Utah Stories May 2021 Issue

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Urban Homesteading By Richard Markosian

Divest from Wall Street, Invest in local food. B ig tech is censoring us, tracking

California’s “mass exodus”. Expect higher

us, selling our personal data to

housing costs as more transplants move

corporations to advertise to us more

here. Exaserbating the problem further is

efficiently. We buy everything on Amazon,

inflation and a 300% increase in lumber

book our hotels on Expedia and rooms

prices. Massive inflation is already here.

on AirB&b, get around on Uber and get

The Fed is painting a rosy picture that

all our news from YouTube and Facebook.

somehow it’s not happening but nobody is

We make Silicon Valley executives and

buying it.

Wall Street investors insanely rich,

The government increased our entire

while our local small businesses and our

money supply by 40% in just 14 months.

communities deteriorate. “Expect another

All of this “free money” and $4 trillion in

round of PPP!” they inform us.

stimulus spending doesn’t happen without

The middle class, the working class, and all non-tech workers watch their spending power decline: food, gasoline

a major currency devaluation.

So what do you do?

and especially housing costs are going crazy. The impact is the middle class is

It’s time we all fight back by embracing

shrinking while the homeless population

the “urban homestead movement”. Pay off

and subsistence class is increasing

your house or buy a mini-house and grow

Utah’s Housing Crisis is exacerbated by

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your own food. Learn to grow, harvest,


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