As a child my grandfather who was Cherokee was with me in the garden. He pointed to the woods and said "everything you need is out there, and yet people work thier whole lives for things that will sell in a yard sale for 50cents. I never forgot that. Wise man. I am very thankful for the time we had together.
If I may add: people work their whole lives, trading their one and one only truly valuable thing - health - for junk that will only sell in a yard sale for 50 cents...
Poverty is man made. Wealth is being content with who you are and happy with necessities. I would be happy with the bare minimum. Happiness is not being under the stress of being able fulfill the 30 year (slavery) contract of a mortgage, 5-8 year loan of a car, and etc. Freedom is being debt free.
Poverty is man made because the men that make it create it so they can be rich and have power over other men. It is just another form of slavery. No matter how "wealthy" humanity becomes the rich will devise means to extract more of it so they can become richer.
@@jimmyho6849 Nothing to back the loan. If he doesn't pay back, the bank needs an asset to replace the loaned money. This was an easy question. The bank is not giving money for free.
Exactly. This is in my opinion a serious limitation of liberty. We buy a house with our work but still have to pay anual taxes for something we already bought and inclusively paid 10%of taxes for the government... Same happens with cars, motorbikes, land, etc. I cant simply by a land and stay there because I will always need money to pay taxes
We've overcomplicated our lives thinking that if we lose our standard of living, especially those in the West, we will live a miserable life as if most people in western culture aren't already overly anxious, overly depressed, overly medicated via drugs, alcohol and other distractions. The longer I've lived the more I've realized a simple life that meets basic needs is the way to go so that you have free time to do what you enjoy. This ideology of the west to work constantly to reach some higher achievement and be better than everyone only leads to unhappiness in the long run. Just my two cents. Excellent video!
That "ideology" is IMPOSED by that elite needing all sort of employees to keep their business running, and the thieves disguised as politicians that parasite us. They constantly bomb the sheep making them believe that they NEED a new flat screen every year; or a new car, or devices that will be hardly really necessary. They create the false necessities and the sheep follows them blindly.
Well true that may be. But we are headed for some big changes ahead from the under 30s who demand respect instead of earning it. They have contempt for family, religion, work, and community. They are overly obsessed with self, thus can’t see beyond their self inflicted anxiety about acknowleging different opinions other than their own. They are the most privileged, yet are blind to it as they deflect onto others their intolerance and outrage. Its a mental disorder. They want to burn it down and replace it with what? Choice, freedom, and liberty from an overreaching government breaks poverty away. If you rely and invite them for dinner. They will never leave and keep you addicted to them and unable to be free yourself from poverty. What we had here in the west was fragile, and we all knew it wasn’t sustainable if we accepted depravity and living beyond ones means. Look around. Its not going to end well.
So many times I've told friends, relatives, and others. The poor person without money but knowledge/skills to grow food, build shelter, locate water, make clothing, hunt and provide for himself is Richer then those with money and no such knowledge. Thank you Sir... wise
Self-sufficient gardening, building tiny homes/cabins, knowing about home remedies and going off-grid has become more important since the start of quarantines.
That scenery behind you is AWESOME! I like that rural look and the plains and trees. Selfishness, evil, greed, living off others, captivity, debt, uneducation, meanness, stealing all make people unable to live in peace with one another. No love. Poverty is a state of mind in a way also, coupled with lack of self sufficiency. Poverty ... when people can't help themselves.
I refused to be in debt from a mortgage or work my whole life for some corporation. I now work pt and own my land off grid. I am much healthier and in a better place mentally. Thank you for being a good figure for all of us to listen learn from ❤
Building a house… building permits, inspectors, standards… and $100,000 minimum to qualify for a life-long mortgage… on a plot of land too small to grow anything.
see the opportunities you from the first world have! any simple job in the UK pays well compared to third world currencies here. you can, with the value of a car there, buy 2 or 3 hectares of land here in Brazil... or Argentina... I'm Brazilian and I know many people who went to work as an immigrant in rich countries, to save money and buy land here
@Jochi Kennedy because the current system is consolidated and no revolution will bring concrete changes in the short time you have of life. Better and more realistic make your own personal mini revolution....
This is by far the best UA-cam Recommendation ever! Very interesting thinking and truly mind opening. This should go viral. We as humans should do what we are meant to do, learn by ourselves, practice, discover things by ourselves, be satisfied with minimum things, simplify life, live a minimalistic life style. Society brainwashed people, made everyone lazy, took away all the knowledge and wisdom and planted "poverty" into our minds and created unfair systems that take away everything. How come that we work so much for years and we are still poor? It took away our humanity, what does it even mean to be human anymore if we are just mindless unhappy work drones in modern society?
I am from Australia. I don't have lot of money or brand new things but compared to other places we have everything. I show my 13 year old son videos like this so he knows we are not poor. Lots of people here pretend to be rich because they judge each other by the things they own.
I've tried to understand what wrong with this world in years. Of course I found many things and figure out many problems, but when i watch this video I realized that Jon is right: We are on the way of thinking crisis. Our thoughts is the beginning of every outward problems. As always, thanks for your sharing. Take care, Jon!
You are absolutely right but the problem is we no longer have free access to the land. If I were to start a homestead along a creek in the wilderness, eventually some authority would come along and tell me that I cannot be there. One must have the money to buy the land. Modern civilization has taken us to a place where to do what you suggest is a conundrum.
I agree completely! My husband and I feel like we are the richest people in the world, even though we are technically below the poverty line. We have six wonderful homeschooled children (plus two grown ones), we have shelter and clothing and more food than we could ever need. We have many wonderful books to read, lots of friends in our community, clean air and water, and beautiful mountains to climb. We make our own music, tend our own gardens, create beautiful things, and spend lots of time together as a family. What more could anyone want?
Maybe that’s why my grandparents homestead became family resort or secret hiding base. When we got tried of living in the city we go to granny’s place. Since growing up in my granny’s homestead, I learned a lot. Back of their homestead are the wild woods. In old days knowing edible wild plants and foraging your own basic medicine is a common thing. From foraging to making candle shampoo soap fishing net and harpoons little weaving from the loom to make fabrics to clothing and suits and shoes. Only haven’t learn how to build houses yet. I’m also a sou chef in my family restaurant. No problem there. 😂 When our ancestors can survive the wild, why are there so many homeless suffering on the streets of the big cities nowadays. Before your videos, I could never understand. Thank you so much for you wake up call. At least my family won’t be the copying economic slave that government wants to create.
Great message. you said out loud what I think. People are dying because their hearts are aching and they are ignorant to who they are. Eating junk food in a panic then dying from health problems. Using drugs because they want to escape. so sad. overdoses. suicide metabolic diseases. all are NOT from poverty BUT from ignorance.
2People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy. Thoughts on Wisdom and Folly 13Here is another bit of wisdom that has impressed me as I have watched the way our world works. 14There was a small town with only a few people, and a great king came with his army and besieged it. 15A poor, wise man knew how to save the town, and so it was rescued. But afterward no one thought to thank him. 16So even though wisdom is better than strength, those who are wise will be despised if they are poor. What they say will not be appreciated for long. 17Better to hear the quiet words of a wise person than the shouts of a foolish king. 18Better to have wisdom than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much that is good.
