Reply #16: You are absolutely right

[Nimrod]

100%

The problem is we've built a nation by the dollar, of the dollar, and for the dollar. If you have no money, you have nothing, if you have nothing, you can't get anything.

The days are passed when you could load up the wagon, head out west, and claim yourself a little plot of unoccupied land to homestead; do some hunting, do some dirt farming, pull your water from the river, raise bees for candlewax, and be content.

I DO believe there are ways out of slavery, but a lot of avenues have been closed off in the society we've built for ourselves. It's definitely worth discussing though.