• pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee
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    You can get all that stuff for free in nearby towns and nothing is stopping you from hiking into town once a week for supplies. It’s entirely possible to live for free if you wanted to. I’ve done it before, so I know the score.

    I agree with you that living up in the Alaskan wilderness would be a whole different ball game. In most of the continental U.S., though, if you’re close to a national park, it is possible. People do it all the time

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        1 year ago

        Most towns give free food and clothing to the indigent, especially at churches. It’s a true fact. Living in a tent in a woods is essentially doing just that and there are people who live their whole lives off of charity like that. You could, in principle, do it.

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          That is not scalable. Other people have to put in work to run a charity and community effort like that. If everyone is living off of charities, who is funding them?

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            It doesn’t matter. We’re talking about one person choosing to up and leave a broken system. Actually there are over 1 million homeless in the U.S. right now, and this is essentially how they live albeit most of them don’t camp in national parks. Some do though