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!

  • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]
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    9 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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      9 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.

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      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.