• @pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee
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    111 months ago

    Most towns give free food and clothing to the indigent, especially at churches. It’s a true fact. Living in a tent in a woods is essentially doing just that and there are people who live their whole lives off of charity like that. You could, in principle, do it.

    • @Beliriel@lemmy.world
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      111 months ago

      That is not scalable. Other people have to put in work to run a charity and community effort like that. If everyone is living off of charities, who is funding them?

      • @pinkdrunkenelephants@lemm.ee
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        111 months ago

        It doesn’t matter. We’re talking about one person choosing to up and leave a broken system. Actually there are over 1 million homeless in the U.S. right now, and this is essentially how they live albeit most of them don’t camp in national parks. Some do though