Early Retirement Extreme

— a combination of simple living, anticonsumerism, DIY ethics, self-reliance, and applied capitalism

Quick survey: Would you work a pointless job?

Published in April 27th, 2011
Posted by in Work
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Suppose you were offered a job where the net benefit to society or yourself (other than the pay) was very small. You can pick between either of these two Digging holes and filling them up again. Writing “I’m working” over and over on a form and then throwing those forms in the wastebasket. For the [...]

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The three things I did right (and so can you)

Published in April 26th, 2011
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy
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Humans have this wonderful capacity for making a simple thing wonderfully complicated (and typically charging for the process). For instance, consider the diet industry with its huge selection of various methods to lose weight or gain weight with complicated rules or formulae, like not partaking in the eating hotdogs on a Thursday, down to the [...]

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The ERE book is available on kindle on Amazon.DE

Published in April 21st, 2011
Posted by in Timely
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Here’s the link to the kindle version on amazon.de.

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