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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Since this is a parenting site I figured that we should discuss the best ways to prepare our children for the Oligarchy?

Should we plan to flee? Should we teach them more about world history and economics? Should we set up accounts that they can access overseas?

I obviously have no idea so help me out here! [/quote]
Some of you have lost your damn minds. [/quote]

Yep.  Astounding that democrats are opposed to saving money, getting rid of waste and fraud, ensuring women compete in women’s sports, and working toward world peace. [/quote]

Please get back to me when your SS/Medicare accounts are zeroed out and your relatives have been evicted from a nursing home because Medicaid LTC was also zeroed out.

We are in the 1%, but damn if I subscribe to this “sin of empathy” nonsense. I’ve spent good chunks of my life in urban areas in developing countries around the world. I have ZERO interest in living in cement block compound ringed at the top with broken glass and razor wire. If you want to live in a failed state, then, please, go do so.[/quote]

It's like they didn't hear the stories of relatives who were around in the US pre 1940s, not to mention failed states / developing countries.

Living in a rural house, with a pump in the kitchen for water, no electricity, growing all their own food, never ever taking a vacation, using an outhouse, no public utilities. They traded with neighbors for different types of food. Son had a potentially treatable cancer, but in Oklahoma you just died from it as a teenager.

My grandparents who lived in a larger urban area lived in one room in their parents house,with their two kids (one of my parents) and it took all the money from all the grandparents, all aunts and uncles, to pay for all their combined bills for the one house. If you were lucky and smart, sometimes the parents allowed you to stay inside school and graduate from high school, instead of going to work or getting  married after you finished 8th grade. All my ancestors were white, btw, in case any facists are wondering.

Based on what I learned from my grandparents, the skills that may prove useful are:

Growing your own food, as much as you can, so you won't starve.

Learning how to repair your clothing and linens, so you don't have to buy more. Clothing is also fabric and can be recycled into many things.

Learn to stay healthy and fit without spending much money: garden, go for walks, do body weight exercises.

Learning how to take care of your possessions, so you don't buy more.

Budgeting for every expense and calculating how much of your time it will cost to buy that new thing.

Learning how to stay away from advertising and how it affects you emotionally, so you are not driven to buy more stuff. Teach them to buy items that will last longer in many cases.

Emphasizing learning or trades, because no one can take away that knowledge in your head, even though everything else can be taken away or lost due to economic collapse. 
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