Just another dependent yuppie, who would starve if he had to get his own food, showing his ignorance.
This same idiot would describe illegal aliens on the government tit as the most noble people on the planet.
Just wait.. I think we get better. I am going for Medishare this year, instead of the bailed out insurance compnies. I can’t wait for Jan 1, when I am free from that burden.
Self reliant mooches.. I don’t think he is comprehending his own title. Those two ideas are mutually exclusive.
If he’s mad because they don’t pay taxes, then, there are much bigger swaths who pay nothing, and get a tax credit.
Back in the early 70's when all we had were the 3 alphabet nets and PBS there was a PBS hour video on a guy who went to the Alaska wilderness to build his own homestead, cabin, etc. The kicker was that he was partially sighted and his residual vision was deteriorating.
Does anyone remember or know who the guy was?
The thought is that the truly self reliant are the urban dwellers, and all homesteaders are welfare hoarders.
Simply put, they hate that people can do things for themselves. I have seen this in many places and times. They hate that when I was a kid a lot of our food was self raised and grown. They hate that even now I have my own garden (some sort of privilege I was told), and that I blow my own snow and such.
Socialists do not like people who do things for themselves.
If someone could invent small thorium rectors to power homes I would be completely off the grid. I use propane but could switch to fire wood, i have acres of it I have my own well and septic. I have dogs and guns and do not need the police. We home schooled our children.
When is the bonfire for this author’s straw man. Gonna be a dilly.
bookmark.... homesteader
Dropped my subscription years ago and haven't picked up one since because of drivel like this.
Pfl
Yep. Because those of us that practice a, ‘CONSERV-A-TIVE’ Lifestyle on MANY levels are SUCH a burden on Society.
What a bunch of hogwash.
P.S. Hey, Author? Don’t bother showing up at my place when TSHTF. You are not welcome. (But all FReepers are. Well, most, LOL!)
And when the SHTF, is this loser going to be able to feed himself?
Guess who are going to be only ones in position to actually help this guy. It’s going to be these very same people he’s lambasting.
Great rebuttal article — Forbes should publish it just to be fair.
As the rebuttal points out, most people who are self-reliant do NOT eschew modernity. Since that is the basis of the entire original article, which falls apart.
The rebuttal sums it all up nicely:
“If things did go sideways in a long-term kind of way, who is going to be better off: a person who can claim a Ph.D. in economics or someone who can actually produce food?”
Sounds like B Ark vs. A Ark.
The author is quite ignorant concerning those of us who live in hurricane land. Most of us are to some extent preppers as we are sometimes without power.we know what to do and how to do it.
He is a bubble-born moron.
Put a Trump sticker on your Car and then we can discuss the concept of living in a “Civil Society”.