Think about it from this point of view.
More and more people are doing the very thing this man describes (retiring early and/or using cottage industry or hobbies to generate enough to "survive", etc.). I first saw this at Whores and Ale. I figure .gov will simply make more money. They have the machine that prints it. Or, they'll get the country in another war. Seriously, I have wondered for years what .gov will do when there are more folks drawing from the "Ponzi Scheme" than there are victims being extorted (taxpayers/producers).
could have been said in 1/2 the words and without all the "right?" phrases
ReplyDeleteEven though the wife and I were pot smoking, hard working, conservative, off roading, shooting, shacking up, wild ones when we got together in '76, we got as trad as you can get. Now we hate the (((Blob, Cabal))) with a passion. We deal with it by living in the woods of Tennessee.
ReplyDeleteIf any zombies, blue helmets, golden hoards, antifa, BLMs, whatever, make it to our neck of the woods, we'll HEAR about it. All our neighbors are farmer, rancher snipers, er, hunters.
This is a very Christian, "Trad" area. Meaning White, Christian, high trust, low crime. The women around here are not cringy or triggered. Even us transplants (overwhelmingly conservative) get with the "Southern" mentality. It's courteous.
Society has brought this on themselves, and it's nothing new either. I had my position eliminated back in early 2018 at my last job (Director of IT). I tried like absolute hell to land another job for 2 years as I have a family I'm raising, but nobody wants to hire a old white guy like me anymore, period, for any reason. Lucky for me, I had just finished a life goal of getting completely out of debt, spent a few years beforehand over paying my loans and mortgage and saving up as much as I could, and maxing out my 401k contribution, like Past me saw the writing on the wall or something. Glad I did...
ReplyDeleteI updated my LinkedIn profile after struggling to find a job in IT, to say I was packing up my marbles and going home, gave myself a job title of Professional Dog Walker and said fuck it.
Once you cut all the fat out of your life, you can actually survive off a lot less than when your barely scraping by with paying loans out the ass. I threw my 401k into an annuity, so it would pay out nice after maturity (Enough to pay all my property/vehicle taxes and half my utilities for the year). Now, I just work odd jobs, either with my hands as I'm a jack of all trades, or in IT as a consultant for $175 an hour to businesses I had a relationship with once or twice a week, on MY terms. To tell ya the truth, I am living quite comfortably. So happy to wash my hands from the woke workplace, my quality of life is SO much better now. No, I will not be coming back, I'm done...