A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
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A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
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Re: A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
#2he still uses money. Just indirectly, spent by others. He lives off the charity of other people.
Re: A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
#3he still uses money. Just indirectly, spent by others. He lives off the charity of other people.
>He claims he hasn’t spent any money since. It’s true, his friends have told me. No money at all.
This quote was kinda funny to me, because the online text doesn't convey any sarcasm or tone.
But considering he's actually just a mooch I sort of implied the tone of that comment to be quite snarky. "Yeah, no money at all, he won't spend a dime" - this guy's poor friend.
Re: A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
#4he still uses money. Just indirectly, spent by others. He lives off the charity of other people.
Exactly. If you want to live without money, that should be doable, but this isn't it. You can live on a homestead in the middle of nowhere, grow your own crops, raise your own cattle, barter with neighbours and be completely self-sufficient without money. This guy just lets other spend money for him.
Re: A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
#5he still uses money. Just indirectly, spent by others. He lives off the charity of other people.
A man with sufficient free cash flow but no capital.
Re: A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
#6This guy is a monk.
So that's how they got invented the first time, huh.
Well, if he teaches others what he know and they emulate him, while the general populace tolerate and support them, a new ascetic movement would be made easily.
Still, my heart is with his estranged SO and their children. Ascetics can't support others that well after all.
Re: A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
#7he still uses money. Just indirectly, spent by others. He lives off the charity of other people.
He won't be living on much then.
And that is only if you consider throwing food in the trash charity.
Re: A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
#8he still uses money. Just indirectly, spent by others. He lives off the charity of other people.
Exactly. If you want to live without money, that should be doable, but this isn't it. You can live on a homestead in the middle of nowhere, grow your own crops, raise your own cattle, barter with neighbours and be completely self-sufficient without money. This guy just lets other spend money for him.
Yeah, I'm much more impressed with Scott & Helen Nearing, who did basically that: http://goodlife.org
Re: A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
#9This guy is a monk. So that's how they got invented the first time, huh. Well, if he teaches others what he know and they emulate him, while the general populace tolerate and support them, a new ascetic movement would be made easily. Still, my heart is with his estranged SO and their children. Ascetics can't support others that well after all.
Just so long as he doesn't teach too many others - this sort of thing doesn't scale well.
Re: A Victoria man has gone two decades without money
#10he still uses money. Just indirectly, spent by others. He lives off the charity of other people.
He won't be living on much then. And that is only if you consider throwing food in the trash charity.
He's not just living off trash. People give him food too, his friend has spent money on him for things like printing his book. He's indirectly using cash.