@futurebird related: there's a genre of youtube videos of people being "self-reliant" in the quasi-wilderness. I was watching one (i think it was even called "my self-reliance") where a dude reviews all the stuff he's planning on taking into the woods (which filled a portable plywood cabin, built from materials from a hardware store), and like...
the supply chain on his cast-iron skillet *alone* had to involve hundreds if not thousands of people. I don't think he acknowledged this.
https://mastodon.social/@JamesWidman/113606424115036757
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