In 2008, after the birth of his first child, Baker and his wife decided to sell everything they owned, pay off their consumer debt, and spend a year travelin…
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the majority of people who have ever had jobs had them first and foremost
because they needed the money, because that is preferable to starvation. I
get the sentiment, but I fundamentally disagree with the question “What job
makes me happy?” (not his words) because it presupposes that a job is
supposed to make one happy. If one is fortunate to find such a job, that
is great. I’ve met a lot of people along the way that ask me what my major
is, and why I picked that field. When I tell them “money” they seem
disappointed. I don’t adhere to the pseudo spiritual notion that a job can
give me any kind of fulfillment. Any job can fulfill you if you work hard
and become master of your craft. The job is not the fulfillment, the job
is a vehicle for fulfillment and no more than any other thing in life. I
already have a religion; I have no need to find “god” in work, at least in
the sense that any kind of work is inherently more spiritual because it is
pleasurable.
G-d forbid the day I should ever “arrive”, unless by “arrive” one means
“arriving at not arriving” or as zen buddhists might say “the way of no
way”. The “way” is in the art, but the way is not the art. If you
understand this you can avoid decades of romanticizing these “ends” that
cannot deliver. You cannot trade in the pursuit of “ends” for the
“pursuing the end of ‘the pursuit of no ends’”. It seems better, but its
the same trap.
I agree with the primary point of the futility of materialism, just
commenting on one leg of the presentation.
There are only so many slots available in the profession of my choice,
which I also do not have the credentials for… So we all have to eat and
survive even if that means doing a job that we really don’t like very much.
I have no mortgage, no credit card debt and I just love my toys. I’m not
getting rid of anything.
I decided to NOT buy any crap, to live a simple frugal life and instead buy
condos and houses and rent them out. Today I have $30,000 a month after
taxes and I travel the world currently living at Wong Amat Beach in
Thailand. I LOVE MY LIFE
“There are thousands and thousands of people out there leading lives of
quiet, screaming desperation, where they work long, hard hours, at jobs
they hate, to enable them to buy things they don’t need to impress people
they don’t like.”
― Nigel Marsh
His talk could basically be presented by just realizing how to live a
balanced life.
The overall message of the speaker is correct. However, from an economics
standpoint, if everyone did work that they wanted to do, who would drive
container trucks, pickup trash, dig for coal, wait on you at fast food
restaurant, etc. As a whole, it is very unlikely that the entire
population will love their jobs/careers. Besides, in many parts of the
world, work is a necessity to survive and eat, you don’t have the option of
pondering whether this job is more fulfilling or that one.
The idea of “keeping up with the jones” is nowhere more prevalent than in
Japan and South Korea. With a relatively small land area, extremely dense
population, fierce competition, educated population, relatively homogeneous
gene pool, is comes as no surprise that stress and suicide rates are among
the highest. Sure there are other places in the world just as dense (ie,
Bombay, the country of Bangledesh, Mexico City, etc.), but their
intellectual capacity (not intellectual potential) to stress over not
having a big house, better car, etc. is reduced. People from poor
countries don’t commit suicide, they want to live.
Overall good presentation and will work for certain people. Every person
has to find their own solution and answers.
I am debt phobic. I have zero debt. I’ve also back packed to Australia and
a few other places. And I don’t know what he’s talking about.
Sell your crap, yes. Pay your debt, absolutely. Do what you love, only if
you live in a country where this is possible and what you love generates
income. This notion of “doing what you love” or “following your passion”
is a nice idea until, as many have noted, the trash needs to be taken out,
the toilet need to be cleaned, etc. So is everyone picking through a trash
heap for scraps of food for a living just a chump not brave enough to “do
what they love”? Or to turn it around, are some people really passionate
about cleaning toilets and doing this meets their idea of following their
dreams?
Or maybe society limits a large number of people and following their dreams
is just that, a dream.
If you fly out of any airport in the US, someone has to clean the bathroom.
