Posted 41 weeks 2 days ago by Philip Brewer
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A while back I wrote a piece on Opting out of the money economy, a topic I've long been interested in. Because of that long interest, the poem "Getting By" by Gary L. Lark caught my ear when it was on the most recent Writer's Almanac.
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It's a quirk of mine that I've always found the idea of opting out of the money economy to be interesting.
I've got a bunch of books on the topic. Books like Possum living: How to live well without a job and with almost no money and How to Survive Without a Salary: Learning How to Live the Conserver Lifestyle.
It's mostly the idea that I find appealing. When I look at the details--the hard trade-offs involved--I find that I come up short of wanting to live that way. But there's a lot to learn from these people, their books, and their lifestyle.
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