You can live that way sure!

....the problem is that most people want more than they need, way more than they need, like obscene amounts more than they need, and they aren’t taking responsibility for each other....our western “freedom” is a lot more like egoism than freedom. That’s not going to go away overnight.

I’m not against all luxuries but I think prioritizing the well-being of ALL should come before certain luxuries for a select few and I don’t see how free market capitalism without regulation does that (not sure if that’s your stance, I just know it’s a popular one around here and it SEEMS to maybe be where you are coming from). Big business and big govt are both big problems but they would balance each other out if they were kept seperate from each other as they were meant to be. I don’t see how a free market would stop certain people from being insanely selfish on its own, I don’t see how we are ready for THAT level of freedom, though we are certainly ready for way more freedom than we have now.

The next positive steps forward will come out of community and experimentation, from the bottom up, not the top down. 20 hour work weeks would really get the ball rolling (30 would be a small but meaningful step forward) but it’s already happening thanks to the internet, it’s just slower and a lot of the opportunity is being sucked up by “whales” while we are busy trying to “get by”. I don’t see how greater levels of competition between individuals could achieve any better than what we’ve got now except for those who already have way more than everyone else. I would love to see someone break up all these massive sprawling companies and create some competition on that level, but who has the means to do that besides the state? They aren’t doing it, but decrease their power and then the corporations are free to act like states.

I usually don’t enjoy debates unless it’s just about sharing perspectives without any kind of push to change each other’s ideas....if we could do that, maybe we should keep this going on discord. It does seem we agree on a lot. I am still trying to find a middle ground between my own views and that of the many capitalists and libertarians on the platform, I believe there is one to be found and it’ll be force to be reckoned with when it is found.