Lucky for me, I come from a long line of eastern European peasants (briefly disrupted by the relative "middle-class" urban stability of the USSR that my parents grew up in), so I think that genealogically-speaking, I should be well-adapted to peasant life. The fact that I feel completely fine living in a shack in the woods just feels like further evidence.

I suspect a lot of people have peasantry starting just a few generations back. The real slap in the face of people today who are being pushed out of the middle class and into poverty is that they are being made to be LANDLESS peasants. peasants with some land can live ok if the land has water and can support life (and if they're free from say, narcos, militias, bombings, and other sources of violent chaos and displacement! 😭), but landless peasants are really really screwed 😞.