why the fuck would you want to live with other people if you could live pretty well on your own with your own portion of the signature campaign income?
One reason would be that I'd be moving to a foreign country with no friends or family, and having at least a few people with a shared interest would make the move much easier. Plus I'm talking about living in a Big Effing House and that's something too expensive for me all by myself. Otherwise, you're right: I'd much prefer to live by myself.
For sure, I was being a bit provocative in the way that I asked the question, and surely there could be some advantages in sharing some of the resources and common spaces to possibly get more bang for the buck, overall.
I understand that there could be quite a few different variables too, and for example, renting through AirBnb may well be 2x to 5x higher prices than you might be able to find on the regular market in any given place, but one of the conveniences of AirBnb is that you can customize the length of time that you stay, get a commitment ahead of time, be able to get a pretty good idea what you are getting and frequently see reviews of prior guests, and some kind of an arrangement like that might cost more in the interim and then be able to identify some deals that are better bang for the buck.
Another way might be if one or two guys go in advance, and then scout out the area in a way to be able to pick a location that fits the bill, and for sure I use the word "guys" on purpose, so whether you are "guys" or "gals", you are likely going to be in a better situation not to be mixing it up, unless the couples that might be involved are solid.. but the more I think about it, the more possibilities of drama with more people involved including that sometimes there are going to be pretty big flakes in the group, and then if too much drama is created, then it could cause drama/tension/or even dissolution of group members, leaving 1-2 guys having to cover the bills (and picking up the fall out) of what had been intended to be 5 guys. So, many variables, and surely sometimes the savings and conveniences of having guys to help out could sometimes outweigh some of the costs of the drama possibilities, too.
Of course, another angle that makes this whole thread to be a great topic would be that in about the last nearly two years, I had been asserting that in western countries, we need to move our entry-level fuck you status level up from $1 million to $2 million
Fuck-you status is a state of mind IMO, not a number representing how many dollars or crypto you have.
Surely, you might be considering this entry-level fuck you status matter in ways that are different from how I had been attempting to frame it. Of course, there can be aspects in which guys have better negotiation positions, and they might be able to control the various terms of their employment of their contract relations because they are in a good bargaining position regarding skills, experiences, references, etc.
I was largely attempting to use the concept of entry-level fuck you status as a way to describe when a guy is able to sever work completely - and largely just live off of the income that is generated from savings/investments without having to work. I am not talking about living off the principle, but only from the income generation of the whole package of the investment... so in some sense when I already mentioned that $1 million or $2 million, it could be presumed that $1 million of principle should be able to generate $3,333 per month of income (that is $1 million * 4% = $40k / 12). $2 million should be able to generate double that amount of $6,666 per month.
Of course, entry-level is ultimately described by the guy entering into such status and I really consider the matter to be problematic for a guy to be believing that he is entering into fuck you status, but has to come back with his tail between his legs because he has not adequately calculated his own situation. By the time, any guy is ready to pull the fuck you lever, he should have a pretty damned good idea regarding how much money he needs on a regular basis to either maintain his accustomed standard of living or to live at the standard of living that he expects.
For sure, if a guy is merely at entry-level fuck you status then there might well not be as much room to work with in regards to ensuring that s/he is able to cover all expenses and even to make sure that an emergency fund is maintained. and for sure accounting for increases in the cost of living should already be attempted to be baked into his calculations, and so surely there are ways to figure out the variables with a sufficient amount of confidence or even to calculate the volatility of the various assets that are held in order to not be putting oneself into a position that there would be a need to go back to working, unless that were to be completely voluntary.
Maybe I should not suggest it is easy to calculate, but instead that there are ways to calculate to attempt to account for a variety of extremes that could happen and also to figure out the ways to allocate assets and investments and/or to calculate the allocations that ultimately end up having a sufficient cushion that the fuck you lever is not pulled too prematurely.
Of course, another angle that makes this whole thread to be a great topic would be that in about the last nearly two years, I had been asserting that in western countries, we need to move our entry-level fuck you status level up from $1 million to $2 million
Fuck-you status is a state of mind IMO, not a number representing how many dollars or crypto you have.
I really believe that I was not considering the fuck you status concept in that kind of a way.. well not completely anyhow, because I was trying to tie the fuck you status idea to economic abilities to sustain oneself with passive income from the investment and surely not to be worried about if certain work-related cashflows were to dry up.. or maybe some of the work-related cashflows would be sporadic and completely voluntary rather than regular and relied upon.
We know that there are all kinds of areas in life in which we might be in a position to negotiate our other kinds of relationships in a fuck you status kind of way, and surely levels of wealth and autonomy would allow the ability to engage in that kind of employment of fuck-you in a variety of circumstances - like for example if a business is a largest in a community and the community is reliant upon the business, so the business can sometimes get away with way more than what normies have to tolerate - and I had been attempting to consider the matter more narrowly in regards to personal economic power to be able to pretty much continue to live your accustomed standard of living without relying on any employer or employment.
