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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There will always be haters -- people don't want to believe that you can actually live well if you spend below your income and don't go into debt. That you can save money and stop working before you're 70 years old. That you can spend your time finding something meaningful to do with those 40 years after you retire at 30. I think MMM has some great ideas and I'm going to teach my children that they don't need to work until they drop dead if they don't want to.[/quote]

There will always be people like yourself who try and obfuscate the fact he is promoting the idea everyine, including himself that it's possible to retire at 30 on 20K a year with a family of 4.  All this promotion while collecting 400K a year the whole time.  [/quote]

This is a little bit like the trust fund kids who adopt a radical, theoretically altruistic political or social philosophy. They join the working class or the disenfranchised, living on the edge. They advocate. The join communes. They picket.

But in the end, they can hit the red button and walk about any moment they want to leave. They will never have to take the hard fall for a mistake. They don't wake up broke in the inner city or an urban backwater and find they are trapped and can never leave.

Are their goals admirable? Are they nice people, maybe? Sure.

But they're NOT like the people they are trying to help, organize, or lead. They don't have only $23,000 a year. And that is what limits their authority and wisdom to tell the $23,000 a year people what to do. [/quote]

MMM "retired" before he had a blog, and certainly before he had any reason to believe that any future blog might be so lucrative. There's no shortage of personal finance blogs that earn nothing.

And he's never denied that his skills as a computer engineer are not a huge advantage, or that he was taking some huge risk by "retiring." To the contrary, he's always maintained that it was actually a very low-risk choice, because he and his wife are skilled and adaptable people, and they could always get some sort of work if things turned south.

His whole schtick is simply that you can live very well on relatively little. He's proven that.

I don't even like the guy that much, but these attacks are unfair and totally off-base. They also reek of jealousy and personal insecurity. [/quote]

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