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At 07:26 PM 12/19/97 -0600, you wrote:
>I'd like to pose a question to all of you. We've been speaking of FI and
>all, so I'd like to ask...how would you be living your life if, from this
>point on (and adjusted yearly for cost-of -living), you had $2500 per month
>(US) tax free and were also free of debt. Assume ....
>
>Bruce
>
>Bruce Brummitt and Cheryl Valois
><lilacmn@eot.com>
>"Life is an Experiment"
>
** I've been doing this on a much smaller scale (NZ$608/mth,=US$355/mth),
for the last two years, so I speak from experience. I reached FI years
ago, at a very low level (my choice). I'm 61, and have had a hard but very
good life.
I have been supporting a small number of organizations to a significant
(to them) degree; ones that the current government and economics-based
culture doesn't want to know about.
In my case, that's: our local Unemployed Workers Rights Centre, the local
branch of The Greens (our good friend is a Green MP), and one third into an
Ethical Investment co-operative, nominally under my control but giving me
no interest (by my request) and for which I have no plans, so it's being
loaned out on a long-term basis to struggling enterprises in the social
(e.g. Montessori school) and environmental fields.
However, with more than 7 times as much to play with, I'd:-
(i) support more organizations, like the peace movement and our
anti-GATT/WTO group (we've lost our economic sovereignity in the last year);
(ii) quickly build up enough for down-payments on quite a number of pieces
of land that should never have been farmed (a main reason why the 4 of us
own our current farm, only 35 of ~300 acres of which is properly farmable);
and
(iii) spend some months thinking and talking over with friends, what else I
could use it for.
We have New Zealand Superannuation at age 65, paying everyone NZ$10,000
p.a. (though probably with reductions before the baby-boomers get to 65),
so I'm looking forward to having more than US$410/mth free for such
purposes, then. I've put an awful lot of effort and taxes into N.Z. during
my life, it's about time I got a little benefit from the social capital
we've all built up.
See:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3142/krf35-wfs_childrn.html
an economist's view of children, and:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3142/krf31-popul_conf.html
"[our] 150 year long learning curve that has given us the capability of
treading lightly in postindustrial comfort." (same Keith Rankin.)
David. (Now to read what other(s) have posted on this topic.)
** http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3142/
David MacClement <davd@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/6783/
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