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Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]No matter how much health you think you have life can throw you a health curve ball when you least expect it.
God seems to be the ultimate equalizer.[/quote]
same can be said for money too though. doesnt mean it’s not worth trying to maximize one, the other or both.
I think G-d is just having a good laugh toying with me, like he did with Job,a bet with Satan on how exactly i will act when i am squirming in pain.
just an idle wager on how I’ll react, than trying to equalize anything.
actually i just hurt my foot today falling off a bike. why, G-d, why hast thou forsaken me?
working hard in a stressful field for 25 years, probably not great for health. Maybe i’m worse than i think. I have a vein on the side of my head that looks ominous. maybe i’ll just stroke out. or worse, be paralyzed.
Participant[quote=ltsddd][quote=scaredyclassic] why live without money?[/quote]
It’s not why but rather how. How can one live without money?
Yeah, where’s flyhi?[/quote]
credit.
sponging off others.
very low expenses.Participantthis sounds like what an old person might say, but gosh darn it, 60 isn’t so old. i feel great!
really, maybe the goal shouldnt be X amount of wealth by 60, but X amount of health.
would one’s future be more secure at age 60 with (a) a couple million net worth but shaky health, or (b) having perfect cholesterol numbers, a 6 pack, no meds, flexible and fit, good teeth and gums, 9 hours good sleep a night and no depression, but just 4,300 in your checking account.
wheres brian when you need him.
I think there’s an argument that a not necessarily better than b. b will probably have more fun, in any event, unless he’s still married to a normal woman, who will not like this.
obviously, both are nice. but i would definitely sacrifice a certain amount of health for a certain amount of wealth. it shows by how i live my life. I value money over mental health.
why live without money?
Participant[quote=spdrun]Coronita – what don’t you get? One may want to be independent of having to work as soon as possible, not when they’re 60 or 70, with bad knees and health problems. Did very well with COVID and will likely do even better in the future … airline, transport, and travel stocks are still beat to fucking hell and will likely pop when a vaccine is announced. Property in urban areas that I like will also likely take a fucking in the next year. Estate sales, coming riiiight up. I like condos, but they’re out of fashion for now since you can’t socially distance as easily.[/quote]
hold on a minute there you young whippersnapper. I’m almost 60.
Participantwell, I always wanted a kid (not 3, but that’s another story) and being married seemed reasonable enough. I like other humans around, etc. of course marriage too is extremely risky and scary. one of my favorite short poems about being married and having kids and aging and the whole enterprise being wildly out of your control:
A Little Tooth
Thomas Lux – 1946-2017Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
and four, and five, then she wants some meat
directly from the bone. It’s allover: she’ll learn some words, she’ll fall
in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet
talker on his way to jail. And you,your wife, get old, flyblown, and rue
nothing. You did, you loved, your feet
are sore. It’s dusk. Your daughter’s tall.[i also really like the use of the word flyblown there]
Participant[quote=svelte][quote=sdrealtor][quote=svelte][quote=sdrealtor]You old guys are Living in the Past[/quote]
Don’t think we’ve heard what music artists you listen to…care to share?[/quote]
Guess that one sailed over your heads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmPwYhHX_jY%5B/quote%5D
ha! Yes it did! I knew the song but never knew the name…and never heard of that album before either…and I thought I knew JT pretty well…
Still interested in what you listen to.[/quote]
I had the living in the past album. Also songs from the wood.
And too old to rock nroll. I recall buying that at a discount. Like 2.99 indtead ouf 4.99. Not selling well
Participant“Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up” -Joseph Barth
Growing up may however be overrated
Participant[quote=spdrun]See, I don’t dream of being a better person. I want to spend my life in a 1-bedroom apartment that I can sublet in summer and go backpacking. I lack aspirations. I’m like The Stranger … the world is just a moving diorama for me.[/quote]
I could be happy with that too.
Participant[quote=Coronita]Put in time now or put in time later, there is no free lunch (well, at least most of the time). I keep hearing people refer to work while they are younger as ball and chain. The funny part is that ball and chain exists for a lot of people a lot longer who didn’t put the time up front, it’s just stretched out over a longer period of time, lol.[/quote]
And he said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you. But lo, on the 857,934th day of creation, the Lord created Monsanto, and GMO crops, and many fertilizers as a result of the Lord’s Green Revolution, and the Lord said: I shall not let you go hungry again, even if you don’t work all that hard, as long as you’re not really really poor, and do not reside in one of those shithole countries ruled over by King Trump. So sayeth the Lord.”
Participant[quote=spdrun]Well, take housing advice from someone like that if you don’t want to spend the next 20 years with a ball and chain around your leg :D[/quote]
without limitations, there is no freedom to create.
also, my wife and kids were net moneymakers for me. She makes money. The kids make me get up and work every day. I never wouldve bought a giant mansion without my crazy wife. i probably wouldnt have even gotten a 401k. i wouldnt have gone to law school. i certainly never wouldve kept working. i would probably still be eating crap like i used to. She checks me for odd moles. Sometimes we even have sex. I mean, come on, man, it can be a drain, adn there’s a lot of negative but often a partner is helpful.
on the other ahnd, i saw a truly HILARIOUS movie last night. vintage italian comedy, DIVORCE ITALIAN STYLE with marcello mastroianni. 100% rotten tomatoes. funny. not quite as funny as KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, also seen recently, but close.
ParticipantIs it though?
Vacancy rate in nyc typically so low.
Impossible to find rentaldParticipant[quote=gzz]There are silver mines in Mexico producing silver for $4 an ounce. The reason they don’t crash the price is they are all in terminal decline, and the cost to expand them would raise the price to $20+.
Precious metal mining is an environmentally dirty business, gold in particular. Less of it would be good for both investors and Earth.[/quote]
you gotta crush a lot of rock to get a little bit of gold.
silliness.
Participantit is strange to think of all the humanity involved in gathering up all the gold we have, which is not all that much, over thousands of years, hundreds of generations of man scratching away at the surface of the earth to gather up a particular metal, fighting and dying over it, for no real purpose.
but then again, most of what workers do nowadays is pointless too.
all the gold ever mined would fit in an olympic sized swimming pool. it’s pretty rare. people have been looking for it and hoarding it forever.
Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]Probably the Pension fund manager is out of wack LOL.
I could see it if it was a gold mining stock like Buffett invested in.
Does not make a lot of sense IMO for a pension fund to buy Gold (the commodity itself).[/quote]
doesn’t appear to be an outlier.
was not aware of pensions buying gold…quick search appears this is becoming more common. texas teachers fund…
https://lonestarwhitehouse.blogspot.com/2016/06/why-does-texas-teachers-retirement-fund.html
pension funds make mistakes, but they a re definitely run by thoughtful sophisticated investors.
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