3 ms·
Okay, so then don't "live a modern life in any sort of comfortable way". That's not some sort of requirement or need. You're free to not be employed and gather
by tylersmith 8y ago
Okay, so then don't "live a modern life in any sort of comfortable way". That's not some sort of requirement or need. You're free to not be employed and gather your own food if you don't want to come to agreements with other people.
What's disingenuous is trying to pass off "modern life" as some sort of necessity and pretending like you couldn't exist without demanding use of other peoples' works.
- mcbits 8y agoNot in the US. You can go off and try to start a hobby farm in state/national forests or a hidden corner of someone's 10,000 acre ranch, and you might even get away with it for a while, but you're not free to do it.
- tylersmith 8y agoCorrect, you're not allowed to trespass on other peoples' properties. If you want to farm or live off the land you need to first have value, then make money, then buy land. It's a pretty straightforward process. It does not require sending data to Equifax, so I'm not sure what your point is.
- mcbits 8y agoThat's how it works in Economics for Kindergartners 101 or a world with about 100x fewer humans, yes.
- kolpa 8y agoWhere's my 40 acres and a mule?
- chii 8y agoOnly If you've never needed to borrow money or hold credit.
- tylersmith 8y agoNobody needs to do those things, they choose to do them.