[treeman79]

If your willing to live by 1800 quality of life then 5 hours a week at minimum wage will be plenty of money. Sack of beans and grain. Few yards of cloth.

Land is the only limiter. Even that is cheap if your willing to live in middle of no where.

[hackernewds]

Exactly. We are already there to subsist on basic human needs for food and shelter on < 10 hours work per week. But the human need to keep uplifting our lives will ensure we're always in the rat race desiring to settle in California or Hawaii

[chii]

which is fine i think - the rat race is what got us to today's huge material wealth and comforts.