kept moving on and learned not everything, but a lot. a real lot. and now my identity is pretty scattered like a handyman's work docket. he cant call himself a painter or plumber or electrician or roofer or drywaller but does all of it, very scattered. thats me.. i lack a one stop identity and dont even know where to start when asked "what are you?" housewife is usually the fastest, funniest way to dodge that bullet and change the subject because i still have no idea.the great irony is now that i am equipped and knowledgable and in demand, im so flipping tired of slaving for everyone but me, that i have no interest in even letting anyone know i can solve their issues. i dont really care how much money its for, i just want my time back to build my own dream and solve my own issues. work is my favorite thing to do, but i generally hate when its for someone else. does anyone else feel that way?
But I like what I have, that’s why I still have it.
the great irony is now that i am equipped and knowledgable and in demand, im so flipping tired of slaving for everyone but me, that i have no interest in even letting anyone know i can solve their issues. i dont really care how much money its for, i just want my time back to build my own dream and solve my own issues. work is my favorite thing to do, but i generally hate when its for someone else. does anyone else feel that way?
Quote from: livemusic on March 31, 2021, 11:08:08 PMThere isn't anything that keeps me up at night but if there is anything that greatly concerns me about the future it is automation.That concern has been around since machines were invented. Like when cotton mills started to be automated about 200 years ago, and has been ongoing ever since. It used to take a lot of workers to build a car before Henry Ford invented the production line etc. If those predictions had come true 90% of the population would now be unemployed... And that's not counting the increased number of women in the workforce. Meanwhile I think unemployment here is ~5%, and that's in spite of Covid and a basically universal unemployment benefit. Instead there are whole careers that didn't exist 200 years ago. or even 50 years ago. Now "Rocket Scientist" is an actual career option for a school leaver here, as there is actually an active space launch operation. Although arguably they might be better going for film production, either film or computer based. New LOTR TV series is currently being filmed here for Amazon's streaming service. Sure there is a lot of automation and computer work involved, but also hundreds of actual workers on the project.
Quote from: livemusic on March 31, 2021, 11:08:08 PMThere isn't anything that keeps me up at night but if there is anything that greatly concerns me about the future it is automation.That concern has been around since machines were invented. Like when cotton mills started to be automated about 200 years ago, and has been ongoing ever since.
Quote from: nativewolf on March 31, 2021, 07:31:08 AMWhy in the heck did we try to stop immigration? The only large group of people wanting manual labor and we build a wall to keep them out??? The US has never tried to stop immigration. Don't turn this into a political thread and get it moved to the restricted board. There are members here engaging in a legitimate conversation without the influence of politics.
the great irony is now that i am equipped and knowledgable and in demand, im so flipping tired of slaving for everyone but me, that i have no interest in even letting anyone know i can solve their issues. i dont really care how much money its for, i just want my time back to build my own dream and solve my own issues. work is my favorite thing to do, but i generally hate when its for someone else.
What a nice problem to have?- knowledge, experience, means and what not... Time is the one most precious commodity(during one's work years) so you've figured out Retirement is the place where it comes down to your own dreams...
As in worn out people? I must say that my past 20 years of retirement have been mostly very enjoyable.
and dont even know where to start when asked "what are you?"
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