I strongly disagree with the premise. This isn't proper poverty, this is a borderline agrarian lifestyle utilizing various allowances as well as support structures intended for the poor. The author has a personal safety net, as well as a social one supporting them, and took advantage of lax property enforcement to build a house on state land. If you have means and options like they do, you aren't dirt poor. This isn't poverty, this is conscientious objection. Many small farmers live this way. At any point they could stop and have a normal life if they chose. That's not poverty, merely poverty tourism.
As such I don't think documenting this lifestyle serves as useful as advice for other poor people.
This isn't a commentary on the ethics or merits of their life either. Good for them.
As such I don't think documenting this lifestyle serves as useful as advice for other poor people.
This isn't a commentary on the ethics or merits of their life either. Good for them.