Remember the adage, “Live simply so that others may simply live”? Spoken first by Mahatma Gandhi, or so they say. The line has been around for a long time and was especially popular a decade or more ago. It became the sort of thing often seen on bumper stickers and T-shirts.
You don’t hear it much anymore. Partly because all sayings have a shelf life and expire in our insatiable culture. But also because our methods to improve the lives of others have shifted tactics. Rather than calling people to a life of self-denial (which was how the “live simply” …