Money Can’t Buy Happiness, So Man Gives Away Every Penny of His £3 Million Fortune

Nice guy, from the sound of it, with the right idea. Simplicity. It’s sad to hear the moans across the internet from selfish individuals crying out, “GIVE IT TO ME OMG YOUR STUUUPID”. It’s no wonder Rome is burning.

He clearly wasn’t buying the right things.

But good for him, donating it all to charity.

Money can buy happiness, though the poor, too, can be happy of course. Kind of.

This guy has a great safety net- socialized medicine, a complete social welfare network, the fame coming to him for doing this, an appearance on Oprah…

Happiness aside, money can ease a lot of the discomfort of life. The man is not wise.

Ever since the industrial revolution, our lives have been made easier. Steam engines, electricity, cars, planes, computers, cell phones, etc.

Our society has not been able to adapt to these changes naturally, in an evolved way. So we follow those people that we think are wealthy and successful. We create a list of wants without satisfying our basic needs. The media tells us that if you buy this car, you will be so happy. You buy the car and after a few weeks, all you have is a debt and a piece of metal.

You get a big screen TV and you sit in front of it like a zombie for hours being entertained.

And I am not against technology or tools that are created, but if we took the time to learn how to use these tools in our lives and live life, we would be much more satisfied with who we were.

dbsmall: Pleasure can’t make people happy. It can temporarily distract them from unhappiness.

I can’t believe this. I just lost my job 2 months ago and my house is for sale. I will have nothing soon. I am about to loose everything I ever worked for.

I hope I can be as happy as this guy.
Something tells me that I wont be.

He just became the most spiritually rich person possible. You can’t buy love or happiness.

Interesting story but…

Isn’t there a way to find the middle ground?

A way to apply our gifts and talents in a career or business that helps to sustain and fulfill our needs?

Ian

Now your talking that is great idea. But let me give the correct way of giving. First Give your First fruits to the Lord Jesus Christ and everthing should be second. Let me tell you No charity or man can take care of you in your life execpt the One and only Jesus.

poop.

I think charity is a good idea, but no matter how much money you hand to them it wont be enough. Now if you were to help individuals you will trully make a difference in one persons life, and trust me it would be enough. (depends how much $$$ you give)

I’m not too proud to ask for a contribution. At least $10,000 US would go to some wonderful causes in a man’s life.

What a great story and a great individual! The world needs more people like you! I enjoy helping others and have volunteered over 1,000 miles away for a week at a time–I can only imagine the excitement you must be feeling right now! Super Guy!

well done – it’s what we should do with our money psalm 119 tells us how to be happy – “Happy those whose way is blameless, who walk by the teaching of the LORD.
2 Happy those who observe God’s decrees, who seek the LORD with all their heart.

Either aseiudh loves the idea or hates it, can’t tell

my sister made a very good salary in the BIG CIY, but found she wasnt happy either. no friends. no family around. So she quit and moved to a very small TX town. she has no high salary, no high rent, but lots of friends and family. She looks ten years younger and enjoys life very much. She also is a LOT healthier. No more alergies, no more stress headaches, no more road rage, etc.

HAPPINESS DOES NOT COME FROM MONEY

Well done!!!

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
I wish I had his courage!!

It’s his money to do what he wants with. What he did with it is very honorable. I would make sure the charities are actually on the front lines and not taking 5 star vacations on donated money. Does anyone remember Percy Ross? He also gave away his fortune.

I’d be his wife in a heartbeat! Karl expresses higher soul intelligence.

I had millions of dollars and gave it away because I was unhappy. Now I have nothing and guess what… Im still Unhappy! Shit I think I was better off unhappy with a roof over my head and food to eat. Maybe I should not smoke crack anymore- Kevin

This man is right. Money cannot make you happy unless God is in the ‘equation’. Living for the Lord is the only thing that will make a man truly happy. We cannot find happiness inside of ourselves nor outside of ourselves in this world. Only in the ‘missing link’ can we find TRUE and LASTING happiness. This man was temporarily happy, but finally found out the truth. Trust Christ as your Savior and you will find out what I am writing about. Read Romans 1-6 and you can also find out what I am saying.

I hope a falcon swoops down and pecks this guys eye out. Make a turd hut out in the damn mountains?!? This guy needs to get mauled by a bull moose! I hope he steps on his glasses day one in the f’in jungle and can no longer see to find his way out. God does not pay my bills! I hope hes leaning towards cancer research at least with this money. I just had to dig the couch for change to buy diapers, im a little angry sorry.

His entire fortune to charity? WHAT?!

You all donating to the africans and the latins and the poor people here and there, what about the poor people in your own damn neighborhood? They are not worth helping? Even you give $1,000 to a struggling middle class family in todays economy, it makes more a difference in their lives than it does to give an african rice for a day.

WE DONT GET DONATIONS BECAUSE WE WORK 50 HOURS A WEEK TO MAKE A FRACTION OF WHAT YOU MAKE IN A DAY?

Economy is all screwed to hell.

While I applaud this man for what he is doing, I am a bitskeptical to why he would all of the sudden decide to throw all of his money into charities? Taxes, maybe? Also, do you think his little wooden hut in the mountains is a cheap piece of real estate? Doubtful. He’ll be roughing it up there with a 72″ LCD TV hanging from his wall. Heh

my guess is he’s not any happier after giving away all his money.

hey dope… happiness is not external.

why doesn’t he buy a small house for himself and just get a regular job and if he wants to give it away he can send me acouple thousand cause I’m on disablity. thank you

I could use 20 000 euros,You would make me the happiest person on earth if you decide to share something with this third world soul struggling on this capitalist world email me let me know the reason I would be happy with this amount of money is that I can get to be the owner of my own time once for all and achieve freedom

Wow
thats very nice of you its like the Enlightenment.

You should really consider donation to small HIV organizations that still do it for the communities and not money

I wonder if he is giving college scholarships to those young people that need financial support and those that have high academic achievement. If so, my daughter and step-son are both 12th graders with high 3.8 & 3.5 gpas. We certainly can use the help. Seriously, thank you for considering a mother’s clarion call. How can I reach you?

Happiness or joy will never be found outside the self whether you have money or not. I suppose some will find it easier to look within if there are less distractions.

Enjoy the journey!

There is a sucker born every minute! The man is clearly a FOOL! Giving all his money up to live in a hut!! The man has clearly lost his @#$%^! mind! In a perfect world he would be flogged to death! unappreciative @#$%!

fascinating! but when this idiot winds up frozen to death and his car breaks down and everyone treating him like shit he will rethink all of this. I do agree with him somewhat, its not about going after material things, its about being content and comfortable, confident with what you have…………

How can I meet this man? I have $6 in my bank account. I have been trying to save $300 for my medical school application fees, so I can return to school and realize my dream of becoming a doctor. Do you think he could spare that amount for me? A lot of regular people can use a little charity nowadays. People with money to just give away should help the average Joe/Jane too. Someday, I hope to be able to give away money too.

MONEY MAY NOT BUY EVERYTHING, BUT WITHOUT MONEY NOTHING CAN BE BOUGHT!!!
WELCOME TO REALITY….

…ONE thing is left: “Take your cross , deny yourself and follow me ” said Jesus Christ.

Its hard for me to understand. I lost my job earning over 80,000 a year and had to result to now earning 28,000 with two teenage boys and an ex husband taking me back to court to reduce child support that is based on 1999 tax returns…Im at the point of having to sell my house which by all means is not elaborate…but it is our home..Wish I was in that position and If I was would look in the direction of helping a family that is in desperate need.

Shit, Come hang out with me I will make sure you got a smile 24/7

MONEY MAY NOT BUY EVERYTHING, BUT WITHOUT MONEY NOTHING CAN BE BOUGHT!!!
WELCOME TO REALITY….

He could have donated some of his wealth to these guys.
http://www.georgiastreetgarden.blogspot.com

He has the right concept, however, I agree with whomever said that he could have found someone who is already on the street to give some of his wealth to b/c millions are suffering right now. He’ll never be happy until he finds salvation from the Lord Jesus…that’s where our Joy comes from!

Congratulations to him. It is true, that money does not buy happiness. I ended up better off than the way I grew up. But it took me several years to realize that any item I could buy, would not make me happy. It might give me a rush to be able to buy it, and then the feeling is gone. With my kids, the more they get, the more they want, and I have said, STOP! Values, and doing for others, will bring more happiness.

so, this is not 3 million US dollars. how much is it?

America’s political leaders have been giving the American taxpayer’s wealth away for over twenty years. I’m not any happier because of it!

I believe money does not bring happiness, but on the other hand, neither does being poor. It’s what you do with what you have that makes you feel good about yourself and others.

I think it’s great that he is donating to charities.

But…

Apparently he doesn’t know what it’s like to be broke in a bad economy right now. Struggling to pay the bills on time, let alone put food on the table. There is nothing ‘Happy’ about being in those situations.

So yes… Money does NOT buy you happiness but it can promote a better life for you and your family. It can pay the bills. Feed the family and every so often pay for hobbies that you may enjoy.

I don’t quite understand how living in a hut, in the mountains with no money will = happiness. I would figure it to be quite quiet and lonely.

come on i’m a wife with 2 little girls ages 9 and 8.
I’m unemployeed my husband just got out of the hospital from having a toe amputated and is out of work for at least 2 months on medical leave(unpaid). we now have 55,000 in medical bills and cant pay rent. we tried to get tanf (temporary assitance for needy families), food stamps and medicaid at the time but was turned down. he made just over $600 for the month of Jan, too much to get it. we have reaplied. the limit it $340 max. income. If he really wants to be happy giving it away he should try looking in his own back yard( country) I’m sure there are others like us.

“I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things that I did not wish for or need. I have the feeling that there are lot of people doing the same thing”

he shouldntve watched fightclub.

I went from having 6 figures to having medical problems and going under to not having anything… I can tell you that it has caused more stress of not knowing where my next penney is coming from to eat, and loosing my very basic 1 bedroom home of 20 years to foreclosure – If I even had 5000. I could save the roof over my head… He’s making a horrible mistake in not keeping a back up account in case something happens.

You are absolutely correct. Too many are on the unhappy path; most have a lonely heart seeking a spiritual awaking and are looking in the wrong places. You have found it. Consider reading “The Way of the Dreamcather” by S.T. Georgiou and this will help you find peace. God Bless!

God bless you! I want to say more, but that is all that comes to mind at this moment. God is pleased.

Be blessed,
Norma
Dallas, TX

This guy has either LOST IT or he is definitely HIDING from the IRS. If he wanted to help, why didn’t he pick some homeless,jobless people who do not want to live with nothing, as he claims he wants to do. HOGWASH!!!

It’s good to hear that some people who make a lot of money give back and do good things… unfortunately there are a lot of people who would like to do good things like this that work their butts off also and can’t make a dime. Kind of on a side note… I get sick of all these pathetic Reality TV “stars” who don’t do a darn thing and get way overpaid. What has this world come to!?!

I understand the concept of “Money won’t buy happiness.”

The funny part is that you never hear that from anyone who doesn’t have money!

Perhaps he has had the benefits of money for so long that he does not need any more.

My question is “How much happiness does POVERTY buy?”

What an idiot! Of course money can’t make you happy. It’s what you do with the money that you can be happy about. Happiness is every person’s choice whether rich or poor. This man could have had a very happy life and be charitable at the same time if he simply chose to. You would think he wouldn’t go back to being poor. I’m sure he was unhappy then so why go back? It’s much easier to feel unhappy when you can’t pay your bills than if you didn’t have to worry about that stuff. Very unwise choice he made in my opinion.

I think he is selfish and stupid, because he has not thouhgt on his family. If he has children and wife, how they are going to live without money. Charities is not a good idea is better to look for people who lives on the strees, under bridges, shelters, etc.

Money can’t buy happiness and happiness can’t buy money so I guess the answer is in between

Some people are so blessed in ways, I wish I could be blessed like that, so I could bless others.

I totally shout out kudos to this guy. I grew up in a home where my dad sweat for every cent we had. In my teen years he got a really great job and our lives changed – new house, new cars, nothing but the best of clothes and electronics. I thought I knew contentment. Then my eyes were opened to the real world when I was 19. I went overseas, and came back as a new person. I had no more desire to run in the rat race. I became content with what I had. Now, nine years later, I am still a completely different person. I hardly ever have anything more than $500 saved up at any time, I have no car, I share a house … but I would lie to say I’m not content to not be trying to gain something I will only lose in the end. The only thing worth saving is the soul, and to find Jesus Christ is to find Eternal Life and when your perspective is changed in that way, other things just don’t seem so important as they once did.

Whoever said money can’t buy you happiness doesn’t know where to shop.

I tell ya, I lived through 9/11 and then again through our house burning down and losing everything. Stuff is just stuff. There is nothing more important than the people that you surround yourself by.It took a couple tragedies to learn that all the material things in the world to not amount to much of anything!

I am proud to see that someone finally see’s the light, that money does not bring happiness nor will it ever.
To much GREED IN THIS COUNTRY!!! No wonder we are failing, thanks to our GREAT REP’S IN WASHINGTON. They are all MILLIONAIRES and the working POOR still are here and getting more poor!!

My Thanks to those up there in Washington!!

Blake Lewis

To all the skeptics of why this man is doing this, why not? We live in a skeptical world, no one believes anything anymore unless they can see it or touch it. Why can’t this be true, I admire and respect someone for giving away what most people think is crazy.
I have never been rich and most likely never will, I don’t dream of being rich. I work hard for what I have which I appreciate more than if it was given to me. I congradulate you sir for having the balls to do what you are doing.

A true example of what King Solomon wrote about in the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible. Material things are Vanity, and true Joy comes from a relationship with God. This is why He sent His Son Jesus Christ to Die on the Cross For The sins of the world. All it takes is a relationship with Him.

This guy is on Crack !i thonk he is mentally challanged person who the F** gives away 3 million dollars? he going to be on the streets broke as a joke

I can understand the feeling of finding a better, but you need money to live. Its a great idea to donate to charities but he should keep a little bit for himself just to stay alive, kind of reminds me of “Into the wild”. anybody remember how that turned out?

this guy must have been to young to remeber how unhappy life was when his family didnt have money moving to some run down shack in BFE wont make you any happier it might make life simpler but not any happier all in all its 2010 not 1910 these days you need money to survive living off the land is a thing of the past everything cost money now heck they even charge for water if you ask me his guy doesnt know what he wants he said money made him unhappy so he gave it all away i guess that didnt make him happy enough so he has to move to a hut no disrespect to him but i dont think he’ll be happy till he passes away

Its misleading title. He hasn’t given away anything. All the money is with him and the money is used for charities he will “set up”.

