Paying for our basic needs to stay alive and countries.

Don’t wanna starve? Gotta pay. Wanna stay hydrated? Gotta pay. Wanna stay out of the cold and sleep soundly? Gotta pay. I mean, it’s not like food doesn’t just grow on trees. It’s not like water falls from the sky. It’s not like a basic home wasn’t being sold be sears in bulk.

And another thing. Countries, properties, states, provinces, etc. People draw an imaginary line that we can’t see and everything in that line is there’s that no one can touch or use. “No! This piece of dirt is mine! I will charge you if you take one speck of my dirt!”

Absolutely insane.

Not that I disagree with the sentiment but you are veering close to the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_paradox

You can buy a piece of land in bumfuck nowhere and try to live off it. Or you can join a community that tries to do that (more realistic). There’s the whole en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-grid thing

Problem is that most people want the conveniences of modern, globalist life, and many people don’t have a realistic choice.

Personally I try to find a balance between Buddhist non-attachment and making do with the life I got.

I get that we do need some restrictions on personal property. I wanna have a yard that I can do stuff on without someone trying to build a house 2 inches away from my back door or having a random person lay claim to my house.

I get that, but why countries? Why segregate two different people just because they speak a different language? Have a different culture? Sure, some bad apples might want to take advantage if we get rid of countries, but overall, I’d like to travel somewhere else where people do things differently instead of having to do passports, border guards giving me the third degree, and paying and paying and paying. We’re all part of this big rock floating in space. Why do we have to segregate each other?

but why countries?

For the same reason as personal property, just on a larger scale. You don’t want some rando to come and set up camp in your kitchen, so we draw lines on a map and say “this is your spot, you make the rules in your spot”. Similarly, we collectively don’t want some other group of randos to show up and tell us what clothes we’re allowed to wear, or that drunk-driving is suddenly allowed. So we draw lines on a map and say “this is our spot, where we make the rules”.

Of course, ideally, the whole world would agree on a reasonable set of laws and mode of administration, and countries wouldn’t be needed anymore. However, we’re pretty far off from that being possible. To put it on point: If we had no countries today, would you prefer the russian, Chinese, German or other set of laws and administration? How would you decide which to apply globally?

Yeah, I understand that. I just wish we didn’t need them in the first place. Like I said previously, we’re all floating on a giant rock in the middle of a giant void. It’s all we got for now. Why can’t we just live together and get along?