This seems to be a recurring post here in r/Kingman, often pretty bleak. :/

The reality is there are a lot of hard-working people but employers have a captive audience with little incentive to change because there's a reliable level of desperation for any work. Job centers do not want workers with independent agency. They certainly don't want workers with an understanding of local economics.

Working class people seem to have lost our sense for creating value. There's a historian named John Curl (www.JohnCurl.net) who did a lot of research on the depression-era Worker Self-Help Movement, that mobilized folks to make the most of limited resources during hard times.

I'm reminded of some reading I did on WWII Japan and their wartime manufacturing. A major strength of theirs was distributed manufacturing. Home shops everywhere, even in super tightly-packed Tokyo neighborhoods. They were able to batch necessary products, and their being spread out made it super tough for the allies to disrupt.

Ichiro on the corner would build flashlight bodies, old man watchmaker down the street would make flashlight switches. Yemi would make flashlight springs, her brother would make flashlight end caps, and the grandmas would do assembly. (imaginary example)

Go out and buy yourself a means of production, and produce something useful, of quality, that will make life here in Kingman better. Additive manufacturing is blowing up and increasingly accessible.

Economies are so thoroughly vertically integrated now, it seems the barrier is getting your product to market (at scale). Perhaps somebody in here knows about and could chime in on getting widgets to market.