I’m not sure what direction this post was meant to go, satire? tongue-in-cheek? just-a-rant?

I am now thankful to have made the very first error of my life. I should sleep better tonight knowing I am like everyone else!

But every $30k invested gets me a month per year of my life back and closer to FIRE.

I bought your book yesterday after reading every article for the past 4 months, it will arrive in a few days and I look forward to reading it many times, and having it as a goal guide!

As for hobbies turned investments, I believe every person should start a business at one point in their lives, almost like it’s a requirement to obtain a shelter in your life.

I read this blog at work because I don’t want to spend my “free” time on a computer when I get back to my RV after work or on the weekends. Sometimes I use my lunch hour to do it.

So I am causing a small financial drag on my company for lost productivity but I am taking my savings and investing in companies. This allows them to do far better things then I am capable of doing on my own.

Ye olde broken window fallacy.

I hope you get your $17 per hour. I’m quickly learning there is a very loose coupling of value and price after making some flash games. I’ve so far managed to waste 1232 hours of player’s time with my game (or did I entertain them?) and make a whopping $3.64 in cash.

I would probably say 2/3rds make more (closer to double) and 1/3rd make $10 or less, which probably puts the average over $17. It is interesting that almost no one seems to make in the low teens to the high teens. Is that because there are few jobs that pay in this range? Or, is it because people that make that amount tend to be paycheck to paycheck people with a level of living they believe they are “happy” with? Thus, they don’t actively seek good financial information.

Just a thought.

This is definitely a stretch. I worked several years in customer service. Inevitably, I’d talk to someone who had experienced poor service from my company, and it would take some time on the phone with them to unravel the damage. Some customers would get irritated and remind me that they get paid $X per hour and that we “owed” them that money to make up for lost time. I never agreed with that. When you decide to do business with someone, you are entitled to be compensated for failure to deliver promised goods and/or services, but you are not entitled to draw the equivalent of your hourly wage from them if something goes wrong. Similarly, when you are stuck in traffic, waiting in line at McDonald’s, sleeping, or reading Early Retirement Extreme, you are spending time, but not necessarily earning any money. Nobody can work all of the time, so nobody should presume that every moment of their life represents a potential (lost) earning opportunity.

At my workplace the bigwigs call “Townhall” conference calls where they will routinely issue calls to look for ways to cut costs.

We regularly entertain ourselves during these meetings calculating how much money it is costing the firm by having say 500 people being paid $30 an hour listening to management rant!

I think that suggesting that the blod removes $300k+ of productivity is faulty– even if people read the blog at work. An individual’s production is not evenly spread over a time period for many reasons.

To a degree the notion that every moment is an earnings opportunity is flawed. All people waste time. It seems that if you are unwilling to waste time you will be incredibly unproductive, because no one else will be able to relate to you in order to work with you, and your individual output will suffer due to the isolation and rejection.