Early Retirement Extreme

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The salary of a blogger: What you should be paid

Published in October 15th, 2019
Posted by in Work
41 Comments

It is no secret that our econometric systems only capture “value” whenever there is a transaction. More accurately, they only measure price. So for instance, if I break a window, I create so-called economic value as a new window has to be produced and installed even though the world is poorer for the broken window […]

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Great post, I agree, and other common blog comments

Published in October 15th, 2019
Posted by in Philosophy
21 Comments

Ever wondered why some comments appear more than others and why some comments only appear on blogs with many readers? The explanation is fairly simple: human psychology and statistics. Great timing. I was just doing this … It is self-evident that for a post with some relevance to real life activities, the probability of a […]

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Three different definitions of retirement and the resulting confusion

Published in October 14th, 2019
Posted by in Early Retirement
10 Comments

People have different definitions of retirement and I find that it often depends on how old they are. Being the figurehead here and also by virtue of being retired (in one of the definitions) I usually have to face the resulting confusion. Retired is what follows after you’re no longer capable of work. Let me […]

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