Cool, that’s your choice. But it also exists within the economy. Nobody demands you to play a particular part in a democratic market-based economy, but you exercising your ability to buy cars, hiking gear, airfare, tents, and cheap street food and your choices are all just as much part of the economy as the choices others are making.

Further, all those choices are only available to you because others are ‘part of it’ and making services available to you.

So you participate, just with less hours, that's part of the economy

Hear, hear. I've worked for software companies for 18 years. In that time, I've taken 4-5 years off on sabbaticals to travel the world.

Life is too short to _not_ do that, in my opinion.

> Even driving my own vehicles around the world I spend less than $20k a year

20k is higher than 90% of the global population.

Absolutely, I’m well aware that what I’m doing is only a choice for people in the developed world.

Of course if I were content with walks in the park, I’m sure $10k/year would be enough.

More people should know, think and reason about this. As soon as you reach about 34-35 k$/year you’re in the top 1%, globally.

Most people thinking “the top one percent” are the problem don’t realise they are part of the one percent (and thus part of the problem)