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Thread: "Retiring Cheap" is the biggest COPE. BRUTAL BLACKPILL REALITY CHECK

post 1686805713 07-19-2023, 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted By LogicalLifts⏩
Good question. If someone has achieved equanimity would he:

1) have a child being raised by extended family because he can't handle or afford it;
2) have 10s of thousands of posts over the last decade across multiple forums advocating for this choice; and
3) be incapable of explaining why beyond "i hate work and people"?

A happy life does ^ not indicate. So the OP was clear here - why do these folks feel so compelled to try to provide financial advice when they are singularly ill equipped to do so? Like virgins on this forum speaking of the female orgasm, lol.

Why? Indeed. Why do they care so much?
Yeah, I don't know wtf is going on here - the history/context.

IF someone has to repeatedly gloat about something and make it part of their persona, then they may not be so content with it imo.

Just like, as we've discussed before, I'm a loner and love being single. I don't need to announce that to the world.

People who feel the need to do/post shyt like this, are full on COPING and not content (otherwise they wouldn't feel the need for such cringe shyt)-



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Originally Posted By rollerball⏩
I HATE when people buy the fake Parmesan. Like cmon mofo, just spend the extra $10 and get the real deal you fukking low life miserly piece of chit.
They fail to calculate how muchtimethey spendworrying about their financial situationand remaining within their envelope. Old TV? Sure. To watch 'thousands of hours of TV'? Sounds like a great life right? Err...
Originally Posted By Polaris⏩
Yeah, I don't know wtf is going on here - the history/context.

IF someone has to repeatedly gloat about something and make it part of their persona, then they may not be so content with it imo.

Just like, as we've discussed before, I'm a loner and love being single. I don't need to announce that to the world.

People who feel the need to do/post shyt like this, are full on COPING and not content (otherwise they wouldn't feel the need for such cringe shyt)-



Yup. We spoke about this before and I get you and believe you. My brother is similar - though he has been on some dates again, he regaled me of an encounter with a modern woman at a nice restaurant: "Look, LL. She's hot? Sure. But she spent 2 hours whining about how she has been abused her whole life, has ADHD, has Depression, has X, has Y, has Z, woe is me" so he noped outta there. I fully acknowledge that "happily married" can be rare, and requires a lot of work and luck to achieve and maintain.
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post 1686810683 07-19-2023, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted By Jms89⏩
The world needs folks in the rat race like OP. I prefer to exit as soon as humanly possible and focus on my passions and things that i enjoy doing workwise. I could easily live off of the interest 1.5 million dollars produces for the rest of my existence. Once your house is paid for, and all you have to pay for is food, electric, and property tax, life is on easy mode. I will happily drive OP's "old" lexus that he bought new and took all the depreciation on. When he trades it in, ill drive it another 10 years and love it lmao. If you shift your mindset to not needing the best car, the newest tech, etc. you will be SO much more happy.
Quick reality check:
Originally Posted By Jms89⏩
Brah some of these divorced single moms are smoke shows. Allows a 4/10 male to level up to a 7/10 woman. find one with only one kid who gets a chit load of child support from her ex who is probably a doc or some chit and you got life on EZ mode.

Brb cucking the og dad by fuking his wife
Brb take his former wife to dinner using his child support money
Brb living in his old house that the woman took from him in his divorce
Brb driving her brand new benz that he pays the note on because her divorce lawyer actually fuked him in court

Just fuking lmao. Yall gotta look at both sides. Brothas have been doing this chit for years.
I rarely use the word, but just how CUCKED are you? LOL. You seriously exemplify the point in the OP! Thanks for coming out!
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didnt read thread but I agree it is cope because I would rather be a functional human and careermax and enjoy myself and drop dead

I am 26 now and I havent been to a beach since 2011 and I cant imagine rotting in one, will get boring after 30 min of relaxation

Going to visit Japan next year crew
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Originally Posted By rollerball⏩
They seem to derive some sense of pride/think they've somehow beaten "the system" by just denying themselves a higher quality of life over the course ofyears. It's baffling.
it's projection to think all people must continually chase some subjective "higher quality" of life when they are already happy and content. THAT is called being trapped by the rat race/materialism/consumerism.
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
it's projection to think all people must continually chase some subjective "higher quality" of life when they are already happy and content. THAT is called being trapped by the rat race/materialism/consumerism.
I think we definitely need to chase purpose

the purpose needn't be "to improve one's QoL to a higher level"
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post 1686811323 07-19-2023, 01:46 PM
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Originally Posted By atgbrahsrs⏩
didnt read thread but I agree it is cope because I would rather be a functional human and careermax and enjoy myself and drop dead

I am 26 now and I havent been to a beach since 2011 and I cant imagine rotting in one, will get boring after 30 min of relaxation

Going to visit Japan next year crew
Some people enjoy struggle...to each their own.
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post 1686811493 07-19-2023, 01:49 PM
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Originally Posted By rollerball⏩
The whole point of retirement should be toenjoylife notbarelyscrape by.
None of the early retired people here or most anywhere talk about scraping by. They usually talk about having all they need/want in life.

This is a hard concept to grasp for people who have been molded by the mindset of always pushing for more, more, more.
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post 1686812013 07-19-2023, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted By rollerball⏩
You just sound super poor to me
Instead of getting snagged on pointless terms like poor and rich. Let's go another direction...

