What you describe reminds me of life in the Cambodian countryside, too far from banks for cash to be very useful, too far from the government to be micromanaged, and too poor for any entity to come in and regulate what they are doing. And would you imagine the Cambodian countryside is a lovely place, because it is.

I totally agree with your sentiments, but we just have to wait for humans locked in to stupidity to wake up. Your comment leaves me thinking of Jacques Fresco and Eugene Debs, two fine Americans that worked hard to flesh out some of things you've highlighted. Eugene Debs lived only an hour from me in Indiana, only person ever to run for president from federal prison, I think you'd like his story.