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Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life (eBook) by Bill Perkins on sale for
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About this title:
- Page Length: 242 pages
- A common-sense guide to living rich . . . instead of dying rich
- Imagine if by the time you died, you did everything you were told to. You worked hard, saved your money, and looked forward to financial freedom when you retired.
- The only thing you wasted along the way was . . . your life.
- Die with Zero presents a startling new and provocative philosophy as well as practical guide on how to get the most out of your money—and out of your life. It's intended for those who place lifelong memorable experiences far ahead of simply making and accumulating money for one's so-called "golden years."
- In short, Bill Perkins wants to rescue you from over-saving and under-living. Regardless of your age, Die with Zero will teach you Perkins's plan for optimizing your life, stage by stage, so you're fully engaged and enjoying what you've worked and saved for.
- You'll discover how to maximize your lifetime memorable moments with "time-bucketing," how to convert your earnings into priceless memories by following your "net worth curve," and how to navigate decisions about whether to invest in, or delay, a meaningful adventure with your "fulfillment curve" and "personal interest rate."
- Using his own life experiences as well as the inspiring stories and cautionary tales of others—and drawing on eye-opening insights about time, money, and happiness from psychological science and behavioral finance—Perkins makes a timely, convincing, and contrarian case for living large.
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Even figuring his 2023 estimated net worth of $500M... he likely has less than a 30 year time horizon since he is already 61. Even if you ignore any future grown (which could quadruple the value), he would have to spend about $1.4M per month to die with zero.
He said he already gave away his inheritances so that he could see the good it can do while he is still alive. Why not do the same for charitable causes? Why not give away all but about $50M? Seems to me like he is just a wealth hoarder who wrote a book to make even more money since his wealth could have allowed him to give the book away for free if he truly wanted to help people.
Granted, the book isn't for everyone; many or most people are struggling to get ahead, or even to make ends meet. The ideas in this book are not going to be helpful to them.
But for those who have built up a healthy surplus . . . and then continued to spend the best years of their lives building upon that surplus (after all, the more the better, right?) . . .
. . . well, this book might make you more acutely aware of the opportunity costs of your good habits.
It might make you stop to consider at what point your good habits are no longer furthering your overall interests.
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This person didn't read the book
Why would you expect any money from your parents. They earned it, and if they want to spin it. that's their prerogative. My dad always said and granted he didn't get any of it. Social security money because he died at fifty five, which is somewhere around four hundred and seventy five thousand dollars. I didn't see any of that money. My mom didn't see you that money. My siblings didn't see that money. My dad always said, make sure that's the last check you write on your bed bounces.
That's where pension, IRAs, 401k and social security play a big part. Most of these can't be drained in a lump sum.
My FIL died suddenly with over $100k on 20+ credit cards in his own name. Apart from the tragedy and stress, I had to admit it was well played.
Just make sure you have someone to answer all those collection calls for the next year or two.
I used to subscribe to this idea, but I find it completely inane now. I want my family to be cared for, but also the best way to do that is to support them in constructive financial ways while we're all still alive. Not some lump sum inheritance or trust that prevents them from building their own skills. Living in a van in Breckenridge...
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I don't knock him (or her) too hard because I'm similar. However giving your kids money so they never work is ludicrous and they'll become drug addicts.
I'm now having to watch my mother and her siblings take care of grandma - taking turns with FMLA and/or WFH to be at her side during the day and all the nursing care because grandma isn't a citizen and does not have access to elderly care.
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