How to live without money
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- Опубликовано: 8 дек 2009
- Many people are learning to live sustainably, without money. In this video, they discuss their struggles, how they got to and developed kew bridge eco-village.
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The start of the village video • New eco-village starti... liveing on the land
Say what you like, these guys are not hurting anyone or anything. In particular they're not stuffing up the world like the rest of us. Bless them. I wish them all the best
James Mara - Their*
Btw, no one has a purpose in life, everything is meaningless. You are still base level, ignorant sheep.
@James Mara I mean, working 80% of your life so you can live for 10% isnt really living either.
They also don't contribute to a better modern world in any way. Something that will be undeniably present, a modern world.
@James Mara you have been brainwashed to live and go into work well not everything is like you they have a purpose in life doing nothing that's is there purpose
@James Mara your pathetic
I currently work in an office, crunching numbers and running models for aircraft 10 - 11 hours per day. It sucks, I've often thought about quitting this job, buy a small home with a fair size piece of land, start my own garden, engage my neighbors in that sort of activity. But you're right, making that leap from one lifestyle to another takes guts.
Little do most people know, but this is how the majority of people will be living in the near future. Though more will choose to go into the country and wild areas and get away from the toxic cities.
Exactly
explain the semantics please.
Till it becomes over crowded because were getting overwhelmed with immigration
Maybe, or maybe toxic waste will cover the sunless landscape where 2 or 3 hundred thousand people live like animals attempting to survive in the barren waste. Or worse?
Okay I don't think so you've been watching too many RUclips videos
It's called a commune. That's always been my biggest goal in life, to join a group like yours. Best of luck. I hope you have a happy life.
hey
A lot of people in the comments call them bums. Who do they bum from? If you have any debt by your own logic you are more a bum then someone who lives supporting themselves without debt. They choose this simple life, so quit looking down on people.
because alot of ppl are ignorant, narrow minded sheep
Jamie lee
true that.
...especially the people that do not know how to spell a lot...
...extremely surprised you didn't offer a "metal..." "their" must be hope for you yet...
+Jamie lee Just like these idiots. I saw the AFA tagg. Nothing but commies and anarchists. They should all be executed. Scum of the earth. They are just as bad as followers of islam.
I've got a feeling some of the younger ones have families to fall back on when the shit starts to pile up !
+jason antigua I have a feeling many of them dont, thats why they are there.
You'd be surprised ! Don't let the silly hats fool you !
+jason antigua Any evidence what so ever to make you think that?
+blazednlovinit He said he has a feeling, since when do you need evidence for "feeling"?
Mister No When you've chosen to make a point about something based on only your feeling for one.
Money is nice; it can buy you nice things. In the end, it corrupts. I respect and applaud these folks for having the courage to continue to live this way....something I could never learn to live with.
Well done if only the rest of humanity could live with love and forgiveness for there brothers and sister and learn to put up with each other's imperfections
remember it's only paper....
life skills are worth their weight in gold....
Ja Ke spoken like someone with food in his stomach and a dollar in his pocket
@@ghostofreagan3181 From his life skills?? 😉
the first life skill is to make money and get a house. this dumb piece of total failure got none of that.
He miserably failed at the very basics of life: succes.
you can put some nice plants...garden..flowers...a veggie garden...clean it up. why all the filth?? you can still live with dignity.
Joe Garagozzo marijuana crop would work
When you don't have a lot of food, you sleep a lot and rest a lot (I know because I went months without food) and to preserve energy you just do what you need to do. All I thought about was how to preserve as much energy as possible at all times, and when I could eat next. Its a totally different mindset. The body can live off of very little food if it has too, but you will spend a lot of time resting, finding ways to stay warm, not moving a lot, , and eating when you can and if you can. My situation wasn't because of lack of money, it was a health problem that made eating impossible. And so that is what the body does, when under starvation or possibility of starvation. These folks look like they are just trying to stay warm and fed, and it can be hard just saving your physical and mental energy for what you need to do.
You don't need dignity just as much as you don't need money. All people need is love.
@@fennecfox2 Or you invest in food so can last longer and have better quality of life. Love it real, yes, but facts are also real.
Opinions as well, some opinions can bother certain people. The harsh truth in fact is, nobody cares when the facts are there.
True
I wonder what they use for tampons?? 🤔
I can understand the concept but what I don't understand is why is the place so dirty? Why live in filth?
lol
+Ashira Guyness I agree. It looks very unhealthy. It might be in an area where they cannot get free water and depend on the rain. God forbid if they are in drought.
this place is filthy ... I need certain comforts...guess I'm brain dead!
+Ashira Guyness You ve ever seen pictures of a drug den / crackhouse? Well, drugs and alcohol will make anyone revert to animal state. Hygiene, food, security come second to that...
+Ashira Guyness Uh....Because they have no money? I don't think you can "understand the concept" That's some icon pic btw.
I would so passionately love to live somewhere like that I cannot stand Society or the way it is become money is the root of all of my discomfort
Lovely video! Keep on rocking, people, there are more and more people around the world waking up from mass mind control - you are not alone! Stay together, stay strong!
