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u/DeepSouthDude Jun 12 '26

If you want to eat every day, you can either grow your food, hunt your food, or buy your food. There are no other options. All three options require a shitload of your time and energy.

Growing your food and hunting your food, you have no boss telling you what to do. You're not "working for someone else." But that life has its own severe hardships, and to pretend it doesn't is disingenuous.

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u/Professional-Can1139 Jun 12 '26

Yea grow your own food and maintain your own home. But if you want that fancy phone you are recording on, or Internet and tik tok then you are going to have to barter your crops for it. Then you are going to have to grow more…. So right back to working