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And I guess my questions with the needs of modernity are: how do we decide what to "own" vs "subscribe to" vs "quit entirely"? How do you think about those choices? Thanks to @jacob for his answer which I agree with. I've developed the intuition for this, so I'm confir...

Great news everyone! I'm single again. All interested parties can send requests to my newly reactivated FIREdating profile! While I weigh the options of my frugal suitors and in the spirit of my recent needs series, I'd like to ask y'all what needs you think a romantic relationship meets? What non-c...

@loutfard: Addressing your questions via circuitous rant as is the custom of this forum! Note that this is not the first social capital thread on this forum so some of my rant addresses my mental conglomeration of older threads. I think taking money = financial capital as the baseline capital which ...

@thef0x: I'm not 100% sure what your question/ questions are? So instead you are getting a rant about what I want to talk about, haha. If we are talking past each other, please restate your questions! I agree with @ertyu that finding the correct amount of storage capacity is about owning the correct...

Update: I've been slowed down somewhat by a break up, birthday, Jazzfest and semi-moving. I'm changing my strategy drastically. I'm going to finish out my 7 x 3 (songs per area) project about songwriting for electronic music. I'll finish 5 x 1 this week (harmony and chords). After that I'm going to ...

Anyway, it's probably a good idea to develop one factor really really well in the WL1-5 stages, before then branching out to get the others up to snuff in the WL6-10 stages. @xmj: I very much like your post and chart! I disagree with this though. I don't think optimizing for one capital source is b...

@7: I have a response but it is way too long. I kind of agree, but also disagree with some parts. The starting point of what I think is that relationship escalator monogamy is a specific set of assumptions bundled together about meeting a specific set of needs. This is similar to specialist careeris...

Ah, if you can't tell the difference between the programming and yourself then you're going to have trouble finding purpose.

Rest seems like a good thing to do while you figure it out.

Totally.

Bumping this thread for creative first date ideas bc I have recently become single.

Shoutout to @OutOfTheBlue for listing out actual date ideas.

See (3): https://wiki.earlyretirementextreme.com/wiki/ERE_Wheaton_Levels#Construction,_Structure_&_Rules Ah yes, my only add then is I think people are more likely to slosh around inside the categories where there is no moat... so center of gravity at WL5 is likely to exhibit much more 3 and 4 ...

@jacob: Thanks for expanding on that. I never understood the pre/trans fallacy but now I think I get it. This is called the pre/trans-fallacy and it's worth some self-questioning. The fallacy comes about because "conventional" people or mindsets often can not see the difference between &qu...

Woah! This thread is a pleasant surprise. I still feel like I'm WL6, but these are exactly the problems I'm struggling with. I think it helps to view the WLs as sets of 3. 3-5 is about accepting and adopting FIRE. 6-8 is about life after FIRE*. As described in the WL theory, each stage naturally res...

The ERE WL table as it is going from succeeding at the interobjective system as it is (WL1-5) to developing objective skills (WL6-7) to questioning the subjective values of what one wants to do now (WL8) ... and moving on connect intersubjectively with others on the same path (WL9). This is not the...

@Slevin: Yes I agree there are problems with PPP (or in this case CPI deflating) everything, most notably related to physiological human needs which have likely not gotten cheaper and in some ways have gotten more expensive, possibly while locking in higher quality standards. Counter to this is the ...

Ok but what if: I've read repeatedly that Hunter-Gatherer societies only require 15-20 hours to meet their baseline needs and they also stop "working" (a concept they actually lack, so we are inventing what is work and what is not for them...) once baseline needs are met. Supposedly agricu...

Integrating Some Models: One model I find useful is a 3-way model of thinking/ knowing. There is the cognitive way of "knowing" that "I" "think of" as "knowing." Then there is the emotional way of knowing. Then there is the bodily way of knowing. One way to i...

I have two objections to the rise of neurodivergent conditions. 1) IME, it does lead to pathologization and identification with that pathologization. It leads to limiting beliefs about oneself which often do not correspond to my concept of reality. This is a generalization and is of course not true ...

If you think flow state is an indicator of alignment, then I'm doing alright--I can lose myself for hours and hours in video games. I may be misunderstanding flow. It kinda feels like an addiction. Also, it feels a little absurd to think that my "purpose" is to play games. Of course, no m...

Imagine if humanity had used capitalism to realize what Keynes wrote about his letter to his grandchildren. Instead of becoming reliant of buying and replacing egg cookers every time the last one went out of fashion or broke from deliberately bad construction [in order to solve Borsodi's distributi...