Evolve to freedom

So, you want more freedom?

Does a 2 hour work day sound good to you? Are you tired of pushing paper all day, making money for somebody else, only to have precious rare moments and weekends to spare? What if you could eliminate all bureaucracy in your life, plus your housing costs, your food costs, and your personal financial contribution to war? Here's the formula: be self-sufficient. Produce enough to provide yourself a quality life.

How?!

Gather a few of your friends, get yourself a 10 acre plot of land, install your Personal Fabrication Lab (Fab Lab), plant an orchard, and build a house with a greenhouse.

With a greenhouse, orchard, a couple lactating animals, fishpond, and chickens, you've got 100% of your food needs covered. Add a microcombine, and you've got some grains.

With a personal Fab Lab and computer, with open source software and blueprints, you can fabricate your own car, LifeTrac tractor, and any other tech toys you like with the click of a mouse and some wrench turning.

A solar turbine feeds energy to your new stronghold of peace, with a few days storage in case the sun doesn't shine. The sun sends you no bills. But you might have to plant a fuel crop, or go to a local restaurant for waste oil, to make biodiesel on extremely cold days.

Go down to your local junkyard, get scrap metal, cast it, and you have your feedstocks for the Fab Lab, at the cost of materials.

Don't have enough money for an advanced Fab Lab? A 3D printer (RepRap) can be made for under $400, and requires nothing more powerful than an OLPC computer. A Multimachine open source drill-mill-lathe costs a few hundred in parts. Come to us and propagate for yourself a 300 tree orchard in a weekend workshop, free to friends.

Need a place to live? A high production compressed earth block press yields basic shelter from on-site dirt – or a legacy mansion if you like. It's the most advanced building method known to humankind, if ecology is considered.

Your junkyard closed out of metal because society eliminated all waste by lifetime design techniques? Then you need to extract aluminum from your onsite clays, in a furnace fueled by compressed gas produced from waste wood chips. Forget about conflicts for once rare resources.

Dreamy but doable

Well, it's not really as easy as that. You will need a team of 10 or more skilled people who want to live right, visionary mindset included.

For the rest of your life, do what you really want. Perhaps pressing world issues are a concern of yours? Go ahead, work them. Or just a little more attention to your personal evolution, so that all of society can benefit? When you control your destiny, everyone benefits.

Now show me the money. Your three acres of orchard give $5k per season, just by passive U-pick in the local area. People are attracted to your showcase, and begin asking questions. That is valuable conversation, and at the end you return to your Fab Lab, as you got an order for an open source car – that's $1k dollar value earned for 20 hours of your time. Or, your tree propagation workshop brought in $1k for the day, as your plant stock is abundant. A few small organic farmers in your area are waiting for you to fill their microcombine order. Or, the training workshop for earth block building. You can roll in extra cash if you like, but your expenses are low, and you may have more important things to do. Perhaps providing clean water or gasifier stoves to the rest of the world, at a ridiculously affordable cost?

We like to help others. Low on money and high on vision? Come to our workshops, build yourself an infrastructure so you could live like this, if you have lifetime durable equipment. Start with basics: car at $2k; not bad for a high performance, low maintenance lifetime vehicle; tractor at $2k, brick machine at $1k, greenhouse another $1k; flex fab outfit, a large price item, $5k for all you need in machine work and cutting jobs. Orchard literally free, and all of our gene pool too, if you do the propagation work. And the glazing comes from bioplastics onsite, or extruded waste plastic. Then you may need some immediate cash after you start up, because you wanted to buy some more books or other exotic merchandise. Maybe marketing products of other farmer scientist friends of yours will do the job as you get on your feet.

As your operations get off the ground, you cannot help but notice that everyone around you is going off-grid, starting to produce other open source items of Fab Lab industry, and those government workers are leaving town as they have no more problems left to solve or create.

Evolve to freedom.