9/ "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen [pounds] nineteen [shillings] and six [pence], result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery."
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20/ To tie the concept of (a) debt together with the topic of (b) "the universe is entropic and you have to buy food, hence 'wage slavery'": someone (
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21/ (I'm sure I got that phrase wrong, and instead of spending 5 minutes googling to get it right, I'm just going to let it sit out there and get corrected. I'm not lazy - I'm crowd sourcing!)
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23/ and also, ideally, to pay down the principle (i.e. amass that much in resources so that, going forward, the principle starts covering your monthly housing and food bills).
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24/ So, anyway, in that sense, I've gotten out of one form of debt (explicit student loans / mortgage / etc), but I've only BARELY begun to chip down the other one. REEEEEEEE I hope to get it done by age ~65.
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25/ ...but, damn, it's a cruel irony that we get our stuff squared squared away right around the time we croak. I'd bet 100:1 against any really excellent life extension during my lifetime (used to be an optimist, but bayesian updates...), which is too bad.
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26/ Also, we all scale our behavior to our environment. If we got old and decrepit at 25 and died at 30, we'd start work at 12... (Conversely, if we knew we'd live to 300, I'd still be farting around with long shot startups, etc.) https://twitter.com/LibertyFarmNH/status/1102237197258944514 …
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27/ Crowdsourcing works! https://twitter.com/xctlot/status/1102237455795802113 …
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28/ No. I will never trust a government regulator to make decisions for a person when I can trust that person instead. He might make bad ones ...but the government is GUARANTEED to. https://twitter.com/BrandtJalowy/status/1102260439268950018 …
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29/ Also, Dave Ramsey is good. He really only has 2 or 3 points, so after you've watched a half dozen of his videos, you've watched them all...but if you haven't yet, and have questions about debt, watch a few, maybe buy a book (I'm sure he sells some).https://twitter.com/fairtaxman/status/1102316841119166465 …
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30/ Probably best thing about Dave Ramsey is that he resets your definition of "normal". Certain groups think that $200k in student loans, two $50k cars financed via loans, living off of credit cards is "normal". His insights are not deep; just tells you "normal is over HERE".
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31/ If you want to get stronger, start hanging around with guys who lift weights. If you want to swoop mass beautiful Russian models and do open water swimming, follow
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32/ When anyone talks about banning "hate speech", you should ask "why do you want to take away my freedom to hear other points of view?" When anyone talks about banning "usury", you should ask "why do you want to take away my freedom to borrow?" https://twitter.com/SpaceAgeCowboy/status/1102322152760590336 …
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