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Originally Posted by cpalmer  You rely on literally hundreds if not thousands of people to hold up the systems that allow your business to function and allow you to live on the money you make. Think about it...
- Farmers to grow produce, grains, and raise/butcher animals for food
- Truck drivers to transport it to the processing facilities, the supermarket, etc. and all the various people employed along the way
- Construction workers to build your home, build the supermarket where you bought your food, not to mention the workers and infrastructure that produce and deliver the materials used in the construction of those buildings
- Coal miners to mine coal which is carried to a power generation plant by train which delivers power over the electrical grid to the various pieces of equipment which make up the infrastructure of the Internet and the servers your website is hosted on, as well as all the PC's used by your readers to view your website
- Network engineers and technicians to provide and maintain the electrical infrastructure. Miners and smelter workers to extract and refine copper ore to produce wiring.
- Oil drillers, refinery workers, mechanics, and auto manufacturing workers to produce the vehicles and their fuel used to transport workers around to service the infrastructure we depend on and to transport the goods we use
- City workers to build and maintain the roads which carry those vehicles, people and goods
- Oil drillers and refinery workers once again, to produce raw materials for the plastics and other materials which go into manufacturing wiring, computers, and network equipment |
If you are a wage slave at some job you're still dependent upon all these things. It makes no difference if you are blogging your way to money or working for the man.
If you really want to be free of this, plant a garden, install solar panels, ride a bicycle, participate in your neighborhood foodshed and freecycle, learn how to fix your own things, buy and eat local, and become a more frugal person in the overall economy.