I recently spoke offhandedly in a podcast about what a really wise man would do. I posited that a wise man would not hold ownership of lots of money or even stocks and bonds but would be able to use himself as the means to a good lifestyle. Not sure if this quite fills the bill, but here is Kyle who has traded one red paperclip for a house in the span of a year, as reported on Boing Boing and earlier interviewed by CNN and Chris Pirillo.
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