The former is very familiar to me in my circles, and if anything they are more happy/fulfilled/productive than the wage reliant, though both extremes exist in both groups.
I am not saying that working for a living is necessarily better, my point is that being financially independent has its own particular failure mode the existence of which should be taken into account.
That’s a very good point and too often neglected. There’s too much betterness in folks’ thoughts, not enough differentness, and the “best” situations fail in different ways than the “worst,” which can succeed spectacularly in their own right.
Yeah, likely to get hit over the latter :).
The former is very familiar to me in my circles, and if anything they are more happy/fulfilled/productive than the wage reliant, though both extremes exist in both groups.
I am not saying that working for a living is necessarily better, my point is that being financially independent has its own particular failure mode the existence of which should be taken into account.
That’s a very good point and too often neglected. There’s too much betterness in folks’ thoughts, not enough differentness, and the “best” situations fail in different ways than the “worst,” which can succeed spectacularly in their own right.