The poorest most frugal financially independent person - 25x expenses in savings - is richer than the wealthiest person who isn't FI. Everything else is downstream of owning your time.
@haugejostein By the year 2100 community notes will come with public flogging for a chart crime this severe. You can make $3 panhandling for 20 minutes in America, and spend the next 23:40 sleeping under a bridge
@craigstolarczyk@beffjezos The ability to spin every warm winter, forest fire, or thunderstorm anecdote into proof of climate doom was one of the most durable aspects of climate change as current thing. Datacenters are extremely boring by comparison (and use as much water as three almonds)
@lymanstoneky Ghoulish. They played the game by the rules for 40 years, hit their targets and set themselves up for retirement. Now they have limited means to adjust, and you want to raid their piggy bank.
@MaxPaxCat@RealDianeYap Red states dissolving blue city governments are exactly the opposite of the "defund the police movement". The Venn diagram is two circles that do not touch. https://t.co/Vk0uHTY9tQ
@moultano There's something particularly monstrous about "stick it to grandpa" though - they spent 40 years playing a game with set rules, and will have limited ability to adjust. Whatever soul our culture has left would be imperiled.