foxfirev5
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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And to think I feel guilty about considering ER after 35 years of working, saving and investing.
+1M, except I sometimes doubt if society will cut down on those freebies.
He's what we used to call a "bum". Refuses to invest the $500 to get his cert as tennis pro...even when he had the $$ from selling those iPhones.
If too many in society take that path the society starts to crumble. Its like the old joke about Greece's most valuable export.......working Greeks
Bring back the hippy commune lifestyle I say. Any of you boomers out there ever give that a go? Tis the season turn, turn, turn .....
Definitely NOT a role model we want our youth to emulate.
While it is one thing to live to work, at the same time people need to support themselves. This guy seems like he is just dependent on society to provide for him.
What I found equally if not more disturbing were the number of comments at the bottom of the article supporting and praising this lifestyle.
It seems to me that one sees more and more articles like these, which either celebrate what I call the "fully subsidized life" as the perfect life, or that things are so bad one can no longer make it on their own at all. Planning, discipline, and hard work that achieves a goal is dismissed as "dumb luck".
Lately, "planning, discipline and hard work that achieves a goal" is dismissed as "getting ahead at the expense of others".
Success has been redefined as a zero sum game.
By some...
The posting of this article seems more like an attempt to provoke and incite, than elicit any kind of thoughtful response or meaningful dialogue.
True, but given the make-up of nearly everyone in this forum, it would be surprising if his way of living found much support here. I don't think there's anything for us to learn from this article.Well, the original post is about one man's view of early retirement. It's just another way to get there and how he's willing to live in order to not have to work.
True, but given the make-up of nearly everyone in this forum, it would be surprising if his way of living found much support here. I don't think there's anything for us to learn from this article.
If I were emporer, none of this would exist. Given our actual political system, this exists and will increase until everything finally breaks.
When social democracies really got going in Europe after WW2, there was considerable attitudinal homogeneity in the populations, and most of them shared similar moral and ethical foundations. I remember reading that Scandinavian socialism has gone along relatively well for so long because it runs on the leftover vapors of Lutheranism. The people being helped made mightly efforts, and were generally able to pull themslves up fairly quickly. Their pride/embarrassment required that.
None of this is true anymore. The paying class is entirely divorced from the payee class. In many cases, they don't even share a language, let alone cultural assumptions. To make mattters worse, there is a large professional class of mostly government workers whose job it is to be sure that there will always be a growing supply of "clients".
If I were emporer, none of this would exist. Given our actual political system, this exists and will increase until everything finally breaks.
When social democracies really got going in Europe after WW2, there was considerable attitudinal homogeneity in the populations, and most of them shared similar moral and ethical foundations. I remember reading that Scandinavian socialism has gone along relatively well for so long because it runs on the leftover vapors of Lutheranism. The people being helped made mightly efforts, and were generally able to pull themslves up fairly quickly. Their pride/embarrassment required that.
None of this is true anymore. The paying class is entirely divorced from the payee class. In many cases, they don't even share a language, let alone cultural assumptions. To make mattters worse, there is a large professional class of mostly government workers whose job it is to be sure that there will always be a growing supply of "clients".
Regard it an weep.
Ha
I don't really know. It is likely just based on a distrust of taking the easy way. Generations of nursery rhymes and fables seem to teach this, and I think there is a reason that they do.Ha,
What do you think will be the mechanism by which everything breaks? Inability of government to print more money, run away inflation, the inability of the few to produce enough goods and services for the many, or something else? I would personally suspect the inability of the few to provide enough goods and services for the many. I am only 45 so the country has been being destroyed by debt my entire life. I have become numb to it. It has never affected me personally that I can tell. I used to think there was a limit to the amount of money the government can print but I am starting to doubt it. It seems like no one cares as long as the products keep flowing and the people that are producing get to live better that the ones that aren't. Not saying it won't all come crashing down one day. Just wondering what people think the acute cause will be.
If you think of how many countries there are in the world, coming in at #11 still ain't shabbyU.S. wealthiest country on earth came in something like 11th place in the poll.Just an observation.
I read an article that listed the happiest people in the world.Scandinavian countries on top.New Zealand etc.What I noticed is the lack of diversity in these happy countries.God forbid,can someone might come to the conclusion that to much diversity is not good for you.Like taking to many vitamins or drinking to much milk can be counter productive.U.S. wealthiest country on earth came in something like 11th place in the poll.Just an observation.