• rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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      The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.

      The boots theory is timeless

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    “Some bullshit” yeah right you just craved for that avocado toast, didn’t you?

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    I started my financial success after pirating instead of paying subscriptions. Took that extra money and bought some random stocks.

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      Lord yeah. The money saved by not paying for all those streaming services might actually be able to buy a yacht, fuck the coffee

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        I had like 4 streaming services. My total savings like close to 80 bucks. Started with doing meme stocks and made a few bucks. Then moved to more stable investments. My ETFs and stocks are giving me 22% returns since I started.

        I’m also still buying stocks every month. Mostly ETFs. JPEQ is my favorite.

        While I don’t have yacht money, I now have boat money. I still pirate tho.

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    This is my life. A few years ago I decided to think about it differently - something happens, but I have the money to cover it. Gave up.

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    Some bullshit = my dumb lazy ass ordering delivery for the third time this week, at least it’s food and not booze this time