If they are all off following their dreams, you are not going to like the
public restroom much when they are gone.
So this man with a child is living without a decent credit rating. So he’s
never going to own a home, this means he would end up paying more money out
in the long run to rent a house. Yeah he can move where he wants but not
having stability and routine in that child’s life would probably cause more
stress and trauma later in life than owning a few things you don’t need.
Diego O’ Land. That’s where we need submissive types who give up on their
dreams and choose secure income, television, fridge, house, car, dishwasher
and colour and fabric of their curtains instead of their freedom and dreams.
If everyone chose life instead of retarded expectations of how one should
dress, eat, work and live world would have to change to better.
Besinnliches zur Weihnachtszeit: Haben oder Sein?
Nicht nur seit dem Bestseller Buch von Prof. Erich Fromm aus den 20er
Jahren des letzten Jahrhunderts, eine bedeutende Frage. Auch Heute stellen
sich immer mehr Junge Menschen die Frage: Wie viel Freiheit verlieren wir
durch unseren Besitz?! – Sehr interessantes Video zu diesem Thema! – Must
See** #Philosophie #Ethik #Sozial
in a debt based economy doing what he is suggesting will cause economic
collapse (not necessarily a bad thing)
In the beginning, people started trade using raw commodities; i.e. 2
potatoes for 2 eggs.
Then money was invented and people started trading money for commodities;
i.e. 2 potatoes for 2 coins.
Then money lending was invented and people started trading money for money;
i.e. 2 coins for 2% interest.
What is peculiar with this picture? When money was invented, trading became
more convenient. Why? Because, in one way, it allowed trade to occur
between 2 parties that normally would not trade between each other. In
turn, this gave birth to the banks. It gave birth to the concept of profit.
Early on, money lending, or usury as some term it, was regarded as sinful
by certain religions. Money lending is not so different than selling drugs.
The consumer receives the quick high, which eventually wears off and the
reality sinks in. What is freedom? To me, freedom is having the right to
make the choice I want. Choose your decisions wisely. Think ahead. Know
your limits and play within them.
It’s an odd, odd thing. I live in a very nerdy multi-adult household. 75%
of our “crap” is BOOKS. Somehow I never felt right being guilty about that.
Dumb-ass Murican’s love to buy stuff…accumulate stuff…and die with
their stuff. Murican’s are brainwashed by media, and corporate Murica.
- No wonder that the Murican Dream is dead!
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes working jobs we hate so we can
buy shit we don’t need.
-Tyler Durden
I’ve always had and shared the simple understanding that: “the more you
own, the more owns you.” Hats off to all who simplify their life and
answer the question proposed in this talk. Thanks, and happy parting with
your stuff! Thanks Adam. Good job. It’s a start. A beginning point for
many to incorporate in their daily mentality and way of life. SIMPLIFY!
I thought this was all established in fight club?
“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived.
I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire
generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars,
advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can
buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of the history man, no
purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war
is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we’ve been all
raised by television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and
movie gods and rock stars, but we won’t and we’re slowly learning that
fact. and we’re very very pissed off.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
This man took a “vacation” to where all these people never make it, and die
tryng..
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/the-impossible-refugee-boat-lift-to-christmas-island.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Has he never watched fight club?
Great video..Should be shown to every high school graduate before entering
the work force.
Advertising has us working jobs we hate to buy shit we don’t need.
This guy is genius well done man
I think I missed something, he and wife were broke and took a hugely
expensive vacation?
I guess he is not addressing folks that work 40-50+ hours per week at what
used to be a real career job that now no longer pays a living wage. What he
is talking about is the same theory of overweight folks lay off the soda.
This is NOT a “world changing” thought just over simplification. “Don’t buy
what you can’t afford” duh
Simplify your life – then do what you love…or at least be aware of the
choices you make.
it has reached
It means the USD is pretty safe from the chinese. They wont dump it.
It also means China are losing a lot of money as the interest rates are
close to zero.