Ask HN: If you're so smart how come you're not rich?

Re:Ask HN: If you're so smart how come you're not rich? by ptmcc on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @06:51PM (#23397448)

The irony being many people get to that position by being workaholics that can’t stop.

I could conceivably retire if I moved to a low cost area, but I enjoy my lifestyle so will keep at it a bit longer.

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Re:Ask HN: If you're so smart how come you're not rich? by rumanator on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:01PM (#23398019)

> I could conceivably retire if I moved to a low cost area, but I enjoy my lifestyle so will keep at it a bit longer.

I am in a similar position but what keeps me from thinking about early retirement is not knowing what will be my financial needs in the future, and I'm concerned that I might not be fully aware of the role that luck played in getting a cushy life.

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Re:Ask HN: If you're so smart how come you're not rich? by tluyben2 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:03PM (#23398028)

I guess key here is ‘can retire’. Personally I like working and cannot see myself retiring, ever, but I could’ve for quite a while already. I just have 100 ideas a day I want to build and have had that for well over 30 years now; why would I stop? Not to mention that almost everyone who I know who retired (rich or not) is bored and depressed...

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Re:Ask HN: If you're so smart how come you're not rich? by ptmcc on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:12PM (#23398123)

Retirement doesn't have to mean sitting around doing nothing. It's the freedom of not needing the steady income of employment, and the freedom to do whatever you want.

Like work on those 100 ideas a day.

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Re:Ask HN: If you're so smart how come you're not rich? by tluyben2 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @08:27PM (#23398243)

Exactly; strangely enough that is not quite how many people treat it. Well at least many I see.

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