The article in question might be the case of a writer not knowing what he is talking about, and speaking more from personal prejudices than from a position of knowledge.
What is argued is that “homesteaders” or others who live ‘off the grid’, that being highly self-sufficient and rather low-tech, are a drain on society as it is alleged that they frequently take advantage of social services and the other things modernity provides without contributing anything of value to society.
It’s a poor argument that is riddled with errors – containing only a bit of truth. What is the author’s motivation? Difficult to say. Perhaps he has a prejudice against those he sees as “country bumpkins.” Or maybe he was just lazy when it came to researching this topic. In any event, he misses the mark more often than he hits it.
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How on Earth is Living of the land working from day light to way after dark at subsistence Living make you a moocher ?
At least they are not lazy welfare moochers!! Which we have way,way too many of in this country,and that is not even beginning to count the illegals and their kids that we are having to pay for!!
Nonsense !
Ask this PhD if he could run a trap line, skin a buck, or a trout line? But a country person could. And survive. My daughter holds AA, Bach, 2 Masters and starting her PhD in psychology and she can do the country thing. Both are excellent marksman and have downed many critters to fill the freezer. They used to live in AK. I can’t hunt much anymore but I can’t still fish. I can still kill and dress a carcass if needed. That man is a fucking dandruff flake. I bet he can’t do an oil change or change a flat tire. I can. So much for his opinion too. My husband, 8th grade edu, invented a device for tailings disposal that’s still in use today when the fancy engineers failed. So edu is nice but if it is not paired with common sense then it’s worthless. Just the the$#%&!@*on a boar hog.
Lord Help Us
Self-reliant does not equate to being a Moocher
Moron
What about the ones we pay their rent their fuel their food their medical care… They are complete drains one society. This is what the dems want so they can control them…
Self reliant moochers? Isn’t that an oxymoron?
Freaking snowflakes!!
I believe living as a homesteader is much more challenging than the common 9-5 job. Some of these people work their hands to the bone from daylight to dusk. Some of them produce valuable products that working people buy. Even these thoughtless “so called doctors of great immense thought” purchase these things. “Everyone” should have the knowledge that some of these homesteaders have. And alot of them do pay taxes! To forbes, what kind of socialist, money mongering, brainchild wannabe people are writing for your colum? The way things are today if we don’t have more off-grid hardworking homesteaders, the education for future children to be self reliant will be lost.