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Any article like this that doesn't discuss how people pay for things is bunk. Yes the method of self actualization great people use is interesting but it's not

Any article like this that doesn't discuss how people pay for things is bunk. Yes the method of self actualization great people use is interesting but it's not applicable unless you know how they achieved their basic needs. While Thoreau was living in the woods his mother brought him food. Churchill had the time to write because he was born into a wealthy aristocratic family. These details matter. Edit: writer mixup

bachmeier 9y ago
I kept saying to myself as I read the article: this was the Great Depression, when people starved because they didn't have jobs. If all you had to do was go live in the woods and read books, the Depression wouldn't have been a problem. There's the practical issue of needing food and shelter, which didn't fall from heaven, and in his case, buying enough books to read for 16,000 hours.