Agreed -- there's also the survival bias at play here. We only hear and read the blogs of those that already made it - dabbling in hot springs of financial free

Agreed -- there's also the survival bias at play here. We only hear and read the blogs of those that already made it - dabbling in hot springs of financial freedom - in hindsight. More interesting are the reads of those about to take off, in real-time - e.g. Chris Granger