My Prayer: Lord save us from “do gooders”.
How about the stupid Baptists from Idaho doing
“good” for the kids of Haiti. This guy should have given his money to preserve his own freedom. Our founder pledged their lives, fortunes and honor for freedom. Think about it.

Is he crazy? No more nutty than Jesus:

Matthew 5:22 and following:
“This is why I tell you: Don’t worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the sky: they don’t sow or reap or gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you worth more than they? 27 Can any of you add a single cubit to his height by worrying? 28 And why do you worry about clothes? Learn how the wildflowers of the field grow: they don’t labor or spin thread. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these! 30 If that’s how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, won’t He do much more for you—you of little faith? 31 So don’t worry, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear?’ 32 For the idolaters eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you. 34 Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Right on Alex!

I’LL SEND MY PICTURE, PUT IT ON A MILKCARTON, I’LL HOLD AN EMPTY JAR!!!!!!!!!!!!SHOW MEEEEEEE THE MONEY

Well good for this guy. If that’s what he thinks it takes to make him happy then he should do it. I don’t think “happiness” has the same meaning for everyone, therefore there is no way to say if this was the right or wrong decision. Lots of people are happier the richer they are, but he just isn’t one of them. It’s actually quite refreshing. Me, on the other hand… I’d probably be estatic with the millions! But I’d have to balance it. I couldn’t be completely “happy” knowing that I have the power to make the lives of unfortunates around me significantly better, but don’t. I would have to give some of it away too. But not all of it. Kudos to you, sir. Your heart is bigger than mine.

this man did not know the truth because if you know the truth then the truth sets you free. Money is a good thing when used to do good. Many can be helped and lives can be changed through help with money. He has gone from one extreme to another. I understand the thinking but poor he can not help anyone and there are many in this country who need help but we always think of other countries first but there are starving hurting people in this country also. He could do more good if he had a personal relationship with Jesus then he would understand truly what wealth is for not just to gather up things but to reach out to truly help others then he would truly find true happiness. I hope he find the truth and it set him free.

This guy can do whatever he wants with his money. It may be right, it may be wrong. I don’t care because it isn’t my decision.

However, I personally think the far better route to go is live a lower middle class lifestyle and give the rest away. That way, you can bless many more lives by being an average person to be friends with, and you will end up giving more to good causes in the long run. You will be more balanced and people will here your message better than they will hearing it from a bum.

For him, maybe he thought it was easier to give it all away than have the lure of being able to live a posh lifestyle.

I feel happy for him. He did the right thing. I’ve learned a lesson from this: That maybe my true goal in life isn’t becoming rich……….but to be truly happy. Just thinking about being truly happy makes me want to weep. I never really was truly happy. Maybe for a couple moments…but never truly truly happy. I realize that technology has done that to humanity itself. To distract and numb us from the real pain that’s happening in our lives right now. It’s horrible to think of..but i hope one day all, horrible and nice people, will live in peace, somewhere beautiful. I hope. I wonder. I believe.

This man is perfectly centered. I tried this some years ago and it was the happiest and simplest 8 years of my life. I had almost nothing, yet I wanted for nothing. Then my house fell apart and I had to go back to work!

this man is doing the right things if you have to much you can give to the poor and not charity that you set up. Give to charity you set up is like transferring of left pocket to the right pocket. Your money is used by you later in anyway you like because it is your charity organization. Money can buy happiness if you know how. when you sad you can use money to buy music, to go movies, to take vacation, to gamble if it make you happy you reader get an idea. when you are hungry you can use money to buy food to eat and you can buy many things to make you happy or just give some to homeless people if that will make you happy. No money no happiness for sure, you can not buy things or go anywhere. No money sometimes means no place to live and no food or clothes. can someone explain to me that have a lot money make you unhappy. tell me about no happiness when you have a lot of money that is BS. There are people that have no happiness because they have no money to pay rent or mortgage. This man give those poor people some not to you own charity.

This is good. I hope Jesus is guiding him . I liked what he said about riches, but he could of helped a lot of ppl with being rich and not greedy

I would pay off all my debts, give to the needy. My husband lost his job and works part-time now but it is only enoughto pay our credit cards we pay the min. The rest goes for necessities. The Lord is Good, we get by. I am glad this gentlemen is happy giving to charities or whatever he wants to do with his money. More Power to him. God Bless Him

well done sir…well done. the secret is out.

That was great. You have all it takes to turn to God now. Jesus said, “Sell all give to the poor and come follow me.” Turn to God, the source of true happiness.

May your example be followed by many so others can have

If these are being read by whoever posted the original story, I would like to share this story:

My father is doing the exact same thing. At one time in the recent past, his worth was somewhere in the neighborhood of $100,000,000.00 US. His goal is to die penniless, after having made provisions for his family – myself, my six brothers, my sister, and of course his wife. He is very, very careful and an excellent steward of his wealth, and I am so proud of him and admire and love him deeply. By “having made provisions for his family”, I don’t mean to say that he made each of us rich. He was careful with his decisions for us, setting examples for us to follow. Most of his charitible giving has centered around children (orphans mainly), the aged in nursing homes, the Churche(s), and other entities I call the “Matthew 25″ entities (from the book of Matthew in the Bible).

I think he needs to go on a spiritual quest to find what will make him happy. There are many programs out there that will help you realize what is important in your life, and how to acheive them. I for one am a totally different person, and allowed me to see my faults, and work on them, and allow God to work through me.

It’s his money and his experience, so it’s up to him. If it were me, I’d give it to people I know who are struggling, so I can see how it helps them for the better.

As I see happiness it is to be healthy have enough food and shulter love and be loved know that everyone in your family is in good health and content, I love nature, animals, singing and music so if I have £3 millyon to give away I would spend most of it to reserve parks for animals and to support few young talented people to sing and make good music and would leave some nice dresses, that makes a bit more than £3 millyon, eih?
Thank you for making me think of the things I wish to do,

I clearly understand where he is coming from and wish more philanthropists could so easily see that money is NEVER the way to happiness. It is written that money is indeed the root of all evil and I believe it is true. I have experienced having it and experienced being poor and the only happiness has been durning the poor time of life and I know why that rich man could not accept Christ and that it is as difficult as pulling a camel through the eye of a needle. I pray this man is free now to find true and lasting happiness for an eternity.

Money Cannot buy Happiness, But it sure can make being Miserable alot easier……………….

The only problems i have a related to money. Give me money and i would be very happy. I could start by cursing out these dumba55 managers at my job. Money can buy me happiness especially with the Allstar game being in Dallas this weekend with all the escorts and strippers in town,,,,,lol

I believe Mr Rabeder is going to an extreme. There are ways to help others without leaving yourself with no security (inability to care for yourself in case of health problems(inability to help those you love if they need) inability to help charities that may show their need later)(Haiti)(Katrina), lots of those. Whey not put some money away to serve the needs that may come into your sight later. This is said by a person who has lived with insecurities all her life. I’m not saying that you have to live a rich man’s life, but to leave your options open a little as long as you are able to do so. There are needs all over the world that you may not even know of. Also, I agree that you have to be careful that donations go to a place where they are handled as they should be.

I have the perfect Central American charity for him to give to:
The Send Me To Costa Rica charity. I know the director of this charity well.

Money may not buy happiness, but it sure helps. Tell that to the millions now unemployed and losing their homes or the parents who can’t afford to pay for medical care in the good ole USA for their child.

Yeah right, doesn’t buy happiness but having money to put food on the table, a roof over your head, clothes, shoes, college and enough to pay all the bills and medical care sure does help a lot.

I have been without.. so many more are out there and money may not buy them happiness but I can tell you it buys one helluva lot of peace of mind.

Good for him, if it makes him happy.

To me, wealth is having good health, a career you enjoy, a good loving family, owning a nice home which is not above your means, finding the right work/life balance and enjoying your “toys” (classic car, boat, hobby, etc.). This automatically leads to happiness.

I pity those who have families in million dollar + homes, make six figures and that live at work. That is, being a slave to your job to have material wealth. You miss out on family life, something that every person needs.

But seriously, good for this guy if he’s happy. Just like Ricky Nelson’s song “Garden Party” goes: “You can’t please everyone, so you got to please yourself”.

I really feel that mony can make you happy. I think you were in company of the wrong people whom may have been more jelious of you than happy for you. The ravel of the world, helping people strating new businesses and maybe starting a website that targets other people’s idea, help geeting their ideas in to motion. Only the small in minds feel that money will not bring you happeniness. Sad, you could have traveled the world and found many people with so many talents and helped to their lives on track. Where in pete’s tar-nation is this man from?

I bet he made his millions here in America, off the backs of many many hard working people, if anything give the money back to the people that gave it to you. AMERICANS

Ok, if this men want to wive away his money, i have some needs ( real needs ).
In my country, Honduras, some childrens dont have money to buy some food, shoes, they need a roof.
His money can save some childrens to make them a productive people for aur society.
But, dont give your money to charities, do the donation person to person, i agree with Hublub opinion about charities.

Hi Karl Rabeder, I read your short blog of how you want to abandon your life now and live a simpler one not filled with clutter of stuff but with fulfillment from the inside. I understand where you’re coming from. I am a missionary and have dedicated my life to serving the Lord through high and low times. Right now I am serving HIM in Cambodia but will head to Vietnam next week. I encourage you to check out my blog site at http://jessicalinebaugh.theworldrace.org and read some of the testimonies from the field and in my life. If you would like to help support me out here on the field that would be an amazing blessing. Thank you for following the Call and keep your ears open to HIS direction!
E.J.L.

Oh please what a load of boloney. I have no respect for what he did., Self sacrifice and those that encourage it are evil! He clearly has no values!

I am 100% agree with you.

If this man thought for a moment he would reconsider giving his life efforts to charity. If a person was told he was earning $1.00 an hour for say a forty hour work week..he would expect a pay check of $40.00. But it would only be $2.00 !! With charities the return on your investment is $0.05 on the dollar. For every dollar you think you donated to your wonderful charity only 1/20 th of it goes to your goal. Which is helping people. He will have so many pats on the back from so many fund raisers that are all a part of the fleecing.

….True, happiness comes within in…either that you have the money or you don’t!However, having them makes life easier especially for single moms without a job and still searching for a place they can call HOME!!!>>>Not a wise decision…..

Just like everything else… happiness gets boring after a while too.

i will never understand you guys who live in the more developed parts of the world. honestly . you guys are crazy. crazy. i cant imagine anyone in my native country doing that. we have a whole different reality. poverty is everywhere…. let me tell you one thing for sure … not having money sucks. you can never be happy being broke … not where i come from. you white people are totally bonkers. but i respect it. i still think there is more to this story than meets the eye. one thing i learn about you white people is that you always show only the side you think we should see. i wonder what is on the other side of this story.

Following your authentic dreams is never a mistake, no matter if it leads to poverty or riches. When your core says, “Listen to me” and you listen. . . you are creating the life you were meant to live.

MSK
Life-Coach

stop with the religious crap im sick of it its all I hear from my mother in law. The bible is just paper and it cant feed my children or keep a roof over our heads or pay our bills. or pay for my husbands medical bills and keep him in insulin that costs more than 250 dollars nor his other costs. all its good for is fire wood at this point.

I don’t think he is crazy. Money has a way of dominating our lives. People everywhere get into career paths they don’t like, or are no good at, or have no desire to do. A lot of people are miserable. Why? Because we all need the money. I wonder how the world would be different if we were all afforded the opportunity to change places, and be where we are supposed to be, performing the function that makes us the happiest? I have been at it for years, reading books along the way, taking personality type indicator tests. I am not wealthy like this gentleman, but I have an incredible income. I am also completely miserable. I am supposed to be a chef or a beautician according to my tests! I am nowhere even close right now, but I am taking steps to figure out how to restructure my life. Good for him I say, and wish him the best,

I gave all my life saving to some needy children overseas.no regrets.I know the feeling.

I think you should follow your passion. If that same drive or passion is telling him to turn towards a quieter life style I think he is absolutely correct. After all, it got him to where he wanted to be the first time. “Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.”…… Leo Buscaglia

THAT SO ROCKS…..
” I WOULD RATHER BE POOR WITH A RICH HEART THEN RICH WITH A POOR HEART” BR …. SOMETHING TO REALLY DIG DEEP DOWN AND THINK ABOUT…..
GOD BLESS BROTHER

WOW!!!!

Only ppl that have the money say they ain’t happy.Well, I’m poor and jobless and I sure as hell ain’t happy.At least if you have money.You don’t have to worry about paying bills and oweing ppl any money.You can get you a house, hut or whatever.Find you a hobby and do it for the rest of your life.You can use your money to buy food, supplies or whatever you need to survive.You don’t have to build a huge mansion and fill it with lots of stuff.For me when I earn my degree.I’m building a cob house.Because its simple and earth friendly and save me more money in the long run.

If he were a selfish person, you’d criticize him; if he were greedy, you’d criticize him; if he were monopolizing something, you’d criticize him; yet the man says he wants to DONATE (donate meaning is none of your fng business what he does with it or who he gives it to but the fact that he is going to..) ALL his money and you STILL criticize him?!?! Wow, there are some people for whom nothing is ever good enough… Got jealousy?

My Dear Sir, Please keep some of your money for yourself just enough to live on because it is so hard to be happy when you dont hqve a house or money to buy good healthy food.
It is really difficult when you are struggling and dont have energy or time to be happy.

so I agree with those who say give your gifts to people. individuals of all kinds who need a good start. ask people to mail you and then you pick those who need it. right here in the usa.

How about those middle of the road people who work hard but never get their heads above ground and they make just enough so they cant get help from charities.
those hard working people who support with taxes but cant get the help they need??
God Bless

So true…if I person is not happy prior to making millions….they will be even more miserable with a wad of money to worry about!…happyness is an inside job…not from the outside in.

i lost my job and i’m loosing my house and everything. with all donation to charities i am wondering why i never been approved for any thing. this donation is for the good liers they are the people that driving lexuse and having the section8 house and getting the walfaire, foodstamp and all grants from government.if he wants to be happy he should find a way for the people want to work.not for the lazy people that are sitting at home and getting all helps. not a good idea at all.

