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Need less !!

We've been brainwashed to believe we need all this shit when in reality we don't need 90% of it!!

Most underrated channel..but it explains very deep useful truths of life

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i like things . i get the point but i may as well have some of the good things now. when you are dead you have nothing

If you want nothing you have everything

He wants air conditioning

Our idea of poverty, living hand to mouth, subsistence farming, is a fucking unattainable GOAL for most Americans. Do you how much a homestead costs? We are THAT fucking impoverished. A 3rd world country with iPhones. Don't believe me? Drive thru anytown between the Rockies and the Appalachians. The rust belt looks like a war zone of bombed out brick buildings. And has. For 40 years. No one's coming to clean the shit up, they've snatched up as much money as they could and left us as subhumans.

We are not all twenty and able to sleep on the floor. While agreeing that excess is unhealthy, you need not take this to the extreme and propose the ridiculous as the sublime!

Why can't she and me chase each other in the woods we flip a coin who gets the chainsaw first

I like this channel. Music and calm voice are soft and mild. The sense of the videos are truly actual for modern society.

Even the word of God says, seek ye first the kingdom God and all these shall be given unto you. Money is not everything but Salvation is.... Jesus loves Y'all

I will never give up my cosy bed. I go their to rest and unwind.

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rich people don't think i'm cool

Thank you!

$13,000 is definitely not enough to be happy in America. My rent in a small town in America in Michigan is $1200 a month for a two bedroom apartment with my girlfriend. We own our own business and live a simple life. If we only made $13,000 a year we would be homeless. 30 to 40 Grand sweet spot don't let people make you poor by telling you it's simple and healthy. Buy stuff you don't need and be nice to people that's all

I collect a certain brand of handbag. I love them. I like Indexing them, I like deciding which of the 135 I'm going to take out. I like discussing them with other fans of the bag. I've got a big embroidery project on the go that will take me into next year. After that I think I may use one as a source of embroidery inspiration. So the pleasure is not fleeting or diminishing. So far the are holding their value, some have risen, so if I do get bored, which I may I can sell them. Experiences, I've had a few, but they are a memory and they xan make me smile, but they've been and gone, my handbags hove me pleasure every time I carry one. I do get what ypu are saying, but sometimes things can give continual pleasure

Nicely done.

That's why they're called "possess"ions; they possess us.

I can tell this was written in a low income country, $13,000 a year barely buys groceries in the USA.

A great thought...

😂😮😅 No study ever suggested $13,000 per year!! $75,000 -100,000 yes, but even then there are those reporting increasing happiness up to $500,000 .... But not $13,000 which is well below the poverty line in Australia and yes I've checked the exchange rate, it's equivalent to under $20,000. A cheap room for one person in a share house is $250 pw in a small city (not capital city or major metropolitan area) , so that's already $13,000 to live with a bunch of young university students. Food if eating at home would be around $150 pw, but let's say you eat all vegetarian ie veges grains and legumes, so $100 pw, ie $5,200 annually. So we've already reached $18,200 before getting out the front door so adding clothing, medical, personal care items, household items and transport and we can't assume that a room at $250 would cover energy bills or internet. You're also going to need a phone. You're unlikely to be able to get a job in Australia if you don't have a vehicle unless you live close to a CBD or can convince the hiring manager that your travel arrangements will be absolutely reliable. AND what about saving for your future? Are you going to live with students in a share house for the rest of your life?!

Simple Life Intentional Living Frugality Minimalism That's my strategy in this crazy society and economy... Here's how I implement it : I own a 1991 Isuzu SUV, 2012 Honda Scooter and a Used not so Fancy but Presentable House from 1995, people around me (friend or not) always ask me : Why I don't buy/upgrade new stuff? Why I'm punishing myself? Am I broke? While them living paycheck-to-paycheck and have a continuos debt due to their stuff and lifestyle that they can't afford... And if you are good in financial management, you know my answer...

Only the very rich can afford simple life.Mindless consumerism and kafkaesque bureaucracy is the inescapable burden of the poor.

Very relaxing video. I absolutely agree 🎉. Simplify. Simplicity 😊

I've long embraced the principles touted here, but in the US, the largest budget items are taxes and insurance premiums. You cannot minimize those without landing in the mud.

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Trendy ‘poverty’ nonsense for Gwyneth Paltrow rich sorts.

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Voluntary simplicity has more to do with an off grid mindset, then with stuff. Be free from Estatal burocracy , helps much more to find a meaningfull life! Freedom is the goal, not the obedience to the new paradigma of susteinability! - The biggestt thret that H. D THOREAU had to face, was not comsumerism of people , but government taxes, and burocracy ! The mass media money came from that World Estate Gobalist strategy of control!

