Mike Rowe, of the show Dirty Jobs, did an AMA on Reddit today and I thought some of you might like this part:
Question:
Why do you still choose to live moderately even though you have made enough money to not do so? I saw the emails online that people send you and you reply and you sent a guy a picture of your view outside your apartment and there is a smokestack outside of it. why are you so humble??!
Huge fan thanks so much for doing this AMA!!
Mike's answer:
You're welcome.
I'm not really humble, I'm just not properly acquisitive.
I take more pleasure in saving than spending.
And like the Native Americans, I tend to look at "ownership" as something more akin to stewardship. In other words, the more things you own, the more things own you.
On a practical level, I find if you don't have the space for a lot of stuff, you don't wind up with a lot of stuff.
Seems like a cool dude.
