Personally this has to come down to preferences vs conveniences.
Many has pretty much compromised their principle with conveniences. With technology, it is supposed to help others to able to have more time with private and family life, instead, technology continue to bind and enslave of the vicious get-go, get-success cycle.
When that happens, inflation happens, and even if you choose to be homestead even, you are unable to run from constant change of regulations and also the (non sexual) pornography of marketing of never satisfied: by being constantly bombarded by temptations of never satisfied.
This boils down to spirituality, psychology, and conscious decision of saying: