Kind of reminds me of a sign that they have at Jimmy Johns.
The investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked…
Inside the small boat were several large fin tuna.
The banker complimented the fisherman on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The fisherman replied…
“Only a little while.”
The banker then asked why he didn’t stay out longer and catch more fish? The fisherman said he had enough to support his family’s immediate needs.
The banker then asked…
“But what do you do with the rest of your time?”
The fisherman said…
“I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take a nap with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my friends, I have a full and busy life.”
The banker scoffed…
“I am a Harvard MBA and could help you. You should spend more time fishing and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat, and with the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually, you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor, eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You would need to leave this small coastal fishing village and move to a big City, then LA and eventually NYC where you will run your expanding enterprise.”
The fisherman asked…
“But, how long will this take?”
To which the banker replied…
“15-20 years.”
The fisherman thought for a moment and then asked…
“But what then?”
The banker laughed and said that’s the best part…
“When the time is right you would announce an IPO and sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions.”
And, once again the fisherman asked…
“Then what?”
The banker said…
“Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take naps with your wife, stroll to the village in the evening, sip wine and play your guitar with your friends!”
Oh, the irony of having that sign at a corporate workplace staffed by wage slaves.
I mean, if all the wealthy did this instead of their endless grind to own more and more at the expense of everyone else, the world would be a lot better.
The ultra wealthy have a hoarding mental illness. Most people would have stopped working long before they got to the point they did.
They could also shut the fuck up for like five minutes but nope. We get the Met Gala instead. Rich people parading around on TV for poor people to watch. It’s insane how mentally deranged all of it is.
A quote I like:
Nobody wants to solve problems. Everyone just wants to get rich enough so the problems don’t apply to them anymore.
It’s true. Same for disillusioned me nowadays too.
I know a left-centrist guy who seems to want to improve things but at the same time talks about not voting against landlords because one day he may live off owning a house and renting it off.
The word “centrist” has all its meaning here
I’ll raise it up by one:
The best way to solve a problem, is to make it everyone else’s problem.
I just want to get rich enough to run a non profit apartment complex for my marginalized community.
In fairness to them, one of those things requires a couple orders of magnitude more money than the other.
Honestly this isn’t to crazy. I know some people like this who moved to Thailand and Indonesia and they work in tourism and their lifestyles are pretty much exactly like this except taking a few people out fishing or up a mountain.
You could probably even do this in the us if you found the right place. You could definitely do it in nz if you pretended like you were looking for work.
There’s loads on Airbnb experiences. When I was in LA I went out in some guys boat, he takes people out a few times a week and it pays for his boat. There was people doing guided walks round the city and stuff
Waking up without alarm to go surfing?
Where the fuck happens that?
Usually we need to get up at fucking 7 to catch the early good waves and that’s in the single week we can afford to be somewhere at the beachAnd I know, that is already a high level of complaining, but c’mon, you can’t just sleep and go surfing whenever. The sea dictates and that’s part of the experience to feel like the little thing surfing a ball of energy in an unforgiving sea, that doesn’t give a shit about your preferences.
Do I only go to the wrong places or is this just part of her bullshit?
I didn’t think the person in the post cares about good waves, I think he cares about hanging out on a beach with a morning cocktail near some surfboards
What would you do with a million dollars?
Nothing man. Nothing.
Man, you don’t need a million dollars to do that.
- Office Space
Slight difference between doing nothing in a building and doing nothing under an overpass though.
