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Imagine for a moment that you have a magic browser plugin. When activated while viewing your portfolio, this mystical Chrome extension can scan your Wealth Planner and tell you which portion of your existing net worth you’ll never get to spend. Let’s say you learn that, of the money you’ve already squirreled away (and what […]
I rarely go physically grocery shopping anymore, opting instead for the convenience of delivery orders of roughly five days’ worth of meal-making materials at a time. But this past Saturday, I decided to take the entire day off (¡escándalo!)—so why not take the time to drive across town and peruse the produce in person? Before […]
No sooner had I pressed “Complete Purchase” on four roundtrip tickets from New York’s John F. Kennedy airport to Paris’s Charles de Gaulle did I begin involuntarily envisioning the trip through a 16:9 aspect ratio. Captions appeared swiftly, as naturally as intrusive thoughts. My brain produced puns of its own accord, a vestige of my […]
Listen, Rich People, something you should know about me is that my brain is owned and operated by a trio of opposing, hustling forces (the Three Grind Mice, if you will), constantly grappling with one another for control. The first mouse is Curiosity, genuinely open-minded and steering me in the direction of truth, no matter […]
A meme recently circulated on social media that had people in a tizzy: It claimed 52% of young adults live with their parents. If this is the first time you’re learning of this bewildering statistic, you’re probably jumping to one of two conclusions: The “cupcake trophy generation” clearly can’t hack it without mommy and daddy; […]
Imagine this: It’s Christmas Eve. You’ve worked hard all week, waiting until your PTO kicks in to fly back east for the holidays. You finally pack a suitcase, gifts in tow, and head to the airport, bracing for a week of fending off thinly veiled political antagonisms from an older relative. You figure you’ll grab […]
tl;dr “A completely unregulated system would only serve to exacerbate the problem (as the FTX meltdown has more or less exemplified with comic precision), and a socialist system would probably ensure there’s not much wealth to fight over (as the Bros are quick to point out by referencing Venezuela). Neither group’s solution addresses the heart […]