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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
Who's gonna grow your food when you're all digital?
Who's gonna treat your water, make your wine, distil your scotch?
Who's gonna make those designer clothes for those digital parasites?
Who's gonna pay their taxes? You can't be healthy all your life, who's gonna take care of you, a digital doctor?
This...state of being can only be achieved by a useless few, the new junkies...
It's always been that way.
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And maybe that's what is bothering me about this. Yes, I admit I'm a little jealous, and every once in a while I'd like to just go walkabout. And I love my electronics, oh yes. My cell phone, my netbook, my reader -- I'd feel lost without them. On the other side of the coin, though, I can shear a sheep, spin the wool, weave it up and sew a garment, or knit a garment. And I've got all the non-electric tools to do so. I could possibly manage to feed myself. (Okay, I'm a little weak on the food production stuff.) So yes, I like the digital life, but I recognize that there are lots of satisfying parts to living more simply, and more simply does not normally involve working less. Working cooperatively, maybe, but not less, and with less responsibility for yourself.
I've possibly veered off-topic a little bit...
