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“My idea is to have nothing left. Absolutely nothing,” he told The Daily Telegraph<\/em>. “Money is counterproductive \u2013 it prevents happiness to come.”
\nInstead, he will move out of his luxury Alpine retreat into a small wooden hut in the mountains or a simple bedsit in Innsbruck.
\nHis entire proceeds are going to charities he set up in Central and Latin America, but he will not even take a salary from these.
\n“For a long time I believed that more wealth and luxury automatically meant more happiness,” he said. “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.
\nBut over time, he had another, conflicting feeling.
\n“More and more I heard the words: ‘Stop what you are doing now \u2013 all this luxury and consumerism \u2013 and start your real life’,” he said. “I had the feeling I was working as a slave for things that I did not wish for or need.
\nI have the feeling that there are lot of people doing the same thing.”
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