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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60284352 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-60284352 If you opt out of the system, for the most part the system is not int

• hackyhacky 2y ago
  > If you opt out of the system, for the most part the system is not interested in you. Opting out of the system, in this case, by living in a forest in Singapore, is not an option for most people. People who are engaged in the system (by e.g. buying things, having jobs, raising a family) are touched by government policy every day.
  • csomar 2y ago
    It is an option, just not the preference for most people. The guy had an alright life, married a woman from a nearby island in a different country, had a daughter and still tend to his garden. In a way, that’s how humans have lived for most of their existence except the last 100 years or so.
    • sennalen 2y ago
      That's how most humans died except the last 100 years or so
    • Tainnor 2y ago
      > In a way, that’s how humans have lived for most of their existence except the last 100 years or so. Sure. They would also die whenever there was a famine, some disease ran rampant, Mongols or crusaders pillaged everything, some recent council decreed they were all heretics, etc.
• p_ing 2y ago
  Or this guy... https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/08/worlds-loneliest-man-lives-70-c-temperatures-siberia-21182931/ https://metro.co.uk/2024/07/08/worlds-loneliest-man-lives-70... Or the Lykov family.