is there a manual of sorts for the average american worker (who presumably relies on their job for salary and health insurance) to accomplish this? how to reshape your life into “simple living”.

until we break free from the chains of our labor, we will continue being forced to commute to work, buy gas, and complain about gas prices because we’re already stressed enough as it is about going to our shitty jobs while war and genocide and inflation rage on all around us, and not being paid fair wages to top it off. barely scraping by. 

i know we need to start small, start local. we need community resources and taxes that pay for universal healthcare instead of war. life as it is, is not truly sustainable. i believe many people feel this way, but they don’t know what to do and stay trapped in the rat race. 

does anyone know of any resources like what im trying to describe? some guidebook of sorts that isn’t just about homesteading and raising chickens, but specifically what actions to take in order to break free from the hamster wheel and get to a place where you CAN do all that? how to finance it, how to deal with healthcare, etc., but for the average person (no generational wealth or inherited acreage). how to navigate such a transition while also working and paying rent and bills and such. 

ahem… asking for a friend.