Who is Real Minimalist?

People are led to believe that modern-day minimalists use the smallest amount of everything and spend the least amount of money. At first, I only saw it through the eyes of a consumerist but It was only later that I noticed it was completely incorrect.

Our outer world reflects our inner selves. Consumerists see consumerism everywhere, while minimalists see minimalism everywhere. We have a tendency to think and have an insatiable desire for more and more of everything because we live in a consumerist culture. In other words, a consumeristic economy is a competitive, ever-expanding capitalistic economy, but minimalists, to my surprise, exist among us. We use wealth to define the hierarchy of social status and power. So, where do minimalists fit into this picture? The incredible thing is that they are all around us, and their network is much larger than isolated capitalist beings. The problem is that you have to find them. Simply start spending less and seek out people who provide low-cost, high-quality services. Because you won’t be able to reach them as easily through your network of people, this will take some time. You must connect with people who live by the phrase “cheap and best,” as well as people who rely on these services for a living. Take, for example, a cab driver who serves his customers at a very low price and many labor/daily wager poor peoples use his cab. All of a sudden, his cab gets stuck and his engine breaks down; he knows where he needs to go and get his car running at the least cost because he is exposed to the same network of people.

One must be a member of a minimalistic network or society to be a successful minimalist. People in a minimalistic society receive and provide services at a low cost. Many people believe that if a doctor is a minimalist and serves society at a low cost, such as $1 per checkup, he will be lost to inflation or that he does not know how to live his life. However, the truth is that he knew exactly where to go to get what he needed and whom to meet in that minimalist society. He knows where he can get a full breakfast for one dollar, but a consumerist does not, because the consumerist and minimalist worlds are not the same.

As a result, choosing to live a minimalist lifestyle is a decision to either take from and give back to the same society at least cost with best Quality and Quantity. Because they must meet each other’s needs in the same minimalist network, they place a higher value on human virtues than money. In this network, money has the least value, while human virtues have the most.