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Outside of financial bloggers, you can trace it back to at least the 1920s: > Humphrey Bogart used to keep a $100 bill in his dresser drawer at all times—a dec
by 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y ago
Outside of financial bloggers, you can trace it back to at least the 1920s:
> Humphrey Bogart used to keep a $100 bill in his dresser drawer at all times—a decent chunk of change in the 1920s. He referred to it as his ‘fuck-you money’, because it meant he’d never be forced to take a crappy part. According to Bogie, the only good reason for making money was “so you can tell any son-of-a-bitch in the world to go to hell”.
Ten points for whoever spots the source of my quoted section.
- neogodless 6y agoNice. I had to catch myself, because I was pretty sure my origin was just... the limits of my knowledge. Thanks for this!
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- 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y agonp, I coincidentally happened to have that quote at my fingertips already :)
- hervature 6y agoWhat is, TFA?
- mister_tee 6y agoyes, you get the points but looks like the first words by the author in this article. Is the joke just that no one will read the actual article?
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- 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y agoYep. We aren't supposed to accuse people of not reading the articles on HN, so I decided to try to straddle the line between helpful and snide.
- mister_tee 6y agofyi for the curious: $100 in the 1920s fluctuated but is around $1500 today some other proto-FI literature: "Your Money or Your Life", 1992, Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, book version of their 1986 workshop. stretching the definition/purpose financial independence quite a bit, The And and the Grasshopper fable, Aesop, 500's BCE.