![]() ![]() You can keep your boardrooms, private jets and oilfields, thank you. For me, I just want to be financially free to live a simple life. It might suit ambitious, ruthless, executive types whose only ambition in life is to earn a lot of money for money's sake without a care as to who or what it hurts, or the environmental consequences. Most of the assumptions about income, tax, benefits, political situation. I'm going to stop now, it's wasting my time - I've work to do! Part of the problem I have with the book is that it's primarily geared towards Americans. The author thinks that to be self-employed is worthless and somewhat pathetic, unless you have a business employing at least 500 people. Robert Kiyosaki, author of the viral book Rich Dads Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dads Guide to Financial Freedom, explains how anyone can move to the other. It might or might not be possible to reach such 'heights'. I have never aspired to that level of wheeler-dealing, and I would rather die than be that kind of person. But after listening to this book I realise I honestly, truly do not want to be 'rich', in the sense the author means. Yes, I would like to be more financially secure. For most everyone else, the poor and the middle class, at least 80 percent of the income comes from wages from the E and S quadrants and less than 20 percent. ![]() The world described in this book - a world the author believes everyone should aspire to - is not a world I wish to live in. His poor dad spent so much time in school earning him a doctorate degree landing on a high paying job but ended with a lot of bills left unpaid while his rich. ![]()
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