DM with with your address immediately and I'll show up with a van to take all your money.

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this is a joke if that wasn't obvious

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OR IS IT!?!?!? Better have your money ready just in case!

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      5 months ago

      I could unironically do this, but it would require saving up maybe 30-50k more. Every bandaid I give out puts me further from that permanent solution.

      • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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        5 months ago

        the last decade or so has really tanked my evaluation of bandaids but i would imagine you've investigated and thought about it more than i have

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          5 months ago

          By bandaids I mean "giving out $5-100 to people for transactional expenses".

          By permanent solution I mean "buying a house and communizing it, splitting the costs amongst 3-5 people, then using the ensuing savings to buy more houses to communize".

          I could give away all my savings to "mutual aid" and then we'd all be back at square one except I might add a crowdfunder for a communal house to the ever expanding chorus of "gib mony", or I could hold on to all of my savings to offer a partial escape from capitalism to multiple people.

          soapbox

          I live in a low cost of living housing environment.

          All I need is for a couple people to join me in the project of living together and pooling resources and working full-time, in order to make combined savings of 40-60k per year, at which point we'd be adding a new house every 18 months or so. Then we could

          ...control certain areas of this section in order to run our illegitimate business, possess unregistered firearms, stolen vehicles, mind-altering inhibitors and only use cash for financial purchases, be very dangerous people and regularly disobey the law.

          Unironically though there are businesses I want to start that could support a transition from urban cohousing to urban commune.

      • Great_Leader_Is_Dead
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        5 months ago

        You probably do more good giving money to a org that helps the unhoused than personally letting an unhoused person crash in your basement. By all means do both if you can, but actual organized groups can use resources more effectively than a lone good Samaritan can, they probably get twice the good out of every dollar you give them than you'd get spending it yourself. But be sure to research any orgs before you give to make sure they're not a grift.

        • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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          5 months ago

          Are you telling me that it's better to give up my own agency in leading my life in a revolutionary direction, which I'm in grasping distance of, and instead I should pin both all of my hopes and all of my resources to be pooled in separate larger organizations, which only promise a resolution that's beyond the horizon?

          I'm not talking about hypotheticals, I'm talking about the actual trajectory of my life that has been getting clearer and clearer for years.