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I mean you've basically decided that any activity which is free is not possibly enjoyable, and have compared legitimate hobbies to things like watching paint dry.
Outright lie. Much like your assessment of tomato cost.
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You also refuse to accept that people can eat well for cheap on the basis that if you aren't spending a lot on food that you are eating like a pauper, when in fact there are a lot of people who eat for much less than you and do so because they don't desire more.
No. I'm refusing to accept the contention that you can eat near-gourmet quality food cooked at home for cheap. If you want to feed yourself, that is fine. Your prices are fine for someone wanting to just eat. Though your argument may not be similar to the one Shoe put forth earlier that near-gourmet meals can be cooked for ~100 a week. If you just wanna eat, that is fine. But if you want to make cooking a hobby or what not, it'll cost more like virtually any hobby does.
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I don't really see how you can honestly believe that you aren't being arrogant and dismissive of lifestyles which differ from yours.
I'm not. I don't expect people to live similar lifestyles. But I expect the conversation to atleast to be reasonable. The argument for $40 for food, or excluding dental/eye/health coverage is asinine. As are people talking about relying on the food pantry. Those types of things are ****ing idiotic. If you want to argue those issues. $0 is whats needed as you can forage/steal/beg for anything. Or leech off society.
There needs to be a reasonable standard set (which was put forth earlier) as well as agreement on what type of income could be perpetually sustained off 1million. 3% real return was cited as a fairly reasonable return. But the arguments put forth about basically taking jobs (Rogers Clemens citing rental income, rvince citing trading, earlier in the thread +EV hobbies were suggested) is completely dumb and defeats the purpose of the entire theoretical discussion.
The idea isn't whether some miserly 2p2 poster and project his lifestyle, but whether a normal average person could live off ~25kish post tax. And IMO the measure comes up short. Perhaps with the standards he could do it with another 500k banked. Or if you wanted to assume some sort of principle drawdown that may busto him that would also be acceptable. As soon as RoR moves up, you have an infinitely more doable situation than one where you want a 0% chance of going back to work.