Ask Lemmy

I'm actively working towards a passive income, and I am very low consumerist. I decided I don't need anymore devices (asides from solar panels/other forms of power generation).

Once I have mycrop, passive income, and elrctricity, "the man" is fucked without lube, because my plan is to rabidly "jailbreak" anyone who will listen by getting them to the same state.

Minimum bills, minimum subscriptions, own food, own power, anti-consumerism, mutual trade.

Do you see how this would affect an exploitative system once you have the option to just not participate in it?

The government would be forced to treat their people better, and so would the companies trading with them, because they are no longer as important.

Linux and buy tech second hand only when the wheels fall off. I don't buy branded clothes. Sail the seas. I boycott a lot of places/brands too.

I say no to cookies

I work about 1 hour of every day.

I use rags to clean up messes instead of paper towels. No reason to buy unnecessary things because capitalism says I need to throw away something dirty. Just throw them in the wash

I'm not sure if this qualifies, but I have a friend who way back when, like decades ago, probably before the extensive surveillance we have now, would do something rather ingenious and devious to get major discounts on whatever expensive things he wanted at stores: he would print out a sheet of barcode stickers for a product that was similar but much cheaper than the one he wanted and plaster it on a bunch of the items like the one he wanted. Take it to the cashier and get a super discount.

For example, if he wanted some fancy model of an electronics gadget, he would print barcodes of a much cheaper but similar model from the same manufacturer. According to him, he had even done this for fancy cuts of meat. The reason for applying it to a bunch of them and not just the single one he planned to buy was for plausible deniability. If someone questioned him, he could say, I don't know, I just picked one off the shelf - they could go check and see that there were many labeled as the cheaper item.

ass pennies

Linux, use that hosts file, degoogle (and as much big tech in general as possible). Up next self hosting.

I steal at least 1 item every time I am in a Walmart.

I don't report anything that I earn in cash to the IRS

Lemmy.

I try to steal from the supermarket every time I go.

Bike to work!

This a more “a man” than “the man” but I had a boss I hated who was really into horoscopes.

So I learned all about them so I could memorize every one else’s sign and continue to forget his.

Good luck writing me up for that Rob. Oh wait you couldn’t anyway because I outlasted you!

He also insisted I write “inspirational quotes” on the weekly sales paper for my team to feal inspired . nietzsche it is.