Note that the approach you implicitly endorse (via your list of “impositions I reject”) would have the effect, for some (many?) people, of impacting their quality of life in a strongly negative way. For me, these especially would be utterly unpalatable:
Not cooking
Not using real dishes/silverware
Not keeping most of my stuff (I tend to minimalism in my possessions—but what I have, I am damn well not giving up).
Oh yeah; I totally just meant it to paint a picture of what it could look like (and does look like for me), in case it was useful for anyone to get a bunch of concrete examples. These will not straightforwardly generalise to others’ lives, and some of them might be bad for you.
Moderate wealth is sufficient for being able to trade money for time, but this also works if the market offers a high price for your time. Concretely, if you currently save $10 by cooking food at home for one hour instead of getting equally good food delivered, and you can turn one hour of time into $50 by selling math tutoring, you can get more time and more money by getting food delivered instead and tutoring math every second day. This works even if you don’t have much money in the bank.
(This idea comes from Andrew Critch, but I can’t quickly find a blog post to link to.)
Note that the approach you implicitly endorse (via your list of “impositions I reject”) would have the effect, for some (many?) people, of impacting their quality of life in a strongly negative way. For me, these especially would be utterly unpalatable:
Not cooking
Not using real dishes/silverware
Not keeping most of my stuff (I tend to minimalism in my possessions—but what I have, I am damn well not giving up).
Oh yeah; I totally just meant it to paint a picture of what it could look like (and does look like for me), in case it was useful for anyone to get a bunch of concrete examples. These will not straightforwardly generalise to others’ lives, and some of them might be bad for you.
Also, a lot of Ben’s stuff involves trading money for time, which obviously requires you to be moderately wealthy.
Moderate wealth is sufficient for being able to trade money for time, but this also works if the market offers a high price for your time. Concretely, if you currently save $10 by cooking food at home for one hour instead of getting equally good food delivered, and you can turn one hour of time into $50 by selling math tutoring, you can get more time and more money by getting food delivered instead and tutoring math every second day. This works even if you don’t have much money in the bank.
(This idea comes from Andrew Critch, but I can’t quickly find a blog post to link to.)
Yeah, I was including “you’re able to earn a moderately high income” as a subset of “moderately wealthy”.