Maybe you've heard the classic Aesop fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper: The industrious ant worked all summer long storing food for the winter, while the carefree grasshopper fiddled and played all summer. So when winter came, the ant was able to survive, while the grasshopper was in dire straits. The moral of the fable? There's a time for work and a time for play.Great moral. But when does the ant get to play?
Great question from and the guiding premise to Bill Perkins' book Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life. Just started the book but enjoying it. Doesn't hurt that I had already embraced the premise without knowing it.
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ReplyDeleteWe're supposed to pass our wealth down, enhanced, from generation to generation, ad infinitum. Never eat the seed corn your children would plant for THEIR children. Provide first, then enjoy the remainder, even if no one did that for you.(ESPECIALLY if no one did that for you.)
ReplyDeleteThe book explains that you should be sharing your wealth while you're alive when you too can share in the experience of giving.
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