On Capitalism, Wage Slavery, and the Minimalist: Free Time Means Freedom!

Here are some rapid fire illustrations and examples of how a minimalist behaves in an ultra-capitalistic society to achieve freedom.

The minimalist guards themselves against the impulse to purchase things beyond what is necessary. You will find, a minimalist's philosophy is usually more concerned with protecting their free time; were saving money is a means to achieve this. Free time means freedom, and clever marketing schemes will never distract them from giving up their freedom[s] in exchange for the working to buy things program.

Ironically, a minimalist in the long run becomes wealthier, more admired, and sometimes the employer of the same members of society that once shunned them for being cheap, and nonparticipants in consumer culture. A young minimalist sacrifices with not keeping up with the Joneses now, is afforded the free time to study exactly what to sell to them later.

A minimalist understands money saved resulting from lowering consumption habits promotes an empowering healthy harmony with fewer things; rather than spending all ones time in pursuit of plenty useless things. Furthermore, if a minimalist becomes wealthy from properly investing his savings and not forgetting free time is the ultimate luxury. Then a minimalist may be inclined living substantially below their means, while renting out their estate to others eager to spend the majority of their waking life financing a lifestyle from an abyss of expectations usually resulting in their own wage slavery.

The frustration and heartache of the young minimalist trying to enlighten their denying counterparts that buying plenty can lead to wage slavery, will realize their denial will later proof to be a constant source of profit. For example, once the minimalist fully understands that capitalism caters to the narcissism of others that fancy themselves anything but ignorant, then you will see how your freedom and wealth is contingent upon the lack of self-restraint, and the thousand shortcomings of what others deny exists in themselves. Similar to how an organism finds its niche in an entire Ecosystem, so can a minimalist leverage capitalism to achieve wealth from capitalizing on the fact most people never have the self-discipline to become minimalist themselves.

If you are a young person disgruntled with capitalism now, your bitterness with capitalism may at least grow to become bittersweet. Realizing capitalism may be a lesser of both evils, you may understand that compelling mankind to buy shining objects pacifies the majority of us; otherwise replacing mankind's need bent on killing over which version of the fairy godmother to believe in. Historically, I've noticed when free time is awarded to humans; few of them invent things, and the majority plots murder. Perhaps capitalism's Rat Race or Hamster Wheel may be in third place as temporarily one of the closest template for peace on earth until a second coming of new ideas is presented.