Richard_G_603 wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 3:24 pm
I feel like you misunderstood me Jim. I don't mean charity and welfare, I mean workers. I mean the critical mass of individuals needed to create and maintain a sustainable community. A community which does not require participation in or donations from those who participate in the global economic system. A group of people committed to the success of that sustainable community because they have no other option that is acceptable to them. Very similar to what Dr. Pierce originally hipe for in West Virginia but never had enough people.
I've been thinking about the task of building infrastructure a lot lately. Whether Alliance members or "movement" in general, our people have a lot of intelligence, skills, and talents, but it doesn't matter if we don't own the means of production and distribution. If we're outsourcing then we can still be cancelled, but setting up the means of production often takes a great deal of money.
Take book publishing, for instance. When I publish a book or a comic, I have to find a printer who's willing to print it, then pay them and resell the printed books. I can do this for a few hundred dollars at a time; Spend a few hundred, make a hundred or so back, repeat. And even if the printer isn't anti-White (I wouldn't do business with someone who was, of course) there can still be problems.
Some time back I was looking for a new printing company for a WN book, and I asked the company that prints my comics.
I got a call back the next day from the owner of the company, who said he felt he should call me personally to explain that they can't print it. He didn't have a problem with it, but his employees bitched about it... he also felt the need to tell me about how all of the newest printing machinery has tracking dots, so unless you're using older machinery, it can be tracked back to the company that printed it.
All of this can be avoided, but it's expensive. A high output commercial printer starts at about $4,000.00, an automated book binding machine that can do perfect-bound books is about $10,000.00. An automatic paper folder starts at around $1,200.00. A saddle-stitch stapler (for magazines, booklets, comics, etc.) starts at around $250.00. I don't know about a trimmer but I'm sure it's not cheap. THEN you have to find a paper supplier. (I just had a perspective printer cancel on me the other day due to shortages. I wonder what's involved with starting a paper mill?)
So, if we have a cheap steel building with electricity and A.C., then a book factory would be around $15,500.00, at least. With a small team of our people working it, we could
manufacture books for our folk, and do it for less money than the companies that either hate us or don't have the gonads to print for us. All we'd have to do is cough up about $20,000.00.
The same principle can work with any type of manufacturing, we just have to have one or two people with the interest in it who know how to start. Some manufacturing can be done out of a spare room or a garage, maybe in exchange for rent. That way, it's not a charity at all, it's building our own infrastructure and employing our own people.