This French woman learned how to live below the inflated money culture in New York. Sure, she’s been “parasitic” on the system, but not because she takes government or other hand-outs. Rather, she’s resourceful, dumpster dives for others’ “waste,” and “pays her way” via a mutual exchange of freely given personal expression of care.

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Whereas the French woman obtained her personal freedom via learning how to live mostly below money, the members of this Canadian Indian tribe kept their freedom to live in personal integrity by consciously deciding to remain mostly below the money culture — for decidedly ethical reasons.

Members of a Canadian indigenous tribe turned down $267,000 per person to allow a pipeline to be built through their land