Before the industrial revolution, there was no public education as it exists today and few could read and write. Due to poor nutrition and living conditions, people didn’t live long.
However, there is nothing wrong with the rural peasant farmer lifestyle. Who needs money to survive when you grow your own food and make all the things you need?
With a small community of family and close neighbors that work together for survival, what else is needed?
For example, there are the Amish in America, who live as people did before the Industrial Revolution. The Amish choose to live a simple life based on their religious beliefs.
The Amish seriously follow the Biblical commands to separate themselves from frivolous material things that many take for granted and can’t live without.
In addition, the Amish don’t have electricity and do not drive cars.
Why doesn’t the media report on how deprived the Amish are as they report on the poor, peasant farmers in China?
Does this mean the Amish are poor and live in poverty because they don’t have consumer products like computers, iPads or iPods, and expensive cars or trucks and all the other junk that we cannot eat?
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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