 Now since the shutdowns my Economic consumption has actually changed a good bit a good bit for the better. I've always been a minimalist But now I'm doing something. I don't know. I think it's for the best. Let me explain why now. Here's the deal Okay, I said before if in a video a couple months ago If the shutdown has affected the shutdown has destroyed your life if you feel like you can't do anything You can't go anywhere. You can't have any fun That's probably a sign that you're living in a place or and you're living with a lifestyle That is unsustainable and too reliant on the system, right? If you need if you got to wear a mask everywhere now, or you can't go places Or you can't like leave your house without being accosted by authorities or something like that You're probably living in a place. You don't need to be living Whereas out here when the shutdown happened, it was great It was like everyone had a vacation. We're all hanging out. We're all having dinner parties all the time It was actually very nice shutdown. I wish I wish there was another shutdown. That was a lot of fun And hey and thanks for the free Trump bucks, but either way I have changed my behavior in one significant way since the shutdown. I've learned my problem is I find this is a Recurring problem in my life. I never go far enough with stuff. I'm a little soy boy about some things You know, I'm too moderate. I need to be a little more extreme and the thing is I Have started based on my experience buying local products Okay, because I was actually pretty blue-pilled on this before You know before like this shutdown, okay? Like if I was gonna get groceries, which is basically all the consumption I do like getting groceries But you know if I were doing that I would probably go to some big box store like Walmart, okay? Or I don't know Publix or something like this these stores that exist and I don't know what they are in other countries But you know Walmart the Walmart archetype And the reason is oh well, you know all these places. They're just a little cheaper I mean, yeah, they ship stuff from all over the place and I don't know I'm just gonna use them that was my rationalization. They're a little cheaper But one thing that I realized I realized with the shutdown that really showed how how preferable it is to vote to Yeah, I guess vote with your dollar and buy a buy from a local chain or not even a chain a local store Because the first thing that happened during the shutdown is you know Walmart and all these corporations first off They have silly rules. You got to wear masks. You got to wait in line. You got to look like a doofus You got a you can only go one direction through the lanes and something like this humiliating stuff That out here. It doesn't even make sense. Like who am I gonna get coronavirus from anyway? but So they had all these silly rules But then you look at their prices the supply chain of Walmart is reliant on all of this stuff all over the world Right, they're shipping in stuff from China. They're shipping in stuff Like they don't get dairy from the local place down the road They get dairy maybe a couple states away Maybe they have a couple local jugs and milk, but in general they're they're always looking okay Where can we get stuff cheapest? Okay, whereas So Walmart's prices went all over the place like all these other stores They went all over the place but then I started going to my local grocer after this the shutdown which of course didn't care at all about masks or anything in the first place but Their prices were pretty much the same thing. They'd always been like eggs went up for some reason I think there was a shortage of eggs But aside from that everything was basic like prices were pretty stagnant like they're all okay I will say there was one week where meat went up But then it was like, you know a quarter of what it was out of nowhere And the reason that is is if you buy from a local store obviously that has a local supply chain That's ultimately something more robust like when something like a shutdown happens this kind of economic shutdown It's gonna affect them less. In fact, it might be good I know that me and a couple other people started buying the like local stuff just because you know I don't know it's more convenient now and their prices are better anyway Okay, so now I think my mindset is even if Walmart finally gets that You know, even if they go back to having cheaper prices or something like that I'm still gonna be buying local because now the way I look at is you know I'm investing in something that is I guess more Sustainable it sounds stupid to even use those words that there are cringe words that libtards use But yeah, there's nothing wrong with buying like in fact, there's everything good with buying a sustainable and locally Produced a stuff from around you. Okay, that's sort of the point because whenever something like it's less reliant on the system These terrible corporations that I mean, you know what they're spending their money on like imagine being in a city And then like going at what you know Putting on a little mask and waiting through one of those aisles at a big box store And then they like spend a million dollars on like these people who are like burning down your neighborhood like how? Absolutely cucked is that I'm sorry. You got to move to the country dude. It's so much better But so that's my mindset and I'll say this this is not just true of groceries Like it's even true. It was even true of gas here Like you wouldn't even think that because gas I mean, it's not like people are getting locally produced gas But for whatever reason like it was the Walmart gas station, which is usually the cheapest their prices just went all over the place They were like super high and then the locally junk the local junker junkie gas station That was like mega cheap. I don't even know why I don't even know the economics behind it But all of the local places seem to have the best prices and I think um, you know I think I'm gonna keep supporting them. I'm gonna keep spending money on them instead. I've sort of sworn off Buying stuff from Walmart or anything else and I think at this point. I basically there really no major corporations I buy from I definitely don't need to chain restaurants. That's another cringe thing. Don't do that But I stopped that a while ago So anyway, that's about it. I guess so definitely encourage you move out into the country, of course But even if you're living in a city Use that local butcher use that local grocer use, you know, even if it's like some grocery store run by Indians or something It's way better than using one of these mega corporations And it's gonna be like more sustainable probably but yeah, move into the country. That's priority number one guys See you guys next time