A job for life with a good retirement. A house with a picket fence. A chicken in every pot. Two cars in the driveway. A week or two every year vacation. Life in modern America. Awe! the American dream!
What's not mentioned that goes along with that misleading industrial age statement is: Utility bills, vehicle payments, rent, mortgage payments, property taxes, homeowners insurance, vehicle insurance, vehicle taxes. Then you have the hidden expenses. Vehicle maintenance, house and property maintenance, gas for the car, clothing, stuff. The list goes on. The day might come when you get the mortgage paid off, but you are still going to have all the other expenses of owning a house. And you’ll get your vehicle paid for someday too, but there you go again. Your still gonna have all the expenses that go along with having a vehicle. You just keep spending money to buy things that you don’t really need.
Every person alive today has been instructed about and adheres to that deceptive Industrial age concept of the American dream. They are the children and grandchildren of depression era parents. Since we were young. We have all been programmed by fake school teachers in a broken school system to live our lives by this one mantra: get a job, work hard, live above your means, borrow and spend money. Then toward the waning years of our lives. We’re told that when we retire we'll have to live in a lower tax bracket, downsize and live below our means. At the same time we’re conditioned by the same system to spend money and buy things.
Really! Come On! Work all your life, live above your means, spend money, buy things, go somewhere (vacation) for a few fleeting days once a year. Then retire into a lower tax bracket, (poverty) and still yet,, even in retirement the system wants you to borrow, spend money and buy things!
Some brief History
During the Hunter-Gatherer Age, humans lived mostly in tribes and family groups. All shared equal rights.
In the Agrarian Age, there evolved a two class society. Have’s and have not’s. Mostly the well off were of noble birth, and owned all the land. All others that were not of noble birth worked for the landowners and paid taxes to the landowners and nobility.
In the Industrial Age, a new socioeconomic class emerged. They were taught to Go to school. Get a job, Save money. Take a vacation once a year. Work all your life. Buy a house, Spend money on things. Retire, and keep doing the same thing till you die.
In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down and the World Wide Web went up. In that same year we entered the Information Age.
A few years later the in the mid-1990s and beyond. The Internet has had a total revolutionary impact on World Culture, Technology, and Commerce. Instant Communication by Electronic Mail, Instant Messaging, Telephone (VOIP), Video Conferencing. The World Wide Web with its Blogs, Discussion Forums, Social Networking Sites and Online Shopping Sites. Online Banking, with the Ability to transfer money instantly, The internet continues to grow at a phenomenal pace.
The model of the Industrial Age concept of what's expected of you, has been rendered obsolete by the Information Age. You no longer have to live (be stuck) in one place for years working for some employer for wages. Spending almost everything you make on housing, rent, vehicles, utilities, taxes, and all the expenses that go along with maintaining a house and a vehicle. (which as I have mentioned before numerous times)
"Don’t govern your life by what other people think. Most people out there are not thinking about you. Their only thinking about their own pathetic selves. and their own meaningless lives as they scurry around and run in that hamster wheel called the rat race" ~Unknown~
Then you have the people that are only concerned with money. They are the people that work jobs and live from paycheck to paycheck. Stay in one place. Go on a week or two vacation every year. Then retire (if they even make it to the age to retire) and die. Without ever seeing anything. Those are people that were most likely raised by depression era parents. Don’t be one of those people.
The ability to make money online especially since the development of wireless (WIFI) internet is happening now. You don’t have to stay in one place anymore beholding to an employer just to make money to live. You can make money online. That frees you up to live anywhere you want, to be mobile, to be a vehicle dwelling nomad.
I hope that I’ve given you ideas and I hope I’ve conveyed the idea that you have alternatives. Whichever path you decide to take in life. If it is Homesteading or Mobile Living.
1. Look for that homestead you’ve dreamed about.
2. Sell most of your burdening possessions and hit the road.
Just Go For It, A Life Of Travel Adventure Awaits!
~Chaz~
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