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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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Back to reality

Published in September 29th, 2009
Posted by in Personal, Philosophy, Work
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I have been thinking whether there is not some direct _inverse_ correlation between how easy it is to differentiate skillful interaction with reality and the emphasis on form like degrees, dress code, speech code, and other form of behavioral codes. I think it can be fairly stated that the more difficult it is to tell […]

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A typical day no more

Published in September 24th, 2009
Posted by in Personal, Philosophy
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Last year, a year before a retired from my career, I listed the schedule of a typical day. Looking back, it is interesting how organized my life was back then with practically every day looking the same. Since it was/is an entertaining read, I have been thinking about doing a similar article so that I […]

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