No place like home: Cave in the Utah desert where man who has given up money lives

[Jazzy]

Footage has revealed the sparse and yet contented life of Daniel Suelo - the man who has chosen to live without money for the past 12 years.



Suelo, now 51, renounced money in 2000, left his last $30 dollars in a phone booth and walked into the desert to start a new life in Moab, Utah.



His way of life has become an inspiration to thousands of Americans who have suffered in the economic crash and activists like the Occupy movement, disillusioned with a society consumed by avarice and greed.



Mark Sundeen, author and friend of Daniel, has written a biography about his lifestyle after following him closely for several years.



Sundeen, whose book is entitled The Man Who Quit Money, freely admits that he had lost touch with Suelo for several years and when he heard that he was living without money, 'he thought he had gone crazy or had some kind of mental breakdown'.



However following the economic crash in 2008, Sundeen began to come round to Suelo's mindset.



Sundeen said: 'Here's someone who is saying I don't know what the solution is but I'm going to disobey.



He continued: 'Our financial system is so big we can't control it and in so many ways we feel enslaved by it. Worse, we feel powerless to change it.



Read more which includes pictures and a video: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...y-lives-NO-money-decade-slept-cave-years.html



Question: Could you live like this?

 

[Raven]

Yes! I could quite easily!



I've always said my dream living would be a cabin by a lake, in the middle of nowhere.

 

[Bluezone777]

So instead of living in a world with money, he would rather live in a world without money where he depends on the generosity of those who still live in a world of money to take care of the needs he cannot take care of on his own. In other words, a bum by choice. No thanks is all I can say as I rather work for what I have instead of having to beg others for it. There is a special feeling you get when you know you earned what you have in this life that just doesn't come when it is handed to you.



I get the message of not treating people based on the money they have that he is trying to portray which is a good one but the way he goes about it leaves something to be desired.

 

[Evil Eye]

I'm with Bluezone on this.

The idea's ok, but the execution is terrible. Aren't there people who only use items they made themselves? That's the way it should be.

 

[Jazzy]

How can he have a blog when he lives in a cave?