I finished the moneyless man. It was a quick easy read. The most
striking thing about the book was that he had nothing to write about. A
lot of it felt like padding as he talked about the other people around
the world living without money, excessive dwelling on how meeting the
publicity demands was the most trying aspect of the year and on his free
feast to start and end. I got the impression that if he wasn’t
disappointed in how easy it was to live without money his publisher sure
was so he was trying to simulate some struggle.
The conclusion was essentially for a few people to live off the waste
of our current system it is no problem. It would have been more
challenging if he had had competition but he didn’t so it was easy.
The fact that the bitterest part of winter was about minus three degrees
Celsius didn’t hurt either.
In honour of his experiment I’m going to do a series of posts about
ideas about money for this the most consumerist of seasons.
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