Don’t worry, they definitely won’t go that route of helping everyone a lot when they could help their people just a little.

These jobs you are speaking of–washing cars, mowing lawns, even kids working in their parents’ store–do you think that is the same as working for a multinational conglomerate handling food with no breaks and minimum wage?

Yes, and they are being bribed just like our politicians were

My fiance and I are doing it ourselves. It’s a tiny house and he has a few years of construction experience. We had to learn a lot on the fly, but it hasn’t collapsed yet! Seriously though I bet you can do it, especially with a few mates.

You literally are not doing any labor, and are not getting paid. Is that supposed to be a gotcha?

If any labor were truly unskilled; you could come in day one and perform as well as those who’d been at it for 10 years. I can’t think of one thing where that is the case. Does anyone still test if food has been poisoned by eating it first? Little skill, but man if so that person definitely deserves a good wage.

I wonder if it’s like a translation thing? I bet individuals in these groups don’t speak the local language but have a translator. Maybe the translator is too deferential and won’t actually translate orders properly so as not to offend their clients. Just pulling a guess out my bum; anyone with real experience know?

You really think those massive, experimental water tanks won’t require more maintenance, because you have to trim trees once ever few years? Or because their roots might grow too much?

Gee wiz y’all why didn’t we just all think of that?! Then we could all do the same thing! Obviously this is stupid to the point of making me wonder if it’s a troll.

But I know a lot of people wonder, how do we fix this when we literally can not vote our way out of it? I see only one easy avenue; create alternative systems for housing, food, and energy. We can start small and fragmented, but then grow as things collapse. Keep voting , but learn how to grow food. Buy land with friends and family. Reuse, repurpose, thrift from nonprofits, post things for free on craigslist. Do what you can until you can or must do more.

What work can we do to get that system? We aren’t allowed to vote for it and neither party is interested in more competition. French-style protests might work, but our list of grievances is so long. We’d have to unite under something big…it just all feels like a long shot for our society.

The solution is to keep some people from setting the ship on fire for a few more years, while we build lifeboat communities with alternate care systems so that we can withdraw our money and labor from the sinking ship system in a more gradual way that minimizes global and local pain and suffering and death.