My dear Brother,
I am glad that you found this out very soon when you have the chance to correct and find your real purpose and meaning in life.
The wises man ever lived (Solomon), a man who had it all just like you having had so much wealth, came to the conclusion that allis vanity and vexation of spirit. The he suddenly realized, what is man’s purpose that it is not so much the accumulation of wealth, but to fear God and keep his commandment. After all we take nothing in this world and certainly we can take nothing out. So the only thing we can take with us is that which is already stored up for us in heaven by God. This comes as a result of us trusting in the redemptive work of His Son jesus Christ and accept Him in our hearts as Lord and Saviour, and spend the rest of our lives pleasing Him in all we do. Then you will know what true riches are. Its best to be poor(materially) in this life and be rich toward God (spiritually), than to be rich in this life (materially) and poor toward God (spiritually. God bless you might brother may you find real happiness which you can only receive by trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour. This is done first of all by confessing your sins to Jesus Christ and asking his forgiveness, then you believ in the finished work he has done for you adn accept by faith his forginess, and receive him as your Savior. “As many as receive Him to them he gives the power to become sons of God, even to them who believes in his name.” This is TRUE HAPINESS. PASTOR B.

to be honest i think this is just crazy being rich is not a bad thing and you give it all away saying it wasnt making you happy. what your family they could have used that the people who need help with collage and everything you are right though money cant buy happiness but it does make life easier that no one can argue with

WHAT??? Money does TOO buy happiness!! Without money you have no home, without money you have no car, you have no food, no clothing, you have NOTHING. This world revolves around money and without it you cant get anywhere in life. I would be a hell of alot happier if i was rich. ALL my bills wouldnt be behind, i wouldnt be on the brink of losing my house, i would have nicer clothes and so would my kids, i could buy my kids and myself a better beds to sleep on, i could buy us food instead of relying on food stamps, i could fix my house up so the heating bill wasnt so high that i cant pay it. Im sure as hell not happy living this way. Working part time and my hours get cut even more cuz i have no babysitter cuz i cant PAY one, on top of getting the kids to and from school which schooling also has to be paid for, so they cut my hours cuz i dont have ‘open availability’, makin minimum wage at 7.30 an hour which is a JOKE.
Being able to enjoy anything in life takes money. You cant live without money unless you wanna be in a cardboard box on the street begging for money.
If i had 3 mil i would be able to buy a little cottage in the woods, and clothing and food and whatever else needed to live the rest of my life, so good for him for being able to do that. But it took money to get to that point and lots of it, and hell get a bitter taste of reality when his food and other necessities start running low and he cant buy more cuz he chose to give all his money away to some stupid charity overseas. Why couldnt he give it to someplace here that needed it?? Like helping needy families in OUR country. Or build homes for families that cant afford to, or something along them lines that OUR country needs. Sounds like he just doesnt know how to handle money and needed a way out and to stop being taxed also.
I wish i had millions, i would help everyone i know that needs help and donate alot of things to needy people. Cuz i know what its like to be poor and in need and i would love to be able to help others any way i could. Even tho im cranky about not having alot, or being able to take my kids to water parks and amusement parks and on vacations or just to visit other pretty for the things i have cuz it could be alot worse.
No props to this man. He wants no money at all and to not work for the rest of his life, he should be shoved onto the streets in the cold and see the reality of REALLY having nothing.

I think he is doing what makes him happy. But he should make sure that the money goes to needy childern or people. Because sometimes management uses the money for their own personal needs. As long as the money goes to needy people he will be happy. The rule is : the more happiness you share the more you get. God bless him !

give him a year and see what he’s saying

Absolutely not a crazy idea but only cornfirms what the bible said in the book of songs of solomon that ‘vanity upon vanity all is vanity” i hope the world especially africans learns some lessons from this that money indeed cannot buy happiness,and therefore, u do not need too much wealth not even at the expense of other people.

Well……If a man’s rich and not happy, that means he’s not doing the proper things with his money. God gave him the riches to not only stay out of debt but to help others! Help struggling churches, tithe properly, give to missionaries so they can afford to leave their jobs and go help people in struggling economies. There are alot of things that a person can do with their money besides spend it on themselves. If a person thinks that money will make them happy, they’re wrong. It’s what you do with the money that makes a person happy. Start up a business that can create jobs for one so you can put the system bleeders to work. A selfish man has money and is not happy. This guy wants to get rid of his money so HE can be happy. How about making others happy by helping them if they’re struggling. I’m not saying a hand out to those that want to sit around and get paid for nothing either. Seek Gods guidence with this!!!

Pls reread……Hublub!! Will start up own charities
and NOT receive salary!!!!!

I just looked up at the list of people who commented that they agree with what the guy in the article did. Sigh…..there sure is a lot of morons out there. I

I believe there was another man about 2000 years ago who also told us that money cannot buy happiness……let’s see……yes, that man’s name was Jesus!!! Good for him. I also wish i had his courage.

If he were a smart business man, he would have sold everything and put all his net wealth into an interest bearing account and tie it up for 5 years to where he could not touch it. Live as he wanted, “poor”, and then after 5 years see if he was really happy or not. If not, hey, he’s got his money plus interest, if so, then it’s that much more money for his charity.

I can understand getting rid of a large sum of money to hopefully run accross the happiness he thinks to find, but how is giving away every cent going to help him relieve himself from feeling life is only mediocre.(ok so i’m not the best speller) thats the whole point you need to find happiness in things other than money but you don’t have to be poor to do it.. Life fulfillment starts with the knowledge of what will make you happy. Of course if being poor and living in a hut will make you happy then more power to you.. But I can guarantee that theres a lot of poor people out there right now that arn’t happy.. and theres a lot of rich people out there not happy,, so whether you have or have not,, happiness does not revolve around money,, so being poor won’t help that.. but its his money and his life,, so good luck!!

IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN IN MY TOUGHTS THAT RICH MEN ARE WISE AND THAT IS WHY THEY CAN MAKE MONEY AND KEEP IT. ALAS HERE IS THE MOST FOOLISH MAN I HAVE EVER KNOWN. ANYONE THAT CLAIMS TO BE MORE FOOLISH SHOULD BE SUED FOR IMPERSONATION. NEXT TIME HE SHOULD FIND PEOPLE LKE ME TO GIVE THE MONEY IF HE WANTS TO BE FOOLISH. ASSOLE
PIUS

“money can’t buy you happiness” hhmmmm picture this if you will “a 17 year-old hootchy-mama, a half ounce of cocaine and a long black limo on a hot September night???” I wonder if he’s got ” spenders remorse”

If he’s crazy then so was Christ, Buddha, St. Francis, Socrates, Tolstoy, Ghandi, and many other religious, social, historical reformers. Its not where he gave it away but that he did in fact give it away. Good for him he knew it wasn’t making him happy and on the contrary impeeding his happiness. We call our society civilised, but really are we? Stop worshiping the dollar its only a tool of our enslavement.

First, my deepest congradulations!
I’m sure your a smart man & put a side enough to live on & still be ok.
Yes, money is very important, as it gives us a better life, however, we are to also be giving & not just to ourself’s!
It is a universal law that we get, what we give! in ALL aspects of life!

P.S.

I also go out to help the homeless with food, blankets and try to find them shelter. I will also let them shower if they want at my apt. If everyone did this little bit, it would not only make someone who is very downtrodden feel like a person, it will lighten your heart.

The most fun I always had when thinking about winning a lottery was thinking about who I would share it with or donate a lot of it to. If my little house was paid off and I could cut my work hours in half, that would make me very happy. I don’t need a lot of stuff. I’m fairly happy and what I have is plenty for me. I don’t have to go on expensive trips, eat at fancy restaurants, have a lot of fancy clothes or new cars. I wouldn’t want to give up my computer or music though. Those are 2 things that make me happiest next to my family and friends. If my house was paid off, I would find something else to do that I really enjoyed for work part-time to pay bills and divide my time between there and volunteering someplace.

If this guy is sooooo unhappy with his money.I’ll take it off his hands right now.Cuz he is soooo depressed and unhappy with having money out the ass!!!

Good for him. I believe that more does not buy happiness. It doesn’t even make things better. The more you make the more you spend the more you owe and the more you are scerwed. Even the poor are happy for just what they have. If they get a drink of water they are happy. SO if this man needs to do this for himself then good for him.

oh and single people who never got married so they are doing it all alone no kids no husband or wife …
the neglected ones..

Again i quote:

“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money”.

-Albert Camus

So true.

Money may not buy happiness but it sure makes being miserable more comfortable.

Lucky guy, I wish I had it in me to do the same!

giving it away just like that,,,i have nothing against donating to charities,but giving away everything without a penny left???……stupid thing to do because in reality…we all need money to live…and again..he will still work hard to earn it again…not unless he wants suicide…or starve to die…

He must have had some spiritual awakening within himself. When the truth is known everything else become an unnecessary burden. It is the mind (the king of our senses), that keeps us busy all the time to look for material happiness. Ultimately everything in our possession binds us with material bondage in the form of money, home, wife, children , friends, society etc and just like a slave we are constantly working to satisfy our sensory organs form lower to higher senses.

When one understands this his material journey stops and spiritual journey begins.

This is great for him. If I had enought money, I’de share it too; however there are a lot of people struggling, me too.

In my opinion, happiness comes from love and money givs you comforts. Not everyone needs or wants the same comforts. I think there could have been a compromise and hope you don’t regret it later.

He listened to his heart, I had a beautiful wordings qoute, “A inner happiness comes only by right living”. He truly proved that and I think He set an wonderful example to the whole world, which looses the humanity. you need a brave heart to do that. God bless him.

WOW! He should 1st give 10% (tithe) to God. Then, I’m losing my home, give me 300,000

thanks

I’ve always said I wish we could go back to simple times. Yeah we had to work a little harder but it made us appreciate the outcome that much more. Money has done nothing but cause stress and complicate things. We should go back to bartering.

I’m not wealthy but many years ago I was having a conversation with 2 friends who were quite wealthy. Part of the conversation went like this:
One wealthy friend said, “money doesn’t buy happiness” to which the other wealthy friend replied, “yeah, but it sure helps!”
then they both laughed like crazy.
Do you get the lesson here? I did!

Thank God!!!! The Man realize before is to late,but it all depends to all individuals how to handle yourlife,some People are very content with little things and very happy with simple life, some People trying to get everything that the world to offer but still don’t have the real happiness,,for me,,,Simple life less problem equal happiness ,,,I hope you guys have a happy life,,,

Having researched and written a book that explains precisely what makes us happy, I agree with those who say that money does NOT buy you happiness. In a word, happiness derives from self esteem. Nonetheless, it’s impossible to maintain your self esteem when you’re homeless and have no immediate prospects for employment, which is not only the case for many in the US but also for many more in Central and South America. If this man finds happiness, which I sincerely hope for him, it will be because he is finally following his dreams and not because he has voluntarily impoverished himself.

I applaud this guy for realizing that the materialism brought on by the industrial revolution has indeed hampered our ability to be happy. I’ll admit I love my technology, but at the same time it is the tools of the industrial revolution that have paved the way for our demise. I pray for an apocalypse to wipe out tech and set us back to horses, carriages, and candle light.

AGAIN
IF YOU WANT TO HELP SOMEONE HELP THIS
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& I’M SPEAKING OUT SO “WE CAN STOP IT”

I DESERVE BETTER THAN THE SYSTEM TELLING ME
BECAUSE I HAVE NO MONEY THE TRUTH & JUSTICE
CANNOT BE TOLD!

IF YOU WANT TO GIVE AWAY MONEY
PLEASE HELP ME
I HAVE ASKED ALL
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MONEY DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE
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Mr. Rabeder will have continued wealth in his satisifaction about the choices he has made. To retire in a small hillside hut or inn in the Alps is still the ultimate retirement. I have fond memeories of Lenggries. The Alps truly provide the sound of music. Good luck Karl, enjoy your tranquil..Retirement life is good for the soul…

Money doesn’t bring happiness! i personally congradulate this man for what he did he realized something that takes others a life time, and sometimes its the cause of their death!! GOD BLESS HIM!!

I have been broke and unemployed for almost 2 years and still am lucky!…..Lucky Im not dead

Hi Karl, “Money can’t buy Happiness,” but will do good for the children at Morningstar child care. Unfortunaly, we serve kids where Mom or Dad are in jail. Single parents whom can not feed their children and grand-parents raising their grand children because Mom or Dad are in drugs. You see a litter bite of money can help these children to have a safe environment to play and learn. We can not serve so many kids because the place is too small. JUST A LITTER BITE OF MONEY CAN FIXED THAT.
Thank you.

How interesting…

Subconscious mind can play tricks:

“I come from a very poor family where the rules were to work more to achieve more material things, and I applied this for many years,” said Mr Rabeder.

The only thing his subconscious mind recognizes as happiness is the proces of hard work, struggle – deeply ingrained subconscious beliefs and that will make him feel safe…on the other hand, reaching the goal is absolutely out of the comfort zone, subconscious mind is not familiar with that and has no paterns to feel safe…starts sending signals to the conscious mind – money is bad, money is the reason for unhappiness…

Sooo many people get the money – and since money is energy – it feels like they just fueled their car with the jet fuel – it brings to the light our own inadequacy…

He’ll be more prepared second time around

“The charity starts by yourself” It is good to give and help those who can not help themselves. I don’t think it is a good idea to give everything. He should have given maybe 90 percent, so that he could have something to live on. God bless him.

Is he married? If he is married, how did his wife react?

Jesus Christ is the only one who can give you happiness!

I grew up middle class and had just the things we needed not alot of extras was happy. Then lived in a 1 bedroom trailer was happy. Now live in a large 4000sq ft home in the mountains.
I was just as happy in the trailer just could have used a little more money. Now I have larger bills more stress a lot more work to keep the money rolling a lot more things that I have to remember and worry about.

I think the living in a trailer wasn’t bad if you had it on your own land away from people, a low house payment, grow your own veggies and had a internet job so you didn’t have to leave the house except for shopping. Save money and visit places you’ve never been (if you saved a few dollars). A great loving partner and a healthy lifestyle.. Maybe 1 kid or a few animals a dog or horse or both.

Giving it away to charities pfft.. he should give me some lol.. whatever floats ya boat i guess.

Well he is right Money can not buy you happiness but niether will being broke. Happiness comes from God and doing his will such as being a decent person and doing decent things in your life such as helping others etc. i have known poor and rich that both hate them selves and I have known pepole rich and poor who were happy I hate that our intire socitey revolves around the almighty dollar you dont have a choice weather you want to participate in this wicked game unless your willing to join the leagues of the homeless and then your just adding to the burden of every one else slavery never ended it just became all inclusive. I admire his bravery and genorosity but I think he is making a mistake and a big one at that he could help more pepole by keeping his money and using it to continue to help others thru charitys on intrest that his money would produce

Wish I had 3 million to give away. I think I’d rather give it out in small portions to individuals who need help. Post an ad in the newspaper, or with a TV News Station and let them verify circumstances.

On the other hand, it’s his money and he can do as he pleases with it. There’s more to this story than we’re reading though.

