Early Retirement Extreme

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

On elevating humanity

Published in November 5th, 2024
Posted by in Early Retirement, Philosophy, Work
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Work may be thought of as a form of self-expression. For instance, when I worked as a physicist, I considered the programs I wrote to simulate neutron stars and the papers I wrote about my understanding of the results a form of self-expression much in the same way a musician picks up a guitar. There’s […]

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Alternatives to a consumer economy and the point of humanity

Published in November 4th, 2024
Posted by in Work
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Occasionally people protest that if everybody retired early, the consumer economy would collapse(*). Similarly, I imagine the PR people working for Nike receiving correspondence that if everybody went into the shoe industry, the world would quickly find itself covered in shoes. Obviously, you see the “problem!” However, for the sake of the argument lets assume […]

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Progressquest your career

Published in November 4th, 2024
Posted by in Early Retirement, Philosophy, Strategy, Work
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I just got introduced to the brilliant game ProgressQuest which along with Bartle’s observations of the online gaming world is rich in applications for understanding the real world, which in many ways can also be compared to a big game. Perhaps, a designed game? ProgressQuest is a spoof on the MMORPG habit of “grinding” for […]

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