😒 we call them homeless in the 🇺🇸 good luck and God bless. Go steal some tooth brushes and hand them out. 😆
On 27 May 2010 police evicted the ecovillage inhabitants. Most of the occupants have now joined Hounslow community land project and Parliament Square's Democracy Village
Where was this? In Britain ?
Welcome back to the 60's mind set. Groovy. Flower power. I love it. ✌✌
I would rather go back packing and living off the land for the rest of my life than live like that.
Yh but wat happens to us all when we get to old,and we cant sleep on the floor anymore,I'm at that point in my life I need a bed and a roof over my head,I havent got the energy anymore,my bones ache my joints kill me it's so bad to get old and have no where to live....
@@kevinjoyce2738 build your own bed outdoors
Ahhh yes the pretty glorified version of eco living. Well... we all have preferences. To each their own.
So you'd just do what they are doing in multiple countries as apposed to staying in one place?
urgh
Looks like a community of very cool people. I don't understand (if everyone is living without money) who owns the property, and who is paying the property taxes, and how. Do they allow people to "squat" on land they don't own in London? Another thing, I'd love to see a community like this that lives completely off of what nature provides. Living from donations still requires other people to have money- just not the people who live in the village. I'd love to see people eating from the produce of the land, and building from the materials Nature provides.
I don't understand why the sarcasm. This video isn't about farmers, it's about squatters. Did you watch it?
Brit rider I agree. Good point.
so basically they get for free what's gonna be thrown out. it's living off the urban environment when living off the land is quite usually illegal in many ways. secondly, someone may own the land, not necessarily, many people give away estates, but no tax comes out of it as nothing is being used that requires tax to make up for.
just take the bitterness elsewhere
My father grew up in a rural village in East Asia before he moved to the United States, back in Connecticut we had a house, he built a garden out of scrap wood in the back yard, bought some fertilizer, but also used diluted human urine (for nitrogen i guess) to water the garden. He grew so many lush tomatoes, squashes and melons that he ended up giving most of it away to friends and family. if you have land make good use of it, don't build parking lots, build a local farm.
Nice to see others doing this have not touched a federal reserve note in over 6 years....A bit difficult at first, but doable for an intelligent, creative wo/man....
+James Barnes how the crap d u have a computer
Whatever makes them happy...that is what matters most....and they are not hurting anyone...they are living the good life...God bless you.
So a good friend of mine went to get his brother from one of these and bring him home for the holiday. He stayed with them a few days. It was his observation that many of the people living in these conditions were unable to function in normal society. Many were running from debts, coping with addictions, were pot heads, or were simply just "weird". He had said his brother was not able to function while back home for the holidays. He had lived in a "community" for about 2 years at that time and simply had become disconnected from reality. He had also mentioned that after a period of time his brother and other members had taken to robbing local stores and homes, had become beggars, and essentially could not sustain themselves. They were detested by locals and for good reason. It's not so glorious.
I agree. This isn't something I would chose.
Boy there is some serious negativity here. I love what they are doing! Why do they need to grow more food when they are eating fine off of what is being thrown away?! I fail to see the harm! That's a good thing! What resources are they using???? No electric, no sewer, no water...what are you talking about?..just stupid. This is what happens when ppl live different. Idiots crap all over it! I love it! More power to you! I wish all of you the very best of everything!!!
Judith Chartrand
Yes. All of this. It's one thing to be self sufficient. It's another to just live somewhere and mooch off people. At least own the land you are living on. That counts for something.
when i was young i traeld for 11 yearswith no money...its easy most of the time...its getting thru the not easy times that are a charecter builder...
she went there to say hi to everyone & never left lololol
Its not the situation that matters but how you respond that makes all the difference.
I love you folks. You are blessed!
On a small scale this works. For the whole world's population food production is done in a very efficient mechanized way. The world cannot function like this on a large scale. It's about the logistics. Here they talk about getting free food from the society they have left behind. So they really haven't left it behind. All the stuff they have scavenged are products from the modern world they are so opposed to living in.
Todd Lavigne the sollution is somthing the majority can have, permaculture, sustainability, and quality! we need not live in a tent! but many of the things they are doing is spot on, because they have freed up thier time to create more than they consume, so even if not everyone in society can live off trash, but everyone can take action now not some day off in the distant abstract futurewhich never comes! meanwhile as we all critique them they will be building on this idea and actually doing somthing, and they wont always need to dumpsterdive, but as long as the food is there to eat then these peoples project can be fueled off it.
Todd Lavigne yeah.
+Todd Lavigne thank you that was my point as well they are detracting from our civilization while theres does nothing for itself other than poop in a bucket that since they arent composting it can not work for very long.
If you want to live a self-sustainable life learn how to farm, hunt, and fish. These people are not self-sustainable they are just scavenging.
+Diraphe They are scavenging , but we throw out stuff and food that is perfectly fine to use and eat.
Don.t forget that most people in the west are in debt to banks just to live without scavenging.
I like to call what they are doing as reuse and recycling. Also, are they hurting anyone ?
Proteus TG
I don't find anything wrong with scavenging; I like it when people are thrifty.
I'm just pointing out that it is not "self-sustainable" since you need to rely on other people to produce the waste you are reusing.
