Re:North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden...
by golergka on Thursday April 28, 2022 @07:08AM
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You always have a choice to not engage in any commercial activity with other people and rely on your own devices.
Re:North Koreans are jailbreaking phones to access forbidden...
by mschuster91 on Thursday April 28, 2022 @09:55AM
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You reasonably can't. Most people don't live in rural areas with enough farm land, and even if you have farm land that can grow enough (both in quantity and variety) crops to feed your family, which is a rarity in itself, you still need to deal with property taxes, expenses for maintaining your farm house and equipment, school expenses...
Face it, there is no way of living "off the grid" to a reasonable degree.
When that employer is the only major one around, there is no such thing as a truly free choice.
There's a reason why meatpackers, Amazon or Walmart like to set up shop preferably in areas with high unemployment and why unionization attempts have been so fraught with failures - these companies exploit that the US social safety net is pretty much broken, and when your survival depends on that crap job you're not gonna complain too much.
A truly free labor market is one where everyone can choose to not work without losing their home as a result... only then, employers are forced to provide actually competitive working conditions (wages, workplace safety, equipment, break times).