I mean, if all the wealthy did this instead of their endless grind to own more and more at the expense of everyone else, the world would be a lot better.
The ultra wealthy have a hoarding mental illness. Most people would have stopped working long before they got to the point they did.
Kind of reminds me of a sign that they have at Jimmy Johns.
The investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked…
Inside the small boat were several large fin tuna.
The banker complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The fisherman replied…
“Only a little while.”
The banker then asked why he didn’t stay out longer and catch more fish? The fisherman said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs.
The banker then asked…
“But what do you do with the rest of your time?”
The fisherman said…
“I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a nap with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my friends, I have a full and busy life.”
The banker scoffed…
“I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat, and with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually, you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to a big City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise.”
The fisherman asked…
“But, how long will this take?”
To which the banker replied…
“15-20 years.”
The fisherman thought for a moment and then asked…
“But what then?”
The banker laughed and said that’s the best part…
“When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions.”
And, once again the fisherman asked…
“Then what?”
The banker said…
“Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take naps with your wife, stroll to the village in the evening, sip wine and play your guitar with your friends!”
A quote I like:
Nobody wants to solve problems. Everyone just wants to get rich enough so the problems don't apply to them anymore.
It's true. Same for disillusioned me nowadays too.
What would you do with a million dollars?
Nothing man. Nothing.
Man, you don't need a million dollars to do that.
None of the things they mentioned actually require much resources at all. Even if this person worked a part-time job, there’s no reason this life should be unobtainable. The reality we’ve been given unfortunately doesn’t allow for this though.
This quote is powered by a trust fund. Only someone with extremely wealthy and generous parents can inhabit an environment where the idea of normal people working for the sake of working seems to make sense.
i have zero desire for riches.
i just want [riches]
If this is rage bait by the OOP then god damn did I ever take the bait
Waking up without alarm to go surfing?
Where the fuck happens that?
Usually we need to get up at fucking 7 to catch the early good waves and that's in the single week we can afford to be somewhere at the beach
And I know, that is already a high level of complaining, but c'mon, you can't just sleep and go surfing whenever. The sea dictates and that's part of the experience to feel like the little thing surfing a ball of energy in an unforgiving sea, that doesn't give a shit about your preferences.
Do I only go to the wrong places or is this just part of her bullshit?
You could do all of this with very little money ... if you're willing to live semi-homeless near the beach. Maybe live in a van. Most expensive thing here is the wine, and wine doesn't cost that much.
As long as you live frugally and in a reasonable COL area, this isn't crazy expensive. Doable with a couple million in net worth. Huge difference between that and what many of the rich are worth. The reality is that a million dollars isn't what it used to be and the fight isn't with people with single digit millions, it's with people with triple digit millions and up. Yes, having single digit millions feels like being rich in today's economy to many, but, in the eyes of the truly wealthy, a single digit millionaire might as well be a destitute homeless person.
"Call me unambitious, but I want the benefits of being wealthy."
That's all I read.
If you're frugal then you might not have to be rich
The trick to this is probably living in a very low cost-of-living country whilst part time remote working for a company in a high CoL country. Get the timezones right and you can wake up late enough that you don't need an alarm, and you can have the lifestyle for the coat of a few days a week in front of the computer.
Now to find that dream job and the right place to live. Shouldn't be hard... Right?
The things described in the text aren't expensive, but the first photo was taken in a boat
You can totally do this with remote income of 1,000 usd/mo.
For example, in Hua Hin, Thailand you can get a small place for 300 usd/mo and remaining 700 is enough to hang out, meditate and wind surf every day. Lots of places like this around the world and it's really not hard to make 1,000 usd/mo remotely if work on it. You can even do instructing if you get good at a particular water sport completely legally as well though you won't be making more than 1k/mo but you'll be making a lot of friends :)
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