I thought this was for individuals on government health careā¦not commercial or not insured
And I say to you stop being a lemming. But I guess you canāt help it being indoctrinated like you are.
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Examples?
Too many over the years.
But the primary one is making money off volatile stock markets and currency exchanges which are primarily affected by capitalist market pressures while railing vehemently against that same system. Whatās that saying? āPut your money where your mouth isā
Never made a penny in the stock market.
Are you sure?
Because Iāve acknowledged there is a better way for everyone-not just for me-but have decided not to become homeless and starve to death. Why is that contradictory? Here is the thing you ALWAYS miss. I could care less if I couldnāt live my life the way I do as long as things were more equitable, and people had the things they needed to live a decent life. Will that happen in capitalism? Gawd no!
Hey dumbass - the world stock markets have an impact on the currency exchanges - they arenāt independent systems.
Because there are a myriad of other ways to not become homeless and starve to death while not leeching off the production of others.
Capitalism is for sure flawed, as I have admitted.
Hell, if you really wanted to buck capitalism - go live off grid. Communities in Alaska still barter extensively and are less dependent on the constant flow of consumer goods than other places.
Whether you believe your behaviors and choice of āprofessionā are hypocritical to each other does not change the reality that they are. Everyone here sees it.
Hey dumbass-the stock market does not have as much influence over the currency market as you think.
Like getting a job?
Bwahahahahaā¦ now you are just speaking out of sheer ignorance. Because they are in the wilderness they must barter extensively.
And just because you say they are, doesnāt make it so.
You mean the indoctrinated right-wing flock. Wow! That really means something to me.
A certain understatement. It is a garbage system that concentrates power and wealth into as few hands as possible, typically at the expense of others. We can do better.
Okay, letās crash the stock market al la 1929 and see what happensā¦
Start a non-profit and take a salary as operating costs - so you can survive, for one.
I have relatives and friends in AK. They do barter frequently. Again, if you want to buck capitalism, the wilderness is an option. You know, self sufficiency and all that.
No, everybody with varying views. And I didnāt vote for the cheeto.
Those of us with skills can. You, probably not.
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Provide examples
Youāre right. There are fully-staffed, fully-stocked Walmarts across most of the Alaskan tundra.
Juneau doesnāt even have one and itās a fairly populated town with a summer influx of touristsā¦
Just for a little perspective:
There are 9 Walmarts in Alaska
There are 17 Walmarts in Jacksonville, FL
I donāt even need to go to Alaska to find Wal-Mart deserts with significant barter economies. Northern Maine has some pretty remote places and those people are bartering all kinds of stuff. You can easily find someone interested in swapping a 1997 Ford Ranger for a 2005 Polaris snowmobile or prescription pills, and all kinds of stuff like that. Moose meat for weed. Guns for other guns. Heck, someone might even let you ice fish their pond if you promise to share your secrets of communist civilization building with them.
Thereās a chunk of the state thatās about half the size of Connecticut with a population of 12 as of the 2020 census. Iāve never met any of them, but was surprised that it was twice that in 2000 and there was actually a black person and a Hispanic person living up there, constituting 3.7 percent of the population each.
I believe those two people would have made it Maineās most diverse jurisdiction in 2000, by nonwhite percentage of population.
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My grandmother-in-law is in a town of 16.
EDIT: Just checked - it is 100.00% White. Not as cool as Maine.
I would be up for getting rid of money and only attaining things through bartering. That sounds dope.
I would think having no friends or woman would be of greater concern to you. I guess you got used to being socially invisible by now.
I think everyone who has tried going back to a barter economy eventually ends up realizing that a medium of exchange is actually pretty convenient.
Maine has plenty of all white towns in and around that population marker. Most of the state is dotted with very small municipalities that arenāt as far apart as places in the Midwest, but thereās not as much agriculture here to occupy the land.
Some of the island communities are pretty insular. Maineās got a lot of those and Iāve only been to a few. Thereās probably lots of Stephen King plots going down on them.
Who knows what kinds of goods and services get bartered out there, where thereās nobody coming to help.
Someone should probably go check in on Matinicus Isle, come to think of it.
Itās convenient, but is it cool? What sounds better? I paid for my groceries with a $100 bill, or I paid for my groceries with some spare buttons in my pocket, an old mirror, and a spool of wire?
The kinds of services that create people who are characters in Stephen King books.
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I will gladly accept scrap copper tubing of unknown origin as a form of payment for ERP consulting. Show me the copper and Iāll show you the right way to set up your time-deferred revenue recognition configuration.
One of my first impressions of Maine 20 years ago was that the further you stray from the I-95 corridor, the more you are in the deep south of the north. Thatās not to say there was a lot of racism that I could discern, but that you quickly get into places and people that are very insular and sometimes pretty weird to outsiders.
Thick Maine accents are among the hardest to understand in all of the USA. Up north and into NB, Canada, youāve got the Acadians, who are from the same stock as the Cajuns of Louisiana.
The first wedding I attended in Maine was, no joke, a dude marrying his stepmother in his backyard way out in the hills of Oxford County. Dad even attended.
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