Amen! The problem is governments and politicians are saying you need jobs because their real purpose is to make you stay poor. If you go to university, you forget the knowledge and the skills you really need in life. If you're dependent on money, they can then rely on your possessions by exchanging them for money, which you will then think it will be a good and fair deal.
Townsend Whelen once said that "Every necessity for life is free" and that has always rang true throughout my life. I only "want" for things I do not need.
"Want" means to lack and from the moment you are born you are lacking both knowledge and wisdom. Your statement was well intentioned but missed the mark.
@@seanregehr4921 You miss the meaning friend. The human only needs rough shelter, food, and water. All of our knowledge and desire for such has created all of the "want" for more of the same. We were created to live on this earth. It's only the educating and division of peoples that has created society.
We are fighting a 2nd eviction in a year by the same landlord. We have never missed paying our full rent. We had the 1st case dismissed in our favor. I was heartsick that we may be homeless. Now I try to believe that truth will prevail, that maybe things arent falling apart but falling into place and that everything will be ok. You got this. Love to all.
Jenny did you not have a specific time limited contract. Surely a landlord is entitled to regain his property once reasonable notice given. Why would you be homeless? Just rent somewhere else.
Thank you Jon Jandai for reminding us that SKILLS are vital for HUMAN TO SURVIVE and LIVE... Poverty mindset is probably the problem, and not poverty itself... I want to learn how to build earthen house... I want to learn how to grow my own food... I want to learn more how to take care of my basic needs in order to survive...
I miss the good old days, back then mothers are always there for their children's, the healthy food we eat, the clean water we drink. Back then we were so wealthy
@@GhostofTradition I don’t agree with your statement because the earth is overpopulated and resources are quickly dwindling. Having a piece of land is the most important thing, and most people can’t afford that because there is so little land left.
@@puravidadew7031 get out of the city 😂 seriously there's an abundance of cheap land out there full of beautiful scenery and enough resources to give you and your family plenty for several lifetimes. talk of overpopulation is just a way to limit your resources so you can live efficiently in a cage in the city.
My grandfather was a small farmer in northern Wisconsin ( from 1920 - 1955 ) The one thing that I remember most about them is they were never in a hurry. Their lives were filled with work but it's what they wanted to do. He told my dad about money , "It comes to you, what you need, never worry ,it comes to you if you don't take too much."
This is what I've been telling people and they think I'm crazy. If you have a home, grow your own food and have water what do you need money for? We lack these basic skills and our minds our trapped. Poverty is poverty of the mind. Thank you for showing us the way to go back to our roots and nature. You're helping a lot.
We need money for real estate taxes, utilities, WiFi, cellular phone, veterinary care, vehicle registration, gasoline, home insurance, car mechanic, shoes, new eyeglasses, and trash pickup
John it is your videos like this that literally bring me to the verge of tears I was born in the United States of America amongst the family who would consider themselves in middle class above others and put a lot of faith in money and I am totally different I have been persecuted within my family I've had my children ripped away because I wanted to homeschool them because I wanted to give them herbal medicine your words like just are like Salve to open wounds. I thank you so much for just being you even now I live on an island in Ecuador where the people consider themselves poor and it literally hurts my soul to see them have so much knowledge and not acknowledge it think that they have to go to school to get it because if they don't have money almost all conversations revolve around $$$. They have labeled me cr8y bcz i preach these ideas & live by them. Thnk u 4 Ur work!!
Abu Huraira reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Wealth is not in having many possessions. Rather, true wealth is the richness of the soul.” Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6446, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1051
(Faatir 35:12) Nor are the two bodies of flowing water alike - the one palatable, sweet, and pleasant to drink, and the other, salt and bitter. Yet from each (kind of water) do ye eat flesh fresh and tender, and ye extract ornaments to wear; and thou seest the ships therein that plough the waves, that ye may seek (thus) of the Bounty of Allah that ye may be grateful. From: www.surah.my/35#12 IMO: That all blessings in earthly wealth and spiritual wealth comes from Allah s.w.t. - to be able to use the sea to fish and the rivers for drinking water is to understand that everything has values when use properly.
When a book tells you to kill all non believers, I take absolutely no notice of it at all. This includes the bible, and other books. The message we are listening to here is something we should all listen to. It’s strange but the happiest people in the world live in a slum in India. They have nothing and yet, they are happy. Things don’t make you happy.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 1 Timothy 6:10
@@colly7963 Money doesn’t bring you happiness. What money does give you is choice. You can choose to do things with it that make you truly happy. In reality, religion has nothing to do with the world today, however, there are some good lessons we can learn from the many religions out there today. One of them is regarding ‘The love of money’.
@@colly7963 one of the most dirty verse that make me want puke. Please don't spread your misinterpreted lies. Money can be as beautiful as water and as dirty as a poison. Only your intentions fulfill the contents. The reality is how you make it
That's a nice speech, I agree with it for the most part. It does however assume that you have enough space to farm and build a house on. Even in a rich nation like America, you can definitely have poverty in the inner city. As much as rooftop and urban gardens are the trend, sometimes there is simply no opportunity for that. Or rather, take a situation where people have fled their home country and now find themselves trapped in an area impossible farming conditions, lack of water, infertile land, etc. There are many situations where poverty is very difficult to overcome with just wisdom alone. I do like this video because it does point out an error of capitalism, in that many people are forced into an escapable poverty but cannot see the solution because we forgot the answer. The status quo of a 9-6 job doesn't have to be the norm and it's good to break away from that rigid line of thinking. So thank you for your wisdom :)
Basically he is saying why are you creating such cities in the first place. He is talking about 21st century poverty in many urban area across the world and not about extreme poverty cases like some part of Africa due to extreme climate. You clearly did not listen to him.
I am really impressed your talking. You're absolutely right what you say. Most of the country have a very good agricultural system especially Asian countries. We have enough food to eat and live. Why we want to worry? Politicians and the business manis the one creating a Poor & Rich comparison. They all compare the rich country like with the luxurious building, luxurious car, luxurious house with loan.... Most of the country producing their own food. Government must opportunity to grow technology, why not government never give opportunity to grow their own food in thier land. What for buying from other countries the same product. It's all business minded. In future we need to teach our children to live self sufficient life not a luxurious life with loan. Thank you so much for giving a useful message to all. 🙏
True insight of this about poverty - not money but character yet most people still fall into this trap of life without love , wisdom n freedom. Simple n great sharing .this mother earth is still rich for God to protect n bless both mankind n aliens for happy living here together.
John, This conversation warrants, deserves much attention into the many areas of life it effects. In the early days of industrialization the story of lack was a big push to create desire and motivation for industry and to change the values of people (read hands/labor) to perception of lack and need. Simple sufficiency practice together with simple wisdom and skills provides, teaches and affirms life value both internally and externally. We also learn to work together and know much more balance, health and community.... even family! Beautiful works... Thank you John
That's right sir. Lack of money is not problem, only in the mind that people are poor because our life is determined by how we think. Think poor equals poor life: think rich equals abundance.
