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A super solar storm could cause a continent wide blackout lasting for months. During that time, our electronic financial and banking system would be frozen here in the USA. The ATMs wouldn’t work. Cash register drawers won’t open. Banks would be closed. People would have to revert to barter. After some months, when the power finally gets restored, it would be too late. Your bank account would be in an archive file somewhere, but it will be worthless and laughed at, because society will be bartering again the way it always did. It will be simple again. “You give me some beans, and I’ll give you some sugar.”

I’d like to have a slave that’s an android robot. Just imagine: “Roby do this! Roby do that!” My robot slave would do everything, just like a butler.

If your ancestor hadn’t completed his terms of indenture, would responsibility have been passed onto you?

Slavery might not be evil; I’m not sure. Cruel treatment of slaves is definitely evil. There are those who would prefer to be slaves. Indentured servants are slaves by their own choice. In America, they were under contract to work for the Master until their debt was paid. That debt might have been ocean passage to the New World.

Would it be unwise to invest 500 dollars?

If you want to gamble 500 dollars, keep the radio on
Monday morning and listen for any news saying GM has
decided not to file. Be ready to tell your broker
what you want in a hurry.