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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by SilasX on Friday October 23, 2020 @01:05PM (#24871571)
I've started using the term "Mitt Romney unemployed" for "not working but no pressing need to", as a reference to his famous gaffe about "I know all about unemployment! Heck, I'm unemployed, myself!"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/06/17/romney-ribbe...

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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by TheCoelacanth on Friday October 23, 2020 @04:12PM (#24873504)
Why not just stick to the classic "idle rich"?
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Re:Underrated predictor of success: willingness to be low-st... by SilasX on Friday October 23, 2020 @05:01PM (#24874135)
It’s for when the person isn’t necessarily idle. I mean, in the namesake example, running for President is, like, the opposite of idle. It’s just not generating wage/salary income.

Edit: and even if “idle” in that sense is assumed to mean the previous sentence, that’s still counterintuitive and misleading.

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