It's so weird to me that many of us seen to be asking up to these truths to a point like this, when we appreciate messages like this to this high degree. I have been thinking about money being the problem of society for a while now and agree 100% with you. Let's get back to our roots of providing water, food, shelter and energy for ourselves and we'll be free! Thank you Jon 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
You can still turn it around due to your reservation status! Yes, land is not fertile and water poor. Think of Vegas! Make it a paradise! Stay put or roam the world? Roaming is dead with nations! Your people should know this! We don't like to share our resources with outsiders! Thanksgiving was an attempt to include those settlers. Voices within objected or gift given was false or a hidden trade! Breed more! Love more than self! There is still hope! Rooting for your people!
It's so true. I am brainwashed. I have been learning All the live skills, one thing is hair cut skill. I cut my husband's hair, he is happy he doesn't have to wait long time in babershop any more. We saved money too. I also grow fruit trees and gardening in front and back yard.
To me, poverty is the inability to live in harmony with this beautiful earth, its people, the environment & a lack of a spiritual relationship with the great SPIRIT of the universe. Give thanks💝💖💕
Nature is home. Embedded in the city, where family and friends all live separated from each other, most work full time. Surrounded by buildings, roads, private property, and more roads, there is no longer nature to go to. To get out of the city means to leave family, friends, and familiar places behind. To an aboriginal, this is death. To leave city is to survive in desolate wilderness alone, all above snowline, which is very hard. It takes money for license to hunt, for firearms, for travel to another state or country, for food. There is no yard to garden. The cars are so loud and violent that its a challenge to go outside at all. We are suffering from a lack of healthy wild spaces. Those of us seemingly stuck in city feel as if there is no place else to go. Once, we thrived with the nature. Now we survive civilization. Earth suffer from this too. Best we can do is connect with nature, each other, support nature, each other, abide with optimism, make art, journal, dream. You, Jon, help the situation by being a voice of the nature, a voice of the people of the nature. Reminding us of the nature. Showing us the nature. Popularizing wisdom. Addressing what needs be addressed. Thankyou.
I believe there is a lot of truth to this video as somebody who has lived in both financial comfort and 'poverty' and found my personal well-being struggled in both cases, but I do think it is also worth bringing up a few other things. In the USA and many other western countries, land is mostly held by private owners or by the government - this means that to set up shelter and farm as you suggest is not nearly so simple a task without significant amounts of money. To even find where you can legally forage requires resources tied to money, and for many people also requires reliable long-distance transport (while this is better in most of Europe, the USA lacks many bus and train services and people are mostly forced to own and insure their own cars). We could also discuss the occasional need for specialized healthcare professionals which again requires money, but in any case the conclusion is clear: education must come alongside real changes to the way people and nations share property and resources with one-another, so that people have the opportunity to actually make use of the education you offer.
Absolutely agree. I live in Australia and yeah... it's mad. Kids can start out with big dreams all they want, but it always comes down to money or stupid laws. In Asia, you can start a food stand quite easily and bring joy to the community and make some cash. In Australia, you basically need a tonne of paperwork and licenses. Furthermore, you can't just setup anywhere you like. So you're pretty confined...
Definitely and this is all by design. The USA was designed with a threshold for people's opportunity for success and independent living, if you pass the threshold (likely born into more affluent family/better access to resources in that state) you have infinitely more opportunity to become educated, and learn how to live your life and be 'successful', even sustainable and wise. Could start your own homestead if you so choose. On the other hand poor areas in USA are isolated, not to mention the education system in poor areas is so much worse than upper class areas that kids end up either not caring about education at all, or realizing it's pointless/dropping out, or are taught a bunch of lies and useless information they will never need. Rather, being taught how to forage, identify wild edible plants and fungi, learning about sustainability etc should be the gold standard for basic education in this country. However the education system is confusing and pushes people to conform to a kind of slavery to capital and corporations interests. Even if you are permanently disabled, you are not allowed to save up any money for property, car, repairs, your kid's college fund, etc. or else you lose your payments. The powerful people on this planet want to keep the classes divided. Rich people and poor people are pretty much segregated with gentrification and redlining, and the rich aren't worried about poverty because they are never exposed to it outside of seeing (and then averting their eyes) homelessness in the inner city. Upper class people greatly overexaggerate the efficacy of charity, anecdotally as I was homeless as a child, charity actually does very little to keep you afloat and have basic needs met. If you are trapped in a concrete jungle, moving is NOT an option for you or your family the vast majority of the time. You are basically a prisoner to a system that purposefully keeps you down when you are poor in America. In America if you are poor, you are statistically likely to be poor for your entire life, and social, economic, and educational poverty is all you've ever known unless you manage to educate yourself effectively on the internet. Not even to mention the stereotype of poor people just being lazy leeches on society, which is always coming out a brainwashed privileged and sheltered person's mouth. "They call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
Hi Jack! Yes, there are a lot of legal restrictions in the U.S. and many areas are very expensive as far as housing/purchasing land is concerned, but please don't think it's not possible for you to escape from the system here. It is actually not that hard. If you know what to look for, you can forage practically anywhere--a city park, an abandoned lot, state-owned forest land... many times neighbors will even allow you to forage in their backyards if you ask. If I see a a cluster of mushrooms growing on a neighbor's lawn that I know are edible, I just ask them if I can have them; no one has ever said no to me yet!) I have lived in six different states (and two Canadian provinces) and have never experienced a lack of foraging opportunities. Gardening/farming is also possible even if you don't own land. You can get a community garden plot, do some guerrilla gardening in an abandoned lot, or ask a friend if she'll allow you to use a corner of her property (we have a friend who has given us half an acre to use indefinitely, rent-free!). And don't forget about scavenging resources from the waste stream, which is a huge opportunity in the U.S. and Canada, where we waste at least 40% of the food that we produce. (Start by looking for the garbage bins in back of your local WalMart--believe me, you can live entirely off what you find there if you want to, and, no, it's not even slightly dirty or unsafe. It may not exactly count as self-reliance but it's a way of stepping out of the mainstream way of doing things and it will save you a whole lot of money. I can easily feed my family of eight with what is thrown out at the back of a few local stores, and it's really nice food. We are technically below the poverty line and we eat like royalty! ...Just try to be discreet so they won't tell you to stop.). As for buying land, there are many rural areas of North America where land is still very cheap. The trick is that if you want the cheap land, you have to be willing to live where the "good" jobs aren't. But that's okay. You don't need a "good" job to pay for the cheap land or the tiny house. You can work part-time in a small-town grocery store or sell used items on eBay and make enough to pay the really necessary bills. Then you'll have lots of free time to do what you really want to do with your life! If I died today, my fourteen-year-old daughter, who works part-time at McDonald's, could buy herself a little piece of land, build herself a tiny house, and live stress-free on her own. I do not worry about her at all because she is homeschooled and knows how to teach herself anything she needs to know; more importantly she hasn't learned the WRONG lessons about what she needs to live a good life. It's very true that public transportation is sadly lacking in many parts of North America outside of the big cities, but whether you NEED a car depends entirely on whether you NEED to go anywhere fast! People lived in rural areas before cars and trains and buses were invented, after all. If you don't have to get to a fancy job and your needs are few, maybe you could live in the country a few miles from a small town and bike in once a week to do your shopping/dumpster diving and get your books and Internet at the public library. I have lived car-free in the United States and we plan to go car-free again when my husband leaves his current job, even though we are going to be moving to a more rural area. Living without a car will save us about $800 a month, which will allow us to live on an even smaller income. Many things are possible if we just start to think differently and reconsider absolutely everything about what we've been taught that we need.
