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Very nice parable, I love it. It seems to easy to get stuck in between the two, though - working hard, but not hard enough to retire early, but still not havin

• chii 13y ago
  > working hard, but not hard enough to retire early instead of thinking of work, think of it as creating value. If you are employed by somebody, you are creating value for them, which you take a % as salary/wage. If you work for yourself, all the value you create, you get to keep. This means, that to get financial freedom, you must work for yourself. This is difficult, and often impossible if you don't already have any capital. I feel this is the true problem with society - that the poor cannot retain 100% of the value they generate because they lack the capital to do so, and therefore, forced to work for somebody else, and get back less than 100% of the value they generate.