I am a case study in how to become poor.
I have struggled in poverty all my life.
The average American income is said to be about $ 40,000.00 a year.

I have been living on roughly a third of that for many years.

I live in a run down shack in North Central Florida.
If I had the standard of living and the money of an ISKCON sannaysi, I would would feel like a jet-set Playboy.