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Work isn't necessary. You can live a cheap, environmentally-friendly life that's still as comfortable as everyone else's. Life can be hard, or it can be easy. Most people labor under the conviction that work in its traditional 9-5 form is necessary. Truth be told, it isn't. In his book, Jesse Shelton explains the most pragmatic ways of eliminating our need for money-making work, covering 249 topics, including how to eat 80% organically on $5 a week with less than 1 hour of effort, how to eliminate heating bills using cheap passive solar retrofits, and how to reduce property taxes through simple, but little-known, conservation easements. In this step-by-step guide, Jesse explains how he and his partner have worked less than 10 hours a week for the last 5 years and are still able to go out with friends, travel, and enjoy all the comforts of "regular" life. The only difference being that, without work, they have more than enough time to enjoy it. The big question is simple: Why work most of your life away striving to reach the good life when the good life doesn't really require the effort? Wouldn't it be better to take all those hours we spend trying to build a good life and use them to actually live it? You can. Our society's 9-5 paradigm that says humans have to have a job is only one way to live. Here, Jesse introduces a cheap, environmentally-friendly, and intriguingly easy alternative.