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Book excerpt / manuscript page (likely from 'the 4-hour workweek' or similar lifestyle design book) included in house oversight investigation files
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Summary
This document appears to be a page from a manuscript or book (the style strongly resembles Tim Ferriss's 'The 4-Hour Workweek') discussing travel hacking strategies and the philosophy of minimalism. It was produced as part of a House Oversight investigation (Bates stamp HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013963). The text includes an anecdote about the son of a deca-millionaire who is a 'personal friend of Bill Gates,' illustrating the burdens of excessive wealth and property ownership.
People (5)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Bill Gates | Tech Billionaire |
Mentioned as a personal friend of the 'deca-millionaire' father of an acquaintance of the author.
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| Jules Henry | Author/Anthropologist |
Quoted regarding materialism and 'infinite need'.
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| Robert Henri | Artist/Author |
Quoted regarding sacrifice and freedom.
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| Unnamed Son of Deca-millionaire | Subject of anecdote |
Manages private investments/ranches; friend of the narrator; complains about the burden of maintaining multiple homes...
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| Narrator (Author) | Author |
First-person narrator giving travel advice and philosophical views on minimalism.
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Organizations (9)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| Orbitz | ||
| Kayak | ||
| Priceline | ||
| Southwest | ||
| AMEX (American Express) | ||
| Ryanair | ||
| EasyJet | ||
| Samsonite | ||
| House Oversight Committee |
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Relationships (2)
Text states: 'I know the son of one deca-millionaire, a personal friend of Bill Gates'
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Son of Deca-millionaire
Text states: 'I know the son of one deca-millionaire...'
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"I know the son of one deca-millionaire, a personal friend of Bill Gates, who now manages private investments and ranches."Source
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"He feels like he’s working for his staff, who spend more time in his homes than he does."Source
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"Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object."Source
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"The value of empty seats is $0 as soon as the flight takes off, so true last-minute seats are cheap."Source
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I am not spending more money to get pennies on the dollar—these costs are inevitable, so I capitalize on them. This alone gets me a free round-trip international ticket each three months.
2. Purchase tickets far in advance (three months or more) or last minute, and aim for both departure and return between Tues day and Thursday.
Long-term travel planning turns me off and can be expensive if plans change, so I opt for purchasing all tickets in the last four or five days prior to target departure. The value of empty seats is $0 as soon as the flight takes off, so true last-minute seats are cheap.
Use Orbitz (www.orbitz.com) and www.kayak.com first. Fix the departure and return dates between Tuesday and Thursday. Then look at prices for alternative departure dates each of three days into the past and each of three days into the future. Using the cheapest departure date, do the same with the return dates to find the cheapest combination. Check this price against the fares on the website of the airline itself. Then begin bidding on www.priceline.com at 50% of the better of the two, working up in $50 increments until you get a better price or realize it’s not possible.
3. Consider buying one ticket to an international hub and then an ongoing ticket with a cheap local airline.
If going to Europe on a tight budget, you could get three tickets. One free Southwest ticket (from transferring AMEX points) from CA to JFK, the cheapest ticket to Heathrow in London, and then an übercheap ticket on either Ryanair or EasyJet to a final destination. I have paid as little as $10 to go from London to Berlin or London to Spain. That is not a typo. Local airlines will often offer seats on flights for just the cost of taxes and gasoline. To Central or South American destinations, I’ll often look at local flights from Panama or international flights from Miami.
When More Is Less: Cutting the Clutter
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need! … It is the modern Pandora’s box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.
—JULES HENRY
—JULES HENRY
To be free, to be happy and fruitful, can only be attained through sacrifice of many common but overestimated things
—ROBERT HENRI
—ROBERT HENRI
I know the son of one deca-millionaire, a personal friend of Bill Gates, who now manages private investments and ranches. He has accumulated an assortment of beautiful homes over the last decade, each with full-time cooks, servants, cleaners, and support staff. How does he feel about having a home in each time zone? It’s a pain in the ass! He feels like he’s working for his staff, who spend more time in his homes than he does.
Extended travel is the perfect excuse to reverse the damage of years of consuming as much as you can afford. It’s time to get rid of clutter disguised as necessities before you drag a five-piece Samsonite set around the world. That is hell on earth.
I’m not going to tell you to walk around in a robe and sandals scowling at people who have televisions. I hate that kashi-crunching holier-than-thou stuff. Turning you into a possession-less scribe
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