>we still have viable hobbies and can be more self-sufficient.<
You’ll never learn to support socialism with an attitude like that!
SHHHHHHHH!
My first experience with leftist intolerance was over my public support for bootstrap capitalism. I’m getting to be too old to think about re-education camps.
We do wonder if one of the neighborhood nannies will object to the use of coal/coke in a forge or the use of non-alternative electricity for container gardening. I’m hoping they are all too busy coping with the zerO economy to snoop on the rest of us. I suppose we can always figure out a way to buy them off, though.