I enjoyed the article but felt the author is over-egging his frugality past the point of actual meanness. I find that money generally arrives at the level one m

I enjoyed the article but felt the author is over-egging his frugality past the point of actual meanness. I find that money generally arrives at the level one mentally expects it to, and while he makes a point of saying he's not consuming, he still is, albeit at a low level, by picking through everyone's scraps, which can be as time consuming as putting a bit more thought into earning more for things like buying gifts for his children better than recycled cast-offs or obliging grandparents to deal with it. It's admirable, but he's still chosen to have three children more than the two that would have been the replacement level for him and his partner, hence everyone else on the planet and in Sweden is paying for them and subsidising him and his self-centred choices, because it doesn't seem like he's going to be paying any taxes to fund his life choices, so society will be picking up the tab. I don't really disrespect him for it, because a nice simple life is great to have, but he is performing the financial and environmental calculus without really holding much of a mirror up to himself.