Low - Tech

Low-tech items will be the wave of the future after a money and oil crash. Low-tech items are things you can make yourself or can make at the level of say, a blacksmith. They will be "Cottage Industry" items like food preserves, Bee's Wax candles, hand-woven cloth, butter and cheese, soap, apple cider, alcohol and other crafts. Some medium-tech items like Bicycle and hand-blown glass take more resources to produce and usually more than one person to make, so they will be worth alot more than the stuff you can make yourself. Higher-tech items will be interspersed with the low and medium-tech things. Things like PV panels and batteries and generators will have a still higher value, but will need a crew for maintainance/scrounging for parts/manufacturing parts. If you are an electrician or electronic technician, you will be a busy person. Learning to troubleshoot and fix simple electronic circuits or hook up PV panels correctly may be the only "Job" you do. Most others will be in the fields, tending animals and growing food. A good cook is worth alot, but keeping a few servers up and running on only power you can produce, will enable the survivors of a crash to store huge amounts of information. Getting that information onto paper will be a huge chore but well worth it.

Right now it would take weeks of constant printing on a printer to reproduce what I have on just my small desktop. Where and how would you store it after it is printed is a whole other issue.

I am trying to get out of debt and make part of this dream ( getting the servers) a reality while we still have the ability to ship things. I am working on my portal at Maximum Heavy Traffic to get the money together for this dream of mine. Anyone have a spare server laying around? Actually I am willing to take any and all PV panels and anything to do with solar power ( working or not) and use it to further this dream. I would even accept Bicycle generators. If you want to contribute in any way send me a shout by replying to this post.
Thanks.

Michael J. Kaer, author of "What Money Can't Buy"

What is important?

The basics are food, shelter, air, water and security. If I was a nomad I would be able to forage for all the food I need, the parts for a shelter, fuel for the fire, skins and fibres for clothes and boots and maybe make a knive out of a sharp rock or a fire-hardened stick. I am not a nomad. I have a house in a small city that needs to be fed fuel to keep me warm, electricty to communicate and provide me with water and other bills that must be paid. That requires money. I get money in several ways. I have some pension money coming in, I make a few bucks doing odd jobs and I make some money online.

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All this gives me the freedom to do what I want when I want and still provide for bills. Without that freedom I would not be able to prepare myself for the future.
Good luck

Michael J. Kaer, Author of "What Money Can't Buy" at MJK - Private Income