&gt;I suspect you could scale the &#x27;off grid&#x27; lifestyle to around 1&#x2F;2 the US population without many issues.<p>As you spread out the population, the cost of FedEx deliveries is going to grow. Now you can drop off goods in a city via a highly efficient train, have that switched to a truck, and have it delivered to the end customer.<p>If everyone is off the grid in the wilderness, that train becomes a lot less useful to deliver goods. Now you&#x27;ve got to reach a larger area to serve the same number of people.<p>&gt; Web + Fedex means a lot of jobs can be done remotely<p>A lot of jobs <i>can</i> be done remotely, but that doesn&#x27;t mean they could be done remotely without cost. Many people are less efficient when working remotely. I find communication to be much harder when remote than when in person, especially as issues get more complex.