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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He does not claim to be broke. He does not try to make people think that he is broke. He tries to show that you can live happily at a dramatically lower level of consumption and spending. That is all.  He now makes money off of his blog.  He continues to live a low-consumption or spending lifestyle.

I can understand that someone would be uninterested in his lifestyle or blog, but to be offended by it strikes as insecurity about one's own choices.

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ITA with this. I read MMM, I roll my eyes at a lot of what he writes, I laugh out loud and roll my eyes at other parts.

He's just showing what can be done if you think very differently about money and accumulating capital, which is what he and his wife did for 10 years as software engineers.

You can pick apart "Well, *I* don't want to work construction as a hobby job, and I would never want to do X, Y, and Z, so that means he's an idiot!" but you're missing the point.

He has some really brilliant, almost philosophical insights into questions about life, happiness, satisfaction, consumption, materialism, purpose, and the concepts of "enough." Those who are so eager to discredit him reveal a very real insecurity and a strange defensiveness about what they obviously feel are their own shortcomings. [/quote]

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