It's the principle of the thing..

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Does anyone have issues overcoming the fact that currency transactions support the destruction of biological life on Earth?

I do realize that even now I am supporting that destruction by using electricity from burning coal and by eating weakened food every day that is grown in monocultures and shipped to the unproductive, domesticated places that people live (the human zoos, if you will) all the while causing more and more currency transactions and telling the culture of anti-diversity - with actions - that the separation of production and consumption which removes people's power and the literal war on life is a valid way to operate. That said, I am not sure how I could make myself do what feels like the wrong thing to do. Of course, social interactions make all of this a much harder situation.

I've never had a job before really. I have volunteered and been paid a little bit under the table during that. I also delivered papers when I was a lot younger because my parents made me, it was a rather horrible experience.

I have attempted a few things to make money (some of those can be seen on my website which is linked to in my signature) - even though I don't want money - since it is a necessity because the majority of our species is incomprehensibly ignorant, but none of them have shown results.

Really the issue is just, how do I force myself to do the wrong thing?
(since right and wrong are subjective and it is wrong to me)

Is there some sort of local or community farm where your can volunteer your services?
Crops grow much better if there is someone around to pull the weeds. Much better than using those nasty pesticides.

There is one that I volunteered at previously but I'm at a point where it is necessary for me to make money or else my life will not continue for much longer. I am not exactly a supporter of the idea of weeding as I think it is a symptom of poor garden design and inappropriate understanding of what land tries to do. That said, I won't deny that weeding is beneficial to conventional methods of gardening, but at this point if I was going to volunteer I would much prefer to do so by working with groups to transform vacant lots into diverse food producing ecosystems, rather than gardens or farms.

Anyway, I still need to figure out how to do the wrong thing.