There are lots of ways to save money, the most obvious being, “don’t spend money you don’t have on things you don’t need.” Adam Baker at Man Vs. Debt and Trent Hamm at The Simple Dollar can give you all sorts of ideas to help you begin dealing with financial problems you might have, but I…
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Category Archives: money
Afraid of Socialism? Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
If there’s one thing I don’t understand about American Christians, it’s why so many of them are conservative when it comes to the economic side of politics. It seems that helping the poor and the sick were very important ideas to Jesus. He even made it a requirement for inheriting the Kingdom, according to Matthew 25, so…
Stuff
As Tyler Durden put it in Fight Club (possibly the most important movie ever made), we’re “chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.” And, even worse, “the things you own end up owning you.” He’s right. Very few, if any, of our possessions actually make us…
Slavery
I am a slave, and odds are high that you are too. We are slaves to a system that has come to dominate pretty much the entire world. I call this system “transactionalism.” It’s a way of life in which people will only do something for you if you do something for them, and vice…
The Simple Life
No, this isn’t about Paris or Nicole, it’s about the lifestyle known as “Simple Living.” “Simple Living,” as Wikipedia currently puts it, “is a lifestyle in which individuals consciously choose to minimize the ‘more-is-better’ pursuit of wealth and consumption. Adherents choose simple living for a variety of reasons, including spirituality, health, increase in ‘quality time’…
