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Re:Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler by acover on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @10:04PM (#37071040)
Even simple things are hard to do in developed countries. Building a house now requires experts.

From what I've seen developing countries don't have that luxury and they accept everything might kill you. Though driving a car is much more dangerous.

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Re:Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler by seanhunter on Thursday August 10, 2023 @04:52AM (#37073633)
Non-experts build their own houses even in developed countries. For example there is a subcommunity of folks helping each other to build DIY houses out of straw bale https://www.homebuilding.co.uk/ideas/67k-straw-bale-self-bui...

Self-sufficiency and other "simple" things are possible in developed countries, they are just intrinsically hard and this is probably a good limiting factor because basically lots of things (eg foraging) don't generally scale if a lot of people want to do them.

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Re:Paul Graham on Conversations with Tyler by acover on Thursday August 10, 2023 @10:55AM (#37076943)
Cool, thanks!
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