It's NOT a question of how much i get 'payed', it's about those who TAKE from me to pay themselves.
People are not 'bound by law' to shop at Amazon (the fact that 90+% of the mom-n-pop businesses got crushed by Big Box and Amazon is another story),
However local, State and Federal Government hold the greatest Monopoly FORCING me to do business with Them. And anyone still saying Vote Harder (in rigged elections) can shove that crap right back up their ass.
Cut firewood,
Carry water
and grow food
as best ya still can
There seems no shortage of production all over the world, AND no shortage of people who still want to consume Mass Quantities (maybe Lord willing, the disproportion consumption market will find a better and more healthy balance someday). But that should NEVER be a "Government" activity
What i do struggle with, is the eventual pressure of the Market and if i try to re-open a local Mercantile General Store/Grocer… and some shitbag slob with a Government Whistle and Clipboard shows up to shake me down along with my fifty or a hundred local family, friends and neighbors who come over to Trade with me.
That dumbfuck with a Government Whistle and Clipboard will probably have no idea how their life hangs by a thread of my remaining patience.
Walk away
do NOT participate with ANY of Their crap
ignore them
and/or if They insist upon getting attention, tell Them to fuck off and go pound sand/
THAT, is the absolute most peaceful way.
But keep gun oil and ammo tidy and at the ready
incase Government really starts
hating to be ignored.