The people who are truly living these simple lifestyles aren’t trying to sell you anything, so you don’t hear about them. There HAS been a bit of an uptick the last few years with “cottage core” and “trad-life” influencers, but from what I’ve seen that is mostly the same capitalist grifters you see everywhere just trying to use the concept of humility to sell books and overcharge for “artisanal” products.
I’ve spent some time in trailer parks and known people like this who just… Aren’t ambitious. You just don’t hear about them because… Why would you? And the ambitious are constantly screaming into society, drowinging out everything else.
The comic is not “glorifying” poverty. It IS doing some handwaving by saying the couple “get by” somehow. There are plenty of people who live in cities, are completely sober, work multiple corporate jobs, and still live in poverty.
Calling weed “21st century opium” is an incredibly uninformed thing to say. Cannabis cultivation pre-dates cultivation of the opium poppy by somewhere between 3,000-5,000 years.
Saying “you shouldn’t do it if you want to have a life” shows that you missed the whole point of this comic. Because that statement of yours is highly dependent upon how you are defining “have a life”. The people in the comic are fulfilled, happy, and enjoying their lives. The source of problems for a lot of (I would argue most) people in the modern post-industrial world is the constant economic competition: getting a better job for better pay to buy and consume better things. The subjects of the comic have escaped that cycle.
The people who are truly living these simple lifestyles aren’t trying to sell you anything, so you don’t hear about them. There HAS been a bit of an uptick the last few years with “cottage core” and “trad-life” influencers, but from what I’ve seen that is mostly the same capitalist grifters you see everywhere just trying to use the concept of humility to sell books and overcharge for “artisanal” products.
I’ve spent some time in trailer parks and known people like this who just… Aren’t ambitious. You just don’t hear about them because… Why would you? And the ambitious are constantly screaming into society, drowinging out everything else.
The comic is not “glorifying” poverty. It IS doing some handwaving by saying the couple “get by” somehow. There are plenty of people who live in cities, are completely sober, work multiple corporate jobs, and still live in poverty.
Calling weed “21st century opium” is an incredibly uninformed thing to say. Cannabis cultivation pre-dates cultivation of the opium poppy by somewhere between 3,000-5,000 years.
Saying “you shouldn’t do it if you want to have a life” shows that you missed the whole point of this comic. Because that statement of yours is highly dependent upon how you are defining “have a life”. The people in the comic are fulfilled, happy, and enjoying their lives. The source of problems for a lot of (I would argue most) people in the modern post-industrial world is the constant economic competition: getting a better job for better pay to buy and consume better things. The subjects of the comic have escaped that cycle.