Could you Survive Without Money? Meet the Guy Who Does.

It very well could be the knowledge he has gained while living without money that will go toward educating masses of people out of work in our increasingly struggling economy moving forward.

More people are losing jobs, homes, credit. Debt is increasing. How many people will know how to correctly identify edible cacti?

I was thinking of my grandmother who survived the great depression. She has so much knowledge up there in her brain. How to can tomatoes for the winter. How to store potatoes in holes to keep them fresh during the cold months. How to stuff the gaps in the logs of a cabin with mud to stay warm.

Countness numbers of the x-generation, y-generation, and even the baby boomers are going to die, simply because they do not know how to survive without money and a job and a grocery store.

I feel lucky. I can go out into the woods and find an animal and kill it and skin it and cook it and eat it. Many of my friends can't even eat meat with bones in it because it reminds them it was alive.

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Post by PStamatiou » Wed, Jul 22, 2009, 2:21 AM UTC

Sometimes I like to think I do.. I have some passive income streams that pay rent.

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Post by Xichekolas » Wed, Jul 22, 2009, 2:25 AM UTC

pj wrote: post #6

It very well could be the knowledge he has gained while living without money that will go toward educating masses of people out of work in our increasingly struggling economy moving forward. More people are losing jobs, homes, credit. Debt is increasing. How many people will know how to correctly identify edible cacti? I was thinking of my grandmother who survived the great depression. She has so much knowledge up th…

> "Countness numbers of the x-generation, y-generation, and even the baby boomers are going to die, simply because they do not know how to survive without money and a job and a grocery store."

What? The only reason people would need to be able to hunt their own food in our society is if that society totally and utterly collapsed. And not just a collapse of the government... I'm talking mass-fatality pandemic, nuclear holocaust, or zombies. Something that wipes out any local community that could band together and support itself. If anything that drastic happens, the average gen X'er/Y'er has a lot more to worry about than finding food (which can be scavenged for a while)... like surviving the initial die out, or roaming bands of looters.

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Post by Xichekolas » Wed, Jul 22, 2009, 2:30 AM UTC

Money is merely a means to decouple the promise of payback from the promiser.

Without money, you have to trust Joe to help you can tomatoes next fall since you helped him plow his field. With money, Joe can pay you to plow his field, and you can pay Sally to help you can tomatoes (because Joe moved to another town).

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Post by mhartl » Wed, Jul 22, 2009, 2:30 AM UTC

The subject of the story confuses money and wealth. He is not the first to do so, nor will he be the last.