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▲ cryo32 6 hours ago

To be owned, someone needs leverage over you or the ability to coerce you.

I spent the last half a century making sure they have no leverage and I am not interested in being coerced.

It's called security.

▲dmos62 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If you don't care to go into detail, that's fine, but your answer is vague. E.g. do you have a hidden, off-grid, underground lair?

▲cryo32 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

No. I don't need to work. I outright own my accomodation. I have no hard technology dependencies.

▲khimaros 5 hours ago | parent [-]

if you are on land, you are (or someone is) still paying rent to the government. rent can be raised and you will be evicted if you don't pay.

if you are living mobile, you probably need gas or batteries for warmth or cooling. if your climate is currently comfortable, temperatures can be raised.

or maybe you are a nomad hunting and gathering your own food? the wilderness can be pillaged and sold and "secured" until there's nothing left to eat.

there is no perfect security.

▲cryo32 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Correct. I just aim to get eaten last.

▲dexterdog 4 hours ago | parent [-]

And I aim to be the one that eats you

▲cryo32 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Good luck :)

▲overfeed 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> If you don't care to go into detail, that's fine, but your answer is vague

No lairs necessary. You can read up on people who do FIRE.

▲dexterdog 4 hours ago | parent [-]

99% of people who follow that are still completely dependent on the world order and will be just as screwed as everybody else if everything goes tits-up.

▲cryo32 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The aim is to be screwed last. That's a reasonable survival strategy.

▲overfeed 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There's a lot of bullshit that can happen between the status quo and everything going tits up. Having FU money means you can say -all things being equal - "Fuck You" when it's appropriate, instead of worrying about becoming homeless or not having enough to eat

▲pllbnk 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Hey guys, Richard Stallman is on HN!

▲cryo32 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Hey I clean my toes before they become snackable.