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.
I am low income as well. I often wish I had more money but trying to focus more on the things I already have. It is hard being poor these days with such a high cost of living.
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.
Am a 25year old guy from East Africa who's seriously considering not having kids through a vasectomy,(my family will ridicule me of course), so after reading such a comment, I just feel emotionally connected
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.
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...
@@JGalegria Just got lucky bro... Got the opportunity to find a cheap house before economic madness when I was 26 (now 34) , no kids and debt by being frugal...
$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
A simple life without a goal, (for me) can be terribly boring. ps, throw in some excitement every once in a while, is very important. + Naps are good too. Thoreau had some good ideas but he was a freeloader, living for free on Tennyson's land.
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..
It's $ 13k per year .... but it can go upto $ 18k per year depending on where you are living. Agreed the way inflation going on it should be above $25k
when gas was $4.50 per gallon. i looked on how to cut cost and save wear and tear on my suv. i now ride the train and only pay $75 a year. i've save on gas, milage, wear and tear on the car!
😂😮😅 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?!
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.
Well, evidently you got money but you still dont get it. Oh well. Money doesn’t buy intelligence. And before you go on about higher education and Ivy league universities, let me tell you something. Intelligence is not measured by how much knowledge you’ve acquired but rather by what you do with the knowledge you do have. Kinda like money….. Are you starting to get it? No wonder you’re single, and dont even start with that single by choice crap. We all know. My cousin is like you, insufferable…. Like you, she’s got this nauseating superiority complex, and she too is alone. Good that you were able to buy yourself a kid.
Do you think your freedom comes from the money you have or from the possibility to be helpful to the people around you? In your message you seem to care also for others, but it is a little bit unclear. What are money for? For instance, I am a student in my 20s, unemployed and living on my parents expenses. I can feel that money limit me but I can sense that this moment is important for personal growth. Maybe one day I will be rich, but I know that I can give value to things only if I strive for them for some time. If I have plenty of them, then I cannot appreciate them. Do you agree on that?
But is it not true that, 'while there is enough resources to meet the NEED of every one, there is not enough to meet their GREED'? For how much do poor people around the world have to pay for your slice of the cake?
It is clear that the world worships the God of Money. My SIL just moved into a duplex. She did not buy a small television - which she rarely watches--but a very big one. It is so silly and completely unnecessary but she got a "bargain". We are SO SO SO lost and completely oblivious to our lostness.
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.
Good for you…putz! Didn’t have to scroll far to see the holier-than-though virtue signaling.
@@doctork1708We all know you live in your mom’s basement.
I am low income as well. I often wish I had more money but trying to focus more on the things I already have. It is hard being poor these days with such a high cost of living.
I’m also low income and embracing simplicity has made life so much better.
You are so right. I love my little apartment with all its simple charm. Wanting material things leads to misery, the Buddhists were right!
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.
Am a 25year old guy from East Africa who's seriously considering not having kids through a vasectomy,(my family will ridicule me of course), so after reading such a comment, I just feel emotionally connected
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.
Simple living is to distinguish between necessary and superfluous, useful and wasteful, beautiful and vulgar.
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...
So you own a house! You're wealthy by anyone's standards
@@JGalegria Just got lucky bro... Got the opportunity to find a cheap house before economic madness when I was 26 (now 34) , no kids and debt by being frugal...
@@JGalegriaOwning a home isn't wealth. Many, many are house poor.
The parking lot at the apartment block near my house is full of new cars.
Good video! I also recommend "Enough"of Patrick Rhone.
Thank you for another wonderful video. The visual and your voice are soothing as well as inspiring.
Very relaxing video. I absolutely agree 🎉. Simplify. Simplicity 😊
I'm learning more from your videos 🖤
$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
It actually says 113000 in the closed caption
I can tell this was written in a low income country, $13,000 a year barely buys groceries in the USA.
A simple life without a goal, (for me) can be terribly boring. ps, throw in some excitement every once in a while, is very important. + Naps are good too. Thoreau had some good ideas but he was a freeloader, living for free on Tennyson's land.
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..
A great thought...
$13k / year minimum threshold? Seems very low. Was this meant to be $30k / year?
It's $ 13k per year .... but it can go upto $ 18k per year depending on where you are living. Agreed the way inflation going on it should be above $25k
@@Seekersince94 I am in the USA and it would be hard to live modestly comfortable under 30K
$13k per year? in the USA in 2024? This doesn't pass the smell test for common sense.
The 13k per year statement is completely rubbish since it really depends on location.
Yep the research actually says $75k is a happiness threshold but even then some enjoy increase in happiness up to 500k USD
when gas was $4.50 per gallon. i looked on how to cut cost and save wear and tear on my suv. i now ride the train and only pay $75 a year. i've save on gas, milage, wear and tear on the car!
$75 a year for train travel? Wow. Where do you live? 😊
@@gwarlow its in North carolina
😂😮😅 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?!
That's a nice voice, is it AI...?
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.
Well, evidently you got money but you still dont get it. Oh well. Money doesn’t buy intelligence. And before you go on about higher education and Ivy league universities, let me tell you something. Intelligence is not measured by how much knowledge you’ve acquired but rather by what you do with the knowledge you do have. Kinda like money….. Are you starting to get it? No wonder you’re single, and dont even start with that single by choice crap. We all know. My cousin is like you, insufferable…. Like you, she’s got this nauseating superiority complex, and she too is alone. Good that you were able to buy yourself a kid.
Do you think your freedom comes from the money you have or from the possibility to be helpful to the people around you? In your message you seem to care also for others, but it is a little bit unclear. What are money for? For instance, I am a student in my 20s, unemployed and living on my parents expenses. I can feel that money limit me but I can sense that this moment is important for personal growth. Maybe one day I will be rich, but I know that I can give value to things only if I strive for them for some time. If I have plenty of them, then I cannot appreciate them. Do you agree on that?
But is it not true that, 'while there is enough resources to meet the NEED of every one, there is not enough to meet their GREED'? For how much do poor people around the world have to pay for your slice of the cake?
It is clear that the world worships the God of Money. My SIL just moved into a duplex. She did not buy a small television - which she rarely watches--but a very big one. It is so silly and completely unnecessary but she got a "bargain". We are SO SO SO lost and completely oblivious to our lostness.
Nice content
Anoying voice
Two n’s. n
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A chicken a day keep keeps the landlord away
Why can't she and me chase each other in the woods we flip a coin who gets the chainsaw first
manufactured consent is NOT propaganda !! dont you dare problematize my hypnosis campaign!
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Need less !!
Trendy ‘poverty’ nonsense for Gwyneth Paltrow rich sorts.
It's OK if you don't get it yet. It's not meant to be trendy. Maybe you'll get it someday when your ego isn't in the way
@@bryanhuseboe539 Very poor English. Your use of the word ego is wholly wrong. Clearly English is not your first language. A shame.
So, out of interest,
how world you correct the error?