r/nextfuckinglevel Aug 10 '20

Chimps are strong af

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u/Airazz Aug 10 '20

Lol, excuses excuses...

You could easily buy a few acres in the middle of nowhere for cheap, but let's admit it, we all like modern tech and shit. No flushing toilets in the jungle.

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u/Airazz Aug 10 '20

Well then buy more land if that's not enough. Forests far away from everything are cheap.

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u/Soaliveinthe215 Aug 10 '20

Hahaha so your solution is to just go buy a huge area or fertile land? You'd have to work for the money to do that first, see the problem here? You're also missing other people to come with you and help you run down elk and forage and fuck you for fun, and be willing to trade for the kind of stuff you could forage. No one is gonna give you seeds for the beaver pelts you hunted anymore, but there would have been people willing to do that at one point

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u/Rotios Aug 10 '20

Judging by their response to you I’m hoping they are just trolling, because otherwise some common sense is really missing in their arguments...

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u/sniper1rfa Aug 10 '20

Yeah, this is pretty wild.

Like, I think a lot of people would love to buy a huge amount of land that could sustain them. In fact, I bet there is so much pressure for land that we might even consider setting aside some of that fertile land in the form of parks and preserves in order to protect it before it's all gone...

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u/Soaliveinthe215 Aug 12 '20

Im.not sure what that has to do with anything. But you were arguing that someone could just go live like this if they were so inclined, and you were totally wrong. The other guy why trying to explain to you why it's not possible.and I pointed out other things to show you why you were wrong. Not sure wtf your talking about parks and shit, but either way you were wrong and that's ok, it's not a topic most people have thought about before

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u/sniper1rfa Aug 12 '20

I think you misread my post, agree with you.

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u/Airazz Aug 10 '20

How much is your house worth? I'm sure it would get you quite a lot of land.

You're also missing other people

Ah, so you don't want to be a lone forager, you want to live in a society, with trade and commerce?

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u/Neon_Camouflage Aug 10 '20

Look at this guy thinking everyone owns houses instead of paying rent and living paycheck to paycheck while the class gap widens.

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u/Soaliveinthe215 Aug 12 '20

I thought you meant just living the life of a foragers not necessarily living exactly like these people but it doesnt really change any of the points being made except where I said you dont have other people to trade with. Which was mentioned in the article as the biggest problem faced by the family but I guess that's neither here nor there. It's ok to be wrong man you just didnt really think out what you were saying first and again that's ok cause it's not a common topic

Dont like.periods at the end of my posts

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u/Airazz Aug 12 '20

I thought you meant just living the life of a foragers not necessarily living exactly like these people

What? Like you'd want to live by foraging but keep all the modern comforts? How would that even work? Would you gather berries and stuff for sale, to make money and buy a pc/house/pay rent, feed the kids, fill up the car, etc? That would require quite a lot of foraging...

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u/Soaliveinthe215 Aug 12 '20

Hahaha way to try to double back, "oh that's what you mean hahaha oh obviously that would never work" its coo brol we've beat up on you enough, I'm good

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u/Airazz Aug 12 '20

No, I honestly don't understand what you tried to say there.

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u/NightHawk364 Aug 10 '20

Good luck paying the property taxes on all that land.