{"id":248,"date":"2021-03-03T20:43:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=248"},"modified":"2021-03-07T22:39:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T22:39:28","slug":"slim-the-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Slim the Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reality of limited resources \u2026 ahhh \u2026 ewww \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cash &amp; debt, assets &amp; liabilities, income &amp; expenses \u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Really.\u00a0 Can I just live?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Warren Buffett said [and paraphrasing here] that if you work for a living you\u2019ll work until you die.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is not encouraging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But then again \u2026 it is.  America \u2013 that troubling, bubbling hot stew of democracy \u2013 was, is and for the moment remains a land of opportunity, even if the only opportunity is to stay broke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But here\u2019s a really, really, REALLY rich guy who bestows a tetch of wise wisdom to the masses, and there it goes, right over everyone\u2019s head.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well, most of everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not the \u201cmasters of mankind,\u201d obviously.&nbsp; See Law of Power #7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Certainly over the collective heads of the <em>Precariat<\/em> (how rude) \u2026 and mine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until now, a\u2019cours &#8230;&nbsp; Now, I get it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Slow, but smart.\u00a0 heh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SO! the solution is to make MORE money that we don\u2019t like that we don\u2019t spend on stuff we don\u2019t need or if we need we can wait for \u2026 don\u2019t-spend-when-spend-spend-smart \u2026 <em>I like it<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Recently got some rotten fruit to throw at my debt monkey \u2013 \u00e0 la fresh money on stale debt \u2013 because it won&#8217;t grow on nasty food and that pesky primate is slimming right down \u2026 heh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s an app for that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See, stuff can make money, and put that debt monkey to work.&nbsp; I like it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using Mercari right now, might branch out (aHHAHAHAAHAoh, just me? Wellthen nevermind) and try some of the others (LetItGo, OfferUp, Tradesy, etc.) but in a few weeks made a tidy grand selling crap I bought with a click elebenty-hunnert daze ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Didn\u2019t even have to work that hard.&nbsp; Pictures, words, price \u2026 <em>whah-lah! <\/em>&nbsp;Money.&nbsp; I like it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nice.&nbsp; Adventures of the Monkey Side Hustle.&nbsp; I like it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reality of limited resources \u2026 ahhh \u2026 ewww \u2026 Cash &amp; debt, assets &amp; liabilities, income &amp; expenses \u2026 Really.\u00a0 Can I just live? Warren Buffett said [and paraphrasing here] that if you work for a living you\u2019ll work until you die.&nbsp; &nbsp; That is not encouraging. But then again \u2026 it is. America &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/?p=248\" class=\"more-link\">Read the full post &rarr;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Slim the Monkey&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nobuy","category-debt-monkeys-the-credit-circus"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moneyaintmath.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}