Gettin into mycology. Oyster mushrooms are a good meat substitute, and easy to grow

Upping my smelting and casting game to start producing gears and gear-based machinery

I think it’s going to hurt me as a retail worker. Any retail worker knows, that your pay is usually based on how well your store is doing. And your store’s profit is tied to the purse of the corporation that in turn, pays you. Now if Trump is dead set serious on wiping Immigrants out of the workforce and not willing to raise the wage and combat inflation (we know he won’t). That just means the corporations will start cutting jobs than doing what’s right.

And if hundreds of retail jobs are cut, so there will be store closures. Store closures happen, you’re out of work because people will not want to pay the high prices of inflation once everything is in full swing.

So, I don’t know how I’m preparing for this. It’s going to upset a lot of my plans going into next year if my store is affected. I work at Wal-Mart and basically their stance is they’re going to raise prices so we can expect to see jobs cut and store closures because of underperforming profits of said stores. Simply because a so-called “businessman” doesn’t know how the fuck tariffs work.

As a shopper. I guess it’s back to relying on Dollar Tree again…

Finally getting a generator. I live in a rural area. Not having a generator was a huge hole in my setup. We also got a wood stove earlier this year for backup heat. I had longer term plans for solar but now it looks like that may be impossible since China makes all the equipment, and it’s already difficult to balance the utility with the expense.

My husband finally bit the bullet and upgraded his computer. I’m planning to upgrade my phone before the year is out, because mine is 6 years old and probably not getting security updates for another 4 years.

Not that these things didn’t need to happen, but having it forced on us last minute has sucked.

Fighting to survive, day to day, same as before.

I kind of feel like Morpheus getting beat up by Agent Smith in the bathroom. I’m a fighter. I’m good at it too.

But this shit just keeps coming. There’s no time to stop and think, or pick strategies. Smith punches, I block. That’s all there is to it.

there is nothing I could possibly do that would alter how much it affects me unless I suddenly got a lot wealthier

the most expensive item I own is a bicycle and I’ve never had savings. i’m already $30k+ in debt so whatever

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Getting my financial situation shifted to risk adverse and saving as much as I can.

Can’t do much but pay bills. If things get harder then they already are it will slow down or reverse my plan to drop 1 or 2 of my part time jobs.

Tariffs amount to a higher inflation rate / a regressive tax, as they will not subsidize local industry to any significant level. You will not see wage increases or more jobs from it. Probably the opposite.

This will be a quantitative change, it will look like 2022-2024 but with a higher effective inflation rate, translating into a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich.

More people will experience what it’s like to earn 10-20% less money and have fewer job prospects. One would hope that this teaches humility and solidarity, but in a country that only knows how to punch left, that will be an uphill battle that must nevertheless be fought.

It will be interesting to see what happens for sure. It’s hard to imagine there will actually be the tariff + removal of income tax proposal that trump said he would do. I’m not sure any democrat will go for it, so Trump won’t be able to do it if there are any republican defectors in congress, and at least some of them prob won’t do it as it they realize it will destroy the pocketbooks of their donors.

American

savings or investments

I don’t understand