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How Jamaican dancehall queens twerk for a living
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Santas from as far away as Japan and El Salvador are attending 62nd World Santa Claus Congress in Copenhagen
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What the research says about a $15 minimum wage
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The new ways your boss is spying on you
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When the racist is someone you know and love…
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Black tech news coverage struggles to find a home in mainstream newsrooms
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Madelaine Gnewski: ‘Sweden's parental leave may be generous but it's tying women to the home’
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Undocumented, vulnerable, scared: The US women who pick your food for $3 an hour
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It’s never going to be perfect, so just get it done
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Denmark plans regulation of influencers following suicide note
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Americans shouldn’t have to drive, but the law insists on it
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Podcasts should stick to exonerating the innocent
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Alaska fears 'brain drain' after forty-one percent proposed cut to university system
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At Vox Media, workers win a voice beyond wages
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Dreams live on behind the fence
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White men keep killing themselves with guns. The NRA is making it worse
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The troubling business of bounty hunting
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How Norway turns criminals into good neighbours
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China Muslims: Xinjiang schools used to separate children from families
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Patriotism has always fueled marginalization
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It is your responsibility to follow up
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How much money would you need to live the life that you want to live?
Consider the life you want to live, from the essentials to the luxuries. House, car, food, tech, kids, etc. Furthermore, consider where you want to live. Rural France? Downtown Tokyo? For the...
Consider the life you want to live, from the essentials to the luxuries. House, car, food, tech, kids, etc. Furthermore, consider where you want to live. Rural France? Downtown Tokyo?
For the purposes of the question I don't want you to think of the life of your wildest dreams (e.g. private jet, personal island, etc.), but I don't want you to think bare minimum either. Focus instead on "comfortable and fulfilling" according entirely to your own standards--a life that lets you live well and follow your aspirations with a sense of financial safety. Do not feel obligated to give a low, reasonable answer if your aspirations are higher, and don't feel obligated to shoot high if you're fine with a lower-cost lifestyle. Set your number entirely based around the desired archetypal life you want, rather than what you think is necessarily achievable based on your current financial situation.
Furthermore, don't anchor your hypothetical income to real-world standards. If you want to, for example, teach kindergarteners for a living and live in downtown San Francisco, and your desired income is $200,000 USD a year, that's perfectly fine for the purposes of this discussion despite the fact that you would be hard pressed to find a school there in real life that pays that much. I'm much more interested in the hypotheticals of the costs in your life rather than the feasibility of the income. Think of this less as a real-world budget and more of a thought experiment/personal reflection.
With all that in mind:
- What are the details of the life you want to live?
- Where do you want to live it?
- How much money would you need each year to make that feasible for you, and why?
I'm not interested in anything exact--just a ballpark estimate. And you don't need to give a full budget or anything. This should loose napkin math at best.
Also, to make things easier for everyone:
- Give your money as an amount per year.
- Give the currency you're using.
- Use combined income if your desired life involves multiple people.
- Do not judge someone else's desired life nor income.
Also, please specify which currency you are reporting in so that people can convert it to their local currency if needed to get a better sense of it.
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An eleven-year neighborhood feud involved restraining orders, spells, and jail time
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Why you can't trust me
18 votes