What I didn’t see was any mention of recurring income. Even living in a hut, there will be some expenses.

You can’t take it with you when you die! I wish people would get off this man’s case. Yes, when we have to work at less than ideal pay and may never have the things that we would like to have, does it mean we are not happy? Sure, I would like to have a better car or a bigger house and I would love to go shopping for some nice clothes for myself, but those things are not the means to happiness. It reminds me of Jesus saying that it is harder for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. Also the story of the rich man who asks Jesus what he has to do to have eternal life. Jesus tells him to sell everything he has, give to the poor, and follow Him. I’m not saying that if you’re rich you are not going to be allowed into heaven. What I believe is that it is the condition of your heart. If you have more faith in God and have a yearning for something more eternal than materialistic happiness, you will find it. Seek and you shall find. I hope Karl finds what he is looking for:)

JACK-ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dear Sir,
Is very kind of you to do this!
and NO! money can not buy happiness, you will find this thru Jesus Christ! and other things the good Lord has to offer, What will a rich man gain if he looses his soul.
God Bless!

evidently he does not know what really makes you happy. its not money, but money can help you to find the things that do make you happy, whether it be things or by doing for others. he could of helped alot of people and instead he gave it to charities that send monies to there ceo’s as benefits. its a shame that he has no clue.

wow im poor and un happy im a single mom strugleing day arter day for food and money for my child

I say leave this man alone!!
It is his money to do with as he feels.
I would hope he saves enough to buy food and Dr/Hospitals he may need.
Myself I wish him a long life and happyness
Miles Carter

Does he have children? a wife? how is he going to provide for himself? is he going back to work? I’m sure he must have a paid off house somewhere and no bills to pay and some kind of income that will sustain him. That is insane to give everything away because he is not happy, I mean retire and travel you can donate money to charities but don’t become one in the process. There are millions of people without job right now looking and willing to do anything to survive and you come and say “I gave my money away because Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come”? that is just so insensitive.
Maybe the people annd things you were sorrounded by were not the right people.
Monney can’t make you happy by itself but it can for sure help. To know that my bills are paid and I can provide for my family makes me VERY Happy

Well money can’t buy happiness but it makes life easier because you can pay bills and buy groceries. If I had that much money I would have already shared it with family and needy friends. Sharing and seeing someone else able to pay for their house or food would be a happy thing.

i salute/respect a man of his stature. so humble, so kind,so generous. true when we reach our final destination,and face our Creator, all that we need is oneself and how we treated our fellowmen. i wish he would consider donating to our 501c humanitarian organization http://www.weserv.org.we try to help the poorest of the poor, small as we are as an organization; but we are in dire need of monetary donations to buy some equipment and supplies like harmonic scalpel, portable lamps, instruments, or if anyone knows of any hospitals that donate these, please let me know. i also know couple of patients who need heart/valve transplant but no money to spend. please help. thanks so much.

Each person in life has a path to follow. Karl has found his path. It is refreshing to see another fellow human choosing to let the current of the river carry them. Life is not meant to be a struggle. Life is meant to be experienced. We struggle within ourselves which creates physical issues in our lives. He came to that realization and chose to do something about it. We think that money will solve our problems. It will not. With or without money we will always have problems, until we decide to enjoy the ride.

I’m not a fan of Kanye West, but in his words from one of his songs…”Havin’ moneys not everything, not havin’ it is”.

I believe that money is bad depending under whos hands have it. Its great that he is donating it, it shows that things dont control him, he controls them, which that is the way it should always be. Too many people are materialistics.

okay you dont need to be rich to be happy. but because people no longer trade for things. you might need a little. if your going to live in the wilderness it would be nice to have an axe or something to cut wood with to heat with. of course if your really are talented you can get a hunk of wood sharpen a stone and use that to cut down trees. but he doesnt look the type. good luck

Really i’m getting tears in my eyes….hats off to this person. This is life….We earn our ass off and then we realsize monay can’t get everything in this earth.

Maybe he should give it to Obama, he will find a way to use it to “fix” the ecoonomy like he has been doing in the past year right? NOT!!!!!!

give to my charities in south america and latin america…give everything….hmmmm somebody pass the sushi rice.

be glad to just swap places with him, that might make him feel better about his money.

good to hear that he worked his way up though.

simply R E V O L U T I O N A R Y !!!!! Would love to see a follow up story say about a year from now.

Ya know…My husband & I have always talked about hitting the lottery and what would we do…we always said that it would be so much fun to travel the USA and just give it to whoever we meet or see. Pay for a meal when we can…pay for groceries…pay for gas…give cash..pay electric bills…etc…wouldn’t that be fun? You not only get to pay it forward…but you get to travel the USA at the same time. I say…its your money and you do with it what you want. Have fun and I hope your life is GRAND!!

Karl –
I hope you don’t regret your decision…

First of all, why is he looking of happiness for being wealthy? He can do whatever the hell with his money. He is a full of sh**t., that is my opinion.If he really want to be a rich happy person, he should he help directly the poor or help people get a job. Instead he choose to give his money to some charity outside the US. What a BS! It tells me, thee is something wrong with his marbles. You cannot buy happiness with your happiness!Get it!
God gave you a “Gift” to become wealthy not for your self preservation. But to help the least fortunate.
You miss understood your purposed on this planet.
My advice is.., get your head straight or hit yourself in the head. Good luck.

maybe he found God and he discovered money isnt what life is all about… i hope that he has found the joy of the Lord and is blessed for his decision

Having too much money won’t buy happiness, but not having enough money can cause depression.

Helping charities – nice! Yet, helping people to connect with one another, appreciate people of all races and ethnicities, as well as prepare to live together in a peaceful world…we could sure use some help with this. PeopleHoldingHands.com
Let’s Hold Hands(R)

“You’re a slave to money, then you die.” The Verve

Why do you have to give away the money to go live in a hut?

God works in our lives through many things and including people. You may not realize it now but at a later time, you’ll know that God used you to help people that needs your money the most. Besides, money is the root of all evil. It can buy you material things but not things that comes truly from the heart,i.e. love, friendship, respect, honor, you can’t buy these things with money. I applaud to what this guys has done and pray that the Almighty Father bless him, also bless and give wisdom to the people that received his money so that they can use them for what it was meant for.

Parviz,
Kind heart, but You could invest the money through somebody and give the benefits to the poor people without using any penny instead of giving to unknöwn users. Now you are as rich as i am.

God’s Word Say’s in Luke 12:13-21 Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, Teacher, tell my brother to divide the iheritance withme. Jesus said Who made me a judge or an abriter between you? Then He said: Watch out! Be on your guardagainst all kinds of greed: a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions. Jesus told them this Parable: The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop He thought to hinself. What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops. This is what I will do, I will tare down my barns and build bigger ones, and ther I will store all my grain and my goods. And I’ll say to myself. You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy: eat, drink and be merry. BUT GOD SAID to him, You fool This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself? GOD SAID:This is how it will be with anyone who stores up things for himself but is not Rich toward GOD.
You must be bornagain to enter the Kingdom of God. I pray that Karl reads this and gives his heart to the Lord Jesus and becomes rich toward God. I have read most of these e-mails and by their words they too need Jesus . I pray they will not reject the free gift of eternal life, through Jesus Christ. I will alway’s speak the truth with you, and point you to the One that LIVES For Evermore.Jesus Loves You Karl. Please reply.

What a complete fucking idiot!!!!

There are millions of people in Latin and Central America that need help. They are very poor, as are many in other countries, one of which is Africa. Haiti is in desperate need right now and getting all sorts of donations, but there are people all over the world in the same need as Haiti only on an ongoing basis. I applaud him for trying to help. What better way can a person with excess $ help others than to set up a charity for those in need. Even if some goes to those in charge of the charity, he is doing a great work.

You can’t take it with you. Why leave such a burden on relatives and children. It seems wiser to build something of lasting value that will help generations and foster peace on earth and good will in men.

Peace!

Leave 1/2 to charities use the other 1/2 for Physiatric Evaluation and Treatment

I wonder if Donald Trump will ever do something like this, lol.

A friend of mine is moving to a small village in the Andes in Brazil I believe, by the end of the year. The only thing he’s taking are his clothes in a couple of suitcases. He’s leaving everything behind. He’s tired of the big city life and the stress it brings along. And tired of working for greedy Uncle Sam.

That is the difference between intelligence and wisdom.
No balance and no limit… A very intelligent man!

good works never got anyone into heaven, there are good people in the world who do good all the time but that is not enough that does not save their soul it doesn’t matter if you believe or not and after death is too late to find out the truth. I challenge people to challenge God and say if you are real let me know without a doubt I guarantee that he will. Many lives changed those who did not believe at all. I challenge you to meet him face to face. Then you will understand what this man is searching for in giving away al of his money what we all want, peace, love, happiness joy a fulfilled life he is just searching but the answer is confess with your mouth believe in your heart that Jesus is the son of God who died for you on the cross and was raised from the dead. The truth which we all search for but just do not realize it so we fill that place with all kinds of things and people. God is love.

Beautiful!!

Wow
What a moron. Money does not buy you happiness and no money gets you nowhere. Happiness comes from within. If you have not learned how to be happy by his age, he probably never will. Do not blame lack of happiness on money, try lack of developing emotional maturity. If he did not pay his taxes before he donated his money, he may be in serious trouble with the tax man. Wouldn’t that be ironic.That would make him emotionally and intellectually retarded as in slow. Try to show your IQ if you going to discuss this.

My hero. This can be an example for all of us.

good grief and all i need is money to fix my teeth and that would make me happy ….

Wow…I wish I was in your shoes, because I could do a lot with some of those funds. Like get a home, pay for education for my childrens, etc.

If that will make you happy, more blessings to you. Good luck and god bless to your future. But make sure that you will have some available funds to take care of your needs, like medical, dental, and food.

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hellllooooo, what is wrong with you, there is people that we dont have, and we are struggling. e amil me some…

THE MAJOR ALLIE OF DEVIL IS “MONEY”. JUST THINK ABOUT ALL THE ATROCITIES THAT MAN DO TO MAN BECAUSE OF THAT. THE MORE YOU POSSESS, THE MORE SLAVE YOU ARE. MONEY IS THE DRUG THAT DISTORT YOUR SENSE OF REALITY AND WHAT IS REALLY THE TRUE MEANING OF LIFE.

Money does NOT buy happiness, but it does buy financial security. It also buys lots of glittery unnecessary “wants” not “needs” just to keep up with The Joneses.

I am in the midst of bankrtupcy, about to lose just about every materialistic thing that I own, and I will survive. What is most important is my husband of 26 years and my family and friends that have stood by me through it all.

For those of you that think money will be your key to happiness, think again!

I think this guy simply does not know how to be happy. Happiness and wealth are two separate and independent things. With 3 million pounds you could spend your life doing the things that make you happy, or that matter to you, on a grand scale. I agree with Neal that he is not wise, and I doubt that he will find happiness by becoming penniless.

I think its great that he is wanting to help people by giving his money away, but why to people out of the united states? There are so many charitys here that could use the help or even just people who are poor just like he was. I never ask for anything even though I am very sick, a single mother of 2, and living in an RV with no elect.,water,heat, but what i do have that means way more then those is the love from my two boys and the little time left with them to make memories so they never forget me! So you can be poor money wise, but the richest person love wise!!

He should’ve gaved it to me. I could’ve used it.

That’s a very good gesture. Helping the needy and less fortunate.

I am a single mother in Jamaica trying to purchase a dwelling for my family. I am in dire need of assistance to complete the transaction. Can you assist?

Thanks.

I am struggling to pay the $40,000 it will cost me to become a Registered Nurse. I really want to work with Doctors without Borders, Mercy Ship, ect. I of course would have to have a full time regular job also-since I am a twenty something mother of one… but damn. He could have lent me some money that I would have repayed in both cash and Charity Volunteering. lol
All well.
Some of the money should have gone to helping to pay for educational grants/scholarships.

Man, I understand what this guy is doing, and what he is trying to say, but there is much better ways to use a million dollars. That is something that can take your kids very far in life, so I’m assuming he doesn’t have kids. It can also make you and your family secure for almost any disaster. You don’t have to use money to make you happy, that’s not what it’s about. You should use money for security and a way to carry your family forward in life. Much respect for the decision you made, but you could have been more practical with it. Logic is sometimes a cold substitute for emotion, but it’s a good thing to have.

How come he told the newspaper what he was planning to do? And charities he set up? Aw, c’mon, would you buy a used car from this guy?

A man who has finally realized that we have been brainwashed by governments and corporations to indulge in mindless consumerism to satisfy our lives.

Those who give have all things, those who withhold . . . have nothing.

Forget about following such people,we people can never appreciate humans that atleast try to do good things.

Applauds to the great person for his good move.

Hold on a second. If he was happy when he was young and poor, and now he is unhappy, wealthy, and old. Maybe money doesn’t have anything to do with his unhappiness. Maybe he is sad because he worked his youth away trying to get rich and happy.

This i a great idea. Good bless you. How I wish you can give $500,000 and support my church building fund for $2,000,000Or iis in Riverdale in state of Maryland USa. My e mail takinwumi@yahoo.com

I feel that the more money that you have dosen’t make you happy. There are so many people that are driven buy money,that they loose a lot of joy by not having any wants. This is a person that show that having a lot of money will not make you happy.

I had a similar idea. A few months ago I planned on working in national parks. A lot of them are hiring. You get just enough money to support yourself.. to buy soap a jacket or shoes you need, those kinds of things. But the real benefit is that you get to live in the national parks! The most beautiful places in the world. If that’s not your thing some parks will house you as a volunteer and you get paid in food an lodging. My plan changed when i got a boyfriend. I still made friends when I worked for Bryce canyon but I accidentally tied myself to one person and one place. If that’s the kind of life that’s ideal…simple and peaceful. i would suggest national parks.

I think it is great. He is right money, possessions, worldly things cannot buy happiness. Only God can bring peace of mind and contentment of heart.

It shows that his heart is in the right place and he can’t be faulted for that. However his money would have been put to better use to start his own true-nonprofit charity. There are too many charity organizations out there that end up miss-appropriating a majority of the money for advertising or paying it’s executives. The best charity of all is to help someone in need. We need more kind hearted people out there like this.

Beau: perhaps you’re focusing on the wrong things to make you happy. Once you’ve realized what’s REALLY important, which aren’t those things that are important to society, then you’ll find YOUR true happiness, money/job/house or not. Sorry about your circumstance cuz it IS hard to go through (if you allow it to be a hard experience to you), but NOT having a job will actually give you some time to find out what happiness (Joy, actually) really is!! (Happiness is temporary. Joy is eternal.)