It is, indeed, a huge myth that material things can give us peace and security. But it is an equally huge myth that relationships can give us peace and security. So much I would like to say about that, but I will leave it at the simple comment.

Making things simple doesn’t mean depriving oneself from wants and needs. It is only after experiencing these things that you figure out if you want a simple or extravagant life. One isn’t better than the other but simply a way of life.

esg is tyranny whereas comsumerism is democracy.....

I livein my Van .....i dont have a normal " job" ....i just draw portraits and caricatures in the center of European city .....i have all that i need ...for me 8 hoursis a lot even if i do what i love .....5-6 hours are enough ....

We are born into a society, one that has structures that program us into conformity. We are expected to live lives emulating those before us. Humans have a need to belong, we are by nature social creatures, with this comes the need to “fit in” if you are a free thinker and a loner you are an outsider. The biggest hurdle most face in living the simple life is freeing oneself from the ego, this one action traps the majority from escaping and following your own path. Another is family and social connections, it’s an entanglement very few can release themselves from. Fear of not being accepted drives most to make decisions that are not allowing them to be true to themselves. I have ridden bicycles for 95% of my life, I’m 60 years old. When I was in my teens in the early 80’s the bicycle culture was very different. Bicycles were childrens toys, a mode of cheap transport, or there were the cyclo tourists, and the racers, most of those groups were what was considered fringe dwellers at the time. The bicycle culture has changed and as such so have the social standing of the riders. These days there are cyclists utilising the internet via you tube and it’s variants to create channels to upload videos of their chosen style to expose, some for a living, some to supplement expenses, and some just to provide information. This has given cycling exposure to many who ordinarily would have given little thought to otherwise. One of the births of the new cultures is the weekend warriors, the Lycra clad riders living the dream of a racing career that never was, buying professional level equipment while being an amateur at best. A lot, admittedly not all have ego’s that cannot be controlled they strive to be better than their peers failure is not an option they go to extreme lengths to achieve their goal. Unfortunately those traits lead them to be un thoughtful of those around them, riding in pelotons on open public roads, creating havoc with the car driving public. This brings scorn on cyclists as a whole and we all suffer the angst of the motorist’s. In the 70’s and 80’s, I had very little trouble with motorists, I tried to be as inconspicuous as possible, and stay out of the way, cycling was a joy. I still love my cycling, but am super conscious of my vulnerability at the same time. I have a friend who has been free of his ego all his life, he has had an extraordinary life free of debt and stress, he has no need for the latest and greatest, has few friends, just a core of like minded non wealth driven people who love what nature provides, he has very few luxuries and desires little, he has had a profound influence on me and his guidance has served me well. Admittedly he has no children and as such has no entanglements there, his philosophy’s have unfortunately been scorned by the ignorant and they unfortunately ridicule , all while conforming to the social programming of those who have hidden agendas to keep the mainstream in debt, if only they could awake.

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Simplicity? This video is simple. I got highly educated, worked hard, & lived below my means. Was able to adopt a baby from an orphanage in South China. Retired early. Now that baby is 25yo. Via saving and investing, I, a happily unmarried woman, have a net worth in the top 3% in the USA. That wealth enables me to have lots of free time, live in a beautiful house in an upscale and safe neighborhood, travel, hire help & pay them well, not worry about my financial future, allow my daughter to pursue her artistic endeavors, and just live very comfortably w/ 1st-class air, hotels, etc. All my sacrifices were worth the life I have. I’d wouldn’t trade it for making $50K/yr w/ debt. Having plenty of money = Freedom.

Didn't have to scroll far to see the usual gripe of "this isn't for poor people". Yes it is. I am voluntarily simplistic and I grew up poor and am still there. The thing is, materialism is an affliction that plagues poor and well off alike. Attachment and suffering as well. While everyone else is making some monetary system their lifeblood while they pigeonhole everyone they meet into 'classes' based on numbers, I choose to realize that any human lifetime is relatively short in the grand scheme of everything, and the less I have dragging me down, the better the experience is.

Voluntary simplicity. Check it out. 😊

Life is simple just do what God told you to do that is Good morals and do charity to weak helpless people such as poor orphans because life is one way ticket to bring yourself to heaven not hell on eternal life...i just remind you all that end of time is near prepared with do charity to your goodness in eternal life..

fwiw, in Chinese it's pronounced DAO, not "T"AO.

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Thank you for another wonderful video. The visual and your voice are soothing as well as inspiring.

Nice content Anoying voice

$13k / year minimum threshold? Seems very low. Was this meant to be $30k / year?

Simple living is to distinguish between necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.

I'm learning more from your videos 🖤