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.
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.