The salvage industry makes more millionaires than any other. If we teach the kids how to build with salvaged materials, they could create careers straight out of High School—no college needed.
OCT 30, 2024
When people finally see that the degrees they are paying for are not paying back enough to fund the debt acquired to get the degrees. Skills to make money other than with the degree are ignored, but the cost to the children who get out of college and are unemployed is devastating, and the damage can last for life. There is no way to dispose of the debts from college as the government guarantees the loans, who can take your tax returns, ruin your credit for decades, and keep you from ever getting out of the hole that college creates for most who go to college.
More people need to learn skills while young that will allow them to make a good living, build a tiny house, buy land, and thrive without getting into the bogus college degree scheme hatched when I was young that entices all kids to go to higher education thinking they will net more income over their lifetime. That is not true anymore due to the cost of the schooling and the lack of good jobs for the graduates in many of the degrees that are given by the colleges. There is no longer a great value in most of the degrees like there used to be for fresh graduates; even the high-grade-scoring students are finding it hard to get a job that will feed their debts and let them live better than those who became plumbers, electricians, carpenters, and other skilled jobs that are now paying $75-$150 an hour. Mechanics are in high demand, as are others who are good at doing the physical work necessary for our society to function well.
As we run out of skilled workers for these physically intense jobs is driving up the demand and cost and helping to inspire kids to consider once again developing the skills to build houses, fix cars, and many other fields of work that are in high demand, pay well, and do not require 4 years of college with a hundred grand in debt when done. Why not teach more skills in school, as was once the case when there were wood shops, mechanic shops, and ways to learn skills in school? Sadly, most were shut down due to the insurance costs and the school boards that decided to reduce the importance of producing fully operational adults by 18 years old. The education system no longer provides the education needed for a functional citizen by the time they get done with high school, many not fully literate or skilled in math by the time they graduate high school and have no skills to offer for employment so many feel college is the answer. For most, it will only add to their debt and make things more complicated throughout the time it will take to pay off their college costs, sometimes taking over 20 years with heavy penalties and interest rates that can be adjusted upward without the students being able to object.
Why not suggest that your town open a Pure Salvage Outpost that will provide a venue where kids and adults could go to learn how to build tiny houses, leading to building bigger houses if needed or more of them to create a compound of master suites and a shared house for the kitchen, dining, and getting together area. This allows for faster construction of the bedrooms the kitchen and growing the homestead in increments that allow for mom and dad to have a tiny house, the kids each their bedroom and spaces, as well as the common house where all of you share meals, love, and commune to bond and share your trials and success at the end of each day. Then, off to your tiny master suite where you sleep, get away from others with the person you love, and share the moments of peace a master bedroom should offer. Best of all, it is portable, and you could move on to another part of the property one day when you marry and start your tiny family homestead.
I would like to see more schools built with salvage to teach the kids how to develop American-made homes with sustainable materials, not imported new pollution products but the best of the past that can be salvaged and reused for much less than new products, and last longer. Why not teach logical ways to build inexpensively and grow villages, communities, and homesteads without cutting down trees and making new windows and hardware that can last another century? People have gotten accustomed to disposable products, cars, and homes now that they are all designed to break down in 7-15 years, even houses. I want to see us move back into a time and perspective when quality and lifetime warranties are possible because the product was built with a sense of pride, not just profits, driving the businesses that create our means of growing a great country. No one can build a great country out of trashy materials that are toxic and self-destructive in less than a decade.
Will you share the idea of creating PSO Co-ops and let others know that I will help by funding materials to the towns and communities that will make a place to assemble them and teach the locals who want to build houses the ways to do so now? Stop waiting for others to save the day with new stuff when you have this avenue to use for teaching the locals how to thrive while waiting for the government to make excuses for why it can not help, but also how they are going to stop you from using salvage to rebuild with. The building codes are the tools the corporations use to prevent you from using salvage materials to build with, not for logic’s sake, but for the profits they make, forcing you to use their products through code. Stop the madness and pass variances to the local codes so that you can build faster before the winter kills off many from flu, colds, and illnesses that follow when under the stress that so many suffer from storms and floods. Let us help them as soon as possible. I want to empty this warehouse, then take it down to salvage the wood and metal and use it to create more solutions for others. I want to show how this can provide millions with housing, with no imports from China required.
Please get in touch with me if this makes sense to you, and if there are people locally who can help you establish a Pure Salvage Outpost with the materials, I will gladly ship you the first houses. Do not let the codes and limitations of the government slow down your ability to create solutions locally as fast as possible. Time is not on your side if you do not have a house when the winter, a particularly bad one, sets in over the next month. This will get bad fast, and you can move faster if you wish. I will help in any way I can. Please let me know how Wii can work together to solve the problems where you are.
Brad w. Kittel