Living Unchained is a podcast exploring life beyond money. Each season features a powerful book—from Unchained: Living Without Money to Moneyless Society and The Gift—with narration, reflection, and action. Host Justin Fairchild invites listeners to challenge the status quo, build community, and reclaim a world rooted in generosity. Each episode ends with a “Contributionist Challenge”—a small step toward a more connected, liberated future. Join the movement to live free and give freely.
Episode 23: The Hoard We Pity, the Hoard We Praise
Picture two houses. In one, newspapers are stacked to the ceiling and there’s barely a path to the bed. In the other, there are eleven bedrooms nobody sleeps in, a second mansion in Aspen, and more money than could be spent in a hundred lifetimes. We make reality TV about the first house and magazine covers about the second. One we call sick. The other we call successful.
In this episode, I make the case that hoarding wealth, power, and influence comes from the same place as hoarding stuff: the same fear, the same grip, the same belief that there will never be enough. All that changes is what the dragon treasures.
We talk about why we see hoarding so clearly in a cluttered home and refuse to see it in a billionaire’s portfolio. We talk about how the hoard at the top creates the scarcity that teaches everyone else to hold on. And we talk about the cure, which isn’t a bigger vault but a world built on circulation, where nobody needs one.
This isn’t about mocking anyone who struggles with hoarding. It’s about compassion for all of us, and asking why we cheer for one kind of dragon.
This week’s challenge: find one thing you’ve been holding on to out of fear, and let it circulate.
New to Living Unchained? I reference ideas like Contributionism, stewardship instead of ownership, and abundance through circulation. If those are unfamiliar, start with Season One, where I lay the groundwork for a moneyless, post-scarcity society and everything we build on here.
I’m Justin Fairchild, the Kilted Farmer. Share this with someone who needs to hear it. That’s circulation too.
28 Oct 2025
Episode 22: Building a Post-Money Culture
In this episode, Justin Fairchild explores real communities and movements around the world that are redefining wealth, work, and value. From time-banks to worker co-ops, from Auroville to open-source networks, these models show that life beyond money isn’t fantasy — it’s foundation.
💭 We don’t end the old world by fighting it. We outgrow it by living differently.
28 Oct 2025
Episode 21: The Ecology of Enough
In nature, nothing hoards. Nothing takes more than it needs. So why do we?
In this episode, Justin Fairchild explores what it means to live in balance — to find the quiet harmony between ambition and rest, giving and receiving, humanity and the natural world.
Through reflection, ecology, and the principles of Contributionism, he reminds us that the cure for scarcity isn’t more wealth — it’s wisdom.
💭 Enough isn’t the end of growth — it’s the beginning of balance.
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