» How I live on $7,000 per year Early Retirement Extreme: — a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, resilience, and applied capitalism

si vous vous abstenez de consommer les produits du système, vous n’aurez pas à les payer. Ainsi, vous n’économiserez pas seulement l’argent que vous dépensez à payer des services indus, mais vous économiserez également le temps et les soucis consacrés à gérer des factures. L’oppression disparaîtra peu à peu de votre boîte aux lettres. Vous n’aurez

expenses are eliminated by only owning what is actually used, and maintaining what is bought.

This endless working and paying is called "making a living," yet people are so busy "making a living" that they have no time for living.

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labor of my hands, and I found that, by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.