Goboatingnow
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Other then toilet paper I saw virtually no hoarding around me. Thd shops had virtually no supply chain issues.A 100 gallon grow bag is approximately 3 ft in diameter. I'm hoping I'll get 40 to 60 lbs of potatoes out of this (first time so don't know).
Grow bags are relatively cheap. Even if not affordable for some, I also threw 6 or 7 chunks of seed potatoes into a small Amazon box and filled it to the edge with soil with flaps hanging down. When the plants got tall enough, I taped the sides up and added more soil.
Any of these options can fit on a balcony or patio in one size or another.
Yes, some people live in apartments with no extra space at all. There are still some things you can grow on a window sill or near a window, or even mushrooms that only need light to fruit, not to spread throughout a medium.
You can get free boxes from most grocery or big box stores or just swing by the recycling area near an apartments mail area. If you can't afford dirt, you can get more boxes, leaves, twigs, coffee grounds, and food scraps out of compost bins and in 4 to 6 months you'll have free soil.
People are too lazy and stupid wasting their lives on useless crap (their phones/apps, TV, "reality" TV, buying crap quality clothing and products they don't need, etc). Maybe they should learn to connect with nature and each other more and the world wouldn't have half the problems it has. I have very limited interest in bailing these people out...only slightly more interest than the zero I had for bailing out the banks in 2008/2009. When I say I want "a living wage", it's for people that actually work hard enough.
As I've said earlier though, I'm in support of making sure people aren't hungry for this very reason). You're right about me and others not being able to stop a mob. So if they were to come, I'd let them take all my food....Then I'd find them in their individual homes, without the protection of the mob, and my family and I'll be eating meat every night. Viciousness begets viciousness and I won't be turning any cheeks and I won't be starving if there's sheep available.... I'll see your hypothetical mob and raise you.
I very much do not want society to get to this point, so hopefully our politicians will stop kissing the asses of the corporations and do what's best for the American people.
As a counter to your point, I think the pandemic taught people to "hoard" more, so hopefully most people actually have enough nonperishables to eat for a few weeks i
In fact the pandemic taught people to reach out, share , mind their neighbours etc
Sure no one wants the mob. But to this m you’ll get any firm of retribution in is fantasy. This isn’t a Rambo movie. Real life isn’t tv.