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My past (albeit limited) research on the topic has indicated that there's probably no country on Earth that lets welfare-dependent schizophrenics immigrate. But (just to double check), if one were to have to flee America (say, come 2029), which countries would be the best shot?
Without savings, the ability to claim us benefits abroad, ancestry, or changing that disabled status, nobody. Ireland would take you if you were irish. Paraguay and portugal if you had even moderate savings. Plenty of places if you're self supporting. You're probably stuck in the US if you can't find any paying task you can do.
Just as I thought. And, no, I don't have any ancestry recent enough to count for another country. You have to go back, like, five generations to reach my most recent immigrant ancestors… and they were Silesian Germans, so no luck there.
So, how would I go about finding a "paying task I can do" in a foreign country?
Or, more likely, you're right, I'm stuck.
And with no hope of fleeing the slaughter to come, then I suppose that just leaves the sort of thing the mods have told me I can't talk about.
We've had this conversation before, like 20 months ago, and you detailed your many limitations, though their specifics escape me now. I still maintain that if you can write with this clarity and frequency on the motte you are theoretically capable of earning income through intellectual work, you just need to find a way to cross the gulf between it impacting your benefits and it being enough to live on. There are huge numbers of jobs that can be done entirely via interacting with a computer or phone these days. I personally have made money writing software, tutoring high schoolers, and accepting donations for fiction. LLMs are changing many of those niches, but at least for the moment near as many opportunities are being created as are being destroyed, though that may not hold forever. But for the moment, if you want freedom, you'll need to earn income. That's the way the world works. If this 'slaughter' you cannot speak of arrives, well, that might change as some nation begins accepting US asylum applications. But until then, not a single nation is interested in acquiring dependents with no ties to their citizenry.
Such as? Beyond those you've listed, anyway. (Not a coder, did tutoring until the local market dried up, not sure anyone would want to pay for my fiction, given the negative feedback it gets.)
You just want a large list? Data entry, content moderation, sales, repackaging AI generated images into book covers, actually making book covers, teaching english via zoom, customer support, all the ancillary shit software companies need that isn't code like project management, basically 70% of finance and insurance, streaming, selling curated AI generated porn. I'm sure there's more but that's all I can think of immediately without googling.
Applied to what local data entry jobs I could (most are with or through one or another of the Native corporations, and thus only hire members of the associated Tribe), and no luck.
Who pays for that?
Requires a level of charm my autistic ass lacks
Can you be specific what you mean by "repackaging" here, and is that something people actually pay for? Plus, it's my youngest brother who's the artistic one in the family.
I'm not aware of any local printers/publishers, and aren't the covers made by machines as part of the printing and binding process?
Wouldn't I at least need to know some of the native language of whomever I'm teaching, for communicating in areas where their English isn't enough (because they're still just learning)?
(Plus, my internet isn't fast enough for zoom.)
See under sales, with enormous quantities of handling-irate-Karens-related-stress added on top.
And where do I get the skills and training needed to do that job? (Because I have no clue what any of that "ancillary shit" is, or how to do it.)
I talked to the insurance company recruiters at the Job Fair a couple of times, discussing my math skills, and that stuff all gets done outside of Alaska. Plus, I lack actuarial training (and whatever degree/certification) and such.
See slow internet, and streaming what? Who would watch me?
(That said, there was a recent discussion on one of the videos I watched about the latest list of supposed "far-right/Nazi vtubers" going around, pointing out that basically all but one of them were actually centrist to center-left, and that the only one who can actually be considered even just right-wing is Nux Taku — the Jewish New Yorker. The closest thing to an actually far-right vtuber I've ever seen is the Aristocratic Utensil, so maybe there's a market opening…)
Who pays for that? And through what platform? Don't all the payment processors and crowdfunding/donation platforms/Patreon clones pretty much forbid NSFW? And I'd need to somehow obtain skill with AI art generation, enough to be competitive with all the other people out there with far more skill and experience. (Plus, I'm hardly the person to know what constitutes desirability or quality in pornographic output, given my own unfamiliarity with and lack of consumption of porn.)
Yes, I know, people hate it when I respond to advice like this. But it's part of how I was raised — to automatically find flaws in and try my best to shoot down any proposed plan, because anything that can go wrong will go wrong, so you must spend every waking moment considering every possible point of failure and taking measures to address it, always have a Plan B for when Plan A fails, and a Plan C for when Plan B fails, and a Plan D…. My first instinct whenever anyone suggests anything is to poke holes in it, find every possible point of failure, and respond with every reason why it won't work.
Naysaying, "catastrophizing," doomcasting, blackpilling, playing Devil's advocate for any and all proposals… these are the skills I've spent a lifetime honing.
Edit: I guess you might say my "dream job" is "prophet of doom," but nobody pays for that.
Perhaps consider security work.
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