The Minimalists on Living Within Your Means

The Minimalists

Joshua Fields Millburn

Home & Garden, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Leisure

4.7 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Joshua and Ryan reiterate the importance of avoiding debt within and without crises. Listen to “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at patreon.com/theminimalists

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0:00.0	Da Minimists.
0:02.0	There is no minimalist rule book.
0:05.4	Well, until now, the minimalist have created 16 rules for living with less.
0:11.5	A free ebook, which you can download right now at theminimilists.com slash resources.
0:18.5	Enjoy.
0:23.5	Do you think once we as society get to a new normal, will people go back to their consumer
0:29.1	sick lifestyles or do you believe society has learned from this pandemic and will scale
0:34.2	their lives back to more minimalistic.
0:36.7	Dude, I just saw a stat today.
0:39.9	Consumer debt is up 14.3 trillion dollars now.
0:44.5	Like it is, so I don't know if that does that include just 2019?
0:49.5	Like I didn't have to look at that.
0:51.7	I don't have a chance to read the article, but consumer debt is still growing.
0:55.4	Without a doubt.
0:56.4	It's going to grow even more now.
0:57.8	Let's talk about why income is down substantially.
1:01.4	If income is down, some people are right now having to, we're very fortunate.
1:07.2	What I would call rich COVID and poor COVID at this point.
1:11.6	Right now, you and I aren't actually wealthy, but we're relative to my brother who lost
1:18.0	his job for a while and his wife lost her job, which was even more devastating because
1:21.9	he was able to go get a job at Amazon.
1:25.9	But his wife doesn't have a job.
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