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Nope, never forced.  I suppose you could say it was a custom or a tradition and it was expected.  In general, they always wanted to.  It brought them together with the fans, which is one thing a lot of players say they enjoy.

I think it's possible to "live off the grid" and not pay any taxes.  It's not easy.  Maybe every plot of private land now is subject to property tax, I don't know.

If I get say 100 acres in Idaho and live on my own, do I pay any taxes?  That means I can't buy anything of course, or maybe I could live in eastern Oregon where there is no sales tax.

pretty sure all land is taxed

you could go mobile and live in a van down by the river

B.J. and the Bear were doing it back in the 70s.

In several countries, everyman's "right to roam" is codified or understood. The basic essence being, you might own a title to the land establishing a right to use it for homesteading or commercial use, but you can't ever just bar someone from being on it.

I've got my mountain bike kitted with saddlebags. My hammock (along with bug net and rain fly) stuffs nicely in one. In a very real sense, I could live substantially with things I could stuff in there. With the right to roam, I could sashay across the country, spending the night swinging from whatever supports me, and gathering coin from odd jobs. While I'd technically owe income tax off whatever I collected, it might be difficult to file 100 1099s in support of $5,000 income over a year.

I've considered it more than once. Of course, here in America, I'd immediately run into a giddy "If someone's trespassin' on mah proppity, I can legally shoot 'em!" sovereign citizen.

there's a very annoying radio commercial playing over and over and over here proclaiming that gold and sliver have never been worth zero

they are obviously trying to get me to take my money out of the stock market and reinvest in gold

I heard gold hit an all-time high today, maybe I should have

but, the stock market has never been zero either

and making the call that you want to have those folks send you a few ounces so you can go shopping isn't great

do they give you a debit card so you can shop on Amazon?

Gold is, in fact, at an all time high. It will likely tick a bit higher.

That means the time to purchase gold was before now. Sure, there will be strategic buys from people who need to defend their portfolio in specific ways, but anyone buying commodities based on a commercial is simply driving the profit price higher for those already invested.

I understand many of my forebears tried this "investing from the living room" trick in the 70's when silver was skyrocketing (for a few weeks). Most of that silver is still hanging around as a memento to reckless behavior.