Comment by science4sail
6 days ago
> Do you think farmers actually live free of the thoughts of profits and sales?
You can escape the market by becoming a subsistence farmer or trying to join the hunter-gatherers living on Sentinel Island. Might involve a reduction in standard of living though.
You don't even have the freedom to choose that unless you're both already wealthy and crazy.
How will you afford to pay your property taxes on a subsistence farming? Or do you plan on squatting on someone else's land? Public land? I think it's possible to camp longterm on the latter, but the government probably won't appreciate your farming operation.
> or trying to join the hunter-gatherers living on Sentinel Island
Good luck, I think they're known for instakilling outsiders over there.
This may surprise you, but there is actually a whole realm of possibilities between late-stage social-darwinist capitalism and subsistence farming.