Pleased to hear it!
If you notice I wasn't claiming to be rich at all. The point of the post that everyone seems to have missed is about life!
Basically. Do we work hard all of our life then retire to become incapable of enjoying life because of illness. Perhaps die soon after leaving any hard earned capital to next of kin, or do we at some point stop. Take stock, retire early and enjoy the rest of life?
I've seen so many die leaving a small fortune - of which the taxman takes a nice chunk - when in fact if they had thought about early retirement would have enjoyed those last years and possibly lived longer as the stress levels would have been reduced.
You're putting yourself in the firing line by virtue of your flippant attitude to just deciding to "enjoy life".
Of course every single one of us would like to take stock, turn around and focus on making ourselves happy. The reality is that 99% of your general working stiffs will
never be able to retire early, and a sizable chunk of that percentage will drop dead at working age before ever getting to withdraw a penny of whatever trifling amount the government has left for them anyway. Why? Because we all have bills to pay and families to feed.
You're in the enviable position of being young enough, and having enough money behind you, to cash out and "win". Most people don't, and when you make a thread like this it's just rubbing what is already a point of resentment in the faces of everyone who knows, deep down, that they'll never get the opportunity to enjoy themselves before they're just too mentally and physically wrecked to do so. Hell, if things keep going the way they are, in the future retirement day will be like wheeling a coma patient in an iron lung out into an adventure playground. No ******* use whatsoever. We'll probably just go straight from the workplace to a hospice, then fed into the Soylent Green machine.
People know that ultimately this is their future -- and you're quite right, it strips you of life's meaning -- but don't want to think about it. To dwell on it is to court madness, and making threads asking why doesn't everyone just pack it in and
really live, like you don't understand why others aren't as well off as you are, is just gloating and baiting.
Good day, sir.
