Yep, if you learn to live on lentils you won’t have to serve the king. This is an anarchist space, and this is one of the cultural things I appreciate about anarchism. I’m too old to live like a crust punk, but I still buy used first, I live in a smaller home than I can afford, I drive a smaller car than I can afford, I make what I can, and I use community where possible.

I ain’t going back to sleeping in my car. I ain’t going back to skipping meals because I don’t have money. I ain’t going back to asking myself how far I can stretch a dollar or what I can trade for a bit of fun now and again. And to do that I live within my means and save the rest. And so when the government in my state got hostile to me I was able to bail without going hungry or sleeping in my car.

Some people ain’t got more fat to cut from their budgets. They deserve to take what they need from those who deny them a decent life. But some folks live outside or up to their means and so they feel every difficulty and stress that comes their way really fucking hard.