Far from "coming back to Steemit" (tho we never left the building), the world according to JoG ?

at least a smill slice of it

Seeing the video from the homesteaders in the Ozarks in what we currently refer to as the DSM (divided states of moria) downhere ... made me remember just how many across the planet have chosen to live differently , as well as those who don't do it for facetube likes because its a fashionable thing they can afford (like before 2019 in some upper circles "having a black" or gay friend you can boast on instaspam)

This guy must be the emperor of homesteading tho .. i havent seen anything like it across the place ...

Even so, if all families or solo-ists have their own ways (after all all mundanes are the same but there's nothing that demands two of any anomalies anywhere in the universe to display the same pattern)

In these case the only thing in common might be "deviant from the norm"

As well as ...

Personally, as one who wanted to move to Asia (more specific Mongolia as we found it to be the perfect environment and if you can run internet money it doesnt matter where in the solar system your base of operations is) - tho the original idea was China (WAY BEFORE, like before before ... before the dragon in the East rose - which many predicted would happen btw, WAY before before before ...) which is ofcourse no longer possible and to make it to the other place we'll never get enough money together in this life anymore (even if we live to be 120 it looks like fate is sealed)

On top of that the physical condition : if we could scrap enough copper pieces for a last minute , just to spend it overthere sleeping twice a day and having 4 hours left ... well you can see how that would be a waste of money and time as well

so - let's say everythings fucked until the next cycle but we dont know how many lives we have left and since we're not suicidal we are bound to sit this one out (otherwise i bet it would have ended more than 20 years ago perhaps)

So everyone does their thing if the goal is not facebook likes and you live in a place where you can . Imo with the bloody rock-hard 7 days a week work that goes with it must come a sense of immense freedom and the satisfaction of

literally having built your own life

brick by brick

no better or worse no good or bad, everyone makes do in their space with the means at hand and as we know even if some guy wrote otherwise

no two men are created equal (whoever tries to say the opposite is probably either your enemy or trying to sell you something)

And the global community that lives beneath the surface seems to just learn from each other, theres less strife and jealousy , green envy and

... stuff Jung would have spoken about ...

involved

IF POSSIBLE ofcourse ... living in the west-euro drecklands cant think of anyone who would and its basically impossible ... i bet not just in belgium

you go up north or down to the land of the Sun-king , same thing , the only survivalists ("homesteaders" now) are the ones stuck in refugee camps here , the trashcan of the world.

And the rules, i bet almost all of it would constitute some crime, even if you dont TAKE, the crime is YOU DONT PAY THE LORD OF THE LAND
you cant have your own powerwall here its called "being a producer of electricity" the taxload is so high it becomes unrealistic ...
You can actually NOT have a "domicile" (house with address registered) and NOT have a sub to the gas/elec/waterwarks, it comes with the mandatory package

Actually ... if you HAVE solar panels on the roof, you are OBLIGED to route the power through the grid, then the company delivers it back (and charges costs for using the grid while the state charges VAT on that)

Yakuza could learn from the government here when it comes to extortion lol

just a few tidbits, most of the rest wouldnt be allowed, living here on the highest point of salems lot even a small windmill is forbidden (security, it wiill kill the neighbours ... somehow ... havent found out how but bem)

and on an on ... the world as not seen on tv, when we were chatty

ACTUALLY, there were a LOT of homesteaders here on steemit , we not active anymore but its like most of them are gone ?

back when we were chatty ... this one guy here from colombia once explained how there you dont pay taxes on the first 10k yearly (i bet theres not much social security either but if you can make do you can make do, 10k dollar in colombia probably goes quite a way

(like "NO" taxes, yes, you read that right mister sir)

i think the saudis dont have income tax, canada, last time someone told me sat around 15% (its been some years) (?) , the murricans around 20 (?) if you check items on the internet , like the soldering station we acquired after 4 years of deliberation, in america the price is usually half (literally) the number of dollars you have to pay here in euros

Thats if you buy in a europe store, if you have it imported from across the dark line you're in for a bit of a bigger surprise

A woman from China i used to babble with a lot on wechat or line (forgot) booted up an english school with a friend

So i asked OMG the paperwork with that and the money for all the state stamps and she more or like said , "well we had to rent a building and distribute flyers" ...

and im like 8- o

and what about the permits and the quarterlies and all that up-front money before you make a cent ?

Why would i need a permit to teach english ? if i dont get results no one will come - and you pay taxes after you make money

and im like 8- o

.. another girl (also from china, still in hi-school) studied german

in her free time, so i asked wtf ? you like languages and she stated that it was a practical decision (as you see germany and china used to be quite the trade buddies before the american incursion of the post 2019s started to infect the world)

thats quite some practical thinking for a 15 year old

A woman from Taiwan who was a teacher too could make like 2 trips yearly ... to europe to whatever morocco, stuff that goes for planetickets in the 2000s here sometimes ... retirement age ... "55" if she wanted ...

all very nice people since they seemed to have a sense of fulfillment and purpose too, this girl from Singapore

17 years old, was in university studying as en engineer and im like 8- o , YOURE A GENIUS !

and she like "why?" isnt it normal for parents to push their children to the best they can ? Im no exception here

and im like 8- o

ive been like 8- o A LOT

in the chatty days ...

