RE: LUDDISM: "Good Life" debunked

From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 21:32:09 MDT

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    Mitch wrote

    Mike Lorrey wrote

    <<Joly and his wife live in Jamaica, Vermont, in an off-grid homestead of
    20 acres. They heat their home with wood and grow much of their food.
    They still find that his wife must work a full time job as a teacher in
    order to make ends meet. "It just isn't possible to homestead with the
    template the Nearings presented, because they never addressed the issue
    of income," Joly explains.>>

    A lot is hidden in the phrase "to make ends meet".
    Now even the American Indians found their standard
    of living to be greatly enhanced by steel knives
    that almost never wore out, and other "high-tech"
    accouterments.

    So suppose that you purchased a lifetime's supply
    of such non-perishables, and took to living on the
    land (somehow free of government interference).

    Besides electricity and dentistry, what are the worst
    drawbacks to living in the wilds today?

    Lee

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