Y.D, you are so right. The problem lies with the teaching of the current generation to the next. We start with our grandparents, and we see how hard they worked, then you look to the parents, then to you, then to the children and grandchildren and so on. Some place along the way, someone taught someone about something. Maybe it is all the stories we tell about "how hard something is". In the end, we were all better people for doing that "hard thing" but that part of the story isn't passed. Just the part about how hard it is to do something.

Recently I was thinking about selling everything I owned (except my boat), taking the profits, moving to a small parcel of land (by a lake) building a small two room cabin, and going back to the way things were done in the past. Utilizing some tricks I learned while in Alaska, to colect and store water (as apposed to having a well), a composting toilet, hot water on demand, solar power, root cellar, wood stove, etc. The only problem to this wouldn't be the money, or lack there of, but rather the health insurance. In the old days, you could see a doctor for next to nothing, now days, it isn't the case.... I wish it was..... Ah, the simple life