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edit :
wouldnt be Janes OnderGrond who is now the Catham Joker on the top if the post came in one

far from going over every chat i every had with every person i bumped into online ... just wanted to add this girl from Vietnam (one of them) who was also in uni / college back then ... Vietnam ... communist country
however the schools actually the whole town/region was more or less developed by a private holding (i bet you get similar situations in china as well as a place that large is hard to keep fully centralized tho uncle Xi seemed to want to take back some power from the biggest ... hence Jack Ma (and our fav here mister Sun if its still him) took off (and probably their money with it, tho i bet the corporations wont be under their control no more) - but maybe slicing up Crotter a bit wouldnt hurt here either

bem, point was : the place was more or less completely owned tho you cant say owned (i think , at least back then, you dont OWN the land you build your house on in Vietnam, ALL land belongs to the state - as opposed to a soviet particracy like here where you BUY the land but you pay a yearly feudal tax to the feudal lord ANYWAY for the right to live on it - the woman in china payed the equivalent of what would be 100 euros here for an appartment she shared with her father, all costs included, water gas elec which somehow would go over to HER after the old man passed on , all things that make you go 8-o if you live on this side in this very small nice ... they say the russians and they say the chinese, but information control is an art here just as well, since the upload filters passed a surprising number of google searches have the "some were omitted" in small print at the bottom ... and thats not just google fuxxing your perception by adding two ads between every result and not just on youtube)

AAAH, okay the place was "owned" and more like developed by a holding called becamex, they basicallly developed the town, the shopping centers, they owned the schools (so they get dibs on the graduates its not the worst system from the POV of the guy in the suit who owns the holding lol and it WORKS in a country where life is shit-hard to get by b/c people get a chance)

like the debate on "should we let african child labourkids starve instead of letting them risk their life in the mines" ?

to which the answer is "mu" i guess or something similar

MY POINT YAYAYAYA!

"the" point and all that : she once told me lots of young'uns chose to skip the holidays and keep schooling so they could quit and graduate a year earlier ...

recently read that in China kids get like ONE per year, its about four weeks (i think) and uncle Xi decreed they were only allowed x hours of video games during that time this year ( we have no moral judgment on the matter, china is china, .. washington is washington and ... BRUSSELS SURE IS BRUSSELS)

thing is ? those kids in Vietnam CHOSE to do that, right ? no one made them, the little girl in china CHOSE to study german during free time, not b/c she liked it but b/c she was already "on the future"

and you wanna compete with that ? by "not stressing out the children" "they have it hard enough already" ... we acknowledge the fact that you cant whip west-euro drecklands into a state of orderly discipline in five but the realism that is LACKING above the 50th floor ?

you cant make that up

anyway, right, just wanted to add that ... BOY I WISH I HAD THAT BUSINESS RUNNING IN MONGOLIA, some employes, someone to clean the house, a few more, all paid by ME, able to feed theirs with a HUGE moat full of mongolian crocodiles around the house and northkorean gunturrets to keep uninvited guests away

... go bowfishing or just buy - the choice- ... design my own place, be free , it WAS possible ... and the gods know we tried

very few regrets about what others decided for us

instead of rambling on and before the Spanish inquisition shows up ... pff well the day is over, we wake up with 5% battery life coming from a 20 hour day to what now is a 4 hour day

it depletes quickly - we try REALLY hard not to slip in a sleep threetimes a day pattern and stick to two but its a delicate strict rythm that doesnt converge with the place and at any rate : even if we fell on the money ... it would make all dreams impossible by now

... crypto .... steemit ... there might be some incentive but frankly ... i dont think we ever sold crypto for fiat so we basically never made a profit OR a loss in that way and also

unless the pool becomes worth something in the six zeroes its probably not worth cashing in ...

RIGHT ... carry on, nothing to see here (as you can see by the tags we dont really care about exposure ....

but still breathing , we promised someone after all

to be the one to stand on the hill after the humans all fell down

give the key to the planet back to the gods

and leave

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this legend of the west-euro drecklands (include dantes frozen hell up north with the vikings, they croak undert taxloads and regulations too)

???

IT IS A MYTH

... im drifting

anyway

...

see ? bowfishing ?

natural building

make do-ing

i bet these people stand a lot more chance here at the end of the sumerian era , not stuck in place where reality bends under the gravity of so much paper or corporations have become black holes sucking up everything and compressing jobnumbers to a nearly quantum-zero

maybe some dont realize just how much the U s is the D s and not all is Lex Luthor and Dark Tony Stark (we quit following for our own mental health, it looks like Dark Tony Stark took a little step back)

BUT ...

the west is clearly done for and

800 billion for an army ... in 2025 in a continent that has never been united in blood and steel in 5000+ years ?

i bet Orban will pay the first 100 billion

BEM,

im back to my jag-pixels