Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
I'm deadly serious. What's the point of the YMOYL paradigm if not to gain your freedom through membership in the rentier class?
Exactly so.

I used to build companies from scratch that employed thousands or tens of thousands of people by the time I moved on to the next. (And I couldn't have built them without the help of "evil" investment bankers/Wall Street/shareholders/pension funds/...).

One day I read YMOYL. I sold off my interests in my enterprises a few months later, and "retired" as suggested in YMOYL to reclaim the rest of my life for myself. That was 16+ years ago or so.

Now, I'm clearly not doing my "duty" to society as some envision it, because I'm not busting my ass 80+ hours a week building new technologies, creating new jobs, and so on. I'm not performing fully "according to my ability".

Luckily I already know how to dig ditches and plow fields, so I should be OK when they come to take me to the camps.