+Diraphe I agree. Unfortunately in our area, we have to buy a hunting and fishing license. But self sustaining works and communities are starting to pop up in areas in the USA. One community is organic farming together on city property and everyone pitches in. But with scavenging, although fine if you find something useful, many things from dumps are contaminated from rodent droppings. Not healthy and would not want my kids there.
+Proteus TG them selfs living in filth and probably demanding healthcare like others in the system.... Imo!
+Diraphe :: I agree, and they only make a heap of rubbish for others to clean up.
During the thousands of years of monetary system, most workers have been paid just enough to make it necessary that they return to work, even when higher wages have been possible. How else can the wage-payer keep the workers coming back? Take off all the mask, manners, fancy clothes, all the devices you use and be the most honest person you can be with yourself, then whatever love you get then is real. All the false approaches, like trying to be a player, only bring false results... We live in a world where our social system is old, our language is old, the way we acquire goods and services is outdated, our cities are detrimental to our health, chaotic and a tremendous waste of resource, and most of all our politics and values no longer serve us. So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really? To better understand a Resource Based Economy consider this: if all the money in the world suddenly disappeared, but topsoil, factories, and other resources were left intact, we could build anything we chose to build and fulfill any human need. It is not money that people need, but access to the necessities of life without having to appeal to a government bureaucracy or any other agency. In a Resource Based Economy money is irrelevant. What's required are the resources and manufacturing and distribution of the products. In a monetary system, purchasing power is not related to the capacity to produce goods and service. For example, in a recession there are computers in store windows and automobiles in car lots; but people do not have the purchasing power to buy them. The rules of the monetary system are obsolete and create needless strife, deprivation, and human suffering.
In today’s culture of profit we do not grow foods based on demand, nor do we practice medicine solely to cure diseases. Industry's major motivation is profit. - Jacque Fresco ~ THE VENUS PROJECT~
***** if u cant tell what im talking about, you must b neutrally bankrupt
example: ps3's costed about 600 dollars when they first came out. now you can get one for less then 100 dollars. hearing aids can be like 1000 dollars, but they only take about 3 dollars worth of materials to make.
and most of our technology is subject to planned obsolescense meaning they are engineered to break down, and stop working so you go buy more stuff. but in the old days, they had phones from 50 years ago that still work to this day, because they was engineered not to wear out and break down. they make more money with circular consumption. engineering things not to break down would better the lives of people, but they dont make as much money. they dont wanna better the lives of humanity, they do what they do for there own selfish desires.
allot of people think when it all collapses, the control group would remain in power. thats not true. the big businesses put up a sign "no help wanted". they must pay the police, army, navy, to do there duty.
i never joined the online community, but ive been learning from T.V.P for around 6 years now. i talk to allot of people about R.B.E, i notice allot of so called bigoted people's values as long as you give information thats relevant to them. they reject when they dont understand what your talking about. so i try to educate them on that in youtube comments. and correct them. whats T.V.P online community all about?
i think i'll pass on that
Here's what I see. A bunch of people regressing back a few hundred years. The reason we work is so that we don't spend the entire day "hunting" and "washing." Bills?!?!? What bills?!?!? I don't mind paying for water, waste water management, and electricity. Almost everything else is optional. You don't really have to own a car if you don't want to (get a bike). I just really do not see the point of this, AND this would never work if technologically more advanced/wealthier people didn't donate all that stuff to them. People living today just need to learn how not to live beyond their means. In the setting of this video, once people start complaining about fairness, the whole thing will break down. There is no way that everyone will agree that everyone is contributing equally or enough. Everyone has different ideas of what is fair and reasonable. And they shun people that are different. I thought accepting differences is a sign of progress.
We don't see things the way THEY are, we see things the way WE are.
This unavoidable conflict you speak of...it is the stub of the tail; a tail that fell off. If you see potential for conflict, YOU are the conflict. Let it go. And if you can, you will find something replaces it. Much richer than creature comforts, or surplus. It will be an abundance that has no name. Sure, there is a place here for you.... You are accepted, it's you're own lack of acceptance that will force you to leave.
pjamesbda
Could you give some examples to explain what you're saying?
> The reason we work is so that we don't spend the entire day "hunting" and "washing."
The reason we work is because the societies' rich have systematically eliminated economic liberty for the poor to create cheap and abundant labor. Our ancestors were physically coerced out of their previous situations to sever their historic ties with land and thus their economic self-sufficiency.
To imply that the current socioeconomic status quo was a choice made by the working class which they thought would be naturally to their advantage is at least stretching the truth, and likely misinformed.
*****
Oh yes. To answer your question...I believe excusing idiocy of "your caliber" is done all the time. I would call anyone who thinks "People who work hard win hard." is a raving idiot. One who obviously has no grasp of the conditions on the ground...real time.
People who constantly prattle on about "working instead of complaining" are the hapless scabs, who generation after generation undermined the labor movement and the working class in this country with their stomach turning rhetoric about fairness, competition, and "purity" of the market.
I'm confident you'll be the best dumpster diver on your block when the time comes. I'm sure you'll beat out everyone to the McDonald's garbage bags. Cause YOU are a winner!
Francis Usher I'm unclear of what you're saying. How should I act based on what you said? I'm commenting on the economics of this whole idea of living off other people's trash. It's highly inefficient.
