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Courage

https://sopuli.xyz/post/44116743

Apr 14 at 11:40amWeb
Show threadAyutsuApr 14
No no no, it’s the courage to leave without caring about loosing all your worldly possessions 🙃
Show threadAzzuApr 14
My worldly possessions are lots of debt
Show threadCatoblepasApr 14
How lucky, you’d have it wherever you go!
Show threadmeme_historianApr 14
Poor sod doesn’t seem to have the courage to sneak into a cargo hold
Show threadfrightful_hobgoblinApr 14
A nomadic life can be cheaper than a sedentary one.
Show threadLoreleiSankTheShipApr 14
What do you do, exactly, to earn money for food/clothes in that lifestyle? That has always puzzled me
Show threadViatorOmniumApr 14
People that wander for a living usually live by a combination of charity and payments for odd jobs. For example, a small farmer might gladly part with some old clothes and provide a few meals and a bed in exchange for help with some tasks, and I’ve heard about people with a preternatural ability to couchsurf from city to city.
Show threadGorkApr 14
A lot have taken up being digital nomads. Not a bad way to make a living off you can get good Internet access somehow.
Show threadSpaceNoodleApr 14
And fit into a little RV.
Show threadWaraughApr 14
The internet is in the very air that we breath
Show threadM137Apr 14
breathe*
Show threadWaraughApr 14
Thank you!
Show threadM137Apr 14

It’s pretty easy to find it within a half days journey in most of the world now, most towns and cities will have public WiFi in some form.

I wish I could live like that, but medication and executive dysfunction makes it impossible. Hopefully in the future.

Show threadMnemonicBumpApr 14

Whatever you want to do. Go spend a season helping out ona farm in Hawaii, then go help build an ecovillage in Australia, then spend some time walking around New Zealand washing dishes and bussing tables, then off to India where you’ll build rope bridges and tree houses for a sustainable community. After that, you can go to Thailand or Vietnam and teach English for a little while, before making your way into the Mediterranean and spending a year and a half on the island of Bozcaada helping an old man repair out building and herd goats.

That’s literally what my friend did for over 5 years after one day he just decided to leave and had just enough money for a plane ticket to Hawaii from San Diego. Everything else was work and accommodations he found along the way. The only reason he came back was because of covid, and now he’s an RN and makes a bunch of money and he hates his life and is in and out of rehab.

Show threadAceticonApr 14
Try doing that with a passport and the typical access to Education from, say Burkina Faso.
Show threadscytaleApr 14
Yeah aside from money, a lot of people forget about passport privilege.
Show threadblarghlyApr 14
Moving the goalposts. We can assume from context that they are speaking to an audience from developed nations.
Show threadAceticonApr 15

This all started with:

A nomadic life can be cheaper than a sedentary one.

To which the previous poster added an example.

I’m pointing out that there are many other common contexts were things don’t at all work like that.

By that “logic” of yours whenever a Western newspaper publishes a story about something that happened elsewhere in the World, it’s “goalpost moving”.

I think you’re confusing your own “I don’t give a shit about people not like me” mindset with the mindset of the entire audience here.

Show threadelephantiumApr 15

Eto wi’de noon e ɗemngal laawɗungal leydi Burkinaa.

But since the rest of the thread is in English, I hope you’ll forgive me for thinking of this in the context of predominantly English-speaking countries.

Show threadAceticonApr 15
Well, the reason why I also included “typical access to Education” is that if for those from countries whose main language isn’t the most often spoken second language in the World, the most common way to learn it is at school.
Show threadScubusApr 14
I cant get people to pay me enough to live here, how can i rely on charity/people willing to pay me elsewhere? Literally i have no issue working, I just want to make enough money to survive
Show threadblarghlyApr 14

Literally just apply to teach English in Asia. Typically the wage is a solid middle class income, and you don’t need to know anything about teaching or English.

You can also look into WWOOFing if you want to explore that.

Show threadblarghlyApr 14
Yeah, I have a friend. She emancipated herself from her family at 16 and got her GED. Worked nannying and waitresssing jobs when she needed money, but otherwise spent about 5 years traveling the world.
Show threadHolytimesApr 15

The general issue with this is the amount of people who can do this, is literally one in a million basically. And I mean that in that if too many people tried to do it. It would quickly become unfeesable due to lack of opportunities. Not will or skill or even money

This is a great example of the expection to the rule.

Show threadOpenStarsApr 14

In the USA all we have to do is tell someone that we are not a citizen and bam, all-expenses-paid vacation at some random spot in the world.

Tip to the wise: to facilitate re-entry when you are done, simply ensure that your passport is stored securely in your <ahem> “travel wallet”.

