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by a_gnostic 818 days ago
What eternal wealth would a guy in a hut in the middle of a land-locked forest have, with no infrastructure, and no community? Why is he forced to provide anything beyond self-sustainability?

> pay up regularly or let someone else who will contribute to society [raze your forest to sell wood chips].

Forcing mountain men off their land to work in the factories, sounds plenty dystopian to me. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race…