Same exact thing just happened to me last week also (wanted to buy another house and already have two fully paid off). It's their money though, so I can't complain. I did get approved for three credit cards the next day.
Exactly. You can also live very cheaply in any number of areas away from big cities with almost zero cost of living.
Last year without trying, I grew about 20% of my own food. It wasn't a big monetary savings since I cook (in itself a huge savings over eating out or buying processed food), but just to show that I could.
If you are working at a company that has 10 hour work weeks, I will start a company that has 40 hour work weeks, pay my workers 5x as much and out compete you. You will be out of business in two years.
Absolutely true. I did the same thing. So did a few of my friends, one of whom is a multimillionaire now, but lives in a really crappy house worse than the ones they rent out.
What can 327million people do that 700,000 can't? The panama canal was built with tens of thousands of people. NASA employs 18,000 and spacex fewer than 5,000. Why o you have to win to be relevant?
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outlive the rest of the house
Not in my experience. But I'll continue to use them for efficiency reasons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
We have an emptier world today
Very sad. He is one of my defining memory of the 80's. I was never that into him, but a few of the girls that I liked were
On happier note, Iman is now available. (Too soon?)
someone who works for no money is called a slave
So people who write free software are slaves? I thought a slave was someone forced to work against their will.
I believe the Japanese have already done this and shown it to be economically feasible. Not only that but there's 100,000 years worth of the stuff.
http://www.withouthotair.com/
Population is shrinking in the developed world and is projected to peak worldwide in the next fifty years.
It's a religion.
We simply don't have the capacity
We would if we really wanted to. Look at what the US did in WWII...
You sound like a German coworker I had once.
The 2015 family, even the poorest, are far wealthier than the 1930 family.
if I were independently wealthy
What is independently wealthy? $20k/year buys a lot if your cost of living is below $5k/year. That's like $40/day.
the relative
So envy? Fuck that.
Same exact thing just happened to me last week also (wanted to buy another house and already have two fully paid off). It's their money though, so I can't complain. I did get approved for three credit cards the next day.
Last year without trying, I grew about 20% of my own food. It wasn't a big monetary savings since I cook (in itself a huge savings over eating out or buying processed food), but just to show that I could.
If you are working at a company that has 10 hour work weeks, I will start a company that has 40 hour work weeks, pay my workers 5x as much and out compete you. You will be out of business in two years.
I think part of the problem is people doing free work.
Like the people who write free software?
Everything from 1991 Radio Shack ad I now do with my phone
My house cost $15k and was built two years ago. Zillow is full of very very cheap houses, some in good areas, that require a bit of work, but livable.
Gadgets are relatively free now. At least on ebay.
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
If the 'slave' freely entered into the deal, it is not slavery.
Absolutely true. I did the same thing. So did a few of my friends, one of whom is a multimillionaire now, but lives in a really crappy house worse than the ones they rent out.
What can 327million people do that 700,000 can't? The panama canal was built with tens of thousands of people. NASA employs 18,000 and spacex fewer than 5,000. Why o you have to win to be relevant?
It's relatively easy to assemble your own pad or phone from freely available hardware.