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Taintrunner posted:oh yeah dude it’s awesome you could write a whole book about how the rank and file troops get ratfucked by capitalism Don't forget the on post housing is poo poo too. Certainly not worth the fact that the private corporation takes your entire BAH (around 1200 dollars) and gives you poo poo to live in.
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Dr.Smasher posted:It's good to know my dad's nickname for that place when he got drafted for Vietnam still works. poo poo, I didn't realize they moved Ft Sill to Gary, IN
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Jun 19, 2019 03:44
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Bombadilillo posted:A lot of tech bros are retiring at 35-40. But cause they are burnt out and loaded. Not cracking the code and retiring into near homlessness. When I was in process of bidding for my house last year, we were bidding on two houses at the same time. One in Monroe and one in Lynnwood. The Lynnwood sellers really liked us, even wrote us a letter that they wanted to sell to us. On the day of accepting offers, someone showed up and dropped a cash offer, $50,000 over the asking price; and waived inspection. I ended up getting into a bidding war for the Monroe place as well, but eventually landed it still within budget. Such is life in the area now.... I look forward to seeing Amazon rape the housing prices market, even more so, on the eastside when they move to Bellevue. I've already long since been priced out of my hometown; it's stupid luck that I still got into a house at all.
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Shear Modulus posted:is this a different event of the nro having some leftover satellites just lying around, that were ten years out of date by intelligence standards but way better than anything science gets to use, than this one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_Office_space_telescope_donation_to_NASA ? that got a lot of press when it happened Nah those actually swapped hands, the ones I'm thinking of were definitely destroyed completely instead of being given to NASA, and it happened a bit longer ago. Though I can't seem to find an article now that those two satellites were given over cuz they're all that's showing up in the search results... That's a great example of just how much money we spend on military crap though yeah.
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Powershift posted:
share z0ne/Baltic troll farm crossover lookin' good
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That couple could buy a house with their savings and keep working and be more free than retired and renting for the rest of their lives.
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Picnic Princess posted:That couple could buy a house with their savings and keep working and be more free than retired and renting for the rest of their lives. Work! Work! Work! gently caress. It, I say they've got the right idea. They're gonna have a bad end tho, but good on em for trying.
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Outrail posted:Work! Work! Work! I'll just do whatever it takes to avoid giving a single cent to a landlord.
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Jun 19, 2019 13:42
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Nothing wrong with working if it's not totally demeaning (that's one hell of a catch, yeah). The few people I've knew who basically stopped for various reasons didn't do so well and not for the lack of money.
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Jun 19, 2019 14:12
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Picnic Princess posted:I'll just do whatever it takes to avoid giving a single cent to a landlord. Article doesn't say that they're renting as far as I can see. Early retirement types usually try to own a place (though there's a permanent internecine conflict as to how aggressively you should pay off the mortgage) so I'd be surprised if their TINY 400 SQ FT!!!!! SO SMOL HOW FIT WOW incredibly normal-sized apartment was rented.
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Often Abbreviated posted:Article doesn't say that they're renting as far as I can see. Early retirement types usually try to own a place (though there's a permanent internecine conflict as to how aggressively you should pay off the mortgage) so I'd be surprised if their TINY 400 SQ FT!!!!! SO SMOL HOW FIT WOW incredibly normal-sized apartment was rented. I thought "apartment" generally implied rented and once you own it it becomes a "condo" but I guess I always just sorta assumed that and am not going based on anything... Also once they retire they're going to build a house in the Gulf Islands, which is a great idea on how to spend the very fixed amount of money you need to last 50 years, build a house on an island and hope climate change never ever destroys it.
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Just cuz I want to underline the theme of the article,quote:Even though their generation has accrued record amount of personal debt, Williams and Rince believe that early retirement can be in reach for most young people — as long as they plan to live minimally, both in retirement and their working years. quote:"Celestian was working minimum wage at a grocery store and I was working at a warehouse. It was pretty bad. We were thinking: is this what our lives are going to be like?" Moral of the story: make more money
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Remember that story a few months back about the hideous working conditions at a contractor doing moderation work for Facebook? There's a follow up about a different location: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderator-interviews-video-trauma-ptsd-cognizant-tampa quote:On the night of March 9th, 2018, Utley slumped over at his desk. Co-workers noticed that he was in distress when he began sliding out of his chair. Two of them began to perform CPR, but no defibrillator was available in the building. A manager called for an ambulance. He died doing what he loved - looking at an endless parade of child porn and violence for a lovely wage on behalf of a giant corporation. If you don't die there you can also look forward to getting your poo poo stolen, being sexually harrassed or taking bedbugs home with you.
