On Thu, 23 May 2013 19:35:46 -0700, Gunner Asch <
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I notice this as evidence of a survival issue in Gunner Asch's post:
1) after detailing the neglect of loaned boat, "Im getting my 21'
sailboat back";
2) "16' fishing boat with a 50 hp Evinrude on it, that
Id extensively rigged up for tournement fishing. Sold it to a
friend..who never paid me for it." . . . . "He had blown the engine
and ripped out all the bass fishing mods including the electroncs..the
bastard."
What is the survival issue? One way to put it is Relying on friends,
neighbors, relatives. We do this and feel a warm spot about trust and
depending on people's goodness, maybe like the idea that it's only
money and material things are not important in the general scheme of
things. But come survival time, where are your resources? What kind
of responsible use of resources are we working with here?
Typically, a neighbor borrows something, again and again, then you get
used to it being in his garage. You loan someone your car, and
something bad happens. You loan something to someone, that person
then thinks it's okay to loan it to someone. "Nice guys come in
last."
Maybe I'm off base about this kind of thing--burned me up when I had a
bicycle that I let a friend use one summer while she rented my
cottage, then found that she would leave it at a boyfriends place,
where he and his friends used it. She then came to me to ask where it
was so she could use it again.
Of course, I'm thinking of survival as a life-style, where you try to
manage everything in a consistent way, so as to allow you control of
your resources and build networks. I bet those religious communities,
like the Mormans and Amish, Jewish Kibbutz, and communes are not all
about indiscriminate loaning and sharing.
In a SHTF situation, I assume you are either 1) on your own, or 2)
with a group, or maybe at least communicating with a network. But do
you have a firm policy about sharing your resources? Is it a matter
of To each according to his need, from each according to his ability?
Trading, where you go quid pro quo?
Truth is, I get a warm feeling about giving people what they NEED.
Bought a set of drawers at the thrift shop for $0.50 (unbelievable)
and was cleaning it outdoors, when a gal came up and said, "I need
that." Sold it to her for $0.50 and loaded it into the back of her
station wagon and felt good--until she threw the amount of change I
gave her from $1 on the ground. I don't know, some kind of psychology
at work here. bookburn
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