This is what all great people of high spiritual wealth have done. I am confident he will find bliss.

He should have gave his money to an organization or a research team that would help to better Mankind as a whole. Like Scientific research to cure diseases or even to Scientist that are exploring the ocean or working to save the rain forests….

Being rich makes him unhappy, I feel bad for him. When are some of these unhappy rich people going to help Americans in need. Homeless families who need a start, children on the street here in the USA. Help the needy at your front door. He won’t be any happier being “poor”, take from the millions right here at home.

Anyone who makes a big deal about giving money to charity and tells you how much, makes me wonder.Bill Gates gives the standard tax deductible 2% of his wealth away to charity every year. But becuase that happens to amount to ~$300 million, people call him a saint and savior. Meanwhile he is less put out than the guy who makes $10K a year and gives $200 to his church anonymously.

If this guy had some epiphany, good for him, but it doesn’t make him righteous. How much of his guilt stems from things he did to get the millions in the first place? And where does he get off implying that everyone working a job and trying to get ahead is on the same dead end path he was on? Projecting your own flaws on others, then making a big show of how you handled them BETTER is pathetic and infantile. The guy was born poor, and now he is going to be poor again. So his life is a net zero save for his big straw man argument that makes him better than us, and stupidly throwing away 3 million pounds. Why is he on the front page of Yahoo again?

Beware those who attempt to measure righteousness in dollars and cents. And especially beware those who self-promote in the same manner…

This is a great idea. Good bless you. How I wish you can give me $500,000 and support my church building fund for $2,000,000.00 Our is in Riverdale in state of Maryland USA

Money can’t by happiness but just enough can give you a stress free life. Happiness comes to those who are rich or poor, it has nothing to do with having money. Only you can make yourself happy.

This man is one of my heroes. I respect and honor you, Sir!

even though this may seem stupid to most people, this has to be one of the most generous and amazing thing a man has ever done. Seriously this guy is great. Deserves to have a day named after him.

I like this guy. When I was a student, I made at the stock market a million. Believe me, I was not happy! I lost all the money a few month later on the stock market. I should have given it to a charity.

Praise God for a man like this for he has acheived GOD’S way of Happiness…Money is the root of all evil.As a Christian you have to Praise GOD in Good and Bad times even when you are struggling with the loss of a job or financial issues. GOD is the only one who can help you thru the tough times and he never puts more on our shoulders than we can handle but GOD does test us to see if we will remain Faithful in the Good and Bad Times. May GOD bless this man for giving his fortune away……

BTW… “God loves a cheerful giver” … He was an unhappy giver! – “His idea was to have nothing left” It wasn’t all about helping and giving!

Truth is, he didn’t realize that “he was already indeed empty” “he has nothing” even before giving away his fortune.

Oh no! where are you? wait I need some of the money take care of children living with Sickle Cell Disease in Africa – Ghana to be precise….! Anyway if it makes you feel better … good luck.. but next time tell us when you are going to do it, not after it is done …

God Bless you! Please remember the animals in need in this country, without them many people would be unhappy money or not. Thank you for your generosity

Charities are coming up, I think your idea was rather stupid my daughter has End Stage Renal Failure which means she needs a Kidney transplant they have things like the national kidney foundation which is the worse there are all these quot on quot “CHARITIES” that we have never been able to get help from so maybe you should do more research because I no first hand they do not help the families in need.

I wonder how he’ll like living on the streets – I’d suggest living in a homeless shelter for a few months first,..just to see how it is to have absolutely nothing, not even a hot shower once in awhile…I did the same stupid thing and lived to regret it….-One who Knows.

Please give me some! I make a fairly good living, but I still live paycheck to paycheck….I need to buy a house!

well ok where is this guy, ive been unemployed since july of last year, lost EVERYTHING including my wife of 18 years, what i have left after 46 years on this earth one could fit in a back pack if you could afford one, i have been looking for work everyday, walking every where i go some times i walk as far as 26 miles looking for work, i eat out of garbage cans and the only method of communication i have is a computer at the career center, now where do i find this “happiness” im alone many nights i go to sleep cold and hungry i see this kind of thing and ask “where is this guy when people like me need him” im not asking fro millions of dollars i would be happy with a few hundred at this point and time at least then i could a roof over my head

I lost my job and pray each day that God gives me a new job but nothing happened. I am so worried that I can’t even feed my 2 toddlers and pay my mortgage and utilities bill. I wish if you are kind enough to spare me some $$$ to tide over my financial situation. I believe God will bless you happiness in your life.

Man, if I had that kind of money I’d pay off all my debts and then I would so help my family and friends get out of debt, pay off their mortgages, give to charities, travel, start my own animal rescue service. I don’t begrudge him if this is what he wants to do but I think he could have had a wonderful sense of giving and accomplishment if he’d looked around his own community and his own family and friends and helped those close to and around him. I guess it’s all the same. He’s not being selfish with it.

Money can buy many things but not permanent happiness. Happiness is something that is your innate quality and not something that can be acquired out of material things. To get permanent happiness, you have to be connected to something that is permanent. Something that is permanent is your own self as a soul and not the body. God is permanent. He never changes.

Its great and wondeful what he did but money does not buy love and happiness, but one needed to live like buying food and paying rent at this tought economic time,when jobs are scare.

I would give it directly to the people in need or open up more opportunities for the mentally ill population by providing better options. Doing something good with money can make other happy who are les fortunate, then it will make the person that is giving happy, it is infection. I wonder if he has ever watch Extreme Home Makeover… It is such a good feeling to be able to give to someone who needs, whatever it may be.

Hey what’s he gonna tell the Feds when he hears that he now owes them because he violated the “gifts to others” rule?

I could use a little of that money. Maybe pay off a few bill and buy some food for my 2 girls. Pay off my nursing school and a vehicle that won’t break down anyday. Being a single mom makes it hard to do the simple things. Money may not make you happy but it sure can make things EASIER!

Thank you Michael T, for giving the only real, true answer.

i think this guy watched Avatar.. hes has accomplished a dream life and is going back toward simplicity..
i would not be surprized if he goes to south america as a missionary in the near future.. kinda like in avatar he stayed behind to enjoy a simple life.

Wow, this is exactly what we need to cure a genetic eye disease called choroideremia, that leads to blindness. We know how to cure it and all that is needed is funding!! It is estimated that for research to the point of helping people and saving vision is around 3 million dollars!

If you read this Mr. Rabeder (or others that can help), please think about our cause. This is a solvable disease that someone like you can stamp out completely from the earth, those aflicted like my 10 year old son.
http://www.choroideremia.org/

David

Wow,

Hard to believe. Huh, I wonder. Everything??

He is right, money does not make you happy. But If you are already happy it will just enhance you happiness.

I don’t believe money makes you either happy or unhappy! Its what you’re doing with your life and the people you have in it. Money doesn’t guarantee happiness and you can’t take it with you; however, it is necessary to have at least some to be able to live at all.

ITS REALLY PATHETIC TO HEAR PPL WITH LOTS OF MONEY SAY HOW SAD AND UNHAPPY THEY R,AND THAT THEY WISH THEY DIDN’T HAVE IT…I CALL BULL-SHIT, IF ITS THAT BAD WHY JUST TURN IT IN TO CHARITIES, WHY DON’T U VOLUNTEER AND THEN U CAN SEE WHO GETS THE MONEY, THERE’S NOTHING MORE FUN AND HAPPY THAN TO GIVE IT DIRECTLY TO THE PPL U WANT TO HELP, HECK BE A SECRET SANTA, SERVE TURKEYS AT THANKSGIVING, THAT SHOULD MAKE ANYONE SMILE BE AT A SCHOOL FUNCTION TO SEE IF SOMEONE NEEDS NEW SHOES OR A COAT, COME ON DUDE U ONLY LIVE ONCE, U SHOULD LIVE TO SPREAD LOVE..THINK ABOUT IT…

KEEP THE MONEY IN SAVINGS AND PRETEND LIKE YOUR POOR.
IT WOULD BE THE SAME EXCEPT YOU PAY YOUR RENT

Good for him…i assume this decision was analyze in depth….perhaps he already found what gives him true happiness and it is not related to money. Since he has been there, he already knows how it is to be poooor….

I wonder if he, as many spiritual seekers, has found happiness just inside…..

those who have feel they dont need it, those that have not will never have it!

do u know what makes me happy? …see previous post !!!

Well, I can tell you from experience. Money can NOT buy happiness. But, you can damn sure rent all you need.

If money can’t buy happiness, at least one can suffer in comfort if one has money to afford comforts!! I would like to give it a try myself. But good luck to him. I am sure his intention deserves – ? is honorable…

The truth is that money alone will not make you happy. If he would have went into his situation knowing that, things may have been better. There was too much faith invested into the thought of money. When he was financially limited, that was the time in his life to build character that would show him how to be happy with or without money….

“Can’t by me love” So true perhaps not the right kind of love. At some point in all of our lives the money/happiness association is bred into us. What can you do without money your nothing,can’t live properly, I suppose there are some that say you can if you want just the bare necessities of life. It’s commercialization and the desire to want what others have that we cannot afford. So be it.

Him giving it to the charities isn’t foolish because they’re his charities so there should be no shady people taking the money. That’s pretty great of him.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs..
1 Timothy 6:10

THIS IS AN AMAZING TASK WHICH NO ONE COULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT EXCEPT A FEW PIOUS,HOLISTIC,AND RESPECTABLE PEOPLE LIKE THESE.MORE THAN THIS THE UTMOST WONDERFUL THING IS THE REALISATION OF WHAT MONEY COULD DO IN LIFE.MONEY MAY MAKE PEOPLE CRAZY,IF ANY ONE GETS SUDDENLY ,OR EARNED WITH HARD WORK.BY,REALISING MONEY ALONE CAN NOT GIVE ANY HAPPINESS OF WHAT ONE SEEKS,IS A GREAT EXPERIENCE IN LIFE.+ I ADD IT AS HOLISTIC, AND I CONVEY MY SINCERE RESPECTS TO HIM, BECAUSE IN MY VIEW, THAT PERSON IS VERY HOLISTIC.OTHERWISE WHY DOES HE THINK TO GIVE IT ONLY TO CHARITIES?SO THET IT WILL BE USEFUL TO THEM ATLEAST. THAT IS A GREAT AND PIOUS IDEA.MANY PEOPLE IF THEY ARE RICH SUDDENLY,THEY MAY PUT IT IN BANK,OR INVEST ON REAL ESTATE OR DO SOMEOTHER THING WHICH MAXIMISES HIS RICHES.UNLIKE ALL THESE, THAT PIOUS AND HOLISTIC MAN HAS LEARNED THE TRUTH FROM HIS LIFE THAT THERE ARE SO MANY THINGS IN LIFE WHICH MAXIMISE OUR HAPPINESS MORE THAN MONEY.
SO I AS A KIND HUMANBEING, SINCERELY OBEY TO THE GOOD NATURE,HEART AND PIOUSNESS OF SUCH A SIMPLY GREAT MAN WHERE , WE FIND SUCH TYPE OF PEOPLE WITH GREAT HEART VERY FEW, WHICH CAN BE FINGER COUNTED.
ALAS! I FEEL MY BIRTH IS FLOURISHED WITH GOOD THOUGHTS WHERE I DON’T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT BECAUSE I KNOW THAT I DEFINITELY REACH GOOD OPTIMUM AND GOOD STAGE OF LIFE AND SELF SATISFACTION, WHICH IS APPRECIABLE EVEN BY DIVINE POWERS AND DEFINITELY I ENJOY MY FRUITS OF MY HUMAN LIFE………………THIS IS WHAT I FEEL.
HATS OFF TO THAT PIOUS,HOLISTIC AND SIMPLY GREAT MAN.

IF ANY ONE LIKES AND COOPS UP WITH MY IDEA, PLEASE LEAVE EMAIL TOvanajamvl
@yahoo.com THANK YOU

I just wanted to comment on the very first comment from Hublub, I guess he was too stupid to read the fine print. He set up the charities himself, they are his own charities, therefore if someone where to be making alot of money off of it, he would be the one paying them, or be the one being payed. Learn to read Nimrod before you go making assumptions!

He’d be better off continuing to work and giving all his money to some idiot off the street. Why waste a God-given talent. The last thing we need is more people opting to just stop working and, instead, start living off the system.

What his this world come to?

Good for him for realizing that money really can’t buy inner peace…Thank you for exposing me to someone with their priorities in check. Now if he could just school so many others, how many people could be helped?

I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS GUY DID THAT HE COULD OF HELP PEOPLE IN HIS COMMUNITY OR HELP THE PEOPLE IN HAITI. BUT ALL IS GOOD HE DIDNT THE RIGHT THING I GUESS.

he should loan it to me…with no ability to repay and let me get some more ho’s and pimp juice, a room at a local holiday Inn and some chinese take-out…I’m good!

Ya well good thing bout da charity but he should have given it to me just to c if I am going to end up thinking like him.lol

Wonderful man and very smart to figure out that money cant by you happiness. Way to go.

Charities is good but give to individual’s who have been out of work and need to pay there rent,
house note,etc:
I do know what to do with it. I’m a wife, mother,and grandmother.

He realized that his money owned him and not the other way around. He took control and got rid of the unwanted master. We should all have such good sense.

Perhaps this man has come to understand that in accumulating material wealth we lose much more than we gain. Recently, we are reading of more and more people who are abandoning wealth in such of greater happiness. Perhaps, just perhaps, they are on to something that we have yet to learn. Why do we get angry or suspicious of such people. The capacity to be generous does not just exist in Mother Teresa. It is present in each of us. Our focus might be not on what he has done, but what we can do.

Dear Sir,
I am a mother of two sons, older one is 12years, younger one is 18 months. My husband and I trying to provide our family’s basic needs but we couldn’t. If you are giving away your fortune I would like to ask $100.000 for my family. It will be a huge help for us.Please help us.

I think simplicity is the key to life. It seems very bold to give away everything, but it is his money and he’s giving it to charities, so it’s going to places that need it. (because he obviously doesn’t.)

It’s the little things in life that make life.

Which is better, a penny or happiness someone asked?

The answer is… a penny!

See, NOTHING is better than HAPPINESS, but a PENNY is better than NOTHING.

There may be something deeper going on in his situation.
Maybe Mr Rabeder is giving it all away because the process of getting rich and the man he was while he was rich revealed his TRUE character. Now, as a result, he feels SO guilty he is compelled to give it all away.

People I know with poor character had their poor character magnified as they became more wealthy. People I know with wonderful character had their Love, Care and Compassion magnified as their wealth grew.

