Aaron Leonard https://risingthumb.xyz
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EDITORIAL
TRADE
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DOMESTIC
FINANCE
ORDERS
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HEADLINES: WEST MINISTRY WINS VOTE FOR RENAMING IMPERIAL ASSEMBLY
ASPERMONT, WESTERLANDS -
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EDITORIAL - The Culture of “Moving Out”
Irishkaiser - One thing that is expected of most people nowadays is when they grow old enough or economically sufficient is the practice of moving out of the family abode and start living elsewhere away. This practice is very prevalent in the Western world and is actually exported worldwide to other cultures, but for most of human history you rarely moved out of your ancestral home and only moved when you have better economic opportunity elsewhere wherein NOT moving would be YOUR loss.
Most people didn’t move far because of many things, but the main reasons have always been economical. There is social of course such as for example: Chinese parents wanting their children to stay because they would be taken care of when they grew old. Ancestral homes were also sentimental to many as both high and low used land not only as wealth but prestige and dignity. Still, economics drove the actions based on necessities.
Land of course then was expensive to many organized states and people developed the land they were on, content with what they had, but when the Americas were opened up to European colonization, Westerners flocked to the continents to stake their claim. Never before had they seen so much “free” and available space just asking to be taken. This began the culture of pioneering and homesteading in the Americas, both North and South. The practice eventually evolved and carried over to future generations, solidifying itself in the economics of the post-World War 2 Economic Boom wherein United States citizens wanted to move out of city apartments and homes to have little lands of their own called “suburbs”, with cars providing the means of connecting them to their economic life. As the pre-eminent World Power, US culture and fashion were exported to the world with American standards being deemed the highest for a long time. One such standard and cultural practice many inherited was the social expectation to “move out” of the home… Which is somehow set at a certain age of 18 for a lot of people of that which I am confused. Why 18 exactly..?
In the post World War years, this lifestyle was sustained by the general wealth of the era. Prices for homes were cheap and wages were generally sustainable. This idea became so ingrained in American social expectations that when recessions and depressions came, the practice wasn’t abandoned at all. Alternatives were sought in moving out, rather than not moving out at all such as the economic depression of the 70s and late 60s where US hippie communes or living in cheaper priced apartments and or homes were actually preferred than living with your family. Hell, a lot of people preferred living in their car if times really were tough for them and were shamed to live with their parents.
Past the American economic revival of the 80s and into the optimism of the 90s, it all came crashing down in Wall Street on 2008.
It was so bad, that people were forced by the economics and situation of the time to completely abandon the idea of moving out of their family homes right now but they still retain the stigma and the shame in their culture, telling themselves they’ll move out eventually. Of course we’re doing better than before, but now some people have discovered and found that living in a family home is much much cheaper but the stigma is still there. Used as an insult many times by both right-wing and left-wing politicos, even though they find it as a problem, it just doesn’t make sense to me when the cognitive dissonance of HAVING to move out is now combined with people saying we need to reduce our carbon footprint and help the environment and or spend less frivolously.
I heard it was normal for Americans to make three hour drives to visit their parents at least once a week. Three hours there and three hours back again… Doesn’t that seem wasteful? Again, constructing new homes may be good for a construction economy but, you have to take land eventually, spreading not only development and its upsides, but its downsides as well such as pollution, ecological destabilization, etc. Plus, like cars, homes themselves depreciate in value unless special conditions have been met. It is the land that becomes valuable, but the home above it needs constant maintenance and repair.
Moving out to me, seems on a whole wasteful and inefficient. Especially at a time where many people are becoming more environmentally aware, they somehow ignore this little(not really) luxury they have that can become hugely inefficient and grossly wasteful. What concerns me is that this American practice has been adopted socially around the world. Though in the Philippines for example, there is no age to move out of the house and only when you’re married is where it’s expected, I personally think that the American choice to stay in their family homes would be overall a better and more efficient future.
And maybe you guys will revive your public transport and trains when people stay at home and develop the city and land around them rather than having to justify a Goddamn drive to work or school every fucking day.
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TRADE - US MineZ Trade Run
The Directory proudly announces that it has delivered
2 Chain Sets
2 Iron Swords
1 Infinity Bow
in value exchange for
2 buttons and a Mule
2 Health Potions
Tomatoes, sausages and nice crispy bacon, Mr.Frodo.
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TRADE - Common Market Trade
The Directory proudly announces that it has witnessed the following goods circulated.
Battle Inventories
Golden Apples
Sugar
Iron Armor Pieces
Legendary Weapons and Armor
Food
Diamond Swords
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TRADE - EU MineZ Trade
The Directory proudly announces that it has witnessed the following goods circulated.
7 Diamond Swords
23 Gunpowder
in value exchange for
20 Cakes
Welp, guess the cakes are useless now after figuring out what a certain… Thing is.
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PvP Drill 170th Mass PvP Event - Testing
Certain review and tests of random people in the UNKNOWN [?] Trading Company have discovered that although most of the 1st Regiment is “capable” and can stand and fight, many in the 93rd are probably going to trip in a swordfight and die without even fighting… YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
Irishkaiser has decided to train one of these guys but then his internet disconnected. Oh well.
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DOMESTIC - UNKNOWN [?] TRADING COMPANY CELEBRATES POLISH INDEPENDENCE DAY
Look man, I just want Talizorah to curl up next to me making jokes. Is that too much to ask?
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DOMESTIC - SUPPOSED BANNED HACKER RETURNS
A hacker killed two informants in MineZ last week contradicting earlier reports and confirmations that he was banned or blacklisted. This literally does not mean anything at all other than our original source is gay and full of AIDS.
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DOMESTIC - SERVERS WORST AS ITS EVER BEEN - GRAPEVINE SAYS
Servers getting worse and worse, grapevine says. Americans are starting to be affected… Actually they have always been affected, but they haven’t been affected THIS MUCH before.
Huge lag spikes reported all around at certain hours, strategically timed some suspect and theorize. The rest just laugh and are used to it.
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FINANCE - Who got something?
NOTHING. Boring same old news you want me to repeat two issues ago? yeah just read that instead.
**ORDERS:**
1) TRADE RUN NEXT WEEK
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THE [?] EMPIRE,THE COMPANY’S OFFICIAL NEWS SOURCE AND PROPAGANDA TOOL. AW YEAH