Uccisore
In my experience [and i have known a lot of hippies and unemployed etc] a minority of people actually want to be like that. Most are somewhat paralysed by their inability to function in the world, notably because they don’t want shit really bad deal jobs, and why should they. Secondly some people don’t have the disposition [and/or mental health issues] for mindless repetitive tasks.
Our aspiration based society is a lie, we ALL want to be self-empowered! We all want to have homes, families or what have you, and the few people who have everything they need ARE stealing from the rest and denying them basic human freedoms and needs. Let us make no mistake, capitalist multinationals have gone around the world destroying former worker cooperatives and forms of self-employment, replacing them [by force and death threats etc] with their own subsidiary companies who then employ the disaffected workers at low rates.
This is not a free society it is one based upon stealing from the powerless, and then they have the cheek to then complain about the welfare state. Can you imagine living on £72 a week minus fuel bills etc. The majority of people just want a job ~ but not ‘any job’.
_