In today's world, self-sufficiency is an integral part of freedom. Our society seems to be structured in such a way that people are heavily dependent on other people, infrastructures, businesses, institutions, etc. for their very survival. In a truly voluntary world, there would be nothing wrong with this, in fact, it would be beneficial. The division of labor has been a key variable for the increase in human quality of life.
The problem with the situation today is an ever-increasing control state, where these dependencies on others are used against people as a form of control and manipulation. We can all think of situations where our decisions are based on consequences imposed on us by the government without any natural consequence of the decision. Most of the consequences imposed on us - through the use of force by a government - are directly or indirectly tied to the institution of government monopolized money. As we talked about in last week's episode, finding ways to live outside the fiat system can increase the sphere of liberty that you live within.
Link to the Podcast Episode:
https://anchor.fm/off-grid-agorist/episodes/Self-sufficiency-Skill-Sets-To-Beat-The-System-e19tcpu
This week we are talking about self-sufficient skill sets that you can develop to decrease your reliance on the use of the fiat system that is used to control and manipulate the population. The purpose of developing self-sufficient skills is to ultimately reduce your need to buy goods and services. Reducing your need to continually buy things reduces the amount of money you have to trade your time and energy for. Anyone can learn new skills. It does require determination and substantial investments of time, you may even choose to pay someone to teach you a skill, but the great thing about these new skills is that once you have them they can't be taken away from you.
Here's an example of what we mean. What would it look like if you learned how to raise chickens? If a family of 4 eats eggs for breakfast 4 times per week, they would spend roughly $9 per week buying eggs. If one family member learned how to raise chickens, they could easily tend to 15 chickens and conservatively expect to collect 6 dozen eggs per week. This would supply the family's egg needs, plus enough surplus to sell eggs to friends and neighbors to pay for the chicken feed. This would save the family over $500 per year and doesn't account for any of the other benefits of raising chickens.
Learning skills is an act of liberty in and of itself.
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YES!! Loved this. Also love your chicken coops. Fabulous idea @queenmountain.
"....new skills is that once you have them they can't be taken away from you".....although they are trying to censor all things natural. Banning "weeds" over here too
This is true. Knowledge and skill building are the most valuable tools that no one can take away from us. I have a small library of books about survival and homesteading so I can always learn, even if the internet goes down. Wow, your homestead is AMAZING. Where are you located?
Karoo in South Africa. Semi desert area in the Cape. Love it
Oh, wow! That sounds amazing! Are you from there? Or did you move there?
Born and bred. Although I did wander internationally for a decade. Europe. The US, mostly new England. Middle East. So funny. In the Middle East they think I'm American. In America they think I'm British and in England they think I'm Australian. Only people who guess correctly is Australians but I've never been there!!
Hehehe, that is interesting! I live in Arizona, spent the last decade in Montana. Lots of mountains in both spots, but Montana is much colder.