Understanding the meaning of poverty is very important. And he tells in simplest way. I always tried to discuss about this thought to some like minded and I found this channel, so much inline with my thoughts. Only one thing is different that I am vegetarian. Humans make this world so complicated. We are trying to solve our problems and in this process we created so may problems. Poverty is one of them. Poverty is nothing but lack of skills.
This man is a very wise man. He reminds me of my father-in-law Rudy kelpito before he passed away. That man knew how to do everything he relied on hard work and self-sufficiency. He was full of knowledge I wish he would have lived longer so he could have taught my children which are his grandchildren his knowledge. he had children of his own but they didn't learn anything from him because they chose not to, so my kids can't learn anything from their loser dad because he's a entitled junkie sad. My grandpa was full of knowledge too he knew how to do a lot of things I miss my grandpa I didn't really get to spend time with him the only time I had was when I was younger his name was Carlos Vasquez and he was from the Pima Indian reservation.
Politicians need to position themselves between a person and normal life, to do this they create a consumer mindset. Adding and adding to the things we think we need in order to live, whether luxuries but also other things that we are told are the only way to run a society, by them and their very rich friends. Edward Bernays was employed in the early 20th century to push this harder and harder in societies. Great video.
For a person in a developing country, I can say that what complicates life are out of pocket expenses for education, and health. Since last year we have been having a drought for two years running, not to mention the pandemic. Self - sufficiency of the farmer can be gutted by natural shocks and the desire to meet educational and health needs of the family, especially in this day and age of cancers etc.
I was raised on the Mississippi delta, the poorest part of the poorest state in America. We never really considered ourselves "poor" in a bad way, it was just a neutral observation. We were poor, but poor was normal. There was no shame or grief to be had in it. We always had food even if it was welfare food, which we were grateful for. We always had a place to sleep, clothes to wear though they were hand me downs and Salvation Army clothes. And we had each other, and coffee. I was happy then.
In 2020, stuck in my house with neighbours in a posh area of town, I stared at all the exotic cars parked outside and collecting dust during the quarantine. That's when it hit me. All the things we spend money on are things we can do without, and food is actually supposed to be our cheapest expense.
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EVERY able bodied person has “money”. Because what is “money”? It actually is the “Man-hour” credit each person expends on a task for which in return a person is given a “token” (paper notes) which are exchangeable for someone else’s output from his Man-hour. In a village setting the absence of such tokens does not mean there is an absence of man-hours. So lack of money is actually lack of physical tokens. That’s all. That doesn’t mean the villagers can’t exchange man-hours to get what they need. That’s why they don’t feel poor until Facebook tells them.
My grandma lived in a very traditional village and I've heard many of her stories, so I know that a lot of what he says does not neccessary apply. For example, the homeless people, the advice "just cut tree and make a hut out of it" would get them thrown into prison, as all trees were invariably owned by someone. Also, most people did not own enough resources (land, farm animals) to sustain themselves, and were either stealing from the few rich farmers, moving abroad and sending money back to the village, or being hungry a lot of the time. You need a certain base of capital to sustain yourself, without it you are... poor.
I love to watch how well organized and placed the ads are for these things. Approx 5:50 he starts talking about "people spending future money" 6:20 there's an AMEX credit card commercial! There's no way an "algorithm" or "bot" picked that up. That was either pure coincidence (like the other dozen similar instances) or someone actually watched this video to determine when would be the best place to drop an ad. Wild.
our educational system needs to change , wisdom n skill development is more important than all the other subjects. Thks for sharing your wisdom Jon. God bless.
Today kids come out of high school basically knowing nothing. No life skills or abilities or knowledge to be an adult in society. The American education system is pure trash.
Expressed that the proverty is not a problem the rise in anxiety in life is a reflection of being naive to the art of life surviving it is time for appreciating the dignity of choice so the best can be done independently for a good human
i enjoy your gentleness of voice and expansive perspective, even reflected in the landscape behind you. thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas. suggested to me by @gardenlikeaviking 🌱🌱🌱
As a child my grandfather who was Cherokee was with me in the garden. He pointed to the woods and said "everything you need is out there, and yet people work thier whole lives for things that will sell in a yard sale for 50cents. I never forgot that. Wise man. I am very thankful for the time we had together.
If I may add: people work their whole lives, trading their one and one only truly valuable thing - health - for junk that will only sell in a yard sale for 50 cents...
@@ligbzd837 absolutely!! Health and time
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@@briannemorna4268 native American?
Well the UA-camr just summerized what Gautam Budh said
Poverty is man made. Wealth is being content with who you are and happy with necessities. I would be happy with the bare minimum. Happiness is not being under the stress of being able fulfill the 30 year (slavery) contract of a mortgage, 5-8 year loan of a car, and etc. Freedom is being debt free.
Poverty is man made because the men that make it create it so they can be rich and have power over other men. It is just another form of slavery. No matter how "wealthy" humanity becomes the rich will devise means to extract more of it so they can become richer.
@@jsmdnq yes, debt contracts you to the respective bank that you contract with.
Sorry mate, if the homeless man go to the bank and ask for 30 year loan. Can he have it? And why not? 😂
Aman to that
@@jimmyho6849 Nothing to back the loan. If he doesn't pay back, the bank needs an asset to replace the loaned money. This was an easy question. The bank is not giving money for free.
I'm suffering from " government intervention" . Over priced permits , permissions , and the list goes on.
This is by design (I’m German ;-)
The middle class is suffocating in bureaucracy
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"We're from The Government. We're here to help."
Exactly. This is in my opinion a serious limitation of liberty. We buy a house with our work but still have to pay anual taxes for something we already bought and inclusively paid 10%of taxes for the government... Same happens with cars, motorbikes, land, etc. I cant simply by a land and stay there because I will always need money to pay taxes
@@farmoboy83 Don't buy it then. Squat, like they do in the Willamette Valley everywhere
We've overcomplicated our lives thinking that if we lose our standard of living, especially those in the West, we will live a miserable life as if most people in western culture aren't already overly anxious, overly depressed, overly medicated via drugs, alcohol and other distractions.
The longer I've lived the more I've realized a simple life that meets basic needs is the way to go so that you have free time to do what you enjoy. This ideology of the west to work constantly to reach some higher achievement and be better than everyone only leads to unhappiness in the long run.
Just my two cents. Excellent video!
And excellent comment. :)
That "ideology" is IMPOSED by that elite needing all sort of employees to keep their business running, and the thieves disguised as politicians that parasite us. They constantly bomb the sheep making them believe that they NEED a new flat screen every year; or a new car, or devices that will be hardly really necessary. They create the false necessities and the sheep follows them blindly.
India is following the same trend.
Well true that may be. But we are headed for some big changes ahead from the under 30s who demand respect instead of earning it. They have contempt for family, religion, work, and community. They are overly obsessed with self, thus can’t see beyond their self inflicted anxiety about acknowleging different opinions other than their own. They are the most privileged, yet are blind to it as they deflect onto others their intolerance and outrage. Its a mental disorder. They want to burn it down and replace it with what? Choice, freedom, and liberty from an overreaching government breaks poverty away. If you rely and invite them for dinner. They will never leave and keep you addicted to them and unable to be free yourself from poverty. What we had here in the west was fragile, and we all knew it wasn’t sustainable if we accepted depravity and living beyond ones means. Look around. Its not going to end well.