Something to ponder…

I feel that he is a great man because being rich and having lots of stuff is not a sin but the LOVE of money and the OBSESSION with material things is a sin. He did not LOVE money and he was not OBSESSED with material things. This shows what a great guy he really is.
So if you don’t love the money you have and you don’t feel like you need it, do something good with it! That’s what this man did and this proves that he has an amazing heart. God bless him

JESUS IS LORD! Read the Word of God, He has much to say about this World and Eternal Life. Hear Him! Otherwise it’s just words on a page. Jesus Has Life.

i would likely keep some for old age so i wont be nobody’s problem and at least have just what i need to live with no worries and have a piece of mind

I am sorry but this man is Not smart at all, If money Is used in the right way it DOES.. make you happy and makes the people around you happy.

1. Don’t go around buying up every New Devise or Cool looking car.

2. Think of the money as a nest that you want to keep together NOT pull apart every time you go into the Mail.

3. GET a JOB =) yes.. even if your rich you should get a job, But not some 9-5 job just some part time job that you wanted to do all your life So you have something to do and not sit at home all day.

4. Friends and Family, I can tell this guy has no friends or Family.

I certainly admire his courage of giving away all his money, and agree with his realization that money cannot make him happy; however he fails to realize that God created him like anyone else as an open vessels (Romans 9:23) to contain God in Christ. Anything else, not only money, but also fame, cannot truly satisfy anyone. Anywhere he might go, life is still from one vanity to another vanity if he does not accept Christ as his life within. God has put eternity in man’s heart (Ecclesiastes 3:11), and He came to earth in flesh named Jesus for a perfect human living, and willingly accepted crucifixion to take way all sin of world, and three days later at resurrection He became the life giving spirit (1 Corinthians 15:45) for everyone who wills to receive. May all see this and glory to God.

Rich or poor people can be happy. All people on earth have the chance to be happy, whether they have money or not. The thing is, if you are poor and unhappy, then you become rich, you still will be unhappy. If you are poor and happy, then you become rich, guess what? You will still be happy.

I read the full article which included his take on how people react to him and his wife when they go on holiday. It seems like he thinks nobody sees him for the human being he is. He was just someone with money. I hope his life is more fulfilling now and that other people without money around him find life as fulfilling. What does it mean to have a fulfilled life? He attained everything material society had to offer him. What kind of happiness is he looking for? It’s up to him…as it is for everyone.

i dont know about all this. i mean, money can buy a seadoo. just try and not be happy on a seadoo!

Good for you!! Ignore the negetive comments. These people just haven’t learned what you have. Money can not buy happiness, but we all buy into the lie, that it can. Love and kindness are worth more than gold. You thought of others, don’t expect them to do right, by you, most refuse to see their own selfishness.

I don’t. understand why some rich people start feeling guilty for being rich!! If you worked hard and bult your buisness up form it. Like the person that wins the lottery and says this will not change me, i am not going to buy a new car or quite my job. THEN WHY DID YOU PLAY THE LOTTERY!!!!!

‘You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone’. Poor guy will wake up one day and be miserable. Money can fix 99% of American’s problems. The other 1% is futile and you have to learn to live with/without it. This man could get a cabin in the mountains and live the peasant’s life if he wanted to. Having money would’ve facilitated this, not hinder it.

He should have given it to me I need it.

The idea that living penniless in a shack will make him happier is idiotic. If getting money doesn’t bring happiness, then giving money away won’t take away sadness either.

This is just a very confused person trying to find happiness in many wrong ways. Its not a perfect world, and the unknown is always out there. Thus, finding happiness takes a careful balance and a lot of effort. Going all in on some ridiculous idea and expecting it to bring you a lifetime of happiness is a pipe dream. If he had one single person who truly cared about him they would tell him this. Apparently he doesn’t. Something to think about before you all elevate him and dog “society”…

I think it’s noble of him, although if I had the ways and means that it sounds he does, I would use those ways to generate more money to help more charities. He could sell his lavish items or donate them, but stioll keep his income level and work for the betterment of others. That will give him a continuous sense of happiness. To use his talents for others. Good luck.

Steve

(1). I’m sure he’s set a bit aside for basic needs and his spartan retirement.
(2). He is generally correct. Check out the most popular course at Harvard, and the book it inspired, “Happier” by Tal Ben-Shahar; or, check out the lives of anyone who’s won the lottery.

He could of started a company and created jobs, but if the money really did not make him happy it was better to just give it away.

Using money as tool to make you happy never works, sharing the money to help others can be very rewarding.

If he is Christian he could be doing just what the Bible tells him to do. Easy to say, hard to do. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. But it all depends on what is in his heart. None of us will ever know in this life. If it is just another case of the grass is always greener somewhere else, then it will all be for nothing and he will still die an unhappy man.

Hmm….good for him in that he recognizes $$ doesn’t bring happiness. However……there are many, many ways to benefit “our country” and it’s children and/or small business. I’m sorry but, I’m a little tired of the “altruism” of the rich and famous of this magnificent country going to other countries and people first. We’ve given enough of resources away. Now is the time to focus on making America and her citizens stronger, better.

Yaa, I agree money can not give happiness. It may give comfort not happiness. For getting happiness one has to search within self not outside.

Nice story to hear these days. Glad to see someone has it figured out.
I lost my business of 16 years, and my income, I could certainly use the money. But I have learned 1/2 of the stuff I have around here I don’t need. Spending time, putting it all in the “Goodwill” boxes.
Those people that constantly buy more junk, are only fooling themselves. “Keeping up with the Jones” is just a marketing tool to get you to give your money to someone else and enslaving yourself to never ending debt.

Rich, you are the only one who seems to get it.

Is it a coincidence that your name is Rich? I think not. Thanks for the insight.

I am from Nepal. I am also form poor family and my family even did not have money to send me school but after working all over for money now I am in USA working 2 job and try to support my family and parents back in home. Mr. Karl did a great thing but soon he will realize how important money will be. All your family & friends love you because of your money. I am sure he will start losing all his friends and family. Being a happy is not related to money it is related to your mind & health.
Good luck to Karl.

If Money is not worthy why so many country and people sent money to Haiti? This guy is crazy, he was doing something wrong with the money, but there are a lot of things we can do with it.

The guy is a moron because money buys time which is happiness. He could of saved that money and still lived a simple life.

I LOVE IT!!!

He’s got the right idea. I was forced to come to this realization by way of a layoff. I don’t need the salary I was making to be happy, all I need is money enough to pay my bill and by the “little” extras here and there.

It was good he did that, however I think that when rich people want to give out their wealth they should consider some small organizations struggling to reach their communities and not only those big names who will have that money sit there for a while considering what next to do.

Its true, money cannot buy happiness! However, it sounds like he is going into some sort of mental meltdown! He will still need money to exist, and may live to regret his decision.Money is a drug to some people who are misers, in order to fill a void–Avarice, is a crime to stop the flow of money, out of greed!I would have helped people here in the US, and set up foundations to help battered women and animals, and much more! even donate money for those to go to college.Some people grow up poor, and think they are poor, even though they are rich, its a mindset.

When he moves into that hut – will he own the land it’s upon?!

Purely the grandiose imaginings of a rich man – I predict he will at some point regret the decision.

I feel his pain of loneliness. I just wish I had the opportunity to acquire the riches to make such a decision. I would probably give monies directly to the needy and make it fun in the process, which will cause him to meet many appreciative new friends. I pray that may will benefit from the donations because some charities, even popular ones, are not managed properly these days. I wish him much luck in regaining the strength that he once had to acquire such riches.

This man is getting a rush from all the publicity – but when all the fanfare is gone alone with his money he’ll realize its no picnic not having ANY money. Money isnt good or bad is just a tool that can give a certain level of freedom. Karl Rabeder will find that he’s even more unhappy without a dime to his name. Ill save a retirement job for him at Walmart.

me an my family live in the woods with no car an we are struggling in a viscous cycle the jobs you have to drive to we just walked our children to the wic appointment in the rain as ppl looked at us from cars ….it was embarrasing there are no jobs in this small town an to have no car an not be able to get a job or a car or be able to function as a family i am only 24 yrs old with 2 kids an no grandparents or family to help out …we are alone the only reason we wish to be poor is to function like normal human beings …we are depressed because we see no change or future for our family an we are just stuck in a bad area …with no doors to open….we feel we only see death in our future my girls are 9mths old and 2 n half yrs old an it depresses me more that i have a family an no means to provide for them …. i have been homeless an alone but i was happier than i am now …i feel like a failure as a parent an my parents failed to support me into a functioning adult …..if i was rich i would have a healing farm bed n breakfast with alterntaive healing methods n just be a loving place to get well n be on a farm with animals an people who can relate an share success story’s with to help bring some motivation an solutions to people who struggle like me….my teeth are rotting out because my after my dad died when i was 15 my mom was an addict an my RICH uncle left me i was abandoned …..an i just dont know how or what to do i have all the talent i needed I just needed someone to believe an support me……i have 5 inventions 3 are medical 2 are mommy related but i dont have the money or resources to do anything with them i have done my homework an every option cost money i just cant get a brake u have to be rich to get rich in this economy an all i want is to do good for ppl an be safe an comfortable with my family an help my purpose in this life get fulfilled as well as my childrens dreams an purposes …. i just want to be there for children who were like me an had no one to help……
charitys always get the help but WE the ppl with familys who can die an have no one to be there for our kids if something happens to us an i have no one to care
lacie renae moore

That’s awesome that he gave it all away, it indeed tells the kind of person that he really is. On the other hand as the great comedian Daniel Tosh said, “Sure money can’t buy happiness, but have you ever seen anyone sad on a wave runner?”

whats wrong with u. you should thank god for giving you money atleast.
people who dont have money r suffering in the world n u say it cant buy happiness, r u nuts or what. go give that money to the poor children for education.

I think I am going to drop out of school and be a professional camper. School = success and success= money so I am done and I am going camping…peace

i meant wish to be rich just so we can function as a normal family

By giving this $ away, this fellow will gain more than he ever dream of, and he will find real happiness.

I don’t know if this was an epiphany or not, but it is better to give than to receive.
No matter if he gave millions or trillions, you can’t beat God giving no matter how hard you try!
God gave his only son, and there is no greater love
Personally I would have done it differently, but then again I’m on the outside looking in.
It was a righteous decision that he made regardless of how he arrived at it and I believe that he’s blessed.

Wellllll… To a point. Everything in life is to a point. If he truly is a smart man, he will not regret it because he will know how to live out rest of his “old age.” If he regrets, he was a stupid man.

Money may not buy you happiness, but it will certainly buy you a “small wooden hut in the mountains” and, of course, FOOD!

whatever makes you happy as long you don’t push religion on me

I respect this man. He has chosen to do what will make him feel fulfilled. I would recommend that he keep some of his fortune for himself just in case he is wrong though.

Personally I am pretty happy even though I am poor, I think that happiness isn’t always money but money can indeed help.

The man has the right to do what makes himself happy. But I would have kept some in case of a emergency. Or he might change his mind then what. Does he have family how do they feel about it.

Money can’t buy happiness, but you do need it for food and shelter, unless you want to live outdoors in the snow, or in the scorching summer. You would either freeze to death, or roast to death, depending on the time of year, and where you are. You may also go hungry. I believe in giving to the needy, but don’t be needy yourself.

The guy was unhappy being poor and therefore worked his way to become rich.Suddenly,he realized that he was still unhappy.
QUESTION:Why donating a commodity you discovered is poison to innocent people in the guise of charity?D’you want them to be unhappy?
ADVISE:He is at the verge of knowing that life is useless unless you live it for Jesus.No man cometh unto Him(Jesus) and live in darkness(unhappiness).He is the way,the truth(reality) and the life.The money should’ve been used to sponsor the gospel,which is the power of God unto salvation,to the people.

That is a very nice thing he is/has done. I don’t have a lot of money heck I don’t have any money, but what I do have I love sharing and helping others. I wished that I could do a lot more for the elderly which laid the foundation for our past and the growth of our children who are our future. I have a few ideas that I am getting ready to put into action, and it’s just a matter of gathering up a few more funds.

May God Bless your heart and soul Mr. Rabeder, because in the end thats all that matters anyway.

I am happy…if you have love you’re a millionaire already,happiness is my best companion,she is faithful to me for poorer or for richer in sickness and in health,for better or for worse in sadness and in joy she is always there with me,she loves me because I embrace her everyday and tell her that I love her,she said: Loving,sharing,giving, helping to any person around your life that needs it,is like the most beautiful flower arrangement you can ever give me to conquer me and make me fall in love with you.

Doesn’t matter what he does, there’s a void you can’t fill w/material things no matter how hard you try; and that void is still there even when you deliberately choose to live a “simple life”….the man needs Jesus Christ as his personal Savior

Well, it is his own charity that he’s giving it to and he’s not taking a salary…so I think it’s a wonderful idea.

What is the matter with some of you? It’s his money. Do you have family? Children? Then you are rich.
I lost my daughter Joy in 1985 after she spent 9 months in a chronic vegetative state with massive brain damage after she was accidently strangled in the footrest of her grandfather’s recliner chair.
I made the decision that it would be better for her to die, than to exist like that for decades.
That guilt from that decision caused me 20 years of prisons and addiction. I finally gave up – selling my house to pay to get into treatment – after losing my younger brother to alcohol. He went to Las Vegas with friends, partied, got drunk, passed out, and suffocated on his own vomit.
After that I checked into treatment, and it changed my life.
While using everything & anything (with 3 hospitalizations from alcohol complications alone)I still managed to run a nightclub in Miami Beach – making $500 or more a night.
After rehab, I got a job as a night tech in a detox center (that I’d gone through myself 7-8 times in 10 years) – making less in a week than I did on a good night at the club.
And I was never happier.
I started blogging about my loss/God/addiction/and fighting to get back into life, while the clients slept at night. One reader asked me to be the editor of a recovery magazine she wanted to start. I agreed.
When the realization of what was involved in putting a magazine out struck her, she bailed.
I didn’t. I got someone else to finance it & started It’s all in the Journey. It has doubled in size in 2 years. Though it is a month to month operation; if I don’t sell enough ads the magazine doesn’t go out. And if it didn’t go out – no one is going to pay for an ad in another issue until they see their ad in latest issue.
Some months have been close, but we ALWAYS get that final ad that allows printing to go ahead & have for 2 1/2 years!
We are now printing 21,000 copies a month that go across the country to rehabs & AA/NA clubhouses (for free).
I also just opened Joy’s House (wwwjoyshouse.info); a sober house for women that I opened in my daughter’s memory/honor. It is so girls leaving treatment do not immediately go back to old neighborhoods/friends who might tempt them with “One time isn’t going to hurt”.
These two endeavors are HARD work, time consuming, heart breaking at times (when a girl relapses after you get to know her), and the pay is nothing to brag about – I pay myself $500 a week for a 60+ hour work week – and if we don’t have enough girls in Joy’s House; most of that goes to the mortgage!
And I have never been happier.
I was offered my old job back as a club manager – with 5x the pay I am making now & no headaches – I could do it in my sleep, and I didn’t give it even a moment’s consideration – I thanked him and said ‘no thank you.’

