james22

Nah. You have to work a little just to maintain your capabilities, but you certainly can.

I'd drag it out (while looking for other work) and make them buy me out or fire me. https://www.financialsamurai.com/how-to-make-money-quitting-your-job-2/

I assume you left your money in the market the last two years? How'd it do compared to your previous active management? You might not have missed anything.

Optimism is always better than pessimism. And generational comparisons are never very meaningful. A 1940s (post-war) home wouldn't be acceptable today (too small, without a garage, etc.). And you had to survive a war to buy one.

So much this.

You confuse easy with achievable. Getting wealthy is not easy, but achievable. People who are not fit just don't diet or exercise and it's their fault! It's not a matter of opinion: people can get wealthy by saving and investing.

That's the best spin on it, that consumers are simply pursuing the American Dream. Their spending evidence of their confidence in certain opportunity.

We're so early.

I'm not going to be above saying "I told you so."

I pretend I paid cash for my condo because [good reasons], but really because I was too lazy to go through the application process.

Admin statement (opposing) on HR 4763 (regulatory structure for digital assets), but doesn't threaten to veto. https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/SAP-HR4763.pdf

https://www.amazon.com/Softwar-Projection-National-Strategic-Significance/dp/B0BW358F37

Yesterday, relatively.

Elusive, indeed.

Ha. Stealth wealth discussions among married finance forum commenters always overlook this.

You're thinking evolutionary biology (the mechanism), where not only the fittest (or most adaptive) survive. Evolutionary psychology works backwards, identifying the drivers of behavior today by their value in the past. Dismisses anything else passed on that didn't aid our ancestor's survival and reproduction.

We're hardwired for any number of things, status (by display) the most relevant to this discussion: https://hbr.org/1998/07/how-hardwired-is-human-behavior

How could it not be? Only those adaptations that aided our ancestor's survival and reproduction were passed on. (A preference for immediate rewards over those uncertain is the least of our environmental mismatches today.)