[gexla]

Dude spends $5000 a year living in a cave? I could live all year in the Philippines with a normal house and not really having to cut back on much.

This article is silly to be talking about poverty on purpose. These guys are living really frugal, not in poverty.

[GigabyteCoin]

Good point. He could still publish his wilderness zine in a country with a currency that had a higher purchasing power parity than that of the U.S.A. and do odd jobs in that county for extra spending money if he wanted.

According to this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PP...

64 out of 180 counted countries in this world have an average income of $5,000 USD (equivalence) or lower.