Most righteous observation fam❤️👍.
The words poor and money are widely used to influence the mass so a small group of people remain in power.
Land taxes, in the jail if we catch you homeless
7:15 "Poverty is not about Money. Poverty is about lack of skills and wisdom". Very well said.
"True security lies not in what one has, but in what one can do without" - Og Mandino
Poverty is a state of mind, easily overcome through education and using our resources wisely. Ignore politicians who say they want to help you.
So many times I've told friends, relatives, and others. The poor person without money but knowledge/skills to grow food, build shelter, locate water, make clothing, hunt and provide for himself is Richer then those with money and no such knowledge. Thank you Sir... wise
Yeah and if society collapses and people are without electricity or other modern functions, people who can live off the land will be 100% fine.
And we may well be rapidly heading toward a time which lays this fact bare.
@Break Free Provided he owns a piece of land.
Rich people can just buy the teaching and have both.
The bible stated for the lack of knowledge my people perish. How true it is.
Sir you are truly wise. Thank you for your contribution to this world.
Self-sufficient gardening, building tiny homes/cabins, knowing about home remedies and going off-grid has become more important since the start of quarantines.
Thats me above
somme p eople are starting to wake up money can not buy everything
less technologie !
That scenery behind you is AWESOME! I like that rural look and the plains and trees.
Selfishness, evil, greed, living off others, captivity, debt, uneducation, meanness, stealing all make people unable to live in peace with one another. No love. Poverty is a state of mind in a way also, coupled with lack of self sufficiency. Poverty ... when people can't help themselves.
I refused to be in debt from a mortgage or work my whole life for some corporation. I now work pt and own my land off grid. I am much healthier and in a better place mentally. Thank you for being a good figure for all of us to listen learn from ❤
Grow your own food is the best way to survive. That the basic thing you need to do as human
How about if you don't have land?
@@ObetPimentel use plastic bag, all you need is a good sunlight to produce food. And water
@@ObetPimentel pots
@@wisnudivayana2344 you meant pots
maybe! i'm living in Paris, have some addictions and like to be surrounded by the mass! long way to get rid of it
Building a house… building permits, inspectors, standards… and $100,000 minimum to qualify for a life-long mortgage… on a plot of land too small to grow anything.
Agreed sir,I live in the uk and practically all of the land is owned by someone. living a self sufficient life here is a rich man's game.
see the opportunities you from the first world have! any simple job in the UK pays well compared to third world currencies here. you can, with the value of a car there, buy 2 or 3 hectares of land here in Brazil... or Argentina... I'm Brazilian and I know many people who went to work as an immigrant in rich countries, to save money and buy land here
@Jochi Kennedy because the current system is consolidated and no revolution will bring concrete changes in the short time you have of life. Better and more realistic make your own personal mini revolution....
@Jochi Kennedy because you can.
And property taxes
This is by far the best UA-cam Recommendation ever! Very interesting thinking and truly mind opening. This should go viral.
We as humans should do what we are meant to do, learn by ourselves, practice, discover things by ourselves, be satisfied with minimum things, simplify life, live a minimalistic life style. Society brainwashed people, made everyone lazy, took away all the knowledge and wisdom and planted "poverty" into our minds and created unfair systems that take away everything. How come that we work so much for years and we are still poor? It took away our humanity, what does it even mean to be human anymore if we are just mindless unhappy work drones in modern society?
your comment makes a lot of sense. love it !
You are right, there is not only physical poverty, but also poverty of the mind. Good video.
Jon, your wisdom is so important. Thank you for reminding us that life at its essence is much simpler than we've been led to believe. You are a gift.
"always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" - 2 Timothy 3:7
Thank you wise man!! THIS IS A MESSAGE MOST WESTERNERS NEED TO UNDERSTAND!! I'll see what I can do to make them understand it...
I am from Australia. I don't have lot of money or brand new things but compared to other places we have everything. I show my 13 year old son videos like this so he knows we are not poor. Lots of people here pretend to be rich because they judge each other by the things they own.
I've tried to understand what wrong with this world in years. Of course I found many things and figure out many problems, but when i watch this video I realized that Jon is right:
We are on the way of thinking crisis.
Our thoughts is the beginning of every outward problems.
As always, thanks for your sharing. Take care, Jon!
Exactly
You are absolutely right but the problem is we no longer have free access to the land. If I were to start a homestead along a creek in the wilderness, eventually some authority would come along and tell me that I cannot be there. One must have the money to buy the land. Modern civilization has taken us to a place where to do what you suggest is a conundrum.
The real poverty is when we lack of wisdom and skills... Thank you for the great talks sir.. God Bless You..
Poverty is not a flaw👌🏼💯
I tell everybody, "I'm not poor, I just don't have any money!"
I agree completely! My husband and I feel like we are the richest people in the world, even though we are technically below the poverty line. We have six wonderful homeschooled children (plus two grown ones), we have shelter and clothing and more food than we could ever need. We have many wonderful books to read, lots of friends in our community, clean air and water, and beautiful mountains to climb. We make our own music, tend our own gardens, create beautiful things, and spend lots of time together as a family. What more could anyone want?
Our family attends Jon Jandai University.
We watch all your videos and practice your teachings. You are a blessing khap.
Thank you so much.
Maybe that’s why my grandparents homestead became family resort or secret hiding base. When we got tried of living in the city we go to granny’s place. Since growing up in my granny’s homestead, I learned a lot. Back of their homestead are the wild woods. In old days knowing edible wild plants and foraging your own basic medicine is a common thing. From foraging to making candle shampoo soap fishing net and harpoons little weaving from the loom to make fabrics to clothing and suits and shoes. Only haven’t learn how to build houses yet. I’m also a sou chef in my family restaurant. No problem there. 😂
When our ancestors can survive the wild, why are there so many homeless suffering on the streets of the big cities nowadays. Before your videos, I could never understand. Thank you so much for you wake up call. At least my family won’t be the copying economic slave that government wants to create.
I wish I was raised with this kind of wisdom. But, I’m grateful to be learning about it now. 🙏🏼💝🌱
Great message. you said out loud what I think. People are dying because their hearts are aching and they are ignorant to who they are. Eating junk food in a panic then dying from health problems. Using drugs because they want to escape. so sad. overdoses. suicide metabolic diseases. all are NOT from poverty BUT from ignorance.
2People can never predict when hard times might come. Like fish in a net or birds in a trap, people are caught by sudden tragedy.
Thoughts on Wisdom and Folly
13Here is another bit of wisdom that has impressed me as I have watched the way our world works. 14There was a small town with only a few people, and a great king came with his army and besieged it. 15A poor, wise man knew how to save the town, and so it was rescued. But afterward no one thought to thank him. 16So even though wisdom is better than strength, those who are wise will be despised if they are poor. What they say will not be appreciated for long.
17Better to hear the quiet words of a wise person
than the shouts of a foolish king.
18Better to have wisdom than weapons of war,
but one sinner can destroy much that is good.
