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The problem is primarily one of varying standards. Co-operative minded people have to adopt the same standards and style of living and stick to it. And they have to subjugate the personal ego to the group interest. The group needs to conform to the needs of each individual, and the individual needs to act in the interest of the group.
One of the first rules of overhead is to stay out of dept. Pay cash for everything.
Interest adds to overhead. Overhead controls the individual, wherein the person must earn, gain and bring-in at least as much money as outgo. The more overhead the more time and effort necessary to maintain the living standard for one who is not independently wealthy. For the person who goes to school on borrowed money and comes out the other end something like 30,000 in dept,
this person is owned by the system before they have set foot in it. Dept limits
one choices. If one wants a change of circumstance, dept will tend to prevent
one from doing anything but changing jobs. One may feel that it is necessary to protect what they have. This may or not be true in the case of buying property,
but more often than not the property will rule. If one is stuck in a situation one
may tend to always be wanting to be somewhere else. If one is in a situation that they are free to leave at a moment's notice, the freedom of mind may be such that they have no reason to be wanting to be some other place. Free-mind is one of the best attributes of the 'Minimalist'
lifestyle. Free-mind means to be able to think whatever one wants whenever one wants. If one has a tendency to worry, this is not free-mind. To the extent that financial matters occupy the persons thinking,
this in not free-mind.
Limitations upon what one spends and thus needs to earn, can be aided by
paying cash only. Cash helps limit and control what one spends. One can only buy what one can afford and already has the money for. Another thing that limits overhead is to work part-time. By paying cash and working part-time, one limits how much they can spend. By virtue of the over human population of the world and the drain on resources, the more people work when it involves the use of non-renewable resources, the more of the planets resources are used up. Since
most of the products will end up in landfills, the less produced the less of the horrid land dumps.
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