[semaj]

"The trick is for the people who lose jobs to automation to learn to maintain and service the machines or find something else that people still want or even prefer to have done by hand."

The trick is to get out of the rat race altogether. Find a small piece of land and plant a garden with a few chickens and some sheep or goats. Stop working for others and work for yourself instead.

[cripplecreek]

Stop working for others and work for yourself instead.

Exactly. I'm hoping to sell some photo prints to a local motel undergoing remodeling this coming week. I can afford to do it for half of the cheapest price the owners have found so far. I'll take some samples down to show him the full sized finished product and if he likes them I can have them printed on wrapped canvases ready to hang on the wall in under 3 weeks.

I don't need to get rich, I only need to get by.