Or they will stop working so far from home and figure out how to survive where they are, on a parallel economy.
That whole parallel economy is an internet based thing touted by the handful of people that are trying to do it.
Dan Bongino is one and tries to hawk his online payment platform as an alternative to Paypal/Stripe. I have Paypal and Stripe accounts. I signed up in a few minutes with my personal info + bank account numbers.
On Bongino’s site, you have to fill out a long form application that includes giving legit business info. I presume they do a credit check too. Apples to oranges - no parallels. Bongino’s deal is more like getting a full blown merchant CC processing account.
If I want to sell a few homemade widgets on my website, I’m not spending the money and doing the paperwork to incorporate.
More parallel economy. Epoch TV. Requires an account that costs $10/mth. That’s around the same as Netflix but with a tiny percentage of the content. Townhall has premium content as do a lot of conservative news sites. If I were to subscribe to all these services, it would cost the same as rent/mortgage. Premium substack content. Monthly fee per author. Rumble. I’m signed up and can add content but to monetize it costs money and there’s not much interest there in anything other than right wing news/podcasts. You wouldn’t make a dime with a gardening channel. MeWe, the closest alternative to facebook and has many varied interests. They have business pages, yay. Costs $1.99/mth. Not bad. Invisible to the general public. Have to be logged in to even see it. Stupid and hardly a parallel to a facebook page that anyone can see.
The web based parallel economy is right wing clubs with some being private clubs and most people can’t afford the dues.
I live in rural beef cattle country. Describe a parallel economy here?
Water, Food, Shelter and if I want a normal life, electricity at least. It runs the well pump and tomorrow’s high is 99 degrees. Shelter costs most people monthly. Some food can be grown but it’s tough to grow a year’s worth every year.
Barter? What can I trade to the electric company for electricity? Mortgage company?
Make and sell stuff? What would I make? My competition is walmart, Lowes, Autozone aka China.
People could ditch all amenities and live like the 1800s IF they own their own place outright but the wives aren’t going to put up with that so it’s off to Metropolis if people can’t afford to live a somewhat normal life here.
Most rural areas had a higher population before the Great Depression than they do now. It was head to the populated areas, starve or live a very tough life, possibly homeless in the woods.
If repubs can’t get a super majority this Fall, this admin will end up causing a Great Depression 2.0 and even if repubs do get a majority, presidents rule by EO these days. That’s how Trump’s agenda was wiped away so quick. Most of it was EOs tha Biden promptly cancelled. The courts blocked Trump a lot but I don’t see them blocking very much of this admin and even when they do, this admin just ignores it and nothing happens. Can’t rely on repubs to fight when half are RINOs.
If things get bad enough, places like where I live will lose half their population as people head to more populated areas. Already happened once and the population never came back to what it was. Once in those metro/city areas, houses will be shared like Mexicans share a house with 20 people living in it because that’s the only way they’ll be able to afford it. Those will be the lucky ones.