不花錢(qián)更開(kāi)心

1、不花錢(qián)更開(kāi)心Reporter ： Believing that money distorts our relationshipswith the natural world and with one another ， Mark Boyle set out tolive for a full year without making any use of money at all. A yearlater ，to his surprise，he found that he was happier，healthier andmore content than he had ever been. H

2、e wrote a book called 1) TheMoneyless Man and used the royalties to start a movement called“ Freeconomy，” which utilizes an online site to present thephilosophy of moneyless living and to provide a clearing-housewhere members can connect with other members to share skills ，possessions or accommodati

3、on. It s now used by people in 162countries.Mark Boyle ： Just happened to move over to the UK ， and thengot a job in an organic food store ， and that put me into contact withlots of green-thinking people ， people who are questioning things.You know ，I d heard of earthworms and bees and stuff for the

4、 firsttime. After having studied economics for six years ， I d neveractually once come across kind of real-life economics. And so itmade me question everything about the way we were living and the2 )monetary system. And I got to the point in 2006 where I wastrying to think “ What am I going to dedic

5、ate my life to ？ There sso many big issues in the world ， from sweat shops to factory farmsand ecological destruction ，like ，which is going to be mypassion ？”And I realized that these were all just symptoms of adeeper 3 ) recourse， and for me that recourse was our separationfrom the things we can se

6、e and our separation from nature， anduntil we reconnect with what we can see and with the natural world ，then very little s gonna change. And I had like another kind ofmomentary realization of one of the biggest disconnecting tools thatwe have is is money. It gives us the illusion of independence. I

7、tsa good thing to be independent， but what were actually reallydoing is just becoming dependent on people far away from us. Itsnot like any of us could survive by ourselves today. We speakalways about the benefits of money it s every day in thepapers but what we don t talk about is the consequences.

8、 AndI realized that actually there s no point me talking about theseconsequences if I don t actually start to live it myself ， first to seehow it feels as a human being ，to live without money in a world that s pretty much driven by it.So I made a commitment to， for one year， to live without money.By

9、 the end of it , my biggest my biggest problem was can I goback into the monetary world. It was a real struggle for a fewmonths， and I just realized I ve never been happier. That s whyI continued doing it after the first year ， but it has been the bestexperience of my life on so many different level

10、s.記者：馬克 ?博伊爾認(rèn)為金錢(qián)會(huì)扭曲我們與自然的關(guān)系， 扭曲人與人之間的關(guān)系。于是，他開(kāi)始了一整年完全不花錢(qián) 的生活。出乎他意料的是，一年后，他覺(jué)得自己比任何時(shí)候 都開(kāi)心、健康和滿足。他寫(xiě)了一本名叫一年不花錢(qián)：我的 無(wú)貨幣主義生活 的書(shū)，并用稿費(fèi)成立了一個(gè)叫 “免費(fèi)經(jīng)濟(jì)” 的組織，該組織利用網(wǎng)站向世人介紹無(wú)錢(qián)生活的理念，并為 組織成員相互分享技能、個(gè)人物品和住處提供一個(gè)平臺(tái)。如 今，已經(jīng)有 162 個(gè)國(guó)家的人在嘗試他的這種做法。 馬克 ?博伊 爾：當(dāng)時(shí)我碰巧搬到了英國(guó)，然后在一家有機(jī)食品店找到了 一份工作。這讓我有機(jī)會(huì)與許多主張保護(hù)環(huán)境的人接觸，這 些人常常會(huì)對(duì)事情提出質(zhì)疑。你知道嗎，那是我

11、第一次聽(tīng)說(shuō) 蚯蚓、蜜蜂這一類(lèi)東西。我學(xué)了六年的經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)，卻從來(lái)沒(méi)有 真正接觸過(guò)真實(shí)生活中的經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)。這一切讓我審視我們生活 方式的點(diǎn)點(diǎn)滴滴，還有金融體系的各個(gè)方面。到了2006 年，我在想，“我要獻(xiàn)身于什么事業(yè)呢？世界上有許多重大問(wèn)題 有待解決，從血汗工廠到工廠化農(nóng)場(chǎng)，還有生態(tài)失衡，我將 為哪一樣傾注我的激情？”我后來(lái)意識(shí)到這些只不過(guò)是一些 表面現(xiàn)象，它們?cè)醋愿顚哟蔚囊环N依賴(lài)，而那種依賴(lài)讓我 們與自己的所見(jiàn)所聞、與自然界之間處于分割狀態(tài)，在我們 得以與我們所見(jiàn)以及自然界重新建立起聯(lián)系之前，情況不會(huì) 發(fā)生什么變化。我有過(guò)瞬間的恍然大悟，意識(shí)到讓我們處于 這種分割狀態(tài)的最大因素就是是金錢(qián)。金錢(qián)給了我們一 種獨(dú)立的錯(cuò)覺(jué)。獨(dú)立本是一件好事，但實(shí)際情況是我們必須 依賴(lài)在遠(yuǎn)方的人們， 今天， 我們所有人都不可能靠自己生存。我們總是談?wù)摻疱X(qián)的好處一一報(bào)紙每天都在說(shuō)一一但我們 卻不討論它帶來(lái)的后果。我意識(shí)到如果我不首