Just turned 28 this month, been working my whole life. Ever since I left home at 18. Always been an outdoorsman, I am sooooo sick of the society that most of us live in today. Physically and mentally sick, I just want to move out in the sticks. Lived in Alabama my whole life, fishing - hunting all is second nature to me. I’m a loner, not very socially active - just me and my dogs living day by day. Living to die and dying to live. I feel like I’m stuck in a endless loop, like I just need to move one foot forward but I’m dragging a truck behind me. It really sucks being 28, no family left alive and no friends. I was quite popular in high school, played ball since peewees. After I hit about 20-21 years of age I just changed. Been a loner ever since. I don’t go out to eat, don’t go to any type of social gatherings. However I do live in the country, I struggle to pay bills and rent etc. I’m just ready to leave it behind, start new. The sticks are calling me.
@KungFu Nerd Rebellion could care less about a female anymore. I’ve dated many beautiful women. I don’t need them, however would be nice to find one on the same level as I perhaps. Who knows
Hi, bub, I'm a woodsrunner like you, but quite older. Please forgive me if I'm being impertinent, but understand the difference between REALLY NEEDING to do something and CHOOSING to do that thing. If the former goes to shit, you went down fighting; if the latter goes to shit, you're a dumbass who should've known better. Have you read the book INTO THE WILD and/or seen the movie? The only thing that kept me from doing the same thing (other than really practicing the necessary skills) was freezing my ass off just here in Appalachia while getting blessed by the Almighty with venison. Running water and cheesesteak subs fixed just so are more than worthy. Think carefully and slowly--the sticks are unforgiving even to those who seemingly know all about them, and don't give sons of bitches cause to use you as a cautionary example. The Lord be with you, and keep your powder dry.
@@dayzreloadedpve hey brother, can you update your story?
You are not alone living like that. I fell out of society 10 years ago. I still work part time as an gardner, but I never meet people more than necessery. I don't like this game everyone is playing, I rather live on my own as much as possible than paticipate in any kind of social society. My life is very diffrent from my old life, I don't consider it beeing even close to good because of my dark mind, but at least Im awake now and I don't have to deal with close minded people on a daily basis. Don't know what would do life better, so I will let it pass this way. I have plenty of free time, not many things I have to do, I do what I want to do.
Dumpster diving is part of their lifestyle. Try that for a week or two before you head out for the free and easy life. Or even try it just for a day or two. Or just once!
I dumpster dive for stuff to donate to the Humane Society thrift store, but usually people leave good stuff BY the dumpster in case someone else wants it. I've seen food that looks edible, I just can't see myself actually eating it unless I'm starving.
i dumpster dove one time behind a goodwill once and found an 1951 playboy dictionary. hit the dollar store once and found free new dishes. =)
Today I bought 17 Cell Phones that were *taken out of the dumpsters* @ 20 Cents apiece. Yes I spent $3.40. That guy has some Beer.
I can either recover the Gold and Palladium myself or sell then for $5 per pound
Generally five of them weigh about a pound. ($1 per pound at 20 cents each.)
I just box them up and when I get 200 of them, or so, then I will sell them or process them. (It is not that I can make a living from this. But those dollars add up.)
It is amazing what people throw away.
Frank Blangeard I do dumpster diving all the time, I'm not homeless, but what I find BENEFITS a lot of people. If I hear about someone needing something, and I have that, I give it to them, no charge, no explanation.
As much as I feel they're doomed to failure, when you're young like them, it's great to experiment completely with "freedom" so you know what it really means. There is a middle vision, I nope these nice folks will find it. Sometimes though "freedom" isn't just about you, it can be about freeing those around you so that they don't have to support you, provide medical care, etc. But bless them for trying.
what if they find doctors grateful to provide for them? what if they recieve from people who find thst helping them is enriching and freeing?
this is a life style that you "settle with what you got" not "work for what you want" ... im not judging their ways seeing how "happy" they are, but this video makes me appreciate what I've achieved so far.
Me too. I couldn't imagine living in these conditions.
Now here you have a perfect example of Peaceful Revolution! Kudos to the community for coming together.. It will take a while for others to catch on, but this is Progress~ God Bless.
With folks like that, I could live there happily ever after!
all the best wishes to these people from me. I think more of us need to start taking drastic actions like these in order to move away from this deteriorating system.
..imagine living with no worries or job..you could invest your time into the most important thing in life..meditation!!..excellent!!
LOL
HeathenWays
there's an old saying... point the finger at someone you've got 3 pointing back at you.
your bigot comment reminded me of that.
How to live without money: ask for money from other people.
"a couple of degrees of separation" is so right. They are really living off the waste of others and somehow in their deluded way think it is living without money.
One thing to ask otha people,BUT u don't want to make one nuisance of urself, eitha.
Just because you can decide to correspond somethings worth into a imaginary figure that you call money doesn't mean that money is the basic building blocks of reality
The problem with it is taking away a lot of interaction and awareness. For trading in my town you have to pay some odd amount or else. You even have to pay for providing a service! You and the party receiving! OR ELSE jail or worse. The worse of it to me is you don't even care what the other wants. Just give me what I want and here's your money, leave me be attitude. Even when it funds oppression, pollution, war, and media to brainwash you into keeping the cycle of death. Pendulum energy. We are the device. There is gravity to ground us and love to move. Lose money and gain love or shall I say momentum that can only grow. You can not do anything with money here without supplying the merchants of death in power. That's why.