By the way, many of us likely realize that so many young people in the 20s and 30s will frequently conduct themselves as if they have the world by the balls and if they are going to be ballers into their future, yet by the time that so many folks get into their late 40s, 50s and 60s, they may well realize that they had not adequately/sufficiently prepared themselves in such a way that they would be able to stop working.. so they may end up trying to figure out ways to play catch up and maybe coming to the realization that they had not been sufficiently/adequately preparing to enter into a kind of fuck you status.
There surely can be compounding effects in regards towards savings that could take place in a guys 20s and 30s and that would really start to show themselves by the time a guy gets into his 50s and later, but frequently what ends up happening is that guys will either not keep building principle, but dip into principle at various times to invest or consume with that principle, and it can be really difficult to build principle back, even if a younger guy might have a bit of a cocky mindset in that direction in terms of believing that he can build back whatever principle that he depletes along his/her life's journey in which age does come upon you in sneaky kinds of ways.
If you're looking at life through the lens of a 9-5 worker bee, sure, you can't jump on your boss's desk and piss in his trash bin. But if you're a psychotic nihilist with a pseudo-Buddhist mindset like me, there's nothing standing in my way of yelling FUCK YOU to the world atop the Empire State building.
You may well be getting back to negotiating power that comes with having had built skills and abilities through experiences.
Also, what is your standard of living? It might be all fine and dandy to yell fuck you to the world, but if you get into your 40s, 50s, 60s, you might not be in a physical and energy level to live in flexible kinds of ways. Your body might not tolerate some of the crazy abilities of a younger guy. I have had some personal experiences in that direction, and it can be very surprising how much your aging body might not be able to tolerate some of the extremes that it had been able to tolerate during younger years. I do understand that there are some guys who act like animals into their 50s and 60s and are able to get away with it without seeming to have large diminutions in energy, and so I understand that there could be some luck and genetics that play out well for some folks, but still seems to me that a guy is going to be in a much better place to have some financial backup plans that are building up, so that s/he has some of those kinds of cushions when getting into his late 40s and beyond.
Regarding the 9-5 drone, I am not sure. Some jobs are more dead end than others, and some jobs do provide a decent income and benefits to build upon, and surely, the trade offs between what kinds of education and skills that guys have and/or how much they might get trapped into some kind of a dead end job or a job that does not end up giving them geographical mobility, can surely vary in terms of how a guy might use such a job, if he is even able to get one (if it were to be preferred for some in some circumstances).
I really appreciate the reopening of this insightful thread and i see it relevance even at the current econmy downside going on globally with inflation everywhere, discussions here could just be a solution to someone's economic challenges amidst the ongoing global crisis, one thing i see most people missed out is on how to derive a means to make all ends meet, managing economy for survival is what is very important in decision making, many don't know how to plan and budget themselves but this thread will give a guide through in achieving a good financial plan for oneself and the entire family as the case maybe.
I personally believe that any guy who considers investment levels has to really get some good grasps on his own finances in regards to how much he needs to live, to have an emergency fund and then to figure out how much to invest on an ongoing basis and into which assets....
A decent starting out guide might be to allocate at least 10% of any income towards investing and savings, and of course, I am not too excited about anything besides bitcoin, but surely guys would come to other decisions in that regard. So in the very beginning the guy is building up his investment portfolio principle, and then maybe once it gets to a certain size (such as $50k or larger), then it can be diversified beyond having just bitcoin in it.
Of course, some guys will come into bitcoin and they will already have other investments, and they will have already built an investment portfolio, so for guys in that situation, then there becomes some calculations that may well be needed in terms of how much to allocate into various assets with hopefully having a goal to reach some level of fuck you status at some point (meaning having some ideas about how much that he needs to live off of the income from his investment portfolio - or just continue to build such investment portfolio until he gets into the neighborhood of reaching fuck you status at the level that he has figured out based on his/her own individual circumstances).
This is the best time to re-strategize and cut cost of living expenses, we noticed how fiat currency are going down as a result of inflation but the value of bitcoin is still maintained despite volatility, and i see the need in the maximization of this opportunity to evade the effect of the economy clampdown, it's not necessary that one must find a living in a developing countries before they can leave like a king via their signature campaign, I've seen people doing pretty good in the remote areas of a developed country because they know how to manage things and cut cost appropriately in other to meet up to a living standard.
I agree with your point Doan9269 that the world is really crazy right now, so there can be some struggles in terms of figuring out how to hold value and within which assets to hold such value and how to manage those holdings, including whether there might be needs to tweak or reallocate from time to time and the extent to which some winners should be allowed to ride rather than reallocating.