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Family Lives Without Money by Choice and Thrives

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Family Lives Without Money by Choice and Thrives? I ran across an interesting story but I believe it is filled with some misconceptions about a truth we can achieve. We can live without money or the burden society places on us. But first let me show you some excerpts of the story so you can follow along. Family Lives Without Money—By Choice—and Thrives By Beth Greenfield, Shine Staff A Berlin family of three has been living on practically nothing but love and the goodwill of others for more than two years and counting—not as a victims of the rough economy, but as activists who are on a money strike to protest what they call our “excess-consumption society.” “As consumers, we support the system, and we are all responsible for making a wasteful society,” Raphael Fellmer, 29, told Yahoo! Shine. “This strike is to inspire other people to reflect about our other possibilities.” Fellmer, who said he’d held jobs since he was 12 years old, began his protest after years of working