On 16 May, 09:04, normanwisdom wrote:

I had in mind a post modern, nouveau pauvre, neo-peasant i.e. life as
a self-sufficient peasant but with some of the benefits of modern life
- and of course a fair distribution of wealth.

So, what would you be willing to go without? I could be very
comfortable as a nouveau pauvre, once I had acquired the trappings
necessary to live out my bourgeois fantasy.

T.