I am a very small part of the farming world and I join the many people in the world with a subsistence farm. We use a lot of our crops for our own use, the animals and chickens are fed from the farm along with our own food. I only grow what I need. The exception is the sunflowers and spelt which we sell. But again I only plant what I will need for our customers.
The sad part of all of this is that we rely on the government pensions to keep the farm afloat.
I wonder in the long run if the subsistence farms are the way of the future if we are to survive.
Growth rate is decreasing in the Western World. It creates unrest when the system no longer functions as it did during the last ~250 years. Birthrate is also decreasing, young people sense the coming failure and avoid having children.
Gunnar, maybe you already know about Tim Morgan and his work on https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/ and follow the discussions there. It's about energy and how the economy is totally dependant on it. It's a lively discussion going on there with many knowledgeable persons mainly around the increasing debt contra available resources and the impossible situation this creates with a coming financial crash. Facts and figures about our future.
I do follow the writings of Tim Morgan, but not the comments in any details. What I find a bit hard to comprehend is the notion of "growing debt". Any debt will be hold by someone and constituting an asset, so on the total, it is hard to understand how there can be any aggregate debt growing. But perhaps my imagination fails?
I find the rapidly decreasing birthrates intriguing and ponder over the reasons behind. Certainly it will add to the collapse..
Short answer you have to pay interest on the debt. When the interest amount reach an unsustainable level it's game over. Look at the US and their future.
With 40% more money than goods and services to pay for with that money there is unbalance in the system. Fiat money is all about trust, it works as long as we believe in it. When we no longer trust the governments the value of the currency erodes. Think Zimbabwe.
The money printing together with zero interest has created a bubble that has to burst. The value of stocks, property, etc depends on somebody else prepared to buy it. If many try to sell at the same time the value goes down. In a financial crash there is no buyers and value disappear fast. Like 1929.
That is why real value and financial value can't differ 40%. And why we will have a GFC II in due time. When enough people see that the emperor is naked...
Sure, I am aware of those aspects. I believe we share the same view on these matter. My question was mostly on "growing debt" which seems hard to comprehend on an aggregate level I mean. For sure there is more debt around, my point is that someone is also holding those as an asset on his/her/its balance sheet.
Very good! The answer as always is true wisdom - seeing things as they are and applying loving attention and intelligent action to the whole.
I am a very small part of the farming world and I join the many people in the world with a subsistence farm. We use a lot of our crops for our own use, the animals and chickens are fed from the farm along with our own food. I only grow what I need. The exception is the sunflowers and spelt which we sell. But again I only plant what I will need for our customers.
The sad part of all of this is that we rely on the government pensions to keep the farm afloat.
I wonder in the long run if the subsistence farms are the way of the future if we are to survive.
mat <matsfineoilsandflour.ca>
Growth rate is decreasing in the Western World. It creates unrest when the system no longer functions as it did during the last ~250 years. Birthrate is also decreasing, young people sense the coming failure and avoid having children.
Gunnar, maybe you already know about Tim Morgan and his work on https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/ and follow the discussions there. It's about energy and how the economy is totally dependant on it. It's a lively discussion going on there with many knowledgeable persons mainly around the increasing debt contra available resources and the impossible situation this creates with a coming financial crash. Facts and figures about our future.
I do follow the writings of Tim Morgan, but not the comments in any details. What I find a bit hard to comprehend is the notion of "growing debt". Any debt will be hold by someone and constituting an asset, so on the total, it is hard to understand how there can be any aggregate debt growing. But perhaps my imagination fails?
I find the rapidly decreasing birthrates intriguing and ponder over the reasons behind. Certainly it will add to the collapse..
Short answer you have to pay interest on the debt. When the interest amount reach an unsustainable level it's game over. Look at the US and their future.
With 40% more money than goods and services to pay for with that money there is unbalance in the system. Fiat money is all about trust, it works as long as we believe in it. When we no longer trust the governments the value of the currency erodes. Think Zimbabwe.
The money printing together with zero interest has created a bubble that has to burst. The value of stocks, property, etc depends on somebody else prepared to buy it. If many try to sell at the same time the value goes down. In a financial crash there is no buyers and value disappear fast. Like 1929.
That is why real value and financial value can't differ 40%. And why we will have a GFC II in due time. When enough people see that the emperor is naked...
Hope this made some sense....
Sure, I am aware of those aspects. I believe we share the same view on these matter. My question was mostly on "growing debt" which seems hard to comprehend on an aggregate level I mean. For sure there is more debt around, my point is that someone is also holding those as an asset on his/her/its balance sheet.
Як приємно побачити сіру породу корів на зображенні:)
Колись в Україні схожа універсальна м'ясо-молочно-робоча порода була дуже поширеною..
Нажаль ці часи пройшли...
Дякую за допис!