Amen! The problem is governments and politicians are saying you need jobs because their real purpose is to make you stay poor. If you go to university, you forget the knowledge and the skills you really need in life. If you're dependent on money, they can then rely on your possessions by exchanging them for money, which you will then think it will be a good and fair deal.
Townsend Whelen once said that "Every necessity for life is free" and that has always rang true throughout my life. I only "want" for things I do not need.
"Want" means to lack and from the moment you are born you are lacking both knowledge and wisdom. Your statement was well intentioned but missed the mark.
@@seanregehr4921 You miss the meaning friend. The human only needs rough shelter, food, and water. All of our knowledge and desire for such has created all of the "want" for more of the same. We were created to live on this earth. It's only the educating and division of peoples that has created society.
1:45 Amen krub. Nothing is wrong with poor. We only suffer (when no food or no hope).
You speak your own wisdom. So zen! Love it
We are fighting a 2nd eviction in a year by the same landlord. We have never missed paying our full rent. We had the 1st case dismissed in our favor. I was heartsick that we may be homeless. Now I try to believe that truth will prevail, that maybe things arent falling apart but falling into place and that everything will be ok. You got this. Love to all.
Don’t worry sister , just pray to god that what ever happens it happens for your good. Take care and my heartfelt prayers ❤️❤️
Everything WILL be okay if you stay strong. Lots of love to you as well.
Absolutely!!!💜💖💜
Jenny did you not have a specific time limited contract. Surely a landlord is entitled to regain his property once reasonable notice given. Why would you be homeless? Just rent somewhere else.
Thank you Jon Jandai for reminding us that SKILLS are vital for HUMAN TO SURVIVE and LIVE... Poverty mindset is probably the problem, and not poverty itself...
I want to learn how to build earthen house...
I want to learn how to grow my own food...
I want to learn more how to take care of my basic needs in order to survive...
What an invaluable message! Thank you Mr. Jon Jandai. I love you ❤️
I miss the good old days, back then mothers are always there for their children's, the healthy food we eat, the clean water we drink. Back then we were so wealthy
all those things are possible today right now if you choose it
Yep!
@@GhostofTradition I don’t agree with your statement because the earth is overpopulated and resources are quickly dwindling. Having a piece of land is the most important thing, and most people can’t afford that because there is so little land left.
@@puravidadew7031 get out of the city 😂 seriously there's an abundance of cheap land out there full of beautiful scenery and enough resources to give you and your family plenty for several lifetimes. talk of overpopulation is just a way to limit your resources so you can live efficiently in a cage in the city.
Not possible due to land taxes
My grandfather was a small farmer in northern Wisconsin ( from 1920 - 1955 ) The one thing that I remember most about them is they were never in a hurry. Their lives were filled with work but it's what they wanted to do. He told my dad about money , "It comes to you, what you need, never worry ,it comes to you if you don't take too much."
This is what I've been telling people and they think I'm crazy. If you have a home, grow your own food and have water what do you need money for? We lack these basic skills and our minds our trapped. Poverty is poverty of the mind. Thank you for showing us the way to go back to our roots and nature. You're helping a lot.
We need money for real estate taxes, utilities, WiFi, cellular phone, veterinary care, vehicle registration, gasoline, home insurance, car mechanic, shoes, new eyeglasses, and trash pickup
John it is your videos like this that literally bring me to the verge of tears I was born in the United States of America amongst the family who would consider themselves in middle class above others and put a lot of faith in money and I am totally different I have been persecuted within my family I've had my children ripped away because I wanted to homeschool them because I wanted to give them herbal medicine your words like just are like Salve to open wounds. I thank you so much for just being you even now I live on an island in Ecuador where the people consider themselves poor and it literally hurts my soul to see them have so much knowledge and not acknowledge it think that they have to go to school to get it because if they don't have money almost all conversations revolve around $$$. They have labeled me cr8y bcz i preach these ideas & live by them. Thnk u 4 Ur work!!
When he said, "make Hemp."
I'm with you all the way, Jon.
Hemp, the only tree that grows money for you.
Abu Huraira reported: The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Wealth is not in having many possessions. Rather, true wealth is the richness of the soul.”
Source: Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī 6446, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 1051
(Faatir 35:12) Nor are the two bodies of flowing water alike - the one palatable, sweet, and pleasant to drink, and the other, salt and bitter.
Yet from each (kind of water) do ye eat flesh fresh and tender, and ye extract ornaments to wear; and thou seest the ships therein that plough the waves, that ye may seek (thus) of the Bounty of Allah that ye may be grateful.
From: www.surah.my/35#12
IMO: That all blessings in earthly wealth and spiritual wealth comes from Allah s.w.t. - to be able to use the sea to fish and the rivers for drinking water is to understand that everything has values when use properly.
When a book tells you to kill all non believers, I take absolutely no notice of it at all. This includes the bible, and other books.
The message we are listening to here is something we should all listen to. It’s strange but the happiest people in the world live in a slum in India. They have nothing and yet, they are happy. Things don’t make you happy.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. 1 Timothy 6:10
@@colly7963 Money doesn’t bring you happiness. What money does give you is choice. You can choose to do things with it that make you truly happy. In reality, religion has nothing to do with the world today, however, there are some good lessons we can learn from the many religions out there today. One of them is regarding ‘The love of money’.
@@colly7963 one of the most dirty verse that make me want puke. Please don't spread your misinterpreted lies. Money can be as beautiful as water and as dirty as a poison. Only your intentions fulfill the contents. The reality is how you make it
That's a nice speech, I agree with it for the most part. It does however assume that you have enough space to farm and build a house on. Even in a rich nation like America, you can definitely have poverty in the inner city. As much as rooftop and urban gardens are the trend, sometimes there is simply no opportunity for that. Or rather, take a situation where people have fled their home country and now find themselves trapped in an area impossible farming conditions, lack of water, infertile land, etc. There are many situations where poverty is very difficult to overcome with just wisdom alone.
I do like this video because it does point out an error of capitalism, in that many people are forced into an escapable poverty but cannot see the solution because we forgot the answer. The status quo of a 9-6 job doesn't have to be the norm and it's good to break away from that rigid line of thinking. So thank you for your wisdom :)
Basically he is saying why are you creating such cities in the first place.
He is talking about 21st century poverty in many urban area across the world and not about extreme poverty cases like some part of Africa due to extreme climate. You clearly did not listen to him.
it does not take a lot of space to grow some food
I am really impressed your talking. You're absolutely right what you say. Most of the country have a very good agricultural system especially Asian countries. We have enough food to eat and live. Why we want to worry? Politicians and the business manis the one creating a Poor & Rich comparison. They all compare the rich country like with the luxurious building, luxurious car, luxurious house with loan.... Most of the country producing their own food. Government must opportunity to grow technology, why not government never give opportunity to grow their own food in thier land. What for buying from other countries the same product. It's all business minded. In future we need to teach our children to live self sufficient life not a luxurious life with loan. Thank you so much for giving a useful message to all. 🙏
So true. He’s right. This information is needed.
Jon you have wisdom of God. poverty is lack of skills and wisdom. God continue to bless you and protect you from all harm. we need you
Wise words ...Thank You!!
True insight of this about poverty - not money but character yet most people still fall into this trap of life without love , wisdom n freedom.
Simple n great sharing
.this mother earth is still rich for God to protect n bless both mankind n aliens for happy living here together.
