March 11, 2024
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Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence
Fisker, Jacob Lund
“Retirement is a relatively new phenomenon. It comes from people having decided that rather than using the time-saving technology and inventions that appeared around the first half of the 20th century to live a life of leisure, they would live a life of shopping and work until they could no longer function as useful--that is, income-earning--units in the production chain and had to be set aside”
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“The real problem is not how much we earn; it's how much we waste, perhaps to demonstrate our supposed wealth, when we spend it”
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