A PhD student explains why he and his peers live so frugly: one friend won't buy a beer because he's thinking of it as square footage toward a house. These aren't sacrifices but deliberate choices to save for bigger goals.
the minimalist perspective, yes, but also as a graduate student, sometimes it's forced minimalism. I knew a guy who said, "I'm not going to a bar and buying a beer because that's 1 square foot of real estate I could buy." He had his goals and his plans. You're gonna have your goals and your plans, and yeah, you may live kind of lower end for a while so you can come out, reach your dreams, change the world.
