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1994: If you don't straighten up and take your education seriously you're gonna end up living in a van down by the river!
2024: If you don't straighten up and take your education seriously you'll never be able to afford to live in a van down by the river!
2044: if you don't straighten up and take your mining operation seriously, you'll never be able to afford middle school.
2064: If you don't fight in the water wars, you aren't entitled to your daily rations of water.
2164: If you don't endure the bottomless despair of unfathomable suffering, you will never be permitted to endure the bottomless despair of somewhat fathomable suffering.
Service guarantees citizenship!!?!
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No.
2054: if you don't straighten up and take your education seriously, you'll never be able to afford to live
You're behind on your oxygen bill again. If you don't pay by next week your nose and mouth will be sown shut.
Kentucky is currently making "unlawful camping" punishable by death now at the hands of the land owners so double check where the bog is
Is there literally any "unowned land" left on the planet?
Depends on what you mean exactly. In many countries including the USA there is land that's not owned by any private person, but the state. Not claimed by any entity is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_nullius
Same thing, effectively. Funny enough that land was grabbed back in the 1600's based on very flimsy rhetoric about how just claiming land for yourself was a god given right for all human beings and that it would solve all problems by free market principles (which were not yet formalized but would soon be, specifically based on said rhetoric).
We were fucked by hobby philosophers hundreds of years ago. Don't come tell me a philosophy degree is worthless.
As in the landowner can just shoot them right there?
Yes, but it's a bill that has been introduced. It hasn't even been voted on yet.
Yeah, I didn't do a great job phrasing it. "Currently" is doing a lot of lifting there.
The whole concept of trespassing on " private property" is bullshit anyway.
Sounds cool in some utopian parallel universe, but as long as there are people willing to take advantage of others it's not going to work in the real world. Imagine putting a lot of work in your garden and some random crazy person puts up a camping tent in it because they don't believe in private property? Just get out in 5 minutes or I'll call the cops.
My nephew wants me to move to Tennessee. I'm a gay man that lives in New England. Just for laughs I looked at rents in his area. They are exactly the same as what I am paying now for a 1 bedroom. Not going to happen.
The flip side of the coin are people who tell me to "just move" away from my ass-backwards little shithole to a more progressive area. Like sure, I'd love to live in the city, let me just quit my job and reach into my suitcase full of gold bars...
Wait... The free market, capitalism, it was all a lie?
I wish it were all just a nightmare and we could wake up
"When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England!"
City vs. Country
Red vs. Blue
Type A vs. Work to Live
Homed vs. Homeless
White collar vs. Blue collar
Etc
It's a shame the divide and conquer routine works so well.
Keep the peasants hating and rooting against one another so hard, they never look up at their common enemy. Credit where it's due, insatiably greedy owner class, you have us dead to rights. You keep us so busy working and hating one another, we'll never organize against your tiny population of manipulators betraying your own species and turning it into your personal livestock.
How does type A relate to work to live?
Type As are the people that kill themselves at work and show frustration at those that don't. The annoying true believers of the workplace. They live for "that grind culture," and in many to most cases, brag about the toll it's taken on their personal lives if they still have one. Their sense of self is tied to their job.
People who work to live are just that. They don't derive their sense of self of life's purpose from their job. They do what they have to for their pay check and leave.
For this, Type As often mock them as lazy, while work to liver's mock type A's intensity and values.
Hah, here I was about to say there is some grey area in there, but the reality is that if I didn't have to work to maintain my standard of living, I fucking wouldn't
The annoying true believers of the workplace.
The obedient house slaves. "Stop fighting for your rights, you'll get us all killed! If you would just be more obedient they might let you live in the big house too!"
Ah, I see what you mean. Work to survive makes more sense to me as a term for that than work to live, but to each their own.
But it's "work to live" not just survive. You spend the rest of the time on living. Whether that's fishing, hunting, crocheting, watching football, playing games, or something else. Enough money to do what you want to.
Become the man of the bog. The one who occupies the swamp. Only then are you truly free.
I genuinely believe this is true.
NO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP?
Why is there an HOA in me swamp 🧌
Listen, show me where to find WFB jobs, and I'm there. Bog life!
Seriously... I'd kill for a WFB job, even a WFF job but no one seems to want to build businesses out in the forest either...
Joking aside, it's literally why I can't move out of my HCOL area... The affordable places are affordable because they're summer homes/winter getaways... There's no work near them whatsoever. :/
Honestly, groceries are pretty much the same price or higher in rural areas and you'll be spending a lot of money driving around. Might get some cheap rent, though, if you'd rather rely completely on online shipping for anything other than the absolute basic resources than live a life of convenience and opportunity.
Brought to you by the ones who also made the statement "Hey, is that MY air you were breathing there?" :-|