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There is always hope.

I’m going to go with restaurant meals.

Any restaurant that brings in prepared food from a central location frozen/pre-cooked/etc. is terrible.

I’m not a doctor, talk to one.

He killed the market, let a few buddies know he was going to reverse it so they would buy stuff up cheap, then reversed it.

Literally hundreds of billions of dollars in value was just lost/made by various people in this pump and dump(dump and pump?) scheme.

A therapist.

I mean, good for having some staples, but that’s not really planning for a recession. That’s more planning for an extended natural disaster or full on collapse of society.

You’re far better off spending your money on things that will improve your likelihood of staying employed (or getting new employment) through the recession, the price of those staples will be affordable as long as you have any income.

Getting a secondary job in a less-likely to be impacted industry and getting trained up now, or taking specific courses at a local college focused on a secondary skillset will be the most useful.

No. Get help.

A guillotine

The hilarious part of this is that Orson Scott Card is extremely Homo phobic to the point of wanting it to be a crime and jailing people.

He’s one of the hateful groups that would need to be culled under your proposed action.

Publicity, awareness, and political capital which do matter in politics

That’s not what I was taught or experienced firsthand while I was there.

It makes perfect sense, he’s asking for positive examples.

The vast majority of them are just fine, like with most tourists. The problem is there’s just massively large number of them in many tourist destinations compared to other countries (at least where I live), which means you more frequently see one acting poorly too.

The Americans are somewhat the same, we also get a lot of them.

That being said, even though most of the issues are because of sheer numbers it doesn’t mean there aren’t a few key cultural differences which can play a role in western locations being offended by Chinese behaviour.

The big one with China is that culturally there’s no expectation that you treat a stranger respectfully, the person you’re dealing with needs to earn your respect rather than having it by default. This comes across as quite rude to many other countries when you only have a single interaction with this person.

This isn’t a Chinese only issue though, Americans can also be quite rude depending on where they’re from and how they were raised, a good chunk of them are entitled assholes who think the world revolves around them when they visit.

You asked what would it look like, and I gave you a realistic answer. There’s no way that type of economy could exist in the real world, it’s never been done, and there’s plenty of evidence showing it failing even in small groups of people.

Worked for millenia until the rise of capitalism

No it didn’t, we’ve had states for literally six to eight thousand years or more and capitalism for about three hundred years.

States have existed essentially since the moment the population of specific area became large enough to become a city.

Because again, as I said earlier, you can’t have completely stateless groups larger than hundreds of people, if just doesn’t work.

They don’t, mutualistic economics doesn’t work at scale because human nature doesn’t let it.

It can work with a small enough group, but will break before you even reach 1000 individuals.

It wouldn’t work, there wouldn’t be nearly enough contribution to cover a military with any useful amount of force. There’s zero chance you can get tens of millions of people to donate enough money voluntarily to support such an endeavor.

Militaries are extremely expensive, especially in the modern world. In Canada for example we have about 100,000 citizens per aircraft in the airforce, and about half a million citizens per boat in the Navy.

It wouldn’t work.

In order to have a military, you’d have to have at least one or more dedicated people, those people would need to be supported with resources and given that it’s a stateless society there’s zero chance that enough people would voluntarily choose to help them to allow them to operate effectively outside of a wartime event without requiring some sort of payment from everyone and then you’re back to having a state.

I’d actually commend them and give them financial advice regarding it’s longevity, it’s a high income job but your income drops as you age so it would be good to put a lot of it away or invest some in a secondary income source for when you transition out. This is also true for many other jobs which are reliant on peak physical function/visuals such as modelling or professional sports

Why do I care about the difference between using your hands to rub someone’s muscles (a massage therapist) and using a different body part to rub a different body part?

There’s nothing special, secret, or wrong about having sex, it’s just a normal everyday human activity. Use appropriate protection and go for it.