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Comment by kmonsen | Hacker News Reader

You are not compelled at all. You can probably afford some land in the middle of nowhere and grow your own food.

You want some things that are available for money and need a way of getting money. That is very far from slavery. Every day you can choose to with or not, and what you want to work on.

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Yes, go to the middle of nowhere and isolate yourself from everyone you know. Nice!! Also you need to be able to afford such a house with proper terrain to be able to cultivate every kind of food needed to live (not easy and needs a lot of learning). You can't do this by yourself also. You need more people to take care of such effort. So convince your family or friends to do the same and abandon who they know? Good luck with that! And for all of this we have to sacrifice the amazing feats of technology and go back to the middle ages because everything costs money. I'm sorry, but there has to be a better way where it's possible to have a good middle term. This that you present is no choice at all. It's almost like saying "Hey you can always kill yourself, so you do have freedom!" /s.

What do you want exactly?

1. You want to not be compelled to do any work to meet your daily needs.

2. You aren’t prepared to be self sufficient so you also want others to render goods and services to you, for presumably no charge.

Are these contradictory? If work was optional for everyone, why would they work and give you goods and services for free?

Sure maybe in future everything can be automated away but right now do you think it’s reasonable to want to do no work and also not want to be self sufficient?

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