If this man is happy by giving away all of his money – his money that he earned – more power to him.
Life isn’t easy – I know – but knocking him the way some of these comments have isn’t helping you; it’s just building resentment & irritibility in you, about something that has nothing to do with you.
Go look at your kids, or brother and sister, and be grateful – it’s a lot easier and feels a lot better, I promise!

i think this man too trustful/optimistic,that his future life will go smoothly as a poor man,without any bank balance for his rainy days,especially when he’s getting old.
i do give credit to him for donating, but atleast he should kept some for his old age.
this world runs on money,what if reality hits him hard once he has given away everything.
he will be one sad man that day, and won’t be ableto start fresh at this age.
i thought people who grow up poor,value money a lot,spend and give money in a wise way.
this is foolish

some people just cant be happy with or without money. karl is on his way to understand that making millions or giving it away has nothing to do with happyness. sad story

Money does not bring you happiness, however it cost to be sad as well. To live a simple life requires some sort of income. I think that what he is doing is heartfelt,but I would not give it all away. The fact that he has to give it away shows that it is needed. I would rethink the idea, because it sounds a like a lonely journey he is about to embark on in the mountains.

What a Complete IDIOT!!! Good Luck living in that box on the Mountain! Why not Give it to Homeless and Needy People Here In Our OWN COUNTRY!??? To Hell with Latin-American Charities, It’s all a Scam!!!

I know exactly how he feels I am going through this right now. I own a house with $30,000+ equity, and have my own business and $40,000 in the bank to boot and am still so unhappy. I know it seems like money is the answer but its not the key to happiness is really simplicity. I hope someday I can get over my money obsession and be like him! Maybe someday that day I will be a better person!

Finances are not the basis of happiness and in the purest sense should not even be a contributing factor.
If he’s been to both ends of $$ and still unhappy why not try something else before returning to zero??
Why do so many people think in black and white??????

I totally agree with him and what he done.Now he will start to feel the happines of not been a slave,and do what his heart and soul tell him to follow.
I am not reach but I’m thinking of doing what I like and not to be a slave,so I can feel just happy,and the real meaming of been alive.

Congratulation……………to him…….
from L.A. CA.

I think this guy is genuine and i have nothing but graditude for him. I think we have more than what we need at times, and are persuades to think we don’t have enough by all the media outlets, and our peers. Some of us were born into wealth, and we don’t know what it feels to be without it, but this guy like myself was born into poverty and yet, he wants to give it all away to seek real happiness bravo bravo bravo” God Bless him. Good man!

It sounds, from the title, that he was unhappy poor, what makes him think it has changed? Being rich is not the problem, to me it’s what you do with your money. If he wants to find happiness maybe he should work and donate his time and money to needed sources. Usually helping others and meeting those that you help he may find friends that are real and not just after his money. There are childrens wards with terminally ill children that care nothing about money, they care about being happy and see life as it should be. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad he is a giving person, but you cannot blame your unhappiness on being rich or poor, its what is within you and the only way to fix it is to become happy with yourself!

The movie “Pursuit of Happiness” gave us insight to the truth. We are always pursing. Things which are seen can’t bring true happiness. It is in the unseen things, joy, peace, love, kindness, etc. I think it is a great test to have truly lived both sides of the coin and know whats best for him.

I really have a lot of respect for this guy. It’s a great thing the fact that he is donating to charitable causes. It’s his money and he can do whatever he wants with it. I have heard the statement,”Money can’t buy you happiness.” Usually, people who have mega bucks often say this. Even though they believe money can’t buy happiness, I’d sure like to give it a go!

RJO55 said it succinctly. And Beau I was where you are. It took loosing everything for me to learn this but this guy is right. drop that ego riddled burden. That bag of rocks is too heavy a load.

I am more than what I appear to be. All the worlds strength and power resides within me.

Why does he think that extreme poverty will make him any happier than extreme wealth? This is actually a really sad story, as it sounds to me like a person who is desperately discontent and seeking a reason to live, a way to be happy in life. Extreme poverty isn’t the answer to finding happiness in life any more than extreme wealth is. Life is about living well, not about what you have or don’t have. It’s about defining and living for what is important– not in terms of what “material things” are or not important, but rather what is important– people, relationships, the beauty around us, mental, emotional and spiritual growth, etc. I suppose that list would be different for each individual, but if it focuses on material things, whether in terms of having them or not having them, you can bet you’re missing something. The answer I’ve found is that people are created for a relationship with God, we all seek for a connection with the supernatural, and that was provided through Jesus Christ. We won’t be able to find contentment or “live well” until we realize and accept that, and fulfill that need for relationship with God.

Hi is donating his money to Central and South America. Is this guy crazy? If 10 cents on each dollar is used for charity it will be a miracle. There is going to be many new rich people in Central and So.American with his money. Why doesn’t he donate his money closer to home where he can keep his eye on it.

I am a chairity case…he can send some of that $ my way!!!

Too irrational. Give it a few years, and see if the money comes in handy.

He should have contributed to the humane society or the ASPCA to animals. They suffer too!

Security is most important in our lives.
It is wonderful to help others and that
is the way we all should think.
But..Keep something for your future.
I have been unemployed from my data
center job for almost seven years now.
But I work at what I can. I even worked
for a seven eleven store for about four years
until they too laid me off, I am Now collecting
But when this runs out I don’t know what I am
going to do, I am trying to learn new things
But it will do me no good if nobody hires me.
I have a Handicaped Brother that lives withe me
and I take care of him also. He is a kidney failer
patient and his meds are covered by medicade partialy
but they are still expensive. the point is that this man should keep some of his money in case something
happens to him in the future,
Security for the future is most important.
Good Luck in what ever he decides.

Everyone that think on those lines like Mr Karl Rabeder should check out the following website on Ajhan Brahmavanso’s dhamma talks.
http://jowayoflife.blogspot.com/2008/03/compilation-of-ajahn-brahms-vi deo.html
May tripple gem bless you !

hey i wish if i new you befor giveing it away i have big family all what i need its 25000 . iam happy for you mr.Karl Rabeder good luck .

i fell the same way. so many people try to buy happiness.but happinesscomes from the heart,real friends, god, and family so i applaud him for relizing this and i want to wish him all the best

No, offense to anyone, but to give everthing to charity is not only insane, it is kind of bad logic. I understand were he comes from. We live in a materialistic world and consumerism doesn’t benefit anybody. On the other hand, what ever the charity it goes has to be a good one. People who don’t build there own live’s should’nt benefit from charity because they won’t learn any thing. The word ‘charity’ should not even exist in any language. Life something you go get and earn, not something you have it handed to you.

Give it to me, I will make you happy

I am going through the same thing as some of you. I haven’t had a job in almost 8 months and my military retirement only goes so far. I brought this upon myself by living above my means thinking I needed to have the next best thing and live paycheck to paycheck. We are a society that has thrived on credit and are now paying for our blunders.

Just imagine what it will be like not having any debt because you live within your means. If you can’t save for it and pay cash, ask yourself if you REALLY need to have it. This continues to be something that is hard to overcome for me.

Know this… Jesus is willing to help you, you just have to ask. (You’d already know that if you read the Bible)

This gentleman reminded me of the passage Mark 10 21-23 about “The Rich Young Man”…

21 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.” 22 Disheartened by the saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. 23 And Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How difficult it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”

Is he really giving away EVERY PENNY? I mean, I get the point, but… Couldn’t he just put some aside and donate the rest? There are some of us working for $8/hour who can’t even make ends meet… If he wanted to do that, he could just trade places with me!

nope, money doesnt buy happiness, but when your only issues arise from money issues, it grands happiness. so yea if i had a few mil id be a lot happier. only because all my unhappiness comes from money issues.

The man has a mental problem. Some paranoid-obsessive struggle with sudden guilt. Alzheimer’s maybe… Something’s terribly wrong and it’s too bad family doesn’t step in before it’s too late.

Missed a little content on this story. It didn’t really read that he had some life changing event or revelation that told him to give it away. Yes, we can all agree that we have days where we say, “Why am I killing myself working so hard for money?” As for what to do with the money, give a portion to charities, church, Haiti, ASPCA, invest in a career that you do enjoy.

I just wanted to say thank you for telling this story because all my life Ive been telling people that money isnt everything.But people just dont believe me..I dont covet a person with alot of money because you never know what they had to go through to get it.As for me IF i had a chance to ask him a question is How can i do the same? Make alot of money and give it away? To some people may think Im crazy but i can say first hand it feels good to give away money to people just to do it?Not only does it make you happy but you get to give back.It keeps you humble.Let me know what you think?

It is true…that we were for material things. I do wish he would choose individuals though. I could sure use some help with my teeth…ugh

what if he decides that he liked having nice things and not working and the power wealth brings. NO TAKE BACKS.. YOU IDIOT

Money can buy pleasure but not happiness once your life ends your material possesions will not follow you. It’s great that he gave it to charity hopefull he did good research on them! But I think he is getting too much plublicty! Kind of makes it seem fake….

and people who are into “gOD” dont see reality, and most of them live in the usa, how can you blame towelheads if majority of americans are religiondumb

uh! That’s great, but, rent, electricty, water, insurance, taxes, clothing, vehicle, gas, upkeep,some sort of entertainment, food and anything else to make you HAPPY…a money tree.
Six months he’ll think “what the hell did I do!”

I am glad to see a human being with superior intelligence! If we had more persons like you, the world would not be real. Human beings are still at an eerly evolution state. Our future is uncertain! The earth is full of greedy, self-centered, selfish people and will continue to be so.
Congratulations for such an altruist act! May God be with you for the rest of your life. I wish you become the happiest person in our necrotic planet!

How many people would have the courage to take such a bold step and give it all away? Says a lot about his convictions and values in life. Actions basically are expressing priorities!! I applaud such idealism!

At last he realized & was able to do. Many of us think that is the correct thing, but we are tied with other commitments that don’t allow many of us to be like him. I wish one day i will be in his similar shoe.

Not having money and being in debt has been very stressful in my life. Not sure how giving away all your money can elimate the unhappiness he felt. I tell ya – I could use $100,000 in my life ; as I am sure many people can. Many people strive for financial freedom in life. Not sure what he is trying to prove, if anything!

jesus is ill person who lived long time ago . when will you people get this in your heads?

I would be curious to see how happy he is 10 years from now after living in abject poverty. He has not figured out that happiness is not a location but rather a state of mind. Sorry pal, you’re going to really hate poverty. Trust me, I know.

Well I think he has made an amazing choice. I do however understand others skepticism on his motives. Whatever his motives are if anyone has ever been on any type of spiritual journey to improve your inner self through a higher power or otherwise, then we all know that we are not to question his motives and keep him in our prayers and pray that God will guide him on his journey to a better place and maybe this story will inspire others as well to let go of our worldly possessions and find happiness within ourselves and our God whatever your religous or spiritual views maybe.

Debi ask Jesus for revelation knowledge because the word of God talk about riches and wealth more than anything in the word of God that is why the world don’t want anything to do with Christians because we talk about how good God is but no fruit and no manifestation in our life of this goodness not all but many. Christains have been sick, broke and divorcing at alarming rates. How long are we going to be ignorant of the word of God and let the devil keep stealing from us what Jesus has restored back to us. Revelation knowledge and wisdom of God is what we need because it is time out saying all we need is Jesus. Yes we do need him but with him comes true riches and that does not mean rich in your heart. Ask for revelation about wealth he is faithful and just. I have given you all things richly to enjoy, all grace abound towards you so that you always have all things richly to enjoy, I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prosper there are many things Jesus had to say about wealth and riches but doing it his way is the only right way.

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man,,,i`m unemployed and jobs few and far between, next time he want to give it away i could use a few bucks intead of giving it away to a bunch of spooks! is there not any poor people in his own country?, he must not have looked hard enough. and for all of the bible bangers,,,,god never paid any of my bills!!!

I wonder if there is any starving or poor people in whatever country he’s from that could benefit from this donation…It’s funny how that works.

oh yea and i also except checks

“For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Luke 12:34
God bless him!

I feed homless or give them money when I happened to have it (mostly loans is what I have).

He could make 10-20 orphans happy, those from foster homes that start life with nothing and nobody.

He did what he wanted. I red about two who donated to funds 40,000,000,000 $ each, – aperantly they slept bad recalling how they got it. They are shurely smart, and this is why I think they did it with no emotions.

At first i was skeptical and doubtful, backing up from that negative thinking I realized this is GOD’s Will for this man to give up everything he has. Sometimes i have to ask myself what will i give up for Christ. I don’t know this man’s religious beliefs, but i can bet he has GOD in his life. Store up riches in heaven, not here on earth you can’t take it with you.

I hate to say this, but that guy is smoking the wrong kind of green. He was probably unhappy with his life b/c of the mere fact that he had that money while at the same time working so hard to get it, which isn’t uncommon. The guy clearly needed a break from it all. He should’ve just decided to kick it back for a few months at one of his beach properties in Maui… or hell, just move to Maui. Now he’ll have to go back to an undesirable hourly-wage job sweeping floors while then coming back home to a “small hut in the woods”? I’m sure he, along with any potential bride-to-be, would love that. Either way, best of luck to the guy.

Why can´t we just do what we want to do whithout people getting involved. If that´s what makes him happy, let him be!

Idiot!

Truly, it is not money that either makes, brings, or even takes away happiness. It is what you do with what you have as in all things we possess. Surely he has found a measure of happiness but what not what he is ultimately searching for.

MadMolecule: “…It can temporarily distract them from unhappiness.”
So does drugs and alcohol, so should he waste his money on that stuff in stead of giving it to charity? To most everyone else… It is HIS to do what he wants, obviously HE EARNED it!!! No one tells you all what to do with your money. This blog has really opened my eyes to how truly greedy we are. Children are dying in Hatti and all most of you can think about is ” gimmy gimmy gimmy”. REALLY!!! You all would sell your own Mother if you thought you get enough for her HUH!!! If a child lay dying in the street how many of you would grab the dollar out from under their hand then call for help?

