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xix, 203 pages ; 24 cm |
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When Ben Hewitt met Erik Gillard, he was amazed. Here was a real-life rebel living happily and comfortably in small-town Vermont on less than $10,000 per year. Gillard is no bum. He has a job, a girlfriend, good friends, and strong ties to the community. But how he lives his life--and why--launches Hewitt on a quest to understand the true role of money and mindless consumerism in our lives. Saved is no angry screed on the evils of materialism and capitalism. Quite the opposite: Hewitt learned to embrace an even more intense form of materialism, buying things not to have, but to use--and admiring these things for their utility and craftsmanship, to indeed value what he bought or built. In the process, he experienced a crucial shift from the mindless consumerism we're trained to embrace by our corporate economy to a conscious, thoughtful consumption that brought him more satisfaction and happiness than he ever expected. |
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Wealth -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Money -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Alternative lifestyles -- United States.
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Finance -- United States.
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$aved |
| ISBN |
9781609614089 (hardcover : acid-free paper) : $24.99 |
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1609614089 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
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