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Most of us here are all part of the same struggle. Those of us who have full-time employment are overworked and underpaid. Those of us who aren’t employed can only hope to be. We’re at that stage in life where $100 is still a lot of money but we also have the ability to blow it a couple times over at a bar or on bills, albeit not without regret. We’ll be good in about five years, but for now the first-world struggle is as real as it gets. That’s why it always annoys me to no end when people take what they have for granted.
Today, that person is Dan Price.
“More than two decades ago, then-33-year-old Dan Price had a wife, two small children, a high-interest mortgage, and a stressful job.”
Living a situation otherwise known as “being an adult,” albeit with poor sense for finances, Dan had it all – a wife, kids, a house, and a job. However, Dan decided that after reading a book on rejecting modernity, presumably The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he was going to throw it all away in order to be a hobbit.
“Price’s marriage dissolved soon after, and the whole family moved to Oregon, where he grew up. Price opted to move alone into a tiny cabin in the woods, then a flophouse, then a teepee, and finally into an underground ‘Hobbit hole’ on a horse pasture near a river, where he still lives.”
We kid around a lot about “livin the dream,” but this is quite possibly my nightmare. Price threw away his family and his house to make some sort of selfish point on consumerism. Hobo by choice, he doesn’t even stick to his own contrived morality. Price pays $53 a month for a cell phone and owns both an iPad and a MacBook Air. When it gets too cold in his Shire during the winter, he flies to Hawaii and squats there instead.
Not only is Price an asshole to his family, he’s also part of a growing group of people, almost entirely white because this level of douchebaggery requires a type of entitlement grown throughout generations, that use up resources actually intended for those who are homeless without a backup plan. Price is rejecting normalcy simply because it is easier to give up on something and convince yourself that you really don’t want it than it is to keep at it and succeed.
While many of us struggle to find jobs or find happiness at those we have, there are people out there like Dan Price who have rejected the idea of reality, entirely. I suppose that it’s always an option.
[via CNBC]
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@RogerSterlingUS
This guy sounds like the hipster king.. so against the mainstream that he lives in a hole in the ground, but still owns apple products. fucking douchebag
What a dick.
Goddamn hippies.
Quitter.
Bet this guy watches a ton of porn
Haha, and I can’t even live on 5k a month after tax.
“he’s also part of a growing group of people, almost entirely white because this level of douchebaggery requires a type of entitlement grown throughout generations, that use up resources actually intended for those who are homeless without a backup plan”……nice way to make it a racial thing, your right, because black people have never taken advantage of any system intended for those in need….
There are minority groups other than black people, just fyi. Also, pointing out that people who do this kind of thing are overwhelmingly white is citing a statistic, not “making it a race thing.”
Maybe just post a link next time instead of inserting your own rant about what’s the right thing to do with your life.
No.
^ Epic response. And yes, I said ‘epic’. I regret nothing.
That’s a bold move
I messed up links ^. He means ^^ the MSN comment. Sorry good Sir.
This whole site is based on our mediocre jobs and mid-level happiness, you can’t blame someone for getting out and trying something else. This is the 21st century, people don’t have to stay in bad marriages and lifestyles they don’t enjoy anymore, Roger.
Stop. Go back to commenting on msn front page stories.
So you dont think bailing on your kids makes you a huge asshole? The way i see it that defines selfish entitled piece of shit.
Both the original article and Roger’s account of the story were very vague about the arrangements, so I’m not going to comment on that, but it did say the entire family moved to the same place after his marriage dissolved, so I don’t know it’s actually bailing, or are you against divorce? If so, see 21st century comment above.
I’m not particularly a fan of divorce, but it certainly reads as if him reading that book lead to him casting aside society, which led to his marriage collapsing. Seems incredibly selfish to me.
Neither am I, but if a book makes you completely change your life, there were probably bigger things going on. I really enjoy this site, I don’t know how else I’d get through my work day without it. To me, this article just didn’t jive with the rest of the stuff you have on here. I was expecting something funny about savings tips from a real life hobbit, but we’re waxing poetic on life, so that’s cool. Keep up the good work.
I don’t have a mediocre job, but maybe that’s why my life sucks just as much as yours.
Perhaps it wasn’t a bad marriage till he decided to live in that manner. Marriage is being committed to someone else wholeheartedly. If you can’t do that with all aspects of your life then you probably shouldn’t get married.
You’re new around here aren’t you?