> > More to the point, you don't *live* unless you're selling something, > > What the hell does *live* mean? There are quite a few folks on this planet > who 'sell' nothing. They grow their own food, they build their own house.
<snippage> > No stores, no electricity, no telephones, no air > conditioning. No medical (it was a three hour drive by Jeep to get her to > a airstrip where they could get her to a hotel - all paid with US tax > dollars - not one African whatever they use). All of which reminds me of the punchline to that old joke about the man whose doctor told him to stop smoking, drinking, and eating fast food if he wanted to live longer. "Doctor, you call THAT living?" The point being that subsistance survival is not *living* in the sense used here. -- Daniel J. Boone (who has tried it, at length)
