Re: LUDDISM: "Good Life" debunked

From: R. Coyote (coyyote@hotmail.com)
Date: Sun Apr 20 2003 - 22:34:36 MDT

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    From: "Lee Corbin" <lcorbin@tsoft.com>
    To: <extropians@extropy.org>
    Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 8:32 PM
    Subject: RE: LUDDISM: "Good Life" debunked

    > 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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