I have a whole zine I need to write about this.

Someone who lives off the government dole provides much less fuel for the fire, and arguably even is a net reduction in resources of the capitalist colossus, compared to someone who puts full-time labor into employment and pays taxes accordingly. Better yet is someone whose entire personal economic environment is informal economies where no taxes are paid whatsoever.

Dropping out is not necessarily a good idea, but if you can, figure out how to maximize the benefits you can get as a citizen of the empire, while minimizing how much you have to buy and spend to live well.

It is not illegal to be a homesteader, and it is hard to imagine an America where it is. Even though capital cannot squeeze profits out of homesteaders, it relies heavily on the framework that makes them possible, and also draws on them ideologically.

If we can become a movement of collective homesteaders (a fancy, mask-on way of saying we form communes), we can exercise a lot more power than we currently do. Many of our limitations get their restrictive power from the way we are compelled to do everything individually. Escaping the compulsion of individualism means you can do a lot of economic "hacking". I hold that revolutions succeed not merely due to heightened contradictions, but because of revolutionaries who have prepared and positioned themselves well.