How to Drop Out (2004)

This was really great to read. Recently, I read Ted Kaczynski's "Industrial Society and its Future", aka the Unabomber Manifesto. The idea of anarcho-primitivist living is actually really attractive in theory, and this is a great example of someone actually living this lifestyle in practice. It seems tough. I'm not so sure I could essentially live a life of vagrancy and dumpster diving. Maybe I have been overly socialized and sold ideas that status and comfort are more important than…

He falls into a number of fundamental paradoxes in his reasoning. He asserts that profit is evil, which is essentially saying that time spent procuring resources is not a cost that can be recuperated through monetary compensation. He almost even comes out and says time isn't a cost when he says he'd think it evil to sell something he found while dumpster diving, "how can you sell something you get for free?". He didn't get it for free, he got…

I'm curious if this person has a partner or is sexually active. It seems like the biggest sacrifice required for this lifestyle, more than material, would be being undesirable to the vast majority of people they're sexually attracted to. It doesn't seem like any of writings I've read praising the rejection of material living have ever really touched on that topic. Are the adherents to these philosophies really just loaners?

Any other recommended writers like this exploring similar themes?