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Title: (Ask) Hacker News: How have you achieved financial independence?
Post by: neo von retorch on August 12, 2016, 06:42:10 AM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12274094

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have you reached a point where you have enough passive income to not to have to work for a living? If so how did you accomplish it?

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Step #1. Reduce my expenditures below what most people consider reasonable. I lived for more than 5 years on less than $10K a year. It was much easier than I thought. I discovered that spending more than this amount of money, I was no happier. Who knew?

Many of the answers are about amassing fortunes or passive income, though.
Title: Re: (Ask) Hacker News: How have you achieved financial independence?
Post by: marty998 on August 12, 2016, 05:54:30 PM
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12274094

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have you reached a point where you have enough passive income to not to have to work for a living? If so how did you accomplish it?

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Step #1. Reduce my expenditures below what most people consider reasonable. I lived for more than 5 years on less than $10K a year. It was much easier than I thought. I discovered that spending more than this amount of money, I was no happier. Who knew?

Many of the answers are about amassing fortunes or passive income, though.

I take it that's because passive income has the capacity to grow much faster than employment income for the vast majority of people?