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Cleita

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12. I for one am taking money from the rich.
Sun Apr 28, 2013, 08:35 AM
Apr 2013

I suggest others do the same wherever they can find a way to do so. I live in a very affluent county, so I found a niche I can fill as a pet sitter and plant waterer when they go on vacation. It's a matter of being responsible and trustworthy and doing a little extra to get the referrals. In this day and age with all our electronic gadgets, I can send little videos every other day showing them what Fluffy and Fido are doing while they are on vacation. My clientele love it. It's something the other pet sitters don't do. It pays $10 plus mileage, which is a good job for a seventy year old lady like me. I intend to get more per hour in the future, once I establish a good rapport with a regular clientele, since I just started out doing this.

I believe this is the way to go. We, who are in need of jobs, need to find ways to make those people pay us for services or other ways we find to extract money from them. Another thing I thought of, if anyone has carpenter skills and a small space to work in, is as a closet and drawer organizer for rich people. You would need a small investment in tools, license and insurance. There are plenty of instructions on the internet to follow. I could see it as rather lucrative self-employed business.

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THe 1% Continue The Domination And Are Consolidating Their Gains cantbeserious Apr 2013 #1
i think it's becoming a contagion. xchrom Apr 2013 #2
Probably True - With The Power The 1% Holds - Does It Matter? - Probably Not cantbeserious Apr 2013 #4
tue dat. nt xchrom Apr 2013 #5
They know exactly what they are doing. pangaia Apr 2013 #18
They're looking for places to run Warpy Apr 2013 #26
The world is becoming a plutocracy: Wealthy/serfs Faygo Kid Apr 2013 #17
Just a matter of time before this turns violent. Katashi_itto Apr 2013 #3
Agree, chervilant Apr 2013 #9
No kidding. jsr Apr 2013 #11
Except, of course, for the Basque region, where their economy is doing relatively well, or growing. jtuck004 Apr 2013 #6
i was aware the basque region was doing better than the rest of spain. xchrom Apr 2013 #7
What I find fascinating, and scary, is nearly the entire U.S. acting like victims of Stockholm jtuck004 Apr 2013 #8
I for one am taking money from the rich. Cleita Apr 2013 #12
You're not taking their money when you work for them. Sirveri Apr 2013 #24
If I have to work, and I do, I think it's better to take money from them in the Cleita Apr 2013 #25
you're in the catch 22. Sirveri Apr 2013 #29
I don't find that so much as resignation. Warpy Apr 2013 #27
I used to think that, but the more I looked at it, I realized that resignation requires jtuck004 Apr 2013 #30
That's where the Mondragon (sp?) co-operative is located isn't it? socialist_n_TN Apr 2013 #20
I think it probably has quite a lot to do with it. It's no bed of roses, but they are doing jtuck004 Apr 2013 #23
K & R malaise Apr 2013 #10
k/r marmar Apr 2013 #13
I have to confess that I have absolutely no idea of how to interpret that first chart Orrex Apr 2013 #14
The length of the entire bar is the unemployment rate - the different colors and their lengths... reformist2 Apr 2013 #15
I thought that might be the case, but... Orrex Apr 2013 #16
It does make it hard - when it comes to graphs, sometimes less is more. reformist2 Apr 2013 #19
I know that revolution is a hard and uncertain road........ socialist_n_TN Apr 2013 #21
Timeline toddwv Apr 2013 #22
I just came back from Spain and Bay Boy Apr 2013 #28
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