Political Memes

"The money runs out. What do?"

you do not need a remote friendly skill set to find an online job that will pay you a few hundred dollars per month.

so you get an online job.

if for whatever reason you only want to work in person, you can go berry picking in a lot of countries or harvesting on farms, you can teach English in person in 40 different countries immediately, au pairs, housesitters, a lot of countries hire seasonal workers.

so if you need a job, you can find one.

and if you plan ahead at all (oh no! I only have four more weeks of money), your overhead is so cheap that whatever job you get will cover you, you'll be able to catch up and hopefully learn to plan ahead a little bit.

example: this month you somehow forgot you needed money. but you remembered in the last month before you ran out and you taught English for 10 hours and you got rent for the next month.

now you're one month ahead, so you teach English for 10 more hours, and now? you're 2 months ahead, and you have one whole month minus 10 hours to figure out what you're going to do next.

or what you want to do next.

most travelers don't have this problem, I've never met one that ran out of money without some sort of plan in place.

you have so much time when you don't have any financial stressors, and there are jobs in every country, and a billion jobs that you don't need skills for online, plus countless online certifications if you want a professional online job.

there's no reason why you would end up in a situation where you surprisingly ran out of money.

"you're living paycheck to paycheck with children. You try to save money to travel for the reasons you've brought up here. It's not possible. What do?"

do you have a phone? easiest way is to teach English online for 10 hours a month If that's all you have.

you have enough money to move your family after a few months.

"No offence, but your account of travel as a solution here seems deeply naive"

That's because you don't know anything about traveling, so you are imagining that these simple solutions won't work because you don't know how to solve these problems.

I do.

"naive"

I don't think you know what this word means.

i know exactly how to travel immediately and indefinitely, I've brought other people along and taught them how to travel, I have simple practical solutions to any question off the cuff because I know and have lived this stuff back and forth.

I have as much practical experience with travel and insight into traveling as anybody you're going to find.

you're assuming that because you don't know how to travel, other people cannot know how to travel.

but we do.

"It can work for some, sure, but "just leave the country bro" simply isn't an option at all for many, many people."

travel can work for anybody, leaving the country is an option for anyone with a valid passport and 100 bucks.

and especially if you need financial relief, It's a heck of a lot easier and more liberating than borrowing money from friends or family or living in your car or on the streets, or moving back in with your parents.

people are afraid of traveling, especially Americans, because they live in a monoculture, they're told that the world outside is scary and other cultures are scary, but other cultures are beautiful and compassionate.

other countries function better than the US does in most respects, and practically all livability.

if you travel, you will learn that.