But then you would have money. Stealing isn't an option cause you have to face court depending on your area.
Living in filth is NOT the same as living with the Earth
Lol
People consider the Earth filthy, hence why so many do their best to eradicate any and all germs from their lives not knowing this actually lowers the immune system and increases the chances of illness. Humanity has become scared of nature; which means humanity has become scared of ourselves because we too are nature.
To each his own,,, Even if I had to live very simply I would rather work than live a lifestyle like this. If they are happy [and they seem to be ] with this then more power to them. They don't seem to be hurting anyone and they use a lot of things that would otherwise be trashed. But a lifestyle like this should only be done if a person has no children. It would be unfair to raise a child in this manner. It seems to me that they could tidy up their living space a little bit better than they have.
Patrick2345454
I just don't think that a parent should raise a child in a squatters camp like they are living in. And from what I see many of them choose to live this way. Children deserve better than that. They deserve a clean place to live,,,clean clothes and enough food to eat. I realize that there are parts of the world where that is an impossibility and they have to do everything just to simply survive. I also don't believe in welfare queens who just sit around,,,pop out kids and collect everything they can. My neighbor was a welfare queen. The longest she ever held a job was one week,,,,she had three kids so she received the maximum of everything available. She knew how to work the system. She drove a cadillac,,the kids wore $100 dollar shoes,,,she had brand new furniture and they ate steak and ribs regularly. At that time I drove a 10 year old Honda,,our clothes and shoes came from Wal-Mart,,,all my furniture was old and we ate bean tacos on a regular basis. Was I jealous? Yes I was and I was also a little resentful. I'm a single mother of two kids. I'm walking to my car every night to go to work at the hospital and she is sitting there on the couch watching T.V.
to me it just sounds like you're focusing on others a little too much. plenty of things happen that you "think" shouldnt but you do nothing about it but judge. best save the energy and focus on your own lid instead of throwing negativity into others, it's only negativity. try to be constructive in life.
youre right maam
Easier to live in jail. Just commit a crime and go to jail and free food and shelter and sex.
+peachees it not about it being easier, it about liberty & freedom. Jail may get "free" food & shelter...but at what "cost"? As for sex...women can get it free anytime...and a lot of men get raped in jail so not great idea.
+peachees i dont want that kind of sex
Karl Hans ...me neither!
+peachees Listen, just because you're a dominatrix doesn't mean everyone else wants to be.
+peachees dont have sex in prison
These are people the rest of us, ultimately, have to pay for by our hard work. If you are not contributing, you are only consuming.
+D Myers ...some pay and "consume" more than their "fair-share" ...so it perhaps a way of balancing things out?
Hey whichever life you choose to live , make it a good one .
Great idea until you get sick or have a tooth problem!
That's what parents are for
*****
What a huge misconception you have of America from a bunch of liberal idiots who would have you think America throws their poor out onto the streets!
There are all types of free clinics throughout the states. SC just in 2013 alone has Treated 34,000 patients has the Oversight of 110,000 patient visits and 13,000 referrals. Filling of over 323,000 prescriptions...Just in SC...
No one started getting turned away until this f_ing European type Obamacare got forced down our throats!
Please, research the US before you start passing off BS information about us!
***** Good luck with getting 'free' dental care in the UK. Even dentists on the national health service charge for their work at point of delivery.
JEFFREY HARDIN This is only at best partially true. While there is a chance to get some treatments, the cost to individuals is outrageous. I had a friend who was in an accident and didn't have insurance cause she couldn't afford it. Had to go to the emergency room. The charge for the visit was outrageous, but if she hadn't gone she would have died. Sadly they have taken almost everything she had to pay and now shes living in a homeless shelter. And thanks to still owing money, whenever we have tried to help, collections have taken it before she has been abel to get back on her feet. That was and still is a broken fucking system.
I'm sorry but the system as is, pre AND post Obamacare is a fucking joke. We pay like 10 - 100x as much as other countries do for the same care, IF we're lucky. Nothing is worse since Obamacare, (though its only marginally better if that) unless you are listening to FAUX news and their misinformation.
I understand the impulse to go off the grid and get back to nature, but I'm sure they'd call the police if they were robbed, or an ambulance if they were hurt. People have to pay taxes for those things to be available to everybody.
It doesn't matter how much it costs, if no one pays taxes then we don't get those things.
MrOnionterror It doesnt matter how much it costs??????? You're far from free, sir.
I meant that whether the money is inefficiently spent or not, there has to be some money going into the system for anyone to get anything from it.
exactly right,oh darling the baby is due call an ambulance,and pick up our social
security benefit,and I need my tooth pulled as well.don't forget to go to the doctors and pick up My repeat prescription .LIVING OFF THE STATE NOT THE GRID.Absolute bullshit.
maxim edwards
Awesome guys I'm so proud of you and your full integrity to nature x
i live out in the woods kinda like this but i grow and hunt my food
and have RUclips. Same. It's the life, isn't it!
