wax_worm_futures [comrade/them]

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: October 16th, 2021
  • wax_worm_futures [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettochat@hexbear.net•Having time off from work makes me want to be a capitalistEnglish
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    4 months ago

    You don’t need passive income to be able to do what you want. Mostly you just need to get past the barrier of housing cost.

    Where I am, I could pay down a mortgage on a good house in 4-5 years of working fulltime. With another two similarly-committed comrades to share the house with, we could easily pull it off in 2 years. After that, baseline cost of living would be 6000 a year for 3 people.

    After working fulltime for 2 years I quit my job and the 18 months since I’ve averaged less than 10 hours a week of zero-hour type gigs or odd jobs. I’ve been on like 12 overnight-away-from-home trips in that time, totaling over 3 months. I could probably retire on 300k, including the cost of a house. I’m going to have to start working again soon but I’ve been in total vacation mode for a year and a half.

  • wax_worm_futures [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettochat@hexbear.net•Fucking mice got into my rice and beansEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This is a very tenuous alliance.

    At the capitalist bug farm, mice were always getting into our waxworms, because they buildings were poorly built, they used poorly-sealed kitty litter boxes to grow the waxworms in, and the racks easily allowed the mice to climb up (partly because of escaped-worm cocoons on them).

    We’d see them running across the main floor all the time. It was very common to open up a box after 6 weeks and see a litter of baby mice inside, and barely any waxworms. Maybe one out of every 50 was like that.

  • wax_worm_futures [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettomemes@hexbear.net•bib magEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I went by the farmers’ market the other day and a stall had duck eggs for $8-10 a dozen. Buying 36-packs from Walmart is maybe about $1 a dozen. I don’t see it going much lower than that, or higher than $20, though.

    For a while now I’ve been fairly convinced that everyday expenditures scale logarithmically with income. The increase is pretty smooth, and tapers off pretty smoothly too.

  • wax_worm_futures [comrade/them]@hexbear.nettoaskchapo@hexbear.net•Honest question: How do you envision the world to be in 20 years, and what do you imagine is important to you then? What do you think your regrets are? What do you think keeps you going?English
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    9 months ago

    A hot mess. I expect people to still be holding on to coastal real estate that floods regularly but they still do financial black magic with it. Already tens of millions of climate refugees, most western economies in a persistent state of managed collapse, lots of countries have a federal government that only exists on paper, social ties and norms have eroded on a scale we can’t comprehend due to capitalism and AI. The world order has already ended and capitalism is in the process of degenerating into techno-feudalism, yet most people are in denial about it.

    Still, many constellations of safe havens exist. At least two of which I have built, mostly with my own labor and that of my accomplices. The bug farm stands as one of the enterprises that supports a commune, another is fermented foods, another is either plastic or textile reprocessing. I live in a mud hut, it’s warm as hell, we’ve got rocket stoves and like fifty blankets.

    The maple trees where I live are all dead or moribund. But I do have a microclimate on one side of a hill where a yaupon holly I planted is growing.

    What I probably regret is trusting people too much, letting them make rash anti-social choices rather than being assertive and proverbially kicking their asses into cooperating with each other.