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To be owned, someone needs leverage over you or the ability to coerce you. I spent the last half a century making sure they have no leverage and I am not inter
by cryo32 6mo ago
To be owned, someone needs leverage over you or the ability to coerce you.
I spent the last half a century making sure they have no leverage and I am not interested in being coerced.
It's called security.
- pllbnk 6mo agoHey guys, Richard Stallman is on HN!
- cryo32 6mo agoHey I clean my toes before they become snackable.
- dmos62 6mo agoIf you don't care to go into detail, that's fine, but your answer is vague. E.g. do you have a hidden, off-grid, underground lair?
- cryo32 6mo agoNo. I don't need to work. I outright own my accomodation. I have no hard technology dependencies.
- khimaros 6mo agoif you are on land, you are (or someone is) still paying rent to the government. rent can be raised and you will be evicted if you don't pay. if you are living mobile, you probably need gas or batteries for warmth or cooling. if your climate is currently comfortable, temperatures can be raised. or maybe you are a nomad hunting and gathering your own food? the wilderness can be pillaged and sold and "secured" until there's nothing left to eat. there is no perfect security.
- overfeed 6mo ago> If you don't care to go into detail, that's fine, but your answer is vague No lairs necessary. You can read up on people who do FIRE.
- dexterdog 6mo ago99% of people who follow that are still completely dependent on the world order and will be just as screwed as everybody else if everything goes tits-up.
- cryo32 6mo agoThe aim is to be screwed last. That's a reasonable survival strategy.
- overfeed 6mo agoThere's a lot of bullshit that can happen between the status quo and everything going tits up. Having FU money means you can say -all things being equal - "Fuck You" when it's appropriate, instead of worrying about becoming homeless or not having enough to eat