Oh, sorry Diogenes!

I have to assume some people still hop trains. At the very least some crust punk squatter types probably do

It's not travel in your (and to be honest, most people in the comments) preferred version. The OP never mentioned luxuries, or even comfort. The point is that if what you really want to travel, you most probably can, independent of your financial situation.

How lucky, you’d have it wherever you go!

You wouldn't be in jail if you weren't a criminal right?

It's a difficult balance. Imagine you have a child that you bring with you on the plane and it being too young, cries throughout the entire flight. One action, one decision - and not by the child, obviously - impacts everyone around you.

Politicians tap into that innate sense of "hey, that's not fair!" to deliver whatever gives themselves the highest gains. Some want to uphold the status quo, others want to improve it, still others want to tear it all down and start fresh.

Ironically what I hear most often from tankies is that they agree with how Donald Trump is doing things (since I started us talking about specifically the USA in my original comment), and want him to dial the actions up even further.

So... it gets highly complex, real quickly.

We're poor, not stupid. Beans are far too valuable.

My wife got rid of my Mr. Bean VHS collection

I'm convinced that people with excessive levels of wealth have fewer brain synapses than the rest of us living real lives of constant work & negotiating & constantly coming up with creative survival strategies.

How rich is stupid rich?

And the Hobbit

I think it depends which character you are.

Ya goddamn right it does.

People that wander for a living usually live by a combination of charity and payments for odd jobs. For example, a small farmer might gladly part with some old clothes and provide a few meals and a bed in exchange for help with some tasks, and I've heard about people with a preternatural ability to couchsurf from city to city.

A lot have taken up being digital nomads. Not a bad way to make a living off you can get good Internet access somehow.

Whatever you want to do. Go spend a season helping out ona farm in Hawaii, then go help build an ecovillage in Australia, then spend some time walking around New Zealand washing dishes and bussing tables, then off to India where you'll build rope bridges and tree houses for a sustainable community. After that, you can go to Thailand or Vietnam and teach English for a little while, before making your way into the Mediterranean and spending a year and a half on the island of Bozcaada helping an old man repair out building and herd goats.

That's literally what my friend did for over 5 years after one day he just decided to leave and had just enough money for a plane ticket to Hawaii from San Diego. Everything else was work and accommodations he found along the way. The only reason he came back was because of covid, and now he's an RN and makes a bunch of money and he hates his life and is in and out of rehab.

I've never heard someone call it the strait of Bering before.

who the fuck wants to tramp around russia? good way to get drone striked or sent to the front in a meatwave

well, it's a bit more complicated than that but yeah