“Let’s waste some time together. I realize it’s completely unrealistic to expect everyone chill and relax given the current climate going on in the country…I am tired of everyone saying, ‘this is not normal,’ because it seems to be exactly that. So it appears we need to be in this for the long haul.”
I’m 69 and a bad capitalist. Always have been. I made 18K/yr in 1985 and still have not exceeded that. Today I (somehow) live on only Social Security at a whopping 13,368/yr. In California. I should be spanked and sent back to good capitalist school.
In the earlier 2000s I built a strawbale cabin on a friend’s property 6 miles north of La Sal UT (between Moab and Monticello). Spent $3,000 dollars total (inc. a small solar) by foraging off the land for gravel, juniper beams (standing dead), and free old tires for a foundation top. Bad capitalist again, for sure. Got me and my partner thinking about the utter insanity of society creating a human waste system that puts fecal contaminants into water, which everyone knows percolates through ground into other waters. So we built a free compost toilet with wood pallets, local straw, and pasture-fed horse and cattle manure. To be then used as humanure after a couple years. Bad, bad capitalists we were—then as well as now.
Point? We can do it! Morgan, thanks for showing we don’t have to be slaves to a system. There ARE ways around it; just takes some creativity and a willingness to let some of the extraneous fall away into a simpler lifestyle.
Thank you, Morgan! I love your lifestyle and writing — wish there was more of it…
Wow! Thats pretty cool! Thanks for sharing. I get frustrated at how expensive it is to just dream of something that simple. Born in the wrong era I suppose, but that makes the vision to be a bad capitalist all the more rebellious and appealing! Cheers!
“Let’s waste some time together. I realize it’s completely unrealistic to expect everyone chill and relax given the current climate going on in the country…I am tired of everyone saying, ‘this is not normal,’ because it seems to be exactly that. So it appears we need to be in this for the long haul.”
I love this. Wonderful stuff, as always, Morgan.
Cheers! Thank you, Chris.
I’m 69 and a bad capitalist. Always have been. I made 18K/yr in 1985 and still have not exceeded that. Today I (somehow) live on only Social Security at a whopping 13,368/yr. In California. I should be spanked and sent back to good capitalist school.
In the earlier 2000s I built a strawbale cabin on a friend’s property 6 miles north of La Sal UT (between Moab and Monticello). Spent $3,000 dollars total (inc. a small solar) by foraging off the land for gravel, juniper beams (standing dead), and free old tires for a foundation top. Bad capitalist again, for sure. Got me and my partner thinking about the utter insanity of society creating a human waste system that puts fecal contaminants into water, which everyone knows percolates through ground into other waters. So we built a free compost toilet with wood pallets, local straw, and pasture-fed horse and cattle manure. To be then used as humanure after a couple years. Bad, bad capitalists we were—then as well as now.
Point? We can do it! Morgan, thanks for showing we don’t have to be slaves to a system. There ARE ways around it; just takes some creativity and a willingness to let some of the extraneous fall away into a simpler lifestyle.
Thank you, Morgan! I love your lifestyle and writing — wish there was more of it…
Also, this affirms I would still be a very bad capitalist in any decade. 😅
Wow! Thats pretty cool! Thanks for sharing. I get frustrated at how expensive it is to just dream of something that simple. Born in the wrong era I suppose, but that makes the vision to be a bad capitalist all the more rebellious and appealing! Cheers!
I couldn’t do it today, for sure. I love that: “the vision to be a bad capitalist.” May we all become more rebellious!
May we all be bad capitalists! That would give me hope.
I agree. May we all ask ourselves what being a “good capitalist” actually means for our well being, and the planet’s.
Great distinction between bad capitalist and evil ones!
Thanks for noting that! 😅
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