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Visit any large city in the US and you'll find hundreds or thousands who have made that choice. They line the sidewalks and alleys. Yes, you have that choice; you may not like the lifestyle it provides but you have that choice.

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but you don't have the choice of living like a hunter-gatherer, because all good lands have been swallowed up by capitalist megacommunities

There's plenty of hunter-gatherers in Siberia or Amazon rainforest.

those in the amazon are being brought to extinction by bolsonaro. those in siberia are subject to putin's whim...

I don't think Putin gives a shit about them. Probably the state does not even have the means to track (public id document etc.) a lot of them.

"Plenty"? What fraction of the world's population today do you suppose could feasibly choose to live as hunter gatherers?

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