I live in a place that is full of billionaires and multimillionaires. It isn't rare to find someone happily running a coffee shop or bakery or micro-brewery, artisan art gallery, etc because it was always their dream. A dream they could only pursue after they felt rich enough to know that they could do so without risking their well being. In its own way, it is very very sad. You have to buy the privilege to follow your dreams.
Yes, but I've seen this specific flavor of cottagecore (leaving a highly-paid tech job to do agriculture) among disillusioned tech men
I don't want to be a goat farmer, I want to live under socialism. I want to be interested in what I work on.
I want to live in a country that cares for each other and the work they do.
100%. The desire to regress to a simpler mode of life sprouts from petty bourgeois ideology, when the real answer is progression beyond the decay of Capitalism so we can continue progressing onwards. Great comment, comrade 🫡
s/goat/potato/
Delightful though goats undoubtedly are, potatoes don't typically try to escape or eat the scenery.
