In 12 years, Daniel Suelo has not made a penny;
neither has he spent one. In 2000, he left his remaining $30 in a phone booth
(remember those?) and never looked back. He went on to live on public lands,
foraging for food and accepting alms from others. Mark Sundeen, who wrote The Man Who Quit Money about his friend, told an interviewer, “I
assumed he had gone crazy or had some kind of mental breakdown. But that is not
the case.”[1] The key to unpacking Suelo’s life-choice is to view it as a
spiritual journey.
The full essay is at "Quitting Money."