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Yet another lifestyle article with pearls of wisdom like drastically reducing expenses by cutting maid service and weekly massages. Do these guys even know what
by anu7df 10y ago
Yet another lifestyle article with pearls of wisdom like drastically reducing expenses by cutting maid service and weekly massages. Do these guys even know what real life struggle is for most people? Not sure why this is up on the front page.
He is able to retire at 32. Good for him. Let's move on and talk about something meaningful or at least fun.
- dwaltrip 10y agoI don't think this is an advice piece. It seems like he just wanted to write about his story.
- anu7df 10y agoPoint taken. But I guess it was the tone of the article with bullet point realizations that irked me. Either there are way too many millennials with blog posts filled with trivial philosophy pretending to be Kant's second coming or I am too cynical. It is probably the latter and I am only 36, but get off my lawn..! :)
- pasquinelli 10y agoi thought you must've been exaggerating about the maid service and weekly massages.
- dhruvkar 10y agoTo be (sort of) fair, he's based out of Brazil. In many developing countries, maid service and massages is fairly standard for the middle class.* source: I lived in India and China.
- smsm42 10y agoIt may sound more glamorous than it is. May be just somebody coming couple of times a month to clean up the place, it is not uncommon thing in many places and not that expensive.
- mattquiros 10y agoI feel for OP because I've gone through something similar. I was motivated by money because I was born poor and went through the stresses of work and starting up because I wanted to be richer than I needed to be. People struggle in their own ways and there really is no need to compare them.