We live in a time in history when the essentials of life and sustenance have become much easier to acquire. Modern life has become dependent on many systems and safety nets that have increased the quality of life – but at the expense of self-reliance. The industrial revolution of the 1800s has caused further and further specialization in the work field, and thus most people have not learned many of the skills that our ancestors from earlier generations learned as a required part of living.
As a society, we have become dependent on these “systems,” many of which have a very fragile veneer of sustainability. Some of these systems rely on supplies and goods from other nations, and even within our own nation the interconnected chain from raw materials to finish products in our homes is a complicated series of logistics that most people often take for granted.
In addition to reliance on the systems for acquiring goods and services, our very individual financial stability is greatly dependent on government supply or redistribution of money that people depend on – Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, EBTs, Disability, Workman’s Compensation, Stimulus Packages, and more recently COVID-19 checks. Much of this is dependent on a Federal Government with an already 36 trillion (at the time of this writing) federal debt. This ...