Show threadDenvilApr 14
Brave of you to assume they wouldn’t accuse you of forging the passport with some twisted logic to keep you out of the country
Show threadtempestApr 14
You wouldn’t be in jail if you weren’t a criminal right?
Show threadNocturnalMorningApr 14
It’s true, if you get arrested, obviously you do crimes.
Show threaddustyDataApr 15

One of the greatest propaganda pieces, that is usually not perceived as such intentionally, is that anything having to do with penalties from justice systems is free. Penal justice usually do have statutes of free services, judge time and free legal counseling, but most other tribunals and also a lot of the penalties involved incur financial costs and debt into the convicted. House arrest, you either pay for the ankle tracker or a fine for the officer’s hourly pay; mandatory anger management, mental health counseling, etc, you are footing the bill; civil damages, win or lose, attorney times have to be paid; deportation, the receiving country is billed for the plane ticket, room and food during travel, which usually they pass down to you; in the US, convicts have to work in order to access anything that is not basic care (food, water and electricity), usually for slavery wages. And a long list of etceteras.

The cliché of getting yourself arrested for a misdemeanor being cheaper than paying rent and food sounds quirky, until the reality of fines and fees of the associated process come through. Justice systems are mostly poverty manufacturing systems.

Show threadOpenStarsApr 15

It’s a difficult balance. Imagine you have a child that you bring with you on the plane and it being too young, cries throughout the entire flight. One action, one decision - and not by the child, obviously - impacts everyone around you.

Politicians tap into that innate sense of “hey, that’s not fair!” to deliver whatever gives themselves the highest gains. Some want to uphold the status quo, others want to improve it, still others want to tear it all down and start fresh.

Ironically what I hear most often from tankies is that they agree with how Donald Trump is doing things (since I started us talking about specifically the USA in my original comment), and want him to dial the actions up even further.

So… it gets highly complex, real quickly.

Show threadTrackinDaKrakenApr 14

  • Go out your front door.

  • Keep walking.

  • ?

  • Joy.

    • Show threadAurenkinApr 14
    Isn’t this the plot of LotR?
    Show threadValmondApr 14
    And the Hobbit
    Show threaddream_weaselApr 14
    I think it depends which character you are.
    Show threaddoingthestuffApr 15
    Frodo and Bilbo had money tho.
    Show threadJo MiranApr 14
    Have the courage to pay in other ways.
    Show threadSpaceNoodleApr 14
    With beans?
    Show threadLucidlethargyApr 14
    We’re poor, not stupid. Beans are far too valuable.
    Show threadwonderingwandererApr 14
    Yeah I traded a whole cow for three beans!
    Show threadspitfireApr 14
    Why not both
    Show threadHotsauceHurricaneApr 14
    NOT MY MR.BEAN COLLECTION!?
    Show threadSpaceNoodleApr 14
    My wife got rid of my Mr. Bean VHS collection
    Show threadHotsauceHurricaneApr 15
    That is a tragedy.
    Show threadexplodicleApr 14
    Gas, grass, or ass. Nobody rides for free.
    Show threadCatZoomiesApr 14
    I paid in courage, and now I have a bit of courage left over to remove the headphone jack from all phones.
    Show threadaloofPenguinApr 14

    now I have a bit of courage left over to remove the headphone jack from all phones.

    …you MONSTER …

    Show threadtio_biraApr 14
    My brain automatically fill the “courage” dot as with “PIX” instead, i need to hold on buy stuff online
    Show threadILikeBoobiesApr 14
    Lebron must be the bravest person on Earth.
    Show threadpotoooooooo 🥔Apr 14
    I wonder if traveling the seas is why he flops so much?
    Show threadHotsauceHurricaneApr 14
    "SIR YOU DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH COURAGE POINTS TO FLY ON BRAVE AIRLINES, you must go to delta. "
    Show threaddream_weaselApr 14
    GODDAMMIT I just opened this card for the promotional courage points!
    Show threadhansoloApr 14
    But I earned these points flying on Spirit!
    Show threadproleApr 14
    Does Brave Airlines mine Courage Coins without your consent?
    Show threadHotsauceHurricaneApr 15
    Ya goddamn right it does.
    Show threadsamus12345Apr 14
    Show threadcaptainlezbianApr 14
    He’s not wrong. It’ll be a really shitty journey as it’s just voluntary homelessness, but you can choose to live as a hobo if you’re brave enough. And if you’re brave enough you can cross borders without permission. Not a good idea at all, lots of walking, hunger, sleeping outside, and hiding from authorities, but hey, you can.
    Show threadrealitaetsverlustApr 14
    Choosing homelessness when you have any other option isn’t brave, it’s fucking stupid.
    Show threadAzzuApr 14
    They weren’t being literal with the homelessness. And anyway, that statement is still a bit close-minded, while it obviously wouldn’t be a comfortable experience, it is possible and not everything needs to be the smartest decision ever. Sometimes challenging yourself to do something extreme keeps you more alive than comfort could
    Show threadfaintwhenfreeApr 14
    The line that separates courage and stupidity is always very thin, be it warfare or… Checks notes… TRAVEL
    Show threadhansoloApr 14

    Lots of people walk or bike around the world.

    What’s more valuable to you? Having an experience that sounds outlandishly amazing? Or paying rent? We might not all agree.