This Guy Is Living In Extreme Poverty But The Reason Why Isn’t Why You Think

unfortunately poverty seems to be sweeping our nation the unemployment rates have recently been at all-time highs and debt is just getting larger and larger the man you are about to meet is living in poverty but not because he lost his job or his home because he chose to do so meet Dan price he's around 50 years old 20 years ago he had a wife a job and two kids price read pain holo a 1974 book about author Harlan Hubbard's rejection of modernity and his primitive home on the shore of the Ohio River prices marriage dissolved in the whole family moved Oregon price opted to move alone into a tiny cabin in the woods then a flop house then a teepee and finally into an underground hobbit hole on a horse pasture near a river where he still lives with his one spoon one fork and one knife price prepares very simple meals he adds oats nuts and grains to whatever cereals are on sale and since he doesn't have a refrigerator where you can store milk pours water on a cereal price thumbs through an issue of moonlight chronicles and illustrated journal of his life's adventures that he produced for about twenty years Chronicle serves as an artistic outlet and a modest income stream for price allowing him to approach sponsors for goods such as tents and clothing in exchange for mentions in his journal for price who has no washing machine or dryer doing laundry means cleaning his clothes in the river that runs along the edge of his property he dries his clothing on a line what happens when you get richer and richer is you dream of making a paradise for yourself he said what I have here is what rich people have he removes one cottonwood each autumn replacing those trees with evergreens which he says tend not to drop large limbs during storms price leases the property for $100 per year price avoids buying new tools preferring instead to find them at garage sales or on Craigslist and to wear them out as much as possible before replacing them prices version of The Simple Life costs five thousand dollars a year which he earns from publishing a wilderness scene and doing odd jobs around Joseph his Eastern Oregon town I like being able to do what I want to do said price I don't believe in houses or mortgages when their right mind would spend their lifetime paying for a building that they never get to spend time in because they're always working for exercise twice crawls a barbell he made from scrap material in concrete he hasn't kept health insurance over the years three years ago price got a three thousand dollar bill from a hospital after suffering a kidney stone I said dude I don't have three thousand dollars and I set up a payment plan for six dollars price finds a file to sharpen a friend's chainsaw before cutting down a tree in the meadow of where he lives people get this real high when they buy something that's why they buy stuff all the time I'm the opposite when I buy something I get this depressed feeling price ups dismantle a teepee at a Nez Perce Native American photo exhibit in Joseph where he volunteers the expertise he gained from living in a teepee before building the hobbit hole price saw an ad for a job to work as a caretaker at the local cemetery it was like a revelation caretaker there's something so cool about that word like being a monk I love mowing and taking care of a place and one of the jobs so badly I started cleaning up the grounds before I got the job pretty inspiring huh makes you realize here you do not need the stuff you have or that the stuff is just not as important

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Length: 4min 6sec (246 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 30 2017