A clever bum, for sure. "Johnston’s feelings about money are inextricably bound up in his certainty that refusing to spend it is the only moral way to live."

A clever bum, for sure. "Johnston’s feelings about money are inextricably bound up in his certainty that refusing to spend it is the only moral way to live." It's ok for others to spend on his behalf, though. It sounds like he is applying an effective story to a nicely vulnerable population of marks. While his philosophy is BS, I cynically admire his hustle.