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How about instead of wasting their time hunting and foraging for food, people should spend their time improving their skill set so they can earn more than $5000
by cycrutchfield 8y ago
How about instead of wasting their time hunting and foraging for food, people should spend their time improving their skill set so they can earn more than $5000 a year? You say self-sufficiency, I say inefficient subsistence hunting/farming.
- TangoTrotFox 8y agoIt's kind of funny how people's supposed political ideologies can so quickly take a 180 isn't it? You literally just suggested 'why don't those poor people just go get better jobs'. Of course I think the problem is most people don't actually create their own ideological systems and instead just pick one 'side' or another, and adopt those beliefs as their own - even when they don't necessarily fit. In any case, the point I was making is that not everybody wants or needs change. Some people for certain do, and I do actually agree with you (though I doubt you agree with yourself!) - going to the city and getting a job that pays way more than you'd earn in a rural area is an easy option. It's precisely what my parent did. But when looking at those that remain, you can't really compare economic systems since it's just so entirely different. And trying to 'better' rural America by implanting 6 figure remoters is going to have unclear implications.