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Why attempts at simple living sometimes create more problems

I threw away my phone and tried to live simply but I couldn't get work or stay in touch with friends and I felt more isolated than enlightened.

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The gap between idealized simplicity and the complexity of modern interdependence reveals the challenge of individual solutions to systemic problems.

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