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The Value Of F*ck You Money

Dividends Forever
3 min readJun 6, 2021

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Benjamin Franklin once observed that “Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.” This is as true today as it was 300 years ago. By your mid-20’s, most of the people around you are miserable.

Most people have very little in savings, spend a lot of time looking busy at work, and lead a sedentary lifestyle which slowly erodes their health. And that’s nothing to say of institutional complacency. See something you don’t like or disagree with? Better keep quiet or else you’re getting blackballed.

If you want to increase your happiness, reclaim your time, and enjoy the luxury of freedom; you need “F*ck you” money.

Having enough cash and assets that you can’t be coerced into doing things you don’t want to is the ultimate luxury.

But how do you get there?

You Probably Need Less F*ck You Money Than You Think

Unless you are the king of Thailand or a Russian oligarch, you probably don’t need 15 houses across various countries or a private jet. Nobody is trying to assassinate you or throw you in jail so they can steal all your stuff.

F*ck you money, for the regular person, would probably consist of enough to pay your bills and still live in relative comfort. A couple hundred thousand dollars yielding 5% cash flow…

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