If you want to live a nomadic disconnected lifestyle (with limited access to "technocratic" things like health care and education), you can do that almost anywhere, including Western countries.
Again, the central aspect of this topic is agency. Do people choose to live that way, where they live it? And how many would choose a different lifestyle if given the same opportunities as everybody else?
Yes, you can live a happy life as a nomad without any access to technology. That isn't the topic of this conversation.
Re:The most precious resource is agency
by curtainsforus on Thursday July 01, 2021 @05:32AM
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Not without people to do it with. And the people that the parent poster is talking about aren't nomads.
What you might be doing I think... is making the assumption that technology, 'things' like gadgets or better cars and modern medical health is central to human life. Yes, life would objectively improve if you have those, but if I have to work 60 hours a week doing something I don't really care about, then is that really a good trade-off? I think the answer is not the same as yours for everyone.