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If chickens were bigger, they would eat you

I think about this often

One of my favorite things about living in rural America (okay, I love everything about it tbh). Nobody messes with you. You can just put a huge pasture gate on your driveway and a box made of pallets at the end of the drive for delivery drivers to throw your packages in. Basically, you can do whatever you want to do, and anything goes.

Libertarians kept looking for utopia when all they had to do was make online money and move to the boonies.

Perhaps my favorite part of living out here is that there are no Karens to speak of. I mean, if you have enough land and live far enough out, they just can’t even see what’s on your land. So, we just raise as many chickens as we want and don’t ever ask anybody permission for anything. Again, back to the libertarian activists: if they would just live out here they could have all the freedom they want and read all the Mises and Rothbard they want and smoke whatever they want, but again, they are stuck living in mom’s basement in suburban Cleveland. Pity.

One thing that sticks with me is the way a chicken looks at me when I’m collecting eggs. There is no doubt in my mind that they would eat me if I were smaller. Chickens are omnivores and eat just about anything that doesn’t eat them first; I’ve found them eating mice, snakes, and we have to hide kittens from them in the spring because I have no doubt they’d eat a kitten, too.

Look, I didn’t start writing online and make the leap to doing it full-time because writing is my passion. Well, it is a lot closer to a passion now than it was five years ago. Volume reps, baby. No, I just hated commuting, stupid rules, and working for…anyone. Some of us are just not rule followers. And you know what? Good. The rest of society can wear a stupid mask and follow arrows in a grocery store. I’m just not going to do that. And neither should you. We all knew it was retarded if we can be honest with ourselves.

If you’re ready to admit that working for morons sucks, or you are ready to buy some cheap land in the middle of nowhere but at least it’s far away from everyone else but you still need money, then you should totally learn a skill to pay the bills.

I suggest copywriting.

Lowest threshold to entry, every single industry relies on it in their marketing campaigns. You can just send out pitches and samples of your work and people will just pay you.

Taking my advice and ready to learn how to write for money? Great! Let's talk.