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> "income is not something that employers or the government ration out to you based on a rigged system", He retired in his 30s and derives income from "a renta
by branchless 11y ago
> "income is not something that employers or the government ration out to you based on a rigged system",
He retired in his 30s and derives income from "a rental house or two". I'd suggest he's doing well out of this rigged system. I'd also suggest that saving $70 on coffee is utterly eclipsed by his equity gains on these two properties and that the rent derived from them would enable him to bathe in coffee daily.
- dasil003 11y agoIf it was just coffee sure, but where did he get the money to buy rental properties in his early thirties? It wasn't because of rich parents or a machiavellian scheme, it was because of a deep anti-consumerist philosophy that extends to everything from not owning a smart phone to riding a bike to buy groceries. Reducing his philosophy to one tiny thing like coffee is like saying a world class pianist could have shortened their practice by 10 seconds a day and still be world class—it's true in the most narrowly-defined strawman sense, but they got where they are by practicing as much as they could, not by looking for corners to cut.
- branchless 11y ago> where did he get the money to buy rental properties in his early thirties? Errr...leveraged debt, at a guess.
- dasil003 11y agoThere's an awful lot of assumptions in your whole harangue.