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A direction-less 30-something of Betoota Heights fame has received conflicting advice from his birthday book haul, he says.

Paul Green, who does something with a computer each day in town in return for money to pay bills and buy things he doesn’t need, said he got the Barefoot Investor book from his mother after she discovered how financial reckless he is.

On the inverse, his father feels his charmingly approachable Virgo of a son would benefit from giving less of a fuck in life.

Never-the-less, our reporter asked Mr Green what he thought of the birthday book haul – seeing as though it’s his opinion that’s at the core of this article.

“I don’t know,” he said.

“Mum got it out of me that I haven’t got any savings and apparently that’s bad if you want to buy a house or something. But what if you don’t want to buy a house? Can’t you just rent forever? What’s wrong with that?”

“Dad’s always like, ‘Mate, just fucking do it!’ and ‘Who gives a fuck, mate?’ which is great advice if you’re an extrovert who isn’t afraid of failure, like he is. Anyway, the fact of the matter is is that I don’t know what to thing . These two messages are conflicting.

The Advocate reached out to Barefoot himself, who went onto explain to our reporter that the Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck is a great book – just don’t apply that mantra to your finances.

“The crux of my book is that you actually need to start giving a fuck about your finances if you want to have nice things like a house and car,” said Barefoot.

“Anything else? Go bananas, power to you all.”

Our reporter sent a list of questions to The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A Fuck‘s author, John Birmingham, but he told us to fuck off.

More to come.

