From a resource point of view, time is one of the most precious we have and optimizing for "the most control over my time" by living frugally makes sense. If yo

From a resource point of view, time is one of the most precious we have and optimizing for "the most control over my time" by living frugally makes sense. If you put this time into your skills growth you may outperform in the long term for some fields (where skills matter more than social capital) the people who had to sell their time to pay higher bills. It's a reasonable tradeoff for some circumstances.