- OS is an extremely short sighted ploy for short term profit...its really fucking stupid as not only does it destroy the earning power and thus the disposable income of your customers it destroys the ability of communities to help themselves-once industry is broken, retooling becomes a limiting cost and the knowledge becomes dispersed as workers move to find new work, or lost as the older tradesmen die...the only way out of it is to become self reliant and extremely discretionary about where you spend what you have...you need to deliberataly set about talking to the older people, reeducating yourself, networking locally, setting up local free trade groups, destroying your credit card and if unable to trade pay cash only
- forums like this are great for interest group networking-there are members here from all over the world-but you also need to be active in your neighbourhoods, setting up monthly meetings at someones home or a bar...we have shed raids-collecting in someones shed,garage,workshop each month to help with their project, exchange ideas, talk shit, smoke some too, drink beer, bbq and generally get up to no-good
- i also advocate using your backyard to dig a vegie garden, tastes heaps better
- yea, i know, im a reactionary bastard - but i live what i say