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danny_galaga:

Truth is, beyond the stone age, almost no single person can do everything needed to participate in society. For instance, hunting, baking bread, mining copper, making tools/weapons, stone masonry, farming. Once you get to the Bronze age, you needed a village full of specialists. It's no co-incidence that a common means of exchange turned up roughly with the Bronze age...

In reality, to do what you ask, Daywayne, everyone would need to go back to the Stone Age. People have tried to have their cake and eat it but have always failed. State Communism, for instance. Or hippy communes. All noble ideas, but doomed to fail with the modern trappings we think we need. And as Monmotha says- we are greedy.

Individually, you can live a much more ascetic life if you really wanted. A co-worker has just quit and moved to Sri Lanka. He's moved to a quiet fishing village, that gets a few tourists. He has a bit of cash, and is into lots of outdoors activities. He is going to teach tourists that standy-uppy kayaky thing that is all the rage at the moment. $20 a pop. Where $20 will keep him going for a week very easily. One lesson a week, fish for some of his meals. Idyllic, if you can relinquish most of the modern trappings. He won't be a total monk, but by ---fudgesicle--- will he be happier than you or I!

daywane:
I agree. I got pissed at work and tried my very best to get fired. The company sent me to a shrink.
every body asked me what I planed to do if I got fired.
answer: Hunt Fish and Grow

daywane:
just as a side note to all my friends. all heck with it. to all the world.
do not hold all emotions bottled up inside you. you will snap. and if you step out side of your brain it is very hard to step back in.Zoloft helps but the side effects are not fun .

I guess you could call me a bobble head because that is what I am now.

CCM:

--- Quote from: daywane on June 20, 2012, 06:59:09 am ---I agree. I got pissed at work and tried my very best to get fired. The company sent me to a shrink.
every body asked me what I planed to do if I got fired.
answer: Hunt Fish and Grow

--- End quote ---


Why go thru all the trouble of trying to get fired?  Why not just quit if your job makes you so miserable?

Le Chuck:
Why are you trying to get fired?  Quit.  Stop wasting your company money.  Man up and quit.  

You can live money-less.  Don't expect or ask that I do that but you can by all means.  If you are willing to forgo all luxury then you should be able to execute this lifestyle from anywhere.  Hell, you can probably still document your journey on here providing you are squatting close enough to a town with a library for free innerweb service and bathroom whore-baths.      

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