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Welfare and climbing 27-Nov-2008 At 12:08:41 PM Bert

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I have lived as a dirtbag and now I am a working professional and weekend warrior. I admire the dirtbags for their passion and simplicity. How many of us spend our lives doing what we love and loving what we do?

One simple legitimate claim for why dirtbags can claim the moral high ground is their environmental impact. The buildings we life in, the electricity needed to light them, the water that runs to them, our commutes to work, what you company/business outputs, the wine you drink at night, the cloths you buy, etc., etc., all come at the expenense of large consumption and world-wide environmental destruction.

Today's typical urban lifestyle is not sustainable. Measuring our quality of life based on the ridiculous expectation of continual exponential growth of world-wide consumption is also not sustainable - as shown by the current financial situation. Everyday we whore out the world, and we living in the first world are the pimps. At some point we will have to learn to live with less - leaving us somewhere between where we are now and where cavemen were back then. Personally, I think it will be much closer to where we are now.

For all of those who ignorantly think that by putitng in the 9 to 5 (or more) and paying taxes you are contributing to society take a second to contemplate and realize the negative implications of your lifestyle and 'society' as a whole.

My point is dirtbags set an example for society by living a life of content with minimal material things.