Early Retirement Extreme

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

Guest post: Why I’m pursuing ERE: greed vs. passion

Published in August 10th, 2024
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy, Work
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This is a guest post from Zev. Many of you may know him from the forums and some of you may recognize the name from the copyright page in the book. He contacted me out of the blue earlier this year offering to correct the book manuscript for me. Knowing that my English is not […]

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How to avoid career opportunity costs

Published in August 6th, 2024
Posted by in Philosophy, Work
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A middle class career is often presented as the only worthwhile lifestyle to strive for(*). Here the idea is to get an education and then work for a good 30 or 40 years while slowly saving a little bit every month for the day one can retire from the career and do something else and […]

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Guestpost Extreme Early Retirement in Germany

Published in August 5th, 2024
Posted by in Early Retirement, Strategy, Work
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This is a guest post from Hein Viermann. A freegan in his early 30s, who lives in Germany and wants to get out of the corporate career system. He invests mainly in real estate/rentals. I was born in 1978 and I’m on the brink of retiring (extremely) early. As I started to be critical towards […]

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