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bit the bullet and published it: 'My plan to leave the world as we know it.' https://paragraph.xyz/@benna/my-plan-to-leave-the-world-as-we-know-it

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1111 $degen and thanks for your article; it was a really good read. personally, i'm not anti-capitalist, but i do see where you're coming from. like the other commenter said, a lot is determined by our own choices of how to spend our time/what we've been conditioned to think is the correct life path to achieve success. if you wanted to go work on a farm, you could go do that. you have the choice, ultimately. yes, it would mean a change in your standard of living. but you could. i grew up on a "farm", that is, in a very rural area of the southwestern US. my parents sought out this idealistic homesteading thing. it was quite a hard life for them, ultimately. sometimes we wouldn't have enough water to flush the toilets. sometimes our livestock was eaten by mountain lions or foxes. one of our donkeys died getting tangled in a barbed wire fence. another got hit by lightning (like, what are the chances?) continued ---

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--- some years we lost all of our produce because of a surprise freeze or month of drought. my parents spent their weekends digging fence posts and cutting firewood. sounds cute, but it does take a big toll on your body. but still. that was their choice, and you may disagree, but capitalism affords us that right to choose. i'm in the crypto space because i see it as the only chance my generation has to escape from the present horrors and achieve financial freedom. i believe this is our shot. the world we live in requires money, tremendous amounts of money, to effect change, but it isn't out of reach. just never forget how much power you have over your own life. if you don't like your job, change it. you always have a choice. <3 thank you for sharing your vulnerable thoughts with us. it's always wonderful to have dialogues like this.

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thank you so much for reading and sharing your own perspective! i absolutely recognise that mentioning the farm and mountain life in this post sounds like that's my idyllic ideal, but realistically (having been a city girl my whole life) i don't want to be a full-time farmer or gardener or be totally disconnected with the conveniences of my current world. part of the reason the post is cut short is because i'm still trying to figure out what that balance in my life could look like. the post is definitely about more beyond my current job or scenario (which i like very much actually and objectively I have a great life!) and more a feeling of being trapped as if i currently do *not* have the choice that you mention, due to financial constraints that for me were conditioned by capitalism, but perhaps to others is the cause of something else. thanks for your comment, always love hearing your thoughts and happy that help me illuminate and clarify my own. 🤍

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