Guess they will never have to worry about collecting social security. You have to work for that.
Oh no you done .its called free loading
I think people should be allowed to choose the lifestyle that makes sense to them but I can't help noticing how filthy everything looks . That would be a deal breaker for me , no offense .
This may or may not be an eco friendly sustainable community, but a least they've learned to adapt to the miseries that, sooner or later, all of humanity will have to endure.
hopefully not.
the collapse is coming.
This was in 2009. According to Wikipedia, the police chased them off. Since then many are living in Hounslow community land project and Parliament Square's Democracy Village.
I have no problem with what these people are doing because it isn't affecting me; though this goes for everyone and everything. They're actually doing something good here by eating the food that was thrown out.. Less waste.
If You feel that way,join them,I am sure You will change Your mind.
I wouldn't. You don't know who you're talking to lol
Food which is than shat out onto some random city lot and causing un sanitary conditions... Lovely.
Jesse Deptula Exactly,it is one big toilet.Did You see one
Jesse Deptula
"composting"?
Everybody lives off somebody else - what ever they do or don't do....give take and rotate.
SouthPark did a perfect episode on the concept of a "commune." "We don't need money, we just depend on other peoples' labor."
Most accurate video for quarantine
this is awesome
I think this is very cool! it does look dirty and muddy, but it looks like winter. I seems like they are in the process of cleaning things up and making it nicer. They escaped the rat race for now, and I think it's brave and and adventure, especially doing this in a cold climate.
Britain isn't cold sadly they've ruined the climate
it always looks like winter here
They still depend on the rat-race for food and they're asking for blankets and tarps and all kinds of stuff so they aren't self-sufficient yet
I admire anyone who is able to get off of the consumerism treadmill. On a practical level I wonder what these folks do for dental care. God Bless them; they seem to care about each other.
Very creative!Love you guys!
All these comments are talking down on these people like they're doing a bad job, but you have zero frame of reference. Try doing it yourself before you criticize any of the people that are actually trying to change the way this world works. Dont talk down on the people that at least took the first few steps to TRY.
Here's the Bottom Line. I live off the Grid, but at the same time for 20 yrs I worked and gave my part to the tax man and society. These are Bums. You saw the comment below; the guy commented, "unless you're willing to GIVE THEM a farm." Key word is "Give Them!" And by the way, somebody makes a different opinion and yal call them "trolls?" No, my friend, Not Trolls, just giving their opinion, something everyone has! The Bridge is Not yours, as well as the property that you're on. Everything is GIVEN to You! Thank God for good Folks that are willing to Allow you to be Bums! I bought MY PROPERTY and grow my own veges on My Property and raise animals on MY PROPERTY and live out my Life on MY PROPERTY. I've worked hard to get MY PROPERTY. All yall need to know about Squatters like these and their supporters is the following: "Liberalism is a Mental Disorder!"
The land belongs to everyone. There are no Gods.
Ricky Hicks
just because they choose that way of life doesnt mean they have to live like pigs.. aside from their lack of basic building skills to create at the least, some sort of livable abode , they dont have enough respect for the land they are on to even keep it clean, neat and tidy?...Give me a break!...
***** Being PRO LEAVING OTHER PEOPLE ALONE, Only works if the shit you do on YOUR LAND STAYS ON YOUR LAND9 that would be a conservative trait ) .. You cant politicize " minding your own business.. I own 65 acres.. and If my neighbors cows venture on my land and feed on my deer plots, then I'll have Beef that year.. and I don't give a fuck what political party he votes for... as for the fundamentals of liberalism, you better do a little more reading and a little less talking.. Liberalism is all about COLLECTIVES, meaning your land should be free for ALL TO USE .. Liberals think you should share what you have with EVERYBODY....Get a clue douche bag... and go read a book..
***** If they get sick from being unclean and not practicing proper hygiene ( like pissing on a hay bail).. then as long as they don't go look for medical assistance from a community, im ok with it.. But my tax dollars shouldn't have to bail them out of an infectious disease.
***** Of course. But we could do things in different ways.
amen. your living a life many could'nt understand the point of. I understand, and you guys are amazing peope
Cool idea and love how pro active they all are. What happens if someone gets pregnant or seriously ill? Will they use a hospital? Or if they need emergency dental work what happens then xx
If it makes them happy. I think its kind of cool!
Chamber pot! Get yourself a bowl for night-waste. Wait until morning to walk to the loo in the morning to dump it and clean the chamber pot.
I feel what you guys are doing, and support your endeavors. But it is possible to live in better conditions and still be self sustaining.
a really nice concept. an experience. difficult to adapt when something goes wrong, but it is possible.
I would class this as squatting...isn't this just like the homeless people in the world live? in my opinion a farm would of been a better choice then junction 26 of the motorway
Yeah , but you make do with what you have,, and this is what they have unless you're willing to give them a farm
Entirely blinking at least one significant detail, you're confusing yourself, . . . towards the beginning, the guy says: "When we came here, the first thing we did was, tidy up, a bit.", look around yourself, . . . and I think you'll agree on how many there be who don't do anything like this, . . . unless a constable is there to threaten them with fines, . . .
