In the last two posts, I asked how much is enough, and what it means to be financially independent.
Now that you know how much you need, and where you sit on the financial independence scale, let’s combine the two: how much is enough to be financially independent? Continue reading “How much is enough to be financially independent?”
Most of us think we’re financially independent when we’re no longer relying on our parents for income. But as employees, we’re still relying on our employers – to stay in business, to keep us employed, to pay us on time.
What is the first thing you ask someone you’ve met for the first time?
‘So, what do you do?’
And how do you respond when someone asks you this?
“‘Money talks’ because money is a metaphor, a transfer, and a bridge. Like words and language, money is a storehouse of communally achieved work, skill and experience… money is a language for translating the work of the farmer into the work of the barber, doctor, engineer, or plumber” (McLuhan, 1964).
There are many metaphors for money. We talk about money and related financial concepts as solids (eroding capital, cutting budgets), liquid (pooling assets, pouring money into an investment, the farce of trickle-down economics), and even gas (inflation). But McLuhan suggests that money itself is a metaphor – for example, for work.
‘Why? Why? Why?’
As a child, I was constantly asking ‘Why?’
Of course, my father or grandfather would respond ‘Why is a crooked letter.’
It wasn’t until some time later, when I learned to form letters myself, that I understood this wordplay.
Like many who begin their blogs with this same anecdote, I never really stopped asking ‘Why?’ Continue reading “Why?”
