![]() The Opinions Essay: Read more in our long-form series There are Puritans and Quakers, transcendentalists and Shakers, beatniks and practitioners of voluntary simplicity like Robin. There’s forever a strain in American thought that’s suspicious of our society’s avaricious tendencies. Still, that didn’t mean the idea went away. It’s a lot easier to preach giving up on conspicuous consumption when it’s an active choice, not a necessity. But as inequality soared, it fell into disfavor among many concerned with social justice. This kind of anti-materialism message was once common on the left. It is the key to your next enslavement,” Robin tells me. “Spending money is not an assertion of your freedom. ![]() Instead of finding a better-paying position, the book argues for a different solution: to radically cut back. ![]() ![]() “It’s dangled out as a carrot, and I don’t know how many people actually get to do that.”īut the steps “Your Money or Your Life” recommends are different than the ones undertaken by most recent job hoppers. “There’s a lot of blather about meaningful work and purpose in life,” Robin tells me. During the pandemic, millions trapped in offices or in break-even, low-wage jobs came to similar conclusions. ![]()
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