The end of an Irish Street Vendor

Day 2,341, 09:53 Published in Ireland Ireland by Releasethe Krakken
Denny Dent doing a street murial while Fire of Jimi Hendrix play in background

Yes folks in the old days we got what americans called the mom and pop store. These little shops was a testimony to ingenious packing and sourcing of these 1 to 2 man /couple outfits.

one would get the non brand cd shop who usually at the expense of lesser profits would keep his business afloat in a small town.

One would get countless and countless of these little shops in small towns where the vendor sacrificed on his quality of life to provide a service to the community.

In a city he would make much more but along the time he grew to love the people of his community and the dollars less a month he made was for him a willing sacrifice.




Over time life/finances /whatever got to these old shops and owners closed them as their sons /daughters had high paying jobs or they just got to old to run the shop. Changes in government could also mean the end of them usually.

Castles made of sand - Jimi Hendrix

I am a product of this world where I bought my first LP when I was about 15. Where there was less but still in a way there was more. Where we went to places and once the brush of commercialism brushed over it , it never was the same again.

Ireland is the mom and pop shop of eRepublik our vendors work for little and could get double working in other areas. Most of them though hang around to provide the service and to contribute to the community.

We all know the price of WRM is 0.05 but what you dont know is that for each WRM rubber factory the Irish vendor gets 300 WRM whilst his Argentinian counterpart gets 600 or so. Through years he grinded to where he could supply your 15 Q7 WEPS factories and he actually need the extra 0.003 you so desperately cling to Biednymis to name but only 1. Biednymis who needs 72000 WRM. How I cant even fathom. How many of that money was through the help of Ireland Biednymis.

But no these people are saying to Ireland, Ireland we will buy on other shores EVEN if it means you make less. Ireland I Biednymis must make more I cannot sacrifice like my WRM counterpart even though IRELAND I EXPECT you to support my own mom and pop operation and buy my Q7 WEPS.

If Ireland wants to be strong in small numbers we need to learn to support our own. Or sooner rather than later the people will identify those that are here for their own gain and boycott them.

----THAT IS ALL---

Hear my train a comin

End of Woodstock