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Jun 19, 2019 15:20
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alphabettitouretti posted:On the night of March 9th, 2018, Utley slumped over at his desk. Co-workers noticed that he was in distress when he began sliding out of his chair. Mondays am I right?!?
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Jun 19, 2019 15:25
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I watched the tiny homes show for a while and like 50% of the people were buying tiny homes and putting them in their parents McMansion yards, like a granny flat. So if you can buy it outright and never pay property tax (until your parents die) you might be good
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According to goog there's two different Cognizant buildings in Tampa, I assume it's the one up in Carrolwood since my wife used to work around there and the buildings there are crummy, cheap, far away from the expensive downtown and pretty run-down, perfect for a lowest bid scummy contractor. If I'm right that means it's right next to an elementary school which is an... interesting site choice for a group charged with moderating child porn.quote:They described a filthy workplace in which they regularly find pubic hair and other bodily waste at their workstations. How does the pubic hair get there 
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quote:Speagle vividly recalls the first video he saw in his new assignment. Two teenagers spot an iguana on the ground, and one picks it up by the tail. A third teenager films what happens next: the teen holding the iguana begins smashing it onto the street. “They beat the living poo poo out of this thing,” Speagle told me, as tears welled up in his eyes. “The iguana was screaming and crying. And they didn’t stop until the thing was a bloody pulp.” How else are the cops going to see it so they can 
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The early retirement people obviously have a ton of priveledge but for the most part they are focused on being frugal and opting out of the consumerism capitalism pushes on us. On the other hand their strategy is to invest all their savings in the stock market and withdraw 4 percent per year indefinitely (supposedly this is possible with 95 percent confidence or something) so they rely on numbers going up up up just like the rest of the parasitic class...
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Shame Boy posted:How does the pubic hair get there huh wonder what all this cum is doing by the dedicated child porn and snuff video watching station also if that couple’s really got their retirement banked on stock investments then i can’t wait for the inevitable followup article a few years from now
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IAMKOREA posted:The early retirement people obviously have a ton of priveledge but for the most part they are focused on being frugal and opting out of the consumerism capitalism pushes on us. On the other hand their strategy is to invest all their savings in the stock market and withdraw 4 percent per year indefinitely (supposedly this is possible with 95 percent confidence or something) so they rely on numbers going up up up just like the rest of the parasitic class... They also want to increase their retirement savings 300K in the next 3 years which is incredibly hard for the average millennial to do, if not outright impossible.
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Fried Watermelon posted:They also want to increase their retirement savings 300K in the next 3 years which is incredibly hard for the average millennial to do, if not outright impossible. They spend $10k a year on travel, which means they have to be pulling in at least $75-$80k gross each, right? Yeah, not really an option for most millenials.
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Fried Watermelon posted:They also want to increase their retirement savings 300K in the next 3 years which is incredibly hard for the average millennial to do, if not outright impossible. just earn more money like they did
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the secret to retiring early is always 'make twice as much as your peers, give up kids and recreation and everything' and it's like, what's the loving point. I hate working but not enough to give up everything else in my life so I dont have to
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Fried Watermelon posted:They also want to increase their retirement savings 300K in the next 3 years which is incredibly hard for the average millennial to do, if not outright impossible. Keep in mind that they have something like 400,000 invested at the moment, so as long as numbers go up, it will return something like 11 percent per year. So they really need to save 66,000 per year, and that's mostly going to be untaxed money going into 401ks/iras/hsas. It's possible for some millenials to save that much. Definitely not the average millennial.
