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Which was to have labor close to the factory and then the office, which now exists on zoom.

Gosh, no. It's because roughing it actually sucks if your survival is truly at stake.

Right now you don't have to know anything about how to survive in order to survive. You just need to trade some of your time for money, somewhere, somehow.

heh. Truer words were never spoken.

To participate in consumerism and capitalism, correct?

Lack of opportunity? Poverty? Disease? Broken homes? War? Sexual/physical/emotional/spiritual abuse? To make new connections? To find a partner? To explore the wider world?

Surely not!

You can’t have lack of opportunity, poverty, diseases, broken homes, war, and domestic abuse in a city? I don’t get your point and the blind defensiveness.

If I’m not being a hypocrite I certainly moved to the city for the comforts of the modern world, but I’ve learned a lot since to learn that consumerism is wrong and there’s much that needs to be changed about capitalism.