I applaud him for his faith and courage. It takes a lot of courage to give away all of his money like that. I just wish that one of those “charities” was people here in America that are hurting from lost jobs and homes, natural disasters, etc. There are so many ways he could help his own country. Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against Central and Latin America but charity begins at home.
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The simplistic ideal is good for some but for most others that have evolved in the modern life to loose all of the technological advances of modern revolution would mean death because they wouldnt be able to aquire the basic (food,water or shelter).
The “your not your f!@#ing khakis” idea didnt play out well in fight club either.

Its not about having what we want…….its about wanting what we have……….

Wow, Marry me and you will see true happiness……

It does make some sort of sense. After all, we come into the world with nothing, we leave the world with nothing and everything in between is just stuff. Mainly stuff to entertain and keep ourselves occupied. If it does bring any happiness it is usually temporary.

I was never rich, wealthy or a millionare but had lots of money, people consider me a good looking guy, I had girls, I had the attention, did not have a Ferrari but very nice collectibles. The problem is that having a lot of money puts you in a very different environment that one has to be in that situation to experience it.
I gave away all my money to about 50 families who where in real need and they did great things with that money. I gave it to the wife not the husband because I believe men can get greedy and are more corrupt and can mis-use the money. I knows how he felt and how he feels right now.

i wish all these hippies would stop giving all the cash to foreign damn countries the US is also a poor country just with nicer stuff give it to the people who support your country poor soldiers somethin

I’m hoping this gentleman is listening to G-d and not someone else, our happiness only comes from the Heavenly Father, who directs our paths, and even allows others to bring in happiness, one has to be happy with themselves and not with things, The Father wants us to have some things, a workman is worthy of their hire, and not to have something to survive off of is not good, giving to charity is a great thing, but you will have to eat and clothe yourself and a roof over your head G-d did not leave us ignorant but hiopeful in Him, put Him first and all things will be add unto you.

Hi Karl,
I think you are doing the right thing!!If you are a Christan then you know what the bible says about money! “It is easier for a camel to go threw the eye of a needle than for a rich man to go to heaven!Money does not bring happiness the bible says its the root of all evil!!May be you have recently gave your life to the Lord and he has shown you things about money and how you should be like the good Samaritan! My husband and I are barely getting by since I got Laid off from my job.
But by Gods Grace we are doing fine!!we are happy. The riches and Blessings God gives us is Enough!!May God Bless you with Health& Happiness!!

United States have people starving, homeless, vets that served your country that have nowhere to call home and you want to send millions to latin america. are you not worried about your own nation? IRS must be on your trail hot and heavy…. RUN WHILE YOU CAN.
DID YOU GIVE GOD HIS 10%?

id give unlimited blow jobs for that at his descresion and be happy all day

I think that it is a good thing, but I don’t believe that giving away all of his money is wise. After all he will still need money to live, and there is nothing wrong with being comfortable.

Hey Karl give me some of that money.It may not bring happiness but I can sure try.I am in the process of buying a home and I am already unhappy!It is all about money,money,money.Earnest money deposit,down payment,inspection,appraisal,closing cost…etc.Maybe I need to reconsider buying a house?I need to find what makes me happy and pursue that.We all seem to fall into a line of bullshit that society feeds us and that is wrong and it takes years to find out where we went off the path.Crazy.It’s like the idea of santa claus,not true but nonetheless a nice idea!!!

I am doing the same thing right now….I have sold and given away every thing that I owned except some person momentos….I do not have millions and I don’t have health insurance which would be nice to have…but because I am losing my home I had no choice but to downsize…and it is liberating…and as I look at all the stuff I aquired I wonder why did I buy that stuff…..well I believe I will be happier with less junk to cart around…and it is more freeing….I would like to meet this man it seems he and I think alot alike….

Does anyone know how to contact this person? I’d like to suggest for him to use some of it and personally give it to the charities he would like to help. The reason why there are still so many poor people is because the right care and opportunity aren’t given to them. seeing to it that the monies go where they should could be his life long job.

Good luck to you mate and don’t let your guilt feeling about being righ before cloud your judgment. Your donations have to be able to help the deserving.

if he want do that, its okay. maybe he wants to experience poorverty today. not the one he grewup in. why cant he help individuals going through foreclosures and who have no jobs, or even establish jobs to improve lives of struggling Americans? I’m proud of his achievements, but i’m kind of confuse and, just cannot unserstand his logic at this point of time in the economy.

Hats off to this gentleman – money does not bring happiness unless it is shared with the folks who need help. Maybe he has realized owning all these material items is like hoarding – one can only be in one place at a time – why would you want all these extras homes. Happiness is found when we help and share our blessings with the poor.

I wish that he could had sent some money this way. I run a non-profit family service and we have no money! My partners and myself have been paying the bills just so we can keep the doors open.There is very little to no grant money and foundation money out there for us. If anyone feels the needs to donate monies we sure could use it. You can donate at Changingpassage.com.

Money is like any gift in life, if you don’t appreciate it it goes away.

As Switchfoot said in their song “Happy Is A Yuppie Word”, “Blessed is the man who’s lost it all,” and I definitely see the truth in that. What an example this man is.

That’s nice, charities will help a lot.

I think he’s absolutely crazy… SORRY! We, as humans have made everything on this planet earth money driven. DON’T LET THE RICH FOOL YOU. On this guy it is something to do with tax breaks, publicity, or he just likes the state of rebuilding wealth. Myself I was a giver to a fault and now I’m living with family and friends to survive. Never again will I be so generous!

I must say that it is not everyday someone makes the choice that this gent made but kudos to him. I believe in the adage that says ‘money does not buy happiness’ and I also believe that there is pleasure in the simple things if that is what you desire.

There are deeper meanings to life and happiness.The effect of money is maximal.Having money and Christ Jesus makes life easier.Not having money being a Christian can make you deny your faith in God.Preferably,the gentle has made a wrong choice, by not been (Totally) wise with his money.

i love how everybody gives to mexico or other south american countries but they fail to see the need for american help that is why we are in the trouble we are in. if you walk down the street i am sure you can see people who need help just as mutch as some person in a bad off country.

With education money can be achieved at any time of our lives. Those that want to bypass to the riches without the education will be poor a day later. I’m sure he can work and earn what he needs. What he’s woked to this point and gave away will serve a great purpose.

Good luck and God bless, hope you will achieve what you are trying to aim in life.

i’ve ben dirt poor,and have made a very healthy living. i;ve given away 90%.Today i live very frugally.I agree 100% with his decisions

me to tinkerbell1243@yahoo.com

Money does buy you happiness!!! What a FOOL!!!

well…if his plans are to RETREAT to the Mountains, apparently he is not donating all of it or he has set aside enough to retire on. Happiness is gained from self adventures in life, not money!!!

Many Millionaires are doing that now days…….

Kudos.

Beau…I was there once, watching the ‘last of it’ slip through my fingers. Everything i had ever worked for…gone.

But what happened next was strange. When it was all gone, I felt GREAT. I was no longer a slave to ANYTHING. All these things that I had worked for, I had no idea if they were really even what I wanted. So I started over; I declared bankruptcy so the bank took my uber-expensive car (I saw it resold two weeks later for just a smidge less than what I owed), cashed out all the credit cards, stretched my weekly unemployment check as far as I could and took casual advantage of the only socialized medicine we have in this country; free medicare for poor people.

Once I (and my also-unemployed wife and kid) qualified for Medicare, We also qualified for Food Assistance which, again, wasn’t a whole hell of a lot per month, but it helped. The way I saw it was that I had paid into this system for YEARS…and I’m not going to feel bad taking a bit of it back. And so for the 6 months or so it took for me to find a new job and get things rolling again I used all the public assistance I received to help myself get motivated again; to help myself find the best place for me to contribute to society. If I hadn’t lost everything, I would’ve never been given that chance.

Stop seeing your loss as a negative thing…see it as the opportunity it really is to cut the needless things from your life and to remember and focus on what’s really important to you…because you’re no good to the rest of us if you choose to be useless.

ELVIS: had people who loved him. He wasn’t happy. He was looking for an emptiness inside himself that needed to be filled up. BEETLES;PAUL MCCARTNEY,
He isn’t happy. Look at all the money he has and still he is not happy. He still has a hang up about John and a paticular song. BRAD PITT: He has money. He has a lot of kids. He is able to afford them. He is not happy. Carrie Underwood. Has the Lord in her heart and has a lot of money and she is happy. Joel Olsteen: has a lot of money He is happy. He has the Lord also.
Joyce Meyer: very poor when she grew up. Abused and ect. She has money now and happily married and she has God in her heart. Tell me 3 people to 3 people. Why are they not happy and why the other 3 are? God is our refuge. He carries us when we are having our worst nightmares in our lives. Drugs, liquor, woman,and men do not fill the emptiness we have in our lives. God does. Try Him. Yell out His name. Right where you are in life at this moment. Even if it does sound impossible. Hard yes impossible no.TRY HIM.

I think it is a good idea. The things you own end up owning you . I prefer to give my funds away to the lower levels folks you know the working poor. Doorman, Cops,lawn Guys Mechanics, waitresses, waiters and bar people.

am touched to learn Mr. Karl Rabeder find a way to find happiness. If anything I hope you have already accepted Christ in your life. I salute you Mr. Rabader and, I wish you the best life has to offer and enjoy the simple life. I am certain the charities will be in better position to assist and touch many lives because of your realization. God has blessed my wife and I with three beautiful children and they are our hapiness and will always be. I understand money is a necessity and when times are hard especially in this economy, people lose hope and haippiness can be an imaginaty phenomenon. But again Mr. Rabeder, your decision gives me hope. I read in the news you want to give it all up but you are surely going to need some even if your dream is to live a simpler life.

Salute and God Bless!!!
J

Its so very true, we all want these material things which we do not even know, these things only further us away from realizing the truth and make us unstable spiritually and mentally which leads to being unstable physically. A person shouldn’t ask or work so hard for these worldly things, only need enough to survive which is 2 times a day worth of food, a home/apartment to cover your head(meaning shelter). its good that there are people who understand this and goes through this beautiful change. And you don’t need money to be happy(more example. people who won lotteries end up having bad relationships/sad)

People might thinks he’s crazy for giving his money away, but he’s not. We have to understanding it’s not the money that makes us happy. It, may help with paying the bills and keeping your finance’s in order. But ideally you have to enjoy life in order to make yourself happy.. OR just smoke something (420) and be happy.

You have a choice to be happy or unhappy. Money will not buy it nor will it keep happiness from you. There are many unhappy wealthy and poor people. I challenge anyone to just act happy for one day (even if you have to fake it) then see how you feel at the end of the day.If you truly feel miserable then go consult a physician.

He should join Fight Club and make soap.

yes i like to give money if i wa rich as him but i do it defirent ,i go to the poor people my self and help them for hous or to help them do business or by acow or goats so they start new life and may be help some one else.because the charity they give only one cent from each dollar the collect, that is sin.

good for you all the other rich people who buy yaghts for 50 millions do they really need that stuff when other people around the world die from hunger where is the fare in life no wonder god is so mad at people
very proud of you man and i hope you all the hapiness

I believe that there’s a middle ground that could be reached. Hard, but obtainable. Too much money or too
little, hard to solve that puzzle. He’s been everywhere
in between. I will have to tip my hat to him and consider him the expert here. I wish him all the happiness in the world. Inner happiness is the way to go. God Bless

SKB

i think that he is not foolish to give some away but i would have kept some of it i guess its because we are the ones that are living from check to check each week but he did do that right thing if that is what amde him happy.

he exercised the freedom everyone should have
if I had extra money I would use it to reverse
all the stupid laws and rules I could
that cause regular people problems
and they do not know what to do

Republican, Democrat does it really matter? Big busines runs America and the World! You nor I alone can do nothing to change that. What I value you may not value. So its his money let him do what he wants to do with it. If you feel you would do something differently with the money, go get you some and do it!!!

each one of us needs to do what feels right for us. It’s his business and his business alone what he does with his pocket book.

I think it’s great. We’re materialistic. So much that we forget to enjoy the simple things in life. Simplicity. Good for him and NO i don’t want any of his money.

His points are valid. However, I agree with other posters. There is a middle ground and I think it’s not money that is the problem but one’s focus. Having a lot of money isn’t bad — it just depends on what you do with it. I think the key is praying and asking God to direct you on how to use it. And finding what makes you happy beyond money. Surely there are plenty of things we all love to do that we would still do whether we had money or were making an income from it or not. I’m not rich but I’m in a similar enough situation in which I make a lot of money and it doesn’t make me any happier or less happy than I was without it but what it makes me comfortable and it makes me happy to know that God can use me to help others with the money I have. I think you really just have to learn how to use money, like you would have to use anything you’re new at–riding a bike, skiing, etc. Because if you do it wrong, of course you’ll get hurt.

The man is right God will take care of him, and money can’t buy love, and a rich man can’t get into heaven.

Un Techo Para mi Pais is a Latin American foundation wich could use this money for good. If you have any information please contact the foundation at their web page

I can show the guy how to have fun without having a lot of money. I do it myself now.

ok, i have had enough, I am going to jump in my pool, and then bowl a few games in my alley!!

He’s a bloody moron, he is. Money cannot buy you happiness, but it can enable you to look for it in some very interesting places. And, the lack of money is a darned sight inconvenient! Whether you are rich or ppor, its nice to have money.

I dont ask that you give me money but rather show me how to get like in your situation.

I doubt being poor will make him happy either, do what you want with the money but that in itself is not what kept him from being happy.

i think it is great he wants to give his money to charity’s but what is wrong with the good ole USA.

Instead of charities, which utilize about 35% of the money to actually help those intended, he ought to pick several families and give them a lump sum. Charities, for all the good intentions, are a vacuum for cash.

He could have just downsize or live a frugal lifestyle. he didn’t havee to give his entire fortune away.

Money does not buy happiness. It can buy pleasure, it can make life easier, it can do many other things. But again, IT CANNOT BUY HAPPINESS.

Kudos to him for simplifying his life.

Maybe he should have tried a Prozac first. So has anyone asked him if he’s happy now???

It’s O.K. if he is single.
If he is married, and has kids,
then it in not fair to them.

I commend him on having the ability to see beyond the material things he posses. I commend him on having the strength & will power to give it away. I thank him for speaking out about how material things are not things that should be sought after…. It’s the learning in the journey of life that is the whole point of life. He who dies with the most and nicest toys is sooooo not the winner.

Hi5 to him. Ask yourself, would you be able to do the same if you were in his shoes??? The guy is deep.

Mark 10,21
Jesus looked at him and loved him. “One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

I was brought up poor too, but I learned that it’s what you “give” rather than “have” that is worth more in Life. Idiot? Running from the TaxMan? Life Change? Guilt? Matter of opinion. The only opinion that counts really is his… and the Lords.