Kind of like the hippy communes of the 60's that finally fell apart because of the extra amount of sacrifice needed to exist that way in a country that made so much possible.
There are also people who opt to be homeless and jobless and shirk other responsibilities - it's a choice, but there is no sane purpose between the choices. Should folks, in the greatest nation the world has ever produced, be relegated to making choices to live more simply in order to maintain a reasonable standard of living? We are already too far into a socialistic mode to allow others to further that trend "just because they can". One would expect a free society to improve quality of life rather than send folks backwards and make them more dependent on the whims of others. The only way this could be worse is if the government decided to jack the taxes on energy and further the subjugation; which so many of the idiots in Congress seem intent to do with their WFP tax crap on the table now. Fair prices are all that anyone can ask for; if some idiot wants to pay $150.00 for designer sneakers, then that is Capitalism at work; if someone has the strings to control others' lives by getting greedy with what has become a defacto necessity, then that needs to be curbed. I can't agree more that Congress needs to loosen up and allow energy construction and exploration to help provide for a Nation's needs, but too many of them have their hands firmly on the reins of power they so covet and instead of doing right by the American People, they would rather allow artificially high prices and use it as an avenue to a broader Welfare State.
Well, I'm out of breath.
God Bless
Fair is an overworkerked relatively meaningless term. (Within the boundaries as established by rule)
The correct terminology is "market based prices".