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- Fifty Things To Do NOW!
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- 1. Become a part-time entrepreneur, garage-market-dealer, urban farmer,
- welder, whatever. Just be productive under your own command. It doesn't
- matter what it is; just be directly productive, and directly deal with
- suppliers and clients. You'll find it awesomely liberating and it will
- be highly useful for the free underground market.
- 2. Switch off the TV. Read books!
- 3. Socialize with people that share your ethics and that are productive and
- respectful. Eat together, discuss, challenge each other, help each
- other, have a good time.
- 4. Get a safe or safe deposit box. Start moving all the cash you can get in
- there, convert at least 30% of your cash to silver and/or gold coins.
- 5. Invest in trust. Do minor deals for people on a trust basis. Taking
- others at their word, and let yourself be challenged by yours.
- 6. Start looking for matches. When you talk with people, memorize what they
- do, and if an opportunity comes up, connect them with someone else for a
- minor finders fee (a burger, a few beers, whatever).
- 7. Join your local LIMA house. (We'll explain this in a future post.)
- 8. Travel, but don't go sight-seeing - spend your time getting to know the
- people there. Think about business opportunities with them.
- 9. Start using aliases and pseudonyms. Get comfortable using them in
- real-life situations.
- 10. Learn to use cryptography.
- 11. Learn ethics and law (not the government law!).
- 12. Study logic, especially the fallacies.
- 13. Put more cash aside. Use your part-time job as the source of saved cash.
- 14. Start to invest cash with people you know, in off the books projects.
- Start making micro-loans to people or buy shares in their operations.
- 15. Learn basic double-entry book-keeping. Don't waste effort on the
- account-numbers they teach you - understand the concept and use it.
- 16. Learn to write in code. We all have to use recordings, bookkeeping,
- contact books, transaction notes etc. These should be hard to decipher
- for someone taking a quick glimpse, and even hard for someone taking
- time to analyze them. Use tricks like date-shifting, shorthand, making
- up your own terms, etc. Or, if you want to spend a little more effort,
- learn to use memorized ciphers, such as memorizing some longer text,
- then apply it as a simple shifting-key to what you write, with the page
- number or a marker as a keypart.
- 17. Tell other producers, entrepreneurs, traders etc that you appreciate
- what they do.
- 18. Buy primarily from others like you, stay away from the on-the-books
- market as much as you can.
- 19. When in conflict, ask someone to mediate. Solve conflicts yourself
- wherever you can. Use a mutually respected and trusted third party when
- necessary. Stay away from state 'justice' whenever you can.
- 20. Start respecting secrets. Secrets are good most of the time;
- transparency is bad most of the time. Detox yourself from the
- 'everything should be in the open' propaganda.
- 21. Slowly make your part-time, off-the-books business, your main line of
- income. Things like underground dental hygiene are very cool.
- 22. Learn that 'off-the-books' means that you really have to excel in what
- you do. You have to provide quality.
- 23. Don't invest in single deals; invest in relationships with the market.
- 24. Get over it: Voting doesn't help at all.
- 25. Work with friends to create buying associations and selling
- associations. This will give you and others lots of money to save and
- lots of money to hide.
- 26. Harbor a fugitive. (Good ones, obviously.)
- 27. Help someone cross a border without documents.
- 28. Offer small merchants silver or gold rather than fiat currency.
- 29. Sell your products in silver or gold.
- 30. Accept and use digital gold, such as Pecunix or C-gold.
- 31. Start a community currency in your town.
- 32. Use digital cash, such as eCache.
- 33. Use Loom, Truebanc.
- 34. Get serious about protecting your Internet traffic.
- 35. Get comfortable working your will in the world.
- 36. Learn how to work your will beneficially. This is not about being
- 'right,' it is about causing benefit.
- 37. Fix your mistakes (you will make them). Learn not to repeat them.
- 38. Learn how to communicate effectively. Again, this is not about proving
- that you are right - this is about getting true ideas into other minds
- effectively.
- 39. Stop obeying the state in some new way. Tell your friends about your
- success doing so.
- 40. Get comfortable with the term 'Economic Civil Disobedience.'
- 41. Spread the idea that the state is not magic - it is nothing more than a
- collection of your neighbors - no more ethical and noble than the lamer
- next door.
- 42. Learn how to find the false assumptions in arguments. Most public lies
- sound okay if you don't find their unspoken assumptions. If they pass
- too quickly, find the written version and search for the lie it
- contains.
- 43. Learn how to disagree with kindness.
- 44. Accept the fact that most people are confused and are just barely
- hanging on to their last shreds of self-esteem. Understand that state
- intellectuals like this condition, as it makes people easier to keep in
- line - a little shame goes a long way.
- 45. Don't waste your energy on the political crisis de jour. Busy your mind
- with more substantial things. Daily political dramas are a time-sink,
- and the statists like it. Stop following their script.
- 46. Use jurisdictional arbitrage to deprive the state of your money. Work
- with friends if the setup costs are too large for you.
- 47. Learn to defend yourself, your family, your neighbors and your town. No
- state means no military. Until you take this upon yourself, your plans
- will always have a gaping hole in their middle. There is no free lunch
- here either. Get weapons and be mentally prepared to use them. Decide in
- advance how and when you would use them - do not leave it to the emotion
- of the moment - that will make a shipwreck of the whole venture. Learn
- how to use them safely.
- 48. Do something nice for your neighbor. The people who live near you are a
- far more important part of your environment than any other.
- 49. Help people who suffer undeservedly. No state means you are responsible
- for charity. Sure, it will be much easier when the state isn't stealing
- all your extra money (or chasing you in hope of theft), but do what you
- can now and get used to the process.
- 50. Watch over your friends. Notice when they are having a bad day, show
- some kindness and concern. If they are overloaded, carry some of their
- burden. We all have bad times, and your bad day may come too. Help one
- another. Restore one another.
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