This site is called "SQUAT the Planet" right? You know, I may be new to this sight, but the one reason I came here was due to the fact that it based on squatting and freight hopping, not the fact that you got a job. Go to Facebook, I'm there, and I fucking hate it, but I don't use telephones, and I do keep up with my family. As far as we all being parasites, what are you 21, thinking that it is cool to be a pessimist? Shit, as far as tradesmen still being slaves, I don't have to serve people I don't want to. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. But, that's life experience and it seems that you're just now feeling what it's like to be outta Mom and Dad's house, and feeling how hard it is, you think, "Well, maybe I can't take this life but should just give in." I was getting spat on 15 years ago for being a gutter punk but, I never let it get me down. I make my world, I don't follow other's. Plus, my views tend to lean towards self sufficiency, not co dependency. We live in a country where you can be replaced, removed and refused no matter what the case may be. If you lose your job, what'll you do then since squatting, panhandling, being a tradesman or a mountain man seems to be something you felt bad for doing, and so decided to just settle down, get a job and live the "normal" life? What then, just be a pessimist and kill yourself. I have no shame, and, in turn, I tend to attract people. I don't beg, Oh please sir, but instead I give something in return, whether a smile, decent conversation, manual labor, whatever. But then again, I'm not the young traveler any more. Oh how I love getting older. Still the same heart, but a much wiser brain.