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Then you have to manage your investments. If that's fun for you, great. All it really does is leverage your time, effort and attention.

• eloff 8y ago
  If you're doing that right it should be pretty low maintenance. I spend more time taking out the garbage in a given year than I do on my investments.
  • hyperpallium 8y ago
    Ideally. But if you're living on your investments, you tend to attend to them more. The solution to that is to have such a substantial investment income that you don't need to worry about it, at all - which means that much more effort in getting there.
    • eloff 8y ago
      Or a large cash position to smooth out the rough patches, but that also means more effort in getting there.
      • hyperpallium 8y ago
        "The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."