John, This conversation warrants, deserves much attention into the many areas of life it effects. In the early days of industrialization the story of lack was a big push to create desire and motivation for industry and to change the values of people (read hands/labor) to perception of lack and need. Simple sufficiency practice together with simple wisdom and skills provides, teaches and affirms life value both internally and externally. We also learn to work together and know much more balance, health and community.... even family!
Beautiful works... Thank you John
Fantastic framing with table against vast open background
Great videos! May God bless you and your family ⭐️
I just stumbled on to this channel very well said words of wisdom. Dear Jon thank-you so much!
Thank you for your teaching. You are an inspiration to me and my light shines brighter after hearing your words
That's right sir. Lack of money is not problem, only in the mind that people are poor because our life is determined by how we think. Think poor equals poor life: think rich equals abundance.
It's so weird to me that many of us seen to be asking up to these truths to a point like this, when we appreciate messages like this to this high degree. I have been thinking about money being the problem of society for a while now and agree 100% with you.
Let's get back to our roots of providing water, food, shelter and energy for ourselves and we'll be free! Thank you Jon 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Spot-on!
thank you for your advise. very wise
Our lives were ridiculed and laugh at on reservations, stripped of our ability to provide for ourselves then we became poor.
You can still turn it around due to your reservation status! Yes, land is not fertile and water poor. Think of Vegas! Make it a paradise! Stay put or roam the world? Roaming is dead with nations! Your people should know this! We don't like to share our resources with outsiders! Thanksgiving was an attempt to include those settlers. Voices within objected or gift given was false or a hidden trade! Breed more! Love more than self! There is still hope! Rooting for your people!
Jaqua Duman: "Hell no! "
Thankyou so much Jon,your teaching is building me to acquire wisdom and appreciate nature around me
Thanks for sharing this video boss from Qatar new subscribers.
Very wise Man...!!!.
Thank u
Well said, you have dug deeply, thank you-
This man should be our President in America HES a radical common sense guy….👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇺🇸
It's so true. I am brainwashed. I have been learning All the live skills, one thing is hair cut skill. I cut my husband's hair, he is happy he doesn't have to wait long time in babershop any more. We saved money too. I also grow fruit trees and gardening in front and back yard.
To me, poverty is the inability to live in harmony with this beautiful earth, its people, the environment & a lack of a spiritual relationship with the great SPIRIT of the universe. Give thanks💝💖💕
You have a beautiful voice, mind, heart and spirit ☺♥
Nature is home. Embedded in the city, where family and friends all live separated from each other, most work full time. Surrounded by buildings, roads, private property, and more roads, there is no longer nature to go to. To get out of the city means to leave family, friends, and familiar places behind. To an aboriginal, this is death. To leave city is to survive in desolate wilderness alone, all above snowline, which is very hard. It takes money for license to hunt, for firearms, for travel to another state or country, for food. There is no yard to garden. The cars are so loud and violent that its a challenge to go outside at all. We are suffering from a lack of healthy wild spaces. Those of us seemingly stuck in city feel as if there is no place else to go. Once, we thrived with the nature. Now we survive civilization. Earth suffer from this too. Best we can do is connect with nature, each other, support nature, each other, abide with optimism, make art, journal, dream. You, Jon, help the situation by being a voice of the nature, a voice of the people of the nature. Reminding us of the nature. Showing us the nature. Popularizing wisdom. Addressing what needs be addressed. Thankyou.
I believe there is a lot of truth to this video as somebody who has lived in both financial comfort and 'poverty' and found my personal well-being struggled in both cases, but I do think it is also worth bringing up a few other things. In the USA and many other western countries, land is mostly held by private owners or by the government - this means that to set up shelter and farm as you suggest is not nearly so simple a task without significant amounts of money. To even find where you can legally forage requires resources tied to money, and for many people also requires reliable long-distance transport (while this is better in most of Europe, the USA lacks many bus and train services and people are mostly forced to own and insure their own cars). We could also discuss the occasional need for specialized healthcare professionals which again requires money, but in any case the conclusion is clear: education must come alongside real changes to the way people and nations share property and resources with one-another, so that people have the opportunity to actually make use of the education you offer.
Absolutely agree. I live in Australia and yeah... it's mad. Kids can start out with big dreams all they want, but it always comes down to money or stupid laws. In Asia, you can start a food stand quite easily and bring joy to the community and make some cash. In Australia, you basically need a tonne of paperwork and licenses. Furthermore, you can't just setup anywhere you like. So you're pretty confined...
Definitely and this is all by design. The USA was designed with a threshold for people's opportunity for success and independent living, if you pass the threshold (likely born into more affluent family/better access to resources in that state) you have infinitely more opportunity to become educated, and learn how to live your life and be 'successful', even sustainable and wise. Could start your own homestead if you so choose. On the other hand poor areas in USA are isolated, not to mention the education system in poor areas is so much worse than upper class areas that kids end up either not caring about education at all, or realizing it's pointless/dropping out, or are taught a bunch of lies and useless information they will never need. Rather, being taught how to forage, identify wild edible plants and fungi, learning about sustainability etc should be the gold standard for basic education in this country. However the education system is confusing and pushes people to conform to a kind of slavery to capital and corporations interests. Even if you are permanently disabled, you are not allowed to save up any money for property, car, repairs, your kid's college fund, etc. or else you lose your payments. The powerful people on this planet want to keep the classes divided. Rich people and poor people are pretty much segregated with gentrification and redlining, and the rich aren't worried about poverty because they are never exposed to it outside of seeing (and then averting their eyes) homelessness in the inner city. Upper class people greatly overexaggerate the efficacy of charity, anecdotally as I was homeless as a child, charity actually does very little to keep you afloat and have basic needs met. If you are trapped in a concrete jungle, moving is NOT an option for you or your family the vast majority of the time. You are basically a prisoner to a system that purposefully keeps you down when you are poor in America. In America if you are poor, you are statistically likely to be poor for your entire life, and social, economic, and educational poverty is all you've ever known unless you manage to educate yourself effectively on the internet. Not even to mention the stereotype of poor people just being lazy leeches on society, which is always coming out a brainwashed privileged and sheltered person's mouth.
"They call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
Hi Jack! Yes, there are a lot of legal restrictions in the U.S. and many areas are very expensive as far as housing/purchasing land is concerned, but please don't think it's not possible for you to escape from the system here. It is actually not that hard. If you know what to look for, you can forage practically anywhere--a city park, an abandoned lot, state-owned forest land... many times neighbors will even allow you to forage in their backyards if you ask. If I see a a cluster of mushrooms growing on a neighbor's lawn that I know are edible, I just ask them if I can have them; no one has ever said no to me yet!) I have lived in six different states (and two Canadian provinces) and have never experienced a lack of foraging opportunities.
Gardening/farming is also possible even if you don't own land. You can get a community garden plot, do some guerrilla gardening in an abandoned lot, or ask a friend if she'll allow you to use a corner of her property (we have a friend who has given us half an acre to use indefinitely, rent-free!).
