I take the whole nuclear conflagration thing a lot less seriously than I should these days. It’s drummed up a lot by the antiwar left in the imperial core countries, along with the psychological health of veterans, and the national debt. I just can’t take the atomic clock seriously knowing it’s used to pressure against nuclear proliferation that is more likely to restrain the USA than anything.
But yeah personally I think the simplest path for a lot of people is save up money and move out of the increasingly risky US system rather than pouring money into the US housing market (which is unfortunately the same direction the social democrat wage struggle heads). It’s personally fraught and generationally insane, I wouldn’t condemn a child to the US so uhhh yeah I just left lol
Working on a thing about this I will tag you when I post it. It relates to the current discourse about the labor aristocracy: worker politics in the imperial core are just about gaining faster access to the housing market 90% of the time without any regard for immigrants, the under- & unemployed, and without any considerstion at all of the global periphery. When there are reverse transplants from the core to the periphery (instead of petit boug in the periphery making enough money to come to the US) it’s done in a way where people exploit currency exchange rates to live without working the rest of their lives. (So becoming more bourgeois is almost always a retirement goal for core workers)
So this will be a guide for how not to be a shitty expat and actually integrate
That sounds great! Giving back is important to me, whether time, energy, money, food, or some combination. Not exactly sure what that looks like as I age, but I’m sure it will sort.
I would love to read something like this, just as a curiosity. I fully intend to stick around and fight beside my comrades that can’t or won’t leave. But of course I have no kids and don’t plan to.
How to deal with the proletarianization of the US is an intimidating subject that communists basically have to tread into completely alone, it’s hard work, there is no alt media or quirked up social science journal that can chart the course. Putting the escape hatch issue to bed should be a lot easier than that
I take the whole nuclear conflagration thing a lot less seriously than I should these days. It’s drummed up a lot by the antiwar left in the imperial core countries, along with the psychological health of veterans, and the national debt. I just can’t take the atomic clock seriously knowing it’s used to pressure against nuclear proliferation that is more likely to restrain the USA than anything.
But yeah personally I think the simplest path for a lot of people is save up money and move out of the increasingly risky US system rather than pouring money into the US housing market (which is unfortunately the same direction the social democrat wage struggle heads). It’s personally fraught and generationally insane, I wouldn’t condemn a child to the US so uhhh yeah I just left lol
Here’s hoping I win the lottery, huh? 😉
Hey it’s actually possible on a modest salary, you just need to a pick a country that pays its workers and will let you in
Which countries are those?
Working on a thing about this I will tag you when I post it. It relates to the current discourse about the labor aristocracy: worker politics in the imperial core are just about gaining faster access to the housing market 90% of the time without any regard for immigrants, the under- & unemployed, and without any considerstion at all of the global periphery. When there are reverse transplants from the core to the periphery (instead of petit boug in the periphery making enough money to come to the US) it’s done in a way where people exploit currency exchange rates to live without working the rest of their lives. (So becoming more bourgeois is almost always a retirement goal for core workers)
So this will be a guide for how not to be a shitty expat and actually integrate
That sounds great! Giving back is important to me, whether time, energy, money, food, or some combination. Not exactly sure what that looks like as I age, but I’m sure it will sort.
Thanks so much.
I would love to read something like this, just as a curiosity. I fully intend to stick around and fight beside my comrades that can’t or won’t leave. But of course I have no kids and don’t plan to.
How to deal with the proletarianization of the US is an intimidating subject that communists basically have to tread into completely alone, it’s hard work, there is no alt media or quirked up social science journal that can chart the course. Putting the escape hatch issue to bed should be a lot easier than that