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Dr. Killjoy posted:huh wonder what all this cum is doing by the dedicated child porn and snuff video watching station I was kinda hoping the answer would just be "people in the office were loving all the time" which is what it was the last time one of these had an investigative journalist show up
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Eat This Glob posted:theres nothing to fear, friend. in addition to making unstoppable hypersonic weapons, Raytheon is also making laser weapons to...stop the weapons they say are unstoppable. Its a money firehose pointed directly into a furnace
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:just earn more money like they did IAMKOREA posted:Keep in mind that they have something like 400,000 invested at the moment, so as long as numbers go up, it will return something like 11 percent per year. So they really need to save 66,000 per year, and that's mostly going to be untaxed money going into 401ks/iras/hsas. It's possible for some millenials to save that much. Definitely not the average millennial. The other secret that I don't think everyone's catching is "live in Canada where you don't have to worry about a hospital bill wiping out your entire bank account"
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If your content to retire at 35 with that kind of money then you’ve decided you’ll never have kids, which is fine but not something that most people of child bearing age would say. I otoh plan to drop dead at my desk in 50 years, where ever that might be.
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The Xkdc Larper posted:Its a money firehose pointed directly into a furnace No it's this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnX-D4kkPOQ
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The Nastier Nate posted:I otoh plan to drop dead at my desk in 50 years, where ever that might be.
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The Nastier Nate posted:I otoh plan to drop dead at my desk in 50 years, where ever that might be. How do you feel about child porn, lizard torture, and pubes on your desk? Because I heard about a place that may be perfect for you.
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IAMKOREA posted:The early retirement people obviously have a ton of priveledge but for the most part they are focused on being frugal and opting out of the consumerism capitalism pushes on us. On the other hand their strategy is to invest all their savings in the stock market and withdraw 4 percent per year indefinitely (supposedly this is possible with 95 percent confidence or something) so they rely on numbers going up up up just like the rest of the parasitic class... I'm just going to leave this here: https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-77-frugality-fables-and-the-poor-shaming-grift-of-financial-advice-journalism
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lancemantis posted:I'm just going to leave this here: https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-77-frugality-fables-and-the-poor-shaming-grift-of-financial-advice-journalism This looks good gonna check it out. Frugality advice is mindblowingly awesome if you're earning over 100,000 per year. Oh, you mean if I don't lease an M3 and put a bunch of pottery barn furniture on credit I can save enough to tell my boss to gently caress off if I want to? But for everyone else it is just absurd.
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World Famous W posted:Same, but the cooler of whatever restaurant I'm at then. back in my restaurant days i was always the first one to volunteer to get anything for anyone out of the walk-in because it's the closest thing you get to a minute of refuge that's where I'd wanna go out if i still worked at one, sitting on top of a box of frozen jalapeno poppers, posting trump in c-spam
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Wasabi the J posted:Yes and in 98-99, lol at making near 8 figures INCOME a year jesus gently caress
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Bombadilillo posted:A lot of tech bros are retiring at 35-40. But cause they are burnt out and loaded. Not cracking the code and retiring into near homlessness. early retired tech bros are the most lost souls I have ever met, completely swallowed in existential abyss, the meaninglessness of life laid bare, spanning decades in front of them. But also nice biannual vacations to europe and golf
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IAMKOREA posted:The early retirement people obviously have a ton of priveledge but for the most part they are focused on being frugal and opting out of the consumerism capitalism pushes on us. On the other hand their strategy is to invest all their savings in the stock market and withdraw 4 percent per year indefinitely (supposedly this is possible with 95 percent confidence or something) so they rely on numbers going up up up just like the rest of the parasitic class... the people who live off of stocks but don't want any kind of government handout (free school, education etc) are so incredible to me. And yeah if you can get 2-3 mil into mutual funds, bonds etc you're pretty set for retirement. anyone with net worth above that is living LAVISHly in the US. If you have 100,000,000 you can spend several million each year and still end up in the green, all just for having money... If a form of luxury communism is society just giving you whatever you want when you want it for no work then the 1% and up live exactly that way. No work, no contribution, just a bank account that says a number big enough for you to take whatever you want. Modest Mao has issued a correction as of 22:19 on Jun 19, 2019 |
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Modest Mao posted:early retired tech bros are the most lost souls I have ever met, completely swallowed in existential abyss, the meaninglessness of life laid bare, spanning decades in front of them. But also nice biannual vacations to europe and golf i already have that without having the money to to retire or having the vacations or golf
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