Times are tough. I buy used books and business is booming. Heirlooms, inscriptions, precious stuff becomes expendable when you are hungry or need that mortgage payment. Its sad. I'd rather be a pawn broker sometimes because at least then I'd know that they had a chance to get the stuff back. I have sold records that I wish I'd never sold and I can't help but wonder what will become of folks once they've sold off all their good stuff.
We are at a point in world history where the top 1% are essentially hogging the resources that the rest of us need to get by. I'm lucky. I can see a doctor when I'm sick, buy food when I'm hungry and pay my bills on time. I have no credit card, no mortgage payment (renting is so underrated,) no one breathing down my neck to get their piece.
Just finished a Freedom From Fear, a history of the great depression and the parallels are eery. The difference is that families are so fractured that many of us have lost the last line of support that used to sustain us. Many of us (me included) would be absolutely on our own were the worst to happen and even Obama seems to lack an understanding of just how bad things are or could get.
I recommend a book called The Long Emergency if you want to get the shit scared out of you. As a resident of the Pacific Northwest, I feel for you folks in Fla, the desert southwest, and parts of the south who are about to come to terms with the fact that where you live will not sustain life soon.
Vandalize golf courses i say.

Times are tough. I buy used books and business is booming. Heirlooms, inscriptions, precious stuff becomes expendable when you are hungry or need that mortgage payment. Its sad. I'd rather be a pawn broker sometimes because at least then I'd know that they had a chance to get the stuff back. I have sold records that I wish I'd never sold and I can't help but wonder what will become of folks once they've sold off all their good stuff.
We are at a point in world history where the top 1% are essentially hogging the resources that the rest of us need to get by. I'm lucky. I can see a doctor when I'm sick, buy food when I'm hungry and pay my bills on time. I have no credit card, no mortgage payment (renting is so underrated,) no one breathing down my neck to get their piece.
Just finished a Freedom From Fear, a history of the great depression and the parallels are eery. The difference is that families are so fractured that many of us have lost the last line of support that used to sustain us. Many of us (me included) would be absolutely on our own were the worst to happen and even Obama seems to lack an understanding of just how bad things are or could get.
I recommend a book called The Long Emergency if you want to get the shit scared out of you. As a resident of the Pacific Northwest, I feel for you folks in Fla, the desert southwest, and parts of the south who are about to come to terms with the fact that where you live will not sustain life soon.
Vandalize golf courses i say.