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People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom. [11]
Tim Ferriss • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
The typical private car carries between one and two people in a box that takes up over 100 cubic feet. As far as space is concerned, this is one of the least efficient ways to move people that has ever been conceived. The National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO) lays the math out simply in its Transit Street Design Guide. Add b
... See moreSteven Higashide • Better Buses, Better Cities: How to Plan, Run, and Win the Fight for Effective Transit
Well, I start now on foot, and get there before night; I have travelled at that rate by the week together. You will in the meanwhile have earned your fare, and arrive there some time tomorrow, or possibly this evening, if you are lucky enough to get a job in season. Instead of going to Fitchburg, you will be working here the greater part of the day
... See moreHenry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
The poor seemed to never stop working. The problem, he ultimately decided, was himself and his fellow affluents, who lived idle lives. “I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means—except by getting off his back.”[1]
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
He was seeing beyond the surfaces of the land to its hidden truths. Some nights he sat up late on his front porch with a glass of Jack and listened to the trucks heading south on 220, carrying crates of live chickens to the slaughterhouses—always under cover of darkness, like a vast and shameful trafficking—chickens pumped full of hormones that lef
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