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"How do you change your relationship to something you are forced to do? i.e. work, pay for food, rent, taxes, etc. Do you have some secret for living without money that doesn't involve risking getting arrested or killed by police? If so, please do share."

I'm pretty sure that there are a couple of options for how you work, what food you buy, what apartment/house you live in, what taxes you pay. For example, if you don't own real estate or a car, your taxes just come out of your income, and there are vague possibilities for what kind of taxes you pay on your income. And like i said before, the options depend on your situation, when people talk about "privilege" they're normally just talking about how limited your options are.

Yes, some things are black and white, but "submit to capital or die" is only true in a poetic sense. As you said before, you can also end up in jail. In the end the question of what you submit to and don't is somewhat voluntary, and that is the little wiggle room you have to choose your bosses. In the end, you're right, "cash is king", and you can make your whole life about money if you want to.

The most important black and white in life is to do something or not do it, everything else is this massive grey area that can't stand be split by political abstractions. You don't even have to eat or survive. You theoretically don't even need a car, phone, or computer, but the more those technologies are utilized the harder it becomes to make money and be a member of "society" if you don't have them.