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#día de los muertos

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What pisses me off about discussing unregulated capitalism and its effects on communities is that every critique becomes so hyperpartisan, that either the state and regulation must be completely abolished OR we must have communism. There's never any in-between.

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#It's ironic because neighborhoods as an idea weren't necessarily bad #But when you get real estate developers to either do gentrification or build only fake luxury houses #Or cookie cutter bullshit like this #And then price everything out #So only the most cutthroat businesses take over a community #Yeah your son will never go out bc what is there to do? #Go to the local Walmart or McDonald's? #It gets to a point where unregulated capitalism collapses in on itself and kills creativity #And kills the life of a community #But I'm not about to write an essay on this

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Ahem

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It’s hard to find good Western fashion these days. Hate the square toe cowboy boots, and the loose-fitting “I conceal carry 50 glocks on me” clothing with the fake lumberjack cotton “flannel” look is just so overdone and boring.

All these men either look like they stepped off the set of a Hallmark Channel movie or are coming back in from a day working the stables at Ram Ranch.

Fellas, we gotta bring back drip like this.

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African-American cowgirl Nellie Brown, and her horse. Circa 1900 - 1915.

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esther {@mama_2thelittleones} (@ourlifeinthealps)

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The difference is self-sufficiency by degrees and its existence in the 21st century. In modern cities, the skillsets have become so specialized, separated, and removed from real life survival skills as to become useless outside of the niche that they serve. A lot of this is simply due to the transition into a service and tech economy. Also because of the service industry, there are a lot more points of failure to a city collapsing, not least of which is due to the atomized nature of community there.

At least in rural areas, skills like welding, carpentry, farming, etc have bartering value, and the smaller size of the community gives your a better chance at fostering a sense of interdependence and thus, resilience.

That said, I definitely think there's an interest to return to a time of "landed aristocracy" with billionaires buying up natural resources, farmland, and real estate. Neofeudalism won't just stop at the cities.

cities are set up in such a way that you are expected to be self sufficient, but at the same time, always alone, with no sense of personal competence. you have to constantly be on the go, all the while relying on the labor of others. Like that underpaid barista who makes your shitty coffee, your retail workers giving you that white button up, those same people you see on the subway, but know none of their names, rolling on tracks you know nothing of. everything is nearby but at the same time, could not be fucking farther