![]() ![]() This means dearth of capacity to commiserate, to get together socially for exchanging ideas on investment - or just idle banter. This means, for me, one foot in the dollar-store/Goodwill/bargain-bin aisle, and another foot in the, ahem, opposite camp - completely bypassing (again not to make idle insinuations about people) the middle-class. I've spent a lifetime living like Freemkt (probably) and earning/saving like Mathjak or Sportyandmisty (probably I don't mean to insult people or to use them as cartoonish stereotypes). But they have families, stay-at-home spouses, 2-3 kids (or more it's a conservative area) to raise, Millennials who boomeranged back home, investment-houses that have gone sour, elderly parents that require live-in care, McMansions with landscaping costs, new cars, a boat. Many have PhDs, and most are t least somewhat true to the engineering stereotype of frugality. It's about psychological support from a suitable peer-group. ![]() Instead, when I piped up to share my frustration at work, I was met with gleefully sadistic taunts of, "Well, it must be nice to be able to lose all that money!" This goes beyond finding good tax-advisors or accountants or whatnot. ![]() One of the reasons that I was so distraught in recent weeks, with the seemingly unrelenting stock market losses, was that there was nobody with whom to commiserate. ![]()
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