Word to the audience here, many of whom are in a similar position. Please just keep quiet about it.<p>Not because that's the decent thing to do while other people are struggling, there's a technical reason I'll explain.<p>The Fed's inflation target is to stimulate "job growth". That is a euphemism for debasing money (via money supply expansion , aka QE & other tactics) so that people have to work harder.<p>What it also means is that people who may be comfortable managing life & responsibilities with partial work or early retirement are forced back into the workplace.<p>Sure it's great you have 7 figures of assets and are outside of the crashing wave. But the entire workforce & those at 1-1.5 Σ are running on a treadmill that's increasing in velocity.<p>the more you brag about having the money to retire, the more signals you send to the Fed and policy makers to keep cranking up the money supply treadmill to keep the pressure on working people.
Quote from the post: "I understood that I would have to retire at the age of 50 to be able to enjoy the time I had with the people I loved and do the things that brought me joy while I still had the health to be able to experience them fully"<p>In my opinion this is a bad approach. This approach is does not make sense as Warren Buffet put it: "Is like saving up your sex life for your old age".<p>In your 50s you cannot ski as fast as in your 30s; you cannot hunt as well as in your 30s; you cannot water surf / dive underwater as well as in your 30s, etc....<p>Enjoy life today and every day!
I'm not going to read this because here's what it's saying "I had a great job that only some people would dream of having, now I'm leaving to do nothing and have a nice vacation." This is tone-deaf to the life of 99% of the entire world's population. Why does an article need to be written about this?
Alternative title:<p>Wealthy individual gets to retire early while you, the proletariat, get to suffer under the 9-5 thumb, crushed by the system the wealthy created. Enjoy, suckers!
"I bought my freedom and you should be happy for me! If you are lucky, and spend your precious youth working for the corporate machine, and just ignore your inner light and the ensuing depression caused by the cognitive dissonance until you one day snap and fold, it could one day be you!"
Oh yeah I would also retire from a job as soon as I hit 7 figures.<p>It's not hard.<p>In contrary it's just being either very happy with your live (which again is not hard if you earn a shit ton) or it's being tone-deaf and uncreative.<p>I have plenty of other things I wanna do before work comes up...<p>What a weird article to write tbh.