Thank God for the Pennsylvania Amish. Why buy groceries from a corporation when you can go directly to the source and get the highest quality products without any intermediaries?
Decentralized Diet
The ultimate City-Amish hybrid lifestyle
I prefer to live in the city, but live like I’m Amish.
I spend 50% of my time with my hands in the soil, surrounded by nature working in a park and 50% of my time on the street in the urban chaos working on my art.
Also, just build your own home gym, and get a deep freezer to store months worth of food. No need for gym memberships and no need for grocery shopping.
The word capital has an unexpected etymological connection to cattle through the Latin root caput, meaning “head.”
In ancient economies, wealth was often measured in livestock, particularly cattle. The Latin word capitalis (derived from caput, “head”) originally referred to the principal or chief part of something—and in economic contexts, it came to refer to headcount in a herd, which was a key measure of wealth.
This idea carried into medieval Latin, where capitale referred to property, stock, or wealth, including livestock. Over time, in Old French (cheptel), it was used to mean livestock holdings, and in English, it evolved into capital, referring broadly to wealth, assets, or financial resources.
So, in essence, the modern concept of capital as financial assets traces back to the idea that cattle were a primary form of wealth and economic power in early societies.
