Well, except for the part where there are news articles with him talking about doing a layoff because the economy is super bad. But maybe Tesla’s workers have drank the “all journalism is clickbait” kool-aid and don’t read the news. In which case this becomes smart again.

Yes that what I meant. Using it as an excuse

I only have one excel showed which contains all our bank accounts including brokering.

I don't live over my means so I stoped trying to record everything but because I'm saving for a house, I need to know roughly how much I have across different accounts.

And for everyone curious about why I have more accounts: I have my account, we have a shared account, my wife has one, 1 company brokering account, private brokering account and most critical an banc account for reserved funds/emergency/maintenance.

I assume that when we buy a house that we will throw everything together to get the best quote.

My mane bank account actually has this analysis feature but I disabled it again because it did not add any value.

I always wire money every month out of my account. Everything I have in there is money I can just spend if I wanted to.

The dealership has to change anyway.

If banking and Everything else is a good example, people are getting used to buy online.

I bought even my current car without seeing it before.

I bought my bike online as well.

If more and more do that dealerships might loose too much revenue anyway to keep them afloat.

Just a train of thought because that's what I'm doing:

Why not trying to buy your own land and build a small community around it?

Might be much more fulfilling with very little money required.

I live in Germany and everything just costs money but if you are in the USA, there are plenty of very cheap areas were you can easily life self sustainable?

You get sanctions if you don't try interviews.

And you only get it after all your riches are gone.

After that your Rente/retirement money will become a real struggle.

I don't envy anyone going this road but I also don't mind it.

My company allows you to save your working hours and spend them in your sabbatical.

It's primarily a good thing in regards of taxes as you pay less in that time.

Do you mean something different? Haven't heard a free sabbatical from spd

Had to google it again myself, they called it Grundeinkommensjahr (https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/lars-klingbeil-gr...) and the pay was much less than I remembered; it's 1000 bucks per month plus social security. You get one month per year of work.

Interesting idea.

Never came across of it, tx.

I'm still working as long as I can (I'm 35) so I have enough money to not work and spend a few years on building my own house/farm/greenhouse.

On the other hand I know the story from a few people getting rich fast (crypto and fang) who just sit at home and play the same game for years now.

Good for them (if that doesn't make them depressed) but normally not having any money makes life quite different.

I also think it's unfair for me to have this plan and being able to achieve it while on the other side of our planet people still work like 6 days a week for consumerism.

Independent from politics: I like main much more. Shorter and better sound than master

Cool!

How did you handle it between money, work and your spare time?

Are you happy with your work work life balance?

Have you tried a publisher?

What financial expectations do you have for being able to keep on it?

How do you balance family and friends?

> How did you handle it between money, work and your spare time?

That was hard, basically nearly no spare time. For some time I was also working part-time.

> Are you happy with your work work life balance?

Until now there was unfortunately no balance, all work. I am hoping that things improve from now.

> Have you tried a publisher?

No, we have got many enquiries and emails but we were not compelled by them.

> What financial expectations do you have for being able to keep on it?

The hope is to earn a similar or slightly lower amount compared to a SWE job (on average). If this game won't provide enough to pay my bills long term, then things will need to be changed.

> How do you balance family and friends?

This is also hard to balance, and pandemic made it only worse. Lots of online calling and rare visits.

Meta became what tv channels like history channel became:

Cheap entertainment for the masses.

Does it make money? Obviously.

And funny enough they have so much money and what do they do actually with it?

Nothing someone can actually name besides: the feed, messenger, occulus and stuff they bought up like insta and Whatsapp.

Congratulations to Facebook and basically no real innovation in the last 10 years.

Besides optimizing the addictiones of garbage which got easily trumped by TikTok.