Yes your right, here in detroit the homeless set up their "Camps" and they look just like this, The only difference, the homeless i see here are Mentally Ill or handicapped, So in my opinion these people are doing worse than the homeless.
we are all squatting on native American land shhh don't tell nobody
No we took the natives land because we needed to further evolve the human race, majority of natives died from disease which initially was the law of nature not just because of whites. With this land we did amazing things...and FAST, When are horses got tired we built cars, when we wanted to fly we built a plane, when people asked if the moon was cheese we got our asses up their to find out,
I just think you may not be paying for stuff, but others have paid for your food and other stuff. So you are living off others working for their money. There is nothing wrong with working for what you have, you can get a great sense of achievement, it builds character. Makes you strong, not always a bad thing to have money. Greed is bad. Learning contentment is more important.
Lovely looks brilliant x
I've been really thinking of selling everything, and living off the grid. If i do decide to, it will be far in the woods and living off the land. Building a two room cabin, hunting and gather for my food and growing a garden. I think I would really at peace then for once in my life!!
what I would do is build a log cabin and live like they do in Alaska and Yukon
Ambrose-there is this doc-vid available on YT called 'Alone in the Wilderness' of this guy who did just that, and it's a great true story-check it out.
Then there's Christopher McCandless, was out there living off-grid in an abandoned bus for a while. He'd travelled around for a couple of years, living off of the land for the most part. An incredible film called Into the Wild and there're documentaries about it.
No man is an Island.
Darling Phenylethylamine And then he starved to death
Don't do anything then for fear of the outcome. In his twenty-something years, even the couple of years he was out there on his exploration, he truly lived. This is more than can be said of most people. I know which life I'd rather lead.
@ 0:51 "we pretty much tidied up the area" Looks like a shit hole to me. Pissing on straw bales, no sanitation. FUCK.
+Hugh Jaanus ...you didn't see how it was before they started filming ;)
In Orpington we used to get food from skips behind supermarkets, there were 9 supermarkets in Orpington and the only one that cut the food packets open and put bleach on them was the Co-op.
That’s absolutely disgusting, especially given their alleged ethical policies. I was assaulted, threatened with arrest and banned from my local Co-op for not wearing a face nappy.
I've seen eco-villages, and this is a squatter settlement. They don't appear to be growing any of their own food, and they are still dependent on goods from urban centers to survive.
They settle for what they have. And what do they have?---groceries scores or businesses who throw out expired foods. Now if worse came to worse, like if those stores shut down then they'll have to settle for growing food or other alternatives. Its just like the cavemen. They too had to use or settle for what they have. If they had a bunch of bushes and trees filled with fruits, nuts, or berries, they'll take it. If they had a river filled with fish, they'll take it. Or if they had a forest filled with big fat animals, they'll take it. The cave people had to constantly change their diets and ways of getting food just to survive, but thats just how life was back then. Those methods of survival is what got us through the ice age.
Now some may say these people in the video are moochers, but still, they have to survive. Any lifestyle they choose is always gonna piss someone off. They like moochers of society whereas the cave people were like moochers of nature.
I know some people aspire to live in this kind of community, but I can't imagine a world without my own house (own personal space, a place where I can be free and do whatever the hell I want), where I don't get to buy something I want on the spot (I sure as heck don't mind working hard for my luxuries) maybe I am just greedy..... Or normal....
if you define greed with normal then yes.
they are not begars how someone here said, they are people with an idea and showing us all, how ill our kind of living is, our slavery by all the commercial things we have to need, suggerated by big concerns all over the world. This will definitely be not the life I will life, but it gives me more impulses to reduce more and more my things of need. When you begin, you see and feel, what things are really important in life. For me it is a bathroom with a properly composting toilet and warm rooms......so, I have to work for it, but not so much, that I will become ill......wish the people in the film the best and a good place for living
You have a lot of shit to talk behind a keyboard mate, and it is people like you in this world, why we have wars and crime... Just saying...
Looks amazing , great community of people living right . But jealous if I’m honest . All the best to all of you living there
I have lived this way before. I left it to live what most people would consider a better lifestyle. There are many days when I am stuck at work in a toxic work environment when I just want to say the hell with it all. So much of my life I spend at work and I can't get the time back again it is a real shame. At least they aren't stuck in traffic, stuck in a building, dreading going to work in the morning, stuck in a rat race. All for what? Just to keep a roof over my head that I end up over paying for. I live alone and don't have any kids or a wife depending on me for anything. And I already know that I can survive the way they are living. Do I really want to spend half of my life slaving away at a mediocre job just to be told to piss off in the end while some rich asshole is taking advantage of my hard work? My family owns land where I could plant a garden, hunt, build a cabin and be free. The time I spend at work I could be out enjoying the weather while I tend my garden or sitting under a shade tree fishing for my dinner not giving a flying shit what is going on in the rat race.
my mum would've called them soap dodgers. any reason no to have a wash.
i dont think they think its dirty. ive seen people live in tents and some where really nice and clean. i think they are a bunch of people with a undiagnosed mental illness. they have a good idea though. i hope they get help.
+molly moo --- Is that a tan or...?
