Kill the Economy

[NoOneMan]

60. It is not my home, nor my people

I would jump at the chance to live like them where I am, but my land is all "reserved" for individuals who are deemed to have produced a sufficient amount, or will promise (under debt) to do so in the future. In any case, I would still probably try if my wife would be up for it (she wouldn't enjoy the trip to Africa).

So, the only way I could engage in that behavior now is to produce enough and be rewarded a vast amount of capital for land, or to borrow the capital and purchase the land (then work till death to pay back the capital, which would preclude me from living that way). So with the means I have, I do my best and spend a good deal of time in nature and foraging, within the constraints allowed to me by my economic model (IOW, I must spend 40 hours a week to hold down a job to pay for shelter and a place to live without being shot/arrested).

No, I am not free. While I could theoretically feed a small village on a few hours of work a day, I must work from morning till mid-day just to have the right to live some where. I must do it or starve or die in the cold or be shot squatting on land. Rules our ecnomic system creates forces my hand.