reading about Soddy (thanks RanPrieur) guilts me into not learning/doing more science

time to abolish the fractional reserve system.

When grappling with self-reliance as a concept, it's important to read this

https://web.archive.org/web/20190407070611/http://www.incharacter.org/archives/self-reliance/old-mac-donald-had-a-farmers-market-total-self-sufficiency-is-a-noble-misguided-ideal/