Sartre’s radical freedom extended to refusing accumulation of money and objects.

Evidence

His dream was to pass through the world unencumbered. … He gave money away as fast as it came, in order to get it away from him, like a hand grenade. If he did spend it himself, he preferred not to use it on objects but ‘on an evening out: going to some dancehall, spending big, going everywhere by taxi, etc. etc. — and in short, nothing must remain in place of the money but a memory, sometimes less than a memory’. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 392

Categorization

• XREF: Sartre’s refusal of accumulation to preserve freedom resonates with his theory of bad faith and the pour-soi’s flight from facticity; also echoes the gift-economy insights from readings on trust and non-hierarchical exchange. — connects to: Sartre lived so as to remain unencumbered by possessions. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 391