Another start, another day, another chance.

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I've been rolling those dice as if I could afford it.  Now, I always have gotten something for the roll, just nothing that creates wealth, only capacity.  Some of the capacity has no value itself beyond something like BMan.  Some of it has limitied life application.  Some of it has a broader use.  Due to my health, there is little I could invest in which would lend to me yielding wealth from the exchange.  Goats can't really be sold without access to federally inspected slaughterhouses.  I wonder if even chickens can be sold out?  Eggs?  I suppose I could figure out how to buy woodworking equipment and do something there, but without the skills, or way to get them other than expensive trial and error, that is beyond me.  That, too, is a very slow income... unless you build a client list, and then you quickly become overwhelmed.  For me the equipment could not be kept busy enough to ever pay for itself.  Health doesn't allow it. 

Now, I suppose I could buy gold and silver or other direct forms of wealth.  But right now those are being used by the ubber wealthy and governments to artificially hold stores of wealth.  They are inflated beyond their true worth, in any situation, if also being kept low so that bubble doesn't pop next.  They will go up and down as the various sides spar, as those holding it try to check prices (most likely in order to hold it as a store... if prices sore governments and billionaires will liquidate, destroying the artificial economic edifice).  Personally I don't have the way to make a sale fast enough not to lose grandly.  While silver will have some value even after upheaval, surviving the upheaval itself it what I am shooting for at my level of income.  And silver will just, most likely, be barter fodder.  There will be no such thing as wealth save in herds of livestock, tracts of land and the equipment to tend it, access to potable water and other foods.  Wealth as we know it may be a thing of the past.  No million dollar cars, no $40k watches, no yachts, no multi-million dollar penthouse suites.  The safety of such people is being kept in place by civility, not police.  And hungry people are not civil, not at all.  Those things will be taken as if from children, broken children if they try to cling to "their stuff".  There won't be any safe place to go, either.  Everyone, everywhere, will be hungry.  Possibly even them.  Most don't realize their advantage would give them a chance to flee and find isolated but rough refuge.  No, many think their shit doesn't stink and law and their hubris is enough to keep the world in check.  Then again, they think that is what made them rich in the first place.  Great success, zero understanding... they were just a golden cog, at the right place at the right time, not an island unto themselves.

These social and economic storms come about from time to time, much as floods, tornadoes, earthquakes, and the rest, to wipe away the old and set things fresh.  It quickens, gets rid of those who can't or won't adjust, and makes the playing field flat as a real pancake once more.  We haven't had one in a while.  One way or another it is coming.

Many eschew wars.  And wisely by notion.  Little wars, good or bad of cause or outcome, often... are like setting little fires in the forest, seen in the bigger picture.  While it is best to choose wars justly, carry them out rightly, and then see them to fruits, most politicians don't have that interest.  I still wonder if Vietnam was allowed to fail simply to get rid of more Vietnamese.  Let huge numbers of them be genocided out of existence.  It would also wash, according to anti-Americans in power at the time, the stain of Americanism from those shores.  Oddly, those very same sorts, and their cohorts, starting with Kennedy, where who took us there.  Vietnam, itself, seen as a study, should itself be a reason for "why not Democrat".  That hasn't improved.  Using conscripts was the largest mistake of the whole thing for us.  Cutting off aid, knowing what would happen, was the worst internationally.  Our allies had to understand then that America is a nation of two minds.  One of those minds is insane, evil, pernicious, capricious, and careless... hell, suicidal.

Hmm... just waking... Blathering.  I'll get to a today post separate from this one.