The Moneyless Man A Year of Freeconomic Living & The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology By Mark Boyle 2 Books Collection Set

by Mark Boyle, The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living by Mark Boyle (Contributor)

Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Mark Boyle aka The Moneyless Man (born 8 May 1979) is a business graduate who lived completely without money for three years, and is the best-selling author of The Moneyless Man (2010), and The Moneyless Manifesto (2012) and Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi (2015).

He is a director of Streetbank, a charity which enables people across the world to share skills and resources with neighbours. Mark writes for publications as varied as the Guardian and Permaculture magazine, contributes to international radio and television, and has been featured in major media including CNN, The Telegraph, BBC, The Huffington Post, ABC, Mother Jones and Metro. He lives on a smallholding in Ireland.

Reviews

[Av Ferzair Harrison · Rating 4 out of 5]

The phrase money is the root of all evil comes forward to mind while reading the book - everything about money, the greed the consumerism the products leading to environmental concerns - takes away the pleasure of being able to use your hard earned money - even for a good cause, when you discover that the use of money takes away certain degrees of kindness of others and yourself and the way money cuts away the proximity to the readiness to sacrifice your lazy ass to prepare something you could actually produce/make/grow on your own. Ideally living off-grid is nice, I would imagine utopian living would be so however the capitalism is so deep-rooted in our system and limbic reaction you're questioning yourself from birth all that education and the college so that you can earn money, instead of being educated to become a better person. Good book, based on true and brave account on the author who had put out the proceeds of his best selling book to buy a plot of land to get the freeconomics going.

[Rae Gee · Rating 4 out of 5]

I once did some work for a guy who had a project running out of Hamilton House in Bristol. We parted ways many moons ago and I often thought of him. His voice was very much like Mark's and he held a lot of similar views. He passed away a few weeks back and, even though we'd had our disagreements, I like to think that I was reading this in honour of him. He would have loved this book and I hope that he got to read it.

I really enjoyed this book and Mark gave a new, and interesting, perspective on living without money. And, while he did, on occasion, address how it would affect women differently (personal hygiene is the sole example I can remember), living without money 18 miles out into the countryside on dark and unlit roads would be a massively different experience for a woman. Obviously, this book is written from his perspective and his experiences and it's amazing. There's so much to think on and mull over and, while I couldn't personally do it (my joints are giving up for one!), there's always ways which we can reduce our impact on the planet.

[Stefanie Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of the best books I've ever read. It opened my eyes so much.
I absolutely love his journey

[Timothy Shieff · Rating 5 out of 5]

inspiring

[Sonia Nisbet · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5