RE: 💰 On becoming rich 💰 You Need to Become Financially Independent. 💰
I have a very strange relationship with this.
Over the years, I have been in a position (3 times), to do exactly as you say.
I could have been taking it easy by now.
I now consciously stay away from constructing the future. (with the possible exception of steemit).
feeling alive is more important than material wealth.
I don't have kids, so it makes it an easy option, I understand that, BUT i think what really gets people down about life, in the west especially - is debt.
(and there is no one to blame for that except the individual).
Living in a great many places all over in this planet - I have seen the real poor living day to day - but in no debt -and are far happier, than someone in a detached house with a mortgage, and a car on finance...
That feeling of owing is the drip drip soul destroyer..not getting up to make your daily bread...
It is indeed. And, all the fed notes, are... more debt.
It sucks the life out of you, it sucks the life out of the world.
Thank goodness for cryptos. Don't care if they're not real, green backs aren't real either, very glad that they are not debt.
I feel the biggest thing about living in 3rd world country is that the amount of effort to get out of the gutter is pretty small. In The USSA, you have to have a decent job, so that you can afford the car to get there, so you can afford the house to live in so you can sleep to go to the job. It is quite costly, and the fall is hard. And getting back up is almost undoable without help.
...if you have no debt, getting ahead is very much easier anywhere...(but it's all relative)
The US has been living on cheap money (well, the children's and grandchildren's stolen money) for too long.
The readjustment will be painful, I fear...