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Destigmatize using credit cards to fund a lifestyle you can't afford
Existing is a lifestyle most cant afford at this point, but ok.
Existing is free.
...for a few hours, until you need water. And food. And shelter.
Please don't tell me that you think people living in the woods by themselves because our extremely advanced modern society with practically limitless resources compared to nearly all of history can't provide basic needs like that for everyone participating in it is a-okay.
Right?! Capitalism has quite literally made it illegal to revert to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle, unless you have money of course....
Capitalism didn't make anything illegal.
Our extremely advanced society provides convenience. And convenience is not free. Go live in the woods if you want a free life.
People own the woods.
Pony up, rents due.
You're a pony? Ok