Tag Archives: Economic realities

THE BEADY EYE’S: HOW TO SURVIVE THE COMING ECONOMIC DEPRESSION.

30 Thursday Apr 2020

Posted by in #whatif.com, 2020: The year we need to change., Economic Depression., How to do it., POST COVID-19.

≈ Comments Off on THE BEADY EYE’S: HOW TO SURVIVE THE COMING ECONOMIC DEPRESSION.

Tags

, , , , , ,

 

(Two-minute read)

Ok, This post is to encourage suggestions as to the best practices 

That last the Great Depression lasted for 10 years so you will have plenty of time to add your suggestions.

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have poured funds into saving their economies.

You don’t need a Bachelor’s in Economics, to know that where the demand goes out the window so does the supply. Just watch the Unsustanianle Advertising Industry desperately trying to create demand. It would not surprise me before long if they will be promoting Bio corona free recycled paper to wipe your troubles away.  

At the intersection of social science and mathematics is economics, the science of money.

COVID-19 is exposing the weakness of money and the lack of attention to what should have been valued in the first place to make social science with the result that the great lockdown is now on course to turn into the great slump. 

So here are 10 steps to personally take to prepare for a deflationary depression. 

  1. Don’t sign up for a tracking App unless it is 1000% transparent.
  2. Don’t trust the banking system. Don’t think bank runs can’t happen- they can. “Cash is king” as average joes like you and I will not be able to depend on credit to get the things we need.
  3. Gain some control over the necessities of your own existence if you can afford it.
  4. Be prepared to work with others as that will give you far greater scope for resilience and security. Form buying clubs. Growing Coops.Independent food security as much as possible.
  5. Be worth more to your employer than he is paying you.
  6. Look after your health!
  7.  Hold no debt (for most people this means renting)
  8. If possible Pay off your debt and do not take on a new debt no matter how low-interest rates may appear to be. 
  9. Instead of focusing on debt and credit, pay attention to your liquid assets.
  10. If times get tough, you’re gonna want like-minded people to work, trade, and barter with. Don’t rely too much on internet “prepper groups.” Instead, you’re going to turn to family members and friends you already know and trust. Invest in relationships with people who actually live near you and will be able to physically lend a helping hand when you need it.

(Deflation, for those of you who don’t know, is the phenomenon when prices for goods and services get lower and lower and lower during a given period of time.) Much worse than inflation because debts, in real terms, become far harder to pay off.

All contributions appreciated. All like clicks and abuse chucked in the bin.

Go back

Your message has been sent

 

 

 

 

 

 

There has to be a collective awarness of the greater problems facing the world , old and new.

11 Tuesday Nov 2014

Posted by in Uncategorized

≈ Comments Off on There has to be a collective awarness of the greater problems facing the world , old and new.

Tags

, , , , , , , , ,

Two months before Christmas and we are already being bombarded with buy this buy that.

There are no boundaries within the market. There is however a growing need to introduce a new strain of humanity into Christmas.

Many of our present day problems are being caused directly or indirectly by technology. Take for instance the Impact of mass media on public opinion and individuals which no longer has to be demonstrated.

It is exposed us to select tit bits of information that are considered to be newsworthy every awaking minute of our lives. Television rarely takes the time to get to the heart of any matter creating a public feeling that we live in a world of problems so enormous that any individual action would be in vain.

As a result I am sure that part of the Public like images of war, death, underdevelopment, and children dying of hunger. 

However we would all do well to remember that the mass media (like Facebook, Twitter) all works on the principal of making profit selling information that attracts advertising.  It should not be the dominant influence, in shaping our lives and society. We need to adapt our aspirations and lifestyles to an ever more sophisticated and pervasive technology which has permitted the enjoyment of what has been seen as material progress.   

We have to decide if ” I am what I own” or ” I am what I do”

The more fundamental aspects of life have shrunk, including those of religion, ethnic identity, inherited values and beliefs, leading to hyper-individuality, selfishness of all types, over-consumption, and excessive search for distraction are all pushed into our conscious.

We need to re-establish genuine values. Moral values are eroded and flagrantly ignored by those who profess them.

Values need to be reinvented as old values can not handle such things as Genetic engineering for example.

A human Society cannot exist unless we are living together with the acceptance of differences and pluralism. We aspire to a shared well-being but it must be adapted to the present situation.

We need new International ethics to handle Climate Change and Conservation.  The gap between rich and poor, money because it divorced from economic realities and dominates the ambitions of too many individuals, the ethics of images, the ethics of solidarity, the ethics of action.

We must stop the manipulation of the public by the elite before they are frightened into a chilly self-withdrawal and don,t vote at all. There has to be a collective awareness of the greater problems facing the world , old and new.

We need a new sense of positive freedom not negative freedom.

Democracy and Capitalism is not working as the ordinary citizen has virtually no influence over their Governments. Money rules the roost with a lack of mass representation.

This has to change to enable the ordinary mans voice to be  heard.

“You know that man must desperately justify himself as an object of primary value in the Universe” Ernest Becker – The Denial of Death.

So this Christmas be a hero.

Society is only a symbolic action system and Christmas as we all know has been hijack by Consumerism and promoted by the Mass media.

If you want to renew the Spirit of Christmas it’s not receiving but giving that will give you a glow.

Instead of satisfying your own needs here are a few suggestions.

Open an Abundance Swap shop in you district, town,village, street.

Place a box beside your refuge recycling bin marked – Rubber washing gloves to battle Ebola. 

When you go to the Supermarket/Hypo market/ bring a Christmas rapped present. Place it in a trolley, or give it to the Checkout Assistant.

Visit an Retirement home or hospital with a box of unwanted books/DVDs.

Give a food voucher when you pass an unfortunate on the street.

Make a family donation to a hands on Charity.

Send ISIS a Christmas card. It might strict a cord and save a life.

Send a Christmas card to the United Nations requesting them to reform by removing the veto and allocating it to all nations.

Send a Christmas card your President or Prime Minister requesting sustainable policies not vote grabbing promises.

Bring your children to an Art Gallery or Museum

Make your own cards from recycled paper.

An another idea, try www.oxfamunwrapped.com

 

 

.

Please feel free to add your suggestions. All comments welcome.

Go back

Your message has been sent