Early Retirement Extreme

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

Breakfast for champions

Published in October 5th, 2009
Posted by in Health, How to, Personal
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Believe or not, but the human body is perfectly capable of skipping breakfast without starving to death. If you are used to not eating breakfast, you will not feel hungry and your blood sugar will remain stable as long as you keep in an easy aerobic state. Hence, unless, you’re going for a sustained aerobic […]

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Tattooing your net worth on your forehead

Published in October 2nd, 2009
Posted by in Early Retirement, Finance, Personal
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Maybe this would be a good idea? Except for extreme outliers, it is possible to estimate by visual inspection how much a person spends. If class differentiation holds, and I believe it does, people in a certain class have more in common, and given the import that society puts on socioeconomic class, expense level makes […]

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Understanding early retirement in terms of comparative advantage and trade deficits

Published in October 1st, 2009
Posted by in Early Retirement, Personal, Philosophy
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Comparative advantage is the system theoretic solution that produces the maximum output of goods. This is done by specializing in whatever good or service you have a comparative advantage in and trading for everything else. From the ecological perspective, this optimally fills out all niches. However, due to different savings rates between players, pursuing comparative […]

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