Quenstion: What do you have that you think I should have to live a happy life?
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Originally Posted By TheMossad⏩
Whatever makes you feel like you're not a failure and a complete jizz stain on the human race Wincel.
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Originally Posted By rollerball⏩
Aye fukking caramba
Don't let trolls make up lies to you because they were defeated in battle like all others that have faced me. Just point them on ignore and watch them seeth.
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
Some people enjoy struggle...to each their own.
struggling with envy over the fact that your best friend from high school has 25% more net income than you per year? hard pass, no need for those bad vibes

furthering a field or doing some innovative stuff with a hobby (which kinda requires money in most cases)? good time passing activity until you take your last breath


my grandfather was a state security agent and spy during the communist era of my homeland, worked for almost 40 years and enjoyed as he was under the impression he was working for the best interest of the country

after he retired at 60 with a giga fat pension he started a small woodwork business making handmade tables - it made his hands juicy as ****, kept his mind on something and he made close to 50% of his ministry of defence income

died a happy chap
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Originally Posted By atgbrahsrs⏩
struggling with envy over the fact that your best friend from high school has 25% more net income than you per year? hard pass, no need for those bad vibes

furthering a field or doing some innovative stuff with a hobby (which kinda requires money in most cases)? good time passing activity until you take your last breath


my grandfather was a state security agent and spy during the communist era of my homeland, worked for almost 40 years and enjoyed as he was under the impression he was working for the best interest of the country

after he retired at 60 with a giga fat pension he started a small woodwork business making handmade tables - it made his hands juicy as ****, kept his mind on something and he made close to 50% of his ministry of defence income

died a happy chap
Well if I get the notion I'll start a woodworking business. Right now I'm hiking through the woods lol.
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Originally Posted By rollerball⏩
Well for starters I think you should at least have the income to afford food and shelter and other basic necessities for your offspring.
Done.

Now what do you have that I don't have which is needed to be happy.

Don't run away from this question with rhetorical whit. Face it like a man.
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Originally Posted By rollerball⏩
you can't afford to clothe and feed your own daughter and you're talking about rhetorical whit?
Lol you'd rather troll than answer questions. Another worldview shattered. You have been defeated my son.
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Originally Posted By rollerball⏩
Huh? What are you talking about? If you can't feed your daughter you're in no position to even speak in this thread.
Or provide 'financial advice' as he has been doing for over a decade, here, elsewhere, and everywhere (lol). Can you imagine a world where a senior executive in NYC is 'seething' because some brokecel 'retires early' in rural, buttfu*k nowhere?

The mental gymnastics these folks employ is....just...LOL.
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Originally Posted By eddiehaskell⏩
Well if I get the notion I'll start a woodworking business. Right now I'm hiking through the woods lol.
how can you derive that from what I said? that was my grandpapa's hobby before retirement in his garage; also his peer who remained alive appreciate those tables as gifts as indeed they grew up when the thought process of the country was not materialism (there wasnt anything to steal tbh lol)

every human is capable of a lot and has something to offer srs, for you it will be something else than larping as a less effective version of GMiscer
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communist until you get rich
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atheist until the plane starts falling
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muslim after you get married
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Originally Posted By atgbrahsrs⏩
how can you derive that from what I said? that was my grandpapa's hobby before retirement in his garage; also his peer who remained alive appreciate those tables as gifts as indeed they grew up when the thought process of the country was not materialism (there wasnt anything to steal tbh lol)

every human is capable of a lot and has something to offer srs, for you it will be something else than larping as a less effective version of GMiscer
I'm gonna do what I want when I want bro. Settle down.
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Originally Posted By atgbrahsrs⏩
how can you derive that from what I said? that was my grandpapa's hobby before retirement in his garage; also his peer who remained alive appreciate those tables as gifts as indeed they grew up when the thought process of the country was not materialism (there wasnt anything to steal tbh lol)

every human is capable of a lot and has something to offer srs, for you it will be something else than larping as a less effective version of GMiscer
I brought up elements of this earlier ITT, so when those folks say to 'engage on substance', just recall that they ignore it whenever it is inconvenient for them. A simple fact is that richer Americans account for a significant amount of foreign aid - more than many countries on this planet produce themselves. An intention manifesting in an outcome that is only possible because these folks engaged.

Anyone can "retire cheap" if you want to be a cow grazing on a plain field, day after day. If that's "living", wow. Especially when these folks can't even afford health insurance, lol.
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Originally Posted By LogicalLifts⏩
I brought up elements of this earlier ITT, so when those folks say to 'engage on substance', just recall that they ignore it whenever it is inconvenient for them. A simple fact is that richer Americans account for a significant amount of foreign aid - more than many countries on this planet produce themselves. An intention manifesting in an outcome that is only possible because these folks engaged.

Anyone can "retire cheap" if you want to be a cow grazing on a plain field, day after day. If that's "living", wow. Especially when these folks can't even afford health insurance, lol.
I wouldnt go as far as wealth creator worship because to me that is a false dichotomy as resources have existed since forever - they are just hedged against rules we created ourselves and systems that allows us to move forward/

Various actors with various leverages occur in this system defined by bio-physio-socio-psycho-logical written and unwritten rules, which also a lot of times pre-determine certain fates.

Thus I think some people naturally cant be Jeff Bezos, but I have seen giga disabled (benchmarked relatively to average human condition) people live and breath certain aspects of their life (e.g. activism).

I just dont think I will ever be able to rot all day whether I am CEO-maxing or post man maxing.
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Originally Posted By Anachron⏩
Which brings me back to the point I made earlier in the thread, where some of these "retirees" depend on social handouts to make their "retirement" work.
I missed that earlier - probably thought you were being facetious. Is that what is going on, too? Check the bottom of the previous page where I ether that guy who spouted 'rat race' cope, while fantasizing (instead of appreciating his own wife and kids) about being single and marrying a divorced woman with a kid, so that her ex can fund his life...

It's sick on so many different levels.
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