And don't forget about scavenging resources from the waste stream, which is a huge opportunity in the U.S. and Canada, where we waste at least 40% of the food that we produce. (Start by looking for the garbage bins in back of your local WalMart--believe me, you can live entirely off what you find there if you want to, and, no, it's not even slightly dirty or unsafe. It may not exactly count as self-reliance but it's a way of stepping out of the mainstream way of doing things and it will save you a whole lot of money. I can easily feed my family of eight with what is thrown out at the back of a few local stores, and it's really nice food. We are technically below the poverty line and we eat like royalty! ...Just try to be discreet so they won't tell you to stop.).
As for buying land, there are many rural areas of North America where land is still very cheap. The trick is that if you want the cheap land, you have to be willing to live where the "good" jobs aren't. But that's okay. You don't need a "good" job to pay for the cheap land or the tiny house. You can work part-time in a small-town grocery store or sell used items on eBay and make enough to pay the really necessary bills. Then you'll have lots of free time to do what you really want to do with your life! If I died today, my fourteen-year-old daughter, who works part-time at McDonald's, could buy herself a little piece of land, build herself a tiny house, and live stress-free on her own. I do not worry about her at all because she is homeschooled and knows how to teach herself anything she needs to know; more importantly she hasn't learned the WRONG lessons about what she needs to live a good life.
It's very true that public transportation is sadly lacking in many parts of North America outside of the big cities, but whether you NEED a car depends entirely on whether you NEED to go anywhere fast! People lived in rural areas before cars and trains and buses were invented, after all. If you don't have to get to a fancy job and your needs are few, maybe you could live in the country a few miles from a small town and bike in once a week to do your shopping/dumpster diving and get your books and Internet at the public library. I have lived car-free in the United States and we plan to go car-free again when my husband leaves his current job, even though we are going to be moving to a more rural area. Living without a car will save us about $800 a month, which will allow us to live on an even smaller income. Many things are possible if we just start to think differently and reconsider absolutely everything about what we've been taught that we need.
I love this guy. He is a son of God however you interpret God this man is connected to the life source which has created everything.
Understanding the meaning of poverty is very important. And he tells in simplest way. I always tried to discuss about this thought to some like minded and I found this channel, so much inline with my thoughts. Only one thing is different that I am vegetarian. Humans make this world so complicated. We are trying to solve our problems and in this process we created so may problems. Poverty is one of them. Poverty is nothing but lack of skills.
This man is a very wise man. He reminds me of my father-in-law Rudy kelpito before he passed away. That man knew how to do everything he relied on hard work and self-sufficiency. He was full of knowledge I wish he would have lived longer so he could have taught my children which are his grandchildren his knowledge. he had children of his own but they didn't learn anything from him because they chose not to, so my kids can't learn anything from their loser dad because he's a entitled junkie sad. My grandpa was full of knowledge too he knew how to do a lot of things I miss my grandpa I didn't really get to spend time with him the only time I had was when I was younger his name was Carlos Vasquez and he was from the Pima Indian reservation.
Jon you are such a blessing to my life thank you!
Politicians need to position themselves between a person and normal life, to do this they create a consumer mindset. Adding and adding to the things we think we need in order to live, whether luxuries but also other things that we are told are the only way to run a society, by them and their very rich friends. Edward Bernays was employed in the early 20th century to push this harder and harder in societies. Great video.
For a person in a developing country, I can say that what complicates life are out of pocket expenses for education, and health. Since last year we have been having a drought for two years running, not to mention the pandemic. Self - sufficiency of the farmer can be gutted by natural shocks and the desire to meet educational and health needs of the family, especially in this day and age of cancers etc.
I was raised on the Mississippi delta, the poorest part of the poorest state in America. We never really considered ourselves "poor" in a bad way, it was just a neutral observation. We were poor, but poor was normal. There was no shame or grief to be had in it. We always had food even if it was welfare food, which we were grateful for. We always had a place to sleep, clothes to wear though they were hand me downs and Salvation Army clothes. And we had each other, and coffee. I was happy then.
In 2020, stuck in my house with neighbours in a posh area of town, I stared at all the exotic cars parked outside and collecting dust during the quarantine. That's when it hit me. All the things we spend money on are things we can do without, and food is actually supposed to be our cheapest expense.
IMHO Your Words are Worth More than anything.
I am a little astonished that 70 People dislike the content.
Perhaps they are searching for anything else.
May All Being Enjoy, Abundance of Peace, Happiness & Harmony.
Thank you for the good teachings. As some saying, "Its not your fault to be born poor, but your fault to be dying poor"
Have little, want for little and have a whole lot of gratitude for what you have. The key to happiness is gratitude.
EVERY able bodied person has “money”. Because what is “money”? It actually is the “Man-hour” credit each person expends on a task for which in return a person is given a “token” (paper notes) which are exchangeable for someone else’s output from his Man-hour. In a village setting the absence of such tokens does not mean there is an absence of man-hours. So lack of money is actually lack of physical tokens. That’s all. That doesn’t mean the villagers can’t exchange man-hours to get what they need. That’s why they don’t feel poor until Facebook tells them.
The earth we live on is abundant, but you must understand the word, it means "you get what you need - when you need it"
My grandma lived in a very traditional village and I've heard many of her stories, so I know that a lot of what he says does not neccessary apply. For example, the homeless people, the advice "just cut tree and make a hut out of it" would get them thrown into prison, as all trees were invariably owned by someone.
Also, most people did not own enough resources (land, farm animals) to sustain themselves, and were either stealing from the few rich farmers, moving abroad and sending money back to the village, or being hungry a lot of the time. You need a certain base of capital to sustain yourself, without it you are... poor.
Thank you wise man! Greetings from Uruguay
Excellent simplicity of wisdom....and extremely practical wisdom for a good life...!!!
You're a very good guy! Simplicity and humility radiate from you!
In America if you build shelter. City comes to destroy.
You are right though. These are my favorite videos😊🏅
Being poor is not the person that dosen´t have anything, but the people that always wants more- Pepe Mujica
This is a wise man
I like the way you talk and explain 👍
Your videos enlights me every time i watch them. Thank you.
My name is Makala Nonge from Tanzania(East Africa)
You beat the shit out of Ugandan LOL
I love to watch how well organized and placed the ads are for these things. Approx 5:50 he starts talking about "people spending future money" 6:20 there's an AMEX credit card commercial!
There's no way an "algorithm" or "bot" picked that up. That was either pure coincidence (like the other dozen similar instances) or someone actually watched this video to determine when would be the best place to drop an ad. Wild.
AI, it picks up the words.
So true... great wisdom in your words... thank you John Jandai for sharing your knowledge and very inspiring way of thinking we lack today!
need is limited but want is unlimited
our educational system needs to change , wisdom n skill development is more important than all the other subjects. Thks for sharing your wisdom Jon. God bless.
Today kids come out of high school basically knowing nothing. No life skills or abilities or knowledge to be an adult in society. The American education system is pure trash.
Expressed that the proverty is not a problem the rise in anxiety in life is a reflection of being naive to the art of life surviving it is time for appreciating the dignity of choice so the best can be done independently for a good human
Best video! God bless you man!
Well said...poverty is a lack of wisdom & the skills of self reliance. Very wise my brother!
Thank you so much!
i enjoy your gentleness of voice and expansive perspective, even reflected in the landscape behind you. thank you for sharing your thoughts and ideas. suggested to me by @gardenlikeaviking 🌱🌱🌱
Dude.. you just said everything as I believe it should be said. This was epic.