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Originally Posted by Martin Smith
"New Rich" can/will be defined as those who free themselves from the 9-5 routine. Someone making $40K per year who is free to chase their dreams may be more "rich" than someone who makes $400K and is a slave to the office.
Or how about the idea that the traditional "deferred life" plan (save enough money doing something you don't like so that you can stop doing it forever and do something you do like in retirement) is a fools game?
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These two modes of thinking are both grand-slam home-runs, IMO. Time is absolutely the most valuable asset you can ever have, own and bank, because you can use it to do anything you want, limited only by your imagination and budget. Money will not set you free unless you use it to buy time, then to fill that time with what you want.
So in that sense, I agree with what Sniper's saying. However, I think filling that time with nothing more than hobbies, TV and video games is just a waste. Christ, you could do that from prison. Life gets enriched by enriching yourself, whether that's through family and emotional ties to other people, intellectual pursuits, the arts, travel, and yes, to lesser extent, leisure activities like hobbies and games. And the single most important thing you need for that is time.
It's the truly lucky among us whose work careers contribute to this enrichment.