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SJohnson

(120 posts) Sat May 5, 2012, 07:31 PM May 2012

Can Going Without Money Hurt the Economy? One Man's Quest to be Penniless

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Can Going Without Money Hurt the Economy? One Man's Quest to be Penniless (Original Post) SJohnson May 2012 OP

Not if only one person does it... cyberswede May 2012 #1

cyberswede

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1. Not if only one person does it...

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Sat May 5, 2012, 08:12 PM

May 2012

but, to paraphrase Arlo Guthrie...

if one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick...
And can you, can you imagine {if} fifty people a day {do it}...they may think it's a movement.

I also recall an article I read a few years ago which described a group of friends in L.A. Or S.F. who decided not to purchase anything new for a year (except food and underwear - lol). I thought the idea sounded like fun; naturally, they were chided by RWers as being un-American.

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