I first thought about self-sufficiency when I was 13 years old: my original plan was to run away from home into the wilderness. It was actually decided by a counting-out rhyme that I would stay for a while and learn survival skills instead of running away right then. Right now I'm stuck with the same somehow-issue. Land is usually something one is born into, or the alternative is working hard and being extremely frugal... just for a few hundred years. I don't even know how to begin addressing the issue.
Magically triggered outside processes are familiar as well, fucking up every longer-term goal I had, at some point even shorter-term ones, for example my nose had this habit of bleeding uncontrollably whenever I had somewhere to go on time, like school or an appointment. I guess if you win at the game, your computer crashes.
Cool that at least you have a network of mutual aid, I rarely witnessed it and when I did, it was temporary, so I ponder what conditions need to be in place to formulate. Many times I have been and seen others being punished for good deeds. Still I think it's worthwhile to do that if one can deal with the punishment, as it will be an imperfection in this perfectly evil world.