But the reality is that your 40 hour work week is something society has developed to help you live within it. For once, if you didn't have a job, you would have no money, which seems to be the main point of contention for most people. You need money to pay bills, especially utilities, which honestly you don't need. You could go without all of them, but don't forget that they had predecessors, so that heat and light you enjoy so much will be replaced by maybe wood, which you have to chop yourself, assuming you own the land you live on, and then you will have to have enough trees to sustain you and your family. Running water will need to come from a well or cistern, or you can go get it out of the river, every day, which would really suck in the winter. Twitter would be carrier pigeons. Facebook would be an actual book full of pictures and anecdotes. Blogger would be random, one-man plays that toured the country.
What I'm saying is that despite the fact you don't have enough money for your high speed internet and Starbucks, living off the land is more than 8 hours of work a day. Most days you can double that if you're starting from nothing, and it will take years just for you to adapt to the land and understand it's habits. Additionally, you'll need money for just about everything you start up, unless you're going to use tools you made yourself. There's a reason so many of them are made out of metal these days.
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