+Kathryn Johnson --- I think deep down it's a jealousy thing, an envy. These 'civilised' people, these worker bees, don't like that those 'uncivilised' people, those ingenuitive scurriers, are living happier, freer and without the enslavement of work-shifts and debt. These people slave away for their materials and their dream weddings and their dream lives and none of it really satisfies them on a deep level.
Darling Phenylethylamine that's my colour...lolo
molly moo is a coloured woman? I can't quite tell from the small picture, ha. You do know that many celebrities have a tendency to not wash for great lengths of time - you'd be surprised at how many and which ones we're talkin'. There's usually a pretty good reason for why they don't.
I'm not going to rant about these people, but everything looks disgusting and it just seems like a low and nasty way to live, They are taking what other people worked hard to get so they can "Do whatever they want" this is worse than homeless
May I come stay with you all!!! I’m a single father in USA and I’m barely making my ends meet. I’m 40,000 in debt. And worry my son and I will eventually be homeless on the streets and from there I fear our future. I only wish I had a eco community near me to start my life money free!!! Love and light to all of you. I hope one day I make it to you all I’d love justvto meet ya
I wish I was born into a situation like this. The act of making money is actually the root of all suffering because man is the only creature who uses currency for survival. So we are living a backwards life. Learn how to work the soil, plant seeds, and hunt. Only then you can truly become free.
For once, in a long time I see a real reason for a GoFundMe account! Imagine what these people could do with extra money/help. I can assume a great deal... maybe that cinema? And a lot more. Good for them!!
Christina Ann They don't want money, remember? Give them nothing, eventually they'll move and get jobs
@@ghostofreagan3181 they dont want to sacrifice themselves for money. I just quit my job and am looking for an alternative lifestyle to the wageslave existence. being treated like shit and putting a price on your wellbeing. best of luck to you though, I'm sure money provides enough of a distraction for some.
@@cantbanme792 yet they don't mind begging for other people's money. Go ahead and quit your job. Maybe you can eat homeless people to survive.
We need to choose the way we should live.
these people are some of the happiest ppl ever cause they dont stress out about some of the stupid shit everyone else does kinda like they did back in early 1600's i love it!! i would love to live like that.
thank u Clarissa I saw the full TV show alone in the wilderness the story of Dick proeneke thanks
I wouldn't describe this as off the grid. Other people are saying slum and I tend to agree. These people are homeless by choice, and live by the handouts of people who work for not only their own living, but these people's lives as well. Get a job and live in your tent. You won't have to beg for food and supplies from normals.
this is no eco village, look at all that garbage, plastic and shit, this is just a homeless people settlement.
just search "eco house" on google to see the difference
They're not creating a demand for new garbage. They're adding new value to crap already thrown out. Otherwise it would be floating down a river somewhere, or choking a seal.
***** Yup. An unsanitary pig-pen for bums. The hippy communes in the 70's were much more productive than these people will ever be
I stopped by her when I was visiting this part of the world. It was very interesting and it also had a very very bad odor. I'm sure it will smell better in the winter. LOL
Everyone can have his own way of living a life without money as I myself did along with my family in an indian village named Shiye in the state of Maharashtra and survived all odds by depending on nature, others' farms and leading a humble life!
Reminds me of what hippies in the 60s were trying to in California.
Humanity before corporate greed.
before corporate greed there was no humanity.
corporate greed produces jobs so people can live more comfortably and maybe help others because they are blessed not to have to live out of a trash pile.
before modern capitalism there was not a welfare safety net as we have today, people could not even get an aspirin at a hospital,now they will save your life and send you on your way, evil bastards aren't they?
Steve Halley are you a socialist?
I'm so hurt, boo hoo
Your Intention is headed in the right direction. Always continue to make it better. learn how to build solar Panels. Dig wells, purify water. Good luck.
"An eco village is often composed of people who have chosen an alternative to centralised electrical, water and sewage systems". Then, about 10 seconds later they show you a sign that says free DVDs and CD's... I thought they were using alternatives? So... Why are they using DVD's? Omfg this video just keeps getting better and better
kinda what I'm looking 4.. how can I find you guys? where exactly in London do you live?
Their eco village was torn down by the town, a few years back.
+katiecakes10000 shit.. did they build a new one?
You mean homeless camp not eco village
+katiecakes10000 ok. thx 4 the info. take care
second chance sailing you're not really helpful, are you?
Live a free life? Free from what? Good food, bathing well, and sleeping in a nice place? I'll go do a 9 to 5 for that shit, and I'm still 'free' on weekends, and every holiday I can think of, to do whatever I want.
These people aren't happy, they just gave up and coped with that.
Trust me, these people are happy. You've never experienced it so you wouldn't know, but you have experienced the mundane and it's all you know. Also, maybe I'm wrong and I'll accept that, I'm willing to bet you don't have good food... Your place may be nice, it's subjective though. And bathing in a bath hardly compares to bathing under a lovely warm shower out in the open. You enjoy it more because you don't take it for granted, it's gorgeous. But keep on working 9-5 anyway, hey. Maybe there'll be some sort of reward in it.
thanks skips I love yall.
Great idea! I'm traveling around the USA in my 25 foot class A Winnebago Warrior motorhome with my little dog Tinkerbell making videos