High cost of “simplicity”
Charlotte Allen’s blog from the Templeton Foundation zeroes in on the upper-class “simplicity” movement.
Bottom line: The “simplicity” thought leaders want the rest of us to be poorer and have fewer choices so that they can feel good about themselves.
Reminds me of what one of Gandhi’s associates said. Three merchant princes subsidized Gandhi’s much-publicized “simple” lifestyle, and someone remarked, “It costs a great deal of money to keep Ganhiji living in poverty.”