amen, anon, amen. thank you for saying it. been doing that all my life (50+ yrs). no one understands. it's the one thing i have absolute control over… not participating. compared to my friends, i'm a pauper. but every day, my family eats better than kings did for most of recorded history. we don't have a palace, but we have our own warm, dry, secure home. we don't have the latest cluster-fuck automated car, but we have reliable transportation. and i sleep well at night knowing that i do NOT contribute one cent in the way of income tax. there are excise taxes and sales taxes and property taxes that are inescapable, but that's the ONLY tribute they get from me, and it's less than the cost of maintaining the roads i drive on. i am NOT complicit in their crimes. i sleep the sleep of the innocent.
a wise man once said, "tune in, turn on, DROP OUT."
i do NOT leech off the system in any way. i do NOT take a dime in gov't handouts, even tho we would qualify for a number of them. i remain totally self-reliant, but at the absolute minimum level.