Is there anywhere in the world someone can just live for free?

Come on now, people have done it for hundreds of thousands of years. Just because it’s different from what you used to doesn’t mean it can’t be done. And it doesn’t mean the children will come out harmed in anyway.

> In the USA we have a problem with cost of living, but at the end of the day the reason for this is almost always misguided government intervention.

If there is no government intervention after the 2008 recession (QE, 0% rates) then many more people would be living like I am living. That’s how much people don’t want to reduce their lifestyle, they push it out as far into the future as they can. No matter what the cost of that is later on.

But you seem to think that the government and the corporate state or two different things when they’re one and the same. All these measures were to save stock, prices, assets, etc..But you seem to think that the government and the corporate state or two different things when they’re one in the same. All these measures were to save stock prices, assets, etc.

I’m not a young person, but I can understand what young people think when they see the boomers, who are doing all the consuming, spending all their money which they got from the government interest rates. It’s both not consumers and it is, because the government instituting 0% rates just turned every asset market into a bubble. And this gave everyone with the assets the ability to consume. But you know the government needs people to consume because that’s what creates GDP right?

So all the boomers with the larger amount amount of increase in asset prices, they didn’t have to sell their prices for more money, they don’t have to go on vacation and buy more things, they could’ve live more simply, and there would’ve been no inflation. But it’s the consumption from the people with the assets that to inflation. It’s not 0% interest rates alone that Cause inflation.

If you're content to stay some place where nobody else would want to be, say in the middle of Greenland or Mongolia, nobody is going to bother you for payments. You probably just won't survive long. Everywhere else, you need some sort of allocation mechanism, since by assumption you occupy some place that others also find desirable for settlement). Payments (rents and taxes) are how most societies allocate the majority of scarce resources.

Only with a very authoritarian point of view can I imagine that being true-ish.

> that's at least part of the reason why we're getting so much regulation . . . it limits the freedom for other ways of life

That's authoritarianism again.

Consider that If this was possible I could work at McDonald's for two years and then retire to that kind of life. Obviously that's not realistic