About This Book
“Cory Doctorow gave us the word Enshittification. Sean Carlton gives us the manual.”
— Pasquale DeAngelis, editorial review, December 2025
“A book that reads like both a confession and a call to arms.” — Blaze Media, December 2025
You are not free.
You are farmed every day for your labor, your debt, and your obedience.
Exit Farming: Starving the Systems That Farm You is not a story about hope, reform, or finding balance inside a broken system. It is a memoir of departure. A record of what it takes to step away from consumer culture and the institutions that profit from dependence.
This book documents the decision to reject work that drains meaning, resist debt that enforces compliance, and abandon hollow measures of success that keep people trapped in lives they did not choose. It traces the shift from abstract security to tangible survival, from performance metrics to work that leaves evidence in your hands at the end of the day.
It is not about escaping responsibility.
It is about reclaiming it.
This is what happened when we stopped pretending the system could be fixed from the inside and started building something real instead.
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6×9 inches, approximately 215 pages
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What It Is Not
This is not a manual.
It is not a manifesto.
It is a record.
Of what it took to leave.
Of what it cost to stay.
Of the slow unlearning required to build a life by hand, on purpose.
Who It Is For
For anyone who has sat in a meeting and felt their soul rot.
For anyone who has wondered what would happen if they stopped pretending and started planting.
This is what happened when we did.
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Disclaimer
This publication contains sensitive themes. It questions the legitimacy of widely accepted societal systems and the values built on them. Some readers may find the arguments uncomfortable, offensive, or threatening to their worldview. That is expected. One star reviews help this book just as much as five star reviews. If you choose to react, whether in praise or rejection, understand that both responses serve the same purpose. If you find yourself angry while reading this book, sit with that before deciding where to aim it. If you finish the book and still feel nothing, then it was not written for you. Thank you for reading Exit Farming.
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