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I thought of it as fuck you money with 3 months in the bank, delighted now!

Just hit a nice low milestone the other day and I'm feeling good. I started about 4 years ago with under €20k of salary and have been pumping most of my free cash flow into educational courses to boost my income. In the last 24 I've managed to do some career magic and had some lucky breaks moving ro...

Signed up.

Liked your talk btw

Awesome. Good find!

A damn shame about the clowns

I also think life insurance is a waste of money but if you have debt you really need it and if you have dependents and nothing to leave them you really should have it too...

While I absolutely love ERE for myself, it's a selfish love. All apologies to Jacob for this, but I really see ERE as a zero-sum game in the short term; if it were universally adopted it could solve a lot of ecological problems and eventually raise happiness, but I think the transition would be she...

@Tyler9000 That makes much more sense.

The only way I can see it not being too much of a problem is that ERE is a tiny group, probably much more concern about upper middle class and upper class people doing the same.

@Tyler9000 I don't think many ERE people will be lining up for entry level jobs/internships

This kind of thing really pisses me off. I'm not sure about other countries but here in Ireland the amount of "internships" have exploded. Basically employers trying to get away without paying a dime for full time staff. I regularly have arguments with people over this. They say you should...

So I've never been a poetry person but I think this is pretty cool.

Thought some folks here might appreciate it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnKZ4pdSU-s

The end is nigh!

http://io9.com/society-crumbles-as-goog ... +%28io9%29

Is chop wood, carry water an acceptable answer?

This is kind of cool.

You might be interested in this http://www.becomingminimalist.com/the-man-who-quit-money-an-interview-with-daniel-suelo/ http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Who-Quit-Money/dp/1594485690 Very interesting read, more about the person than the money side of it but it does raise some interesting philosophical ...

I saw it too.

Scary stuff that they basically say you shouldn't be able to get by without having a second job.

I know in the U.S. it's not irregular for somebody to have 2 jobs but from a European perspective it just seems nuts!

ERE aside, when do you get to live?

Not a scotch but I love love love Yukon Jacks!

Great article

Very cool story. Thanks for posting!

Checked this out after seeing it here.
Good find. It's very endearing how down to earth they are.