![]() The solution to this insanity of living life to the lessor is not to sharpen your butter knife, but to throw it away. The paradigm shift is realizing the paradigm is shit. You're bringing a butter knife to a gunfight. Saving pitiful amounts of money simply can't compete against a volatile job market, mortal life-expectancy, and rampant government-induced inflation. Using this strategy for wealth is like throwing the local college's soccer club up against Manchester United and expecting them to win. What's foolish is this ideology that investing a tiny percentage of your paycheck will yield wealth sometime in the distant future. Stop drinking Starbucks, stop dining out, stop wearing trendy clothes, stop driving newer cars, stop flushing the toilet and wasting water, stop this, stop that because one day-after you've religiously invested every cent saved from your boring life into an index fund-you're going to be rich! The Slowlane dogma sounds something like this: Here's the unsettling truth: Pick up any popular book about personal finance or wealth, and you'll read about an ugly pig called the Slowlane, but with different colors of lipstick. ![]() The greatest deception ever cast upon you is this stale, recycled idea that militant frugality, suffocating saving, and dogmatic investing will someday make you rich. Saving $100/month from your paycheck for untold decades won't make you filthy rich it makes you fantastically foolish.Įverything you've been taught about personal finance and wealth is bullshit, skillfully foisted upon you by a cartel of media-complicit bullshitters. IS YOUR GOAL MERELY SURVIVAL? Most personal finance experts are professional liars selling survival finance. However, if you want absolute financial freedom-the kind where money is inconsequential- The Millionaire Fastlane is the only book that shows you exactly how. If you want to suffer a tyrannical lifetime dictated by strict budgets and stock market returns, any one of the 1,420,204 books on personal finance will do. Financial freedom is courtside NBA seats, impulsive shopping sprees, and living in a dream house that would rival any five-star resort.* Simply put, financial freedom is when you no longer think about money. Financial freedom is deleting the Excel spreadsheets and nullifying the word "budget" from your life. And it doesn't matter if you're a broke coed or one of these FIRE clowns who pounds his chest about "retiring early." If you're micromanaging every dollar in your life and thinking about money every passing hour, you're not financially free-you're financially enslaved.įinancial freedom is walking into a store and not looking at prices. Today financial freedom means driving a used car with 150,000 miles, not buying your spouse a birthday gift, and selling the same miserable existence to other people. Today financial freedom means calling yourself a millionaire while fanatically brooding over suffocating budgets and how you can save another marginal buck out of your paycheck. When I was young, financial freedom meant Lamborghinis, fine dining, and a dream house in the hills. ![]() If you haven't noticed, the mainstream media is working overtime to redefine financial freedom. FINANCIAL MEDIA WARNING Have you been duped into financial enslavement over financial freedom? "I'm a bug-eating millionaire living a woodshed!"
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