Technology enslaves because of its complexity. Instead of aspiring to create the same stuff with an asterisk of self sufficiency, one would be better served by taking concessions.
There’s plenty of automation in your life available to you today. Years ago people had to hand wash clothes. Automation is not salvation if you’re still mentally chained to your overlords. Salvation only comes from within
If instead you’re starry eyed wondering how to make a new nation, well, nations are built as energy siphons, with the energy flowing to the top, to the ones that create it. Benevolence is not taking kindly towards nor is it the proper way to turn things. Empires last because they’re adhering to reality: we are your lords, pay your taxes.
The stupidity you witness daily has only one conclusion: I need to become self sufficient before I am devoured whole and hopefully I’ll only have a meager tax to pay