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A brief example: WL5 : Bob often goes thrift-shopping and buys good quality items. He buys the rest of his food in bulk or based on loss-leaders at the supermarket. WL6 : Bob sometimes goes thrift-shopping to collect high quality (buy-it-for-life) items + picks up useful items put out on the street ...

Yes... a bit of an unexpected and abrupt conclusion to the article.

When a 200,000-Year-Old Culture Encountered the Modern Economy https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/07/hunter-gatherers-modern-economy/534522/ An interesting discussion about the Ju/’hoansi hunter-gatherers of Namibia, and their relationship to time/leisure/quality-of-life and now, money.

Anyone who is planning on have future children - probably worth perusing this page: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Jus_soli It might sound crazy, but if you can get a 90-day visa or longer, it's a real option to give birth in a foreign country, and comes with a potentially invaluable 'prize' of instant...

I fall on the more conservative side of this argument, and agree with most of the comments above in that vein. The risk of getting burned on most of these things pretty much cancels out (or overwhelms) the upside in an EV calculation. Instead of trying to pick the next insane bubble (BTC/GME etc.) a...