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The thing about that idyllic little dream, which I'm sure you don't need me to tell you, is that the accumulated amount of resources needed to set that up and to maintain it are beyond your personal capability, so you'd need to somehow generate enough valuable resources that other people want so that you can trade it with them to get them to build and maintain this lifestyle for you.

100%.

Division of labor is a thing for very sensible economic reasons. And very few of us live like that precisely because we can't get slaves or lowly paid servants to maintain it for us

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38 sats \ 1 reply \ @79c9095526 15h

Think this is why we still have so much white angst here in the deep south.

There were slaves and subsequently lowly paid servants maintaining that life which all went away in the last handful of decades.

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...that you/they shouldn't have had in the first place!

Sort of low-income people being upset they lost their homes in the GFC when they couldn't pay the NINJA-loans that had financed them. Yeah, no shit dudez

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