February 11, 201016 yr Karl Rabeder grew up poor and thought that life would be wonderful if he had money. But when he got rich, Karl discovered that he was unhappy … so he decided to give away every penny of his £3 million fortune: "My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing," he told The Daily Telegraph. "Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come." Instead, he will move out of his luxury Alpine retreat into a small wooden hut in the mountains or a simple bedsit in Innsbruck. His entire proceeds are going to charities he set up in Central and Latin America, but he will not even take a salary from these. "For a long time I believed that more wealth and luxury automatically meant more happiness," he said. "I come from a very poor family where the rules were to work more to achieve more material things, and I applied this for many years," said Mr Rabeder. But over time, he had another, conflicting feeling. "More and more I heard the words: ‘Stop what you are doing now – all this luxury and consumerism – and start your real life’," he said. "I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things that I did not wish for or need. I have the feeling that there are lot of people doing the same thing." What do you think? Is he doing the right thing or is this just a crazy idea of a rich man? http://neatorama.cachefly.net/money-happiness.htm
February 11, 201016 yr How's he going to live without any money? And I mean, the basics. I don't see what was stopping him from living in the mountains beforehand, unless he has some compulsion where he feels he has to spend whatever money he has on consumerist bullshit.
February 11, 201016 yr Author You start to think differently about you and the world once you have a lot of money.
February 13, 201016 yr Phew that guy is a little bit weird but if he feels okay about what he's doing, why not? :shrug:
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