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Originally Posted by Severian

Holy shit I just realized Symbols wants me to read Dr. Phil's Elizabeth Warren.

... maybe.

i don't know what you mean but by your sentence structure it reads like the senator from massachusetts belongs to some daytime tv you watch

NO

when she was a law professor she studied bankruptcy and worked with a financial counseling service where she saw a lot of real life cases. so she was able to extract the essence of the many problem and conceptualize a sound, practical method to address them.

if you have no financial problems don't worry about it and keep doing what you're doing though

Originally Posted by Severian

Also, you have extreme substances? Dude how much you want for them?

I kid, I kid.

i used to do i think 25 cents per word but you have no money so here's for free

i could recommend reading the early retirement extreme website but he is such an ascetic and out the mainstream he might scare you into thinking personal finance is nonsense and frugality is about suffering

i could recommend mr. money mustache but he might call you names and mock your outlook and assumptions and you might get sore and never return

i could recommend holding dave ramsey's book with chemical-resistant gloves and a pair of pliers and giving it a careful look, but he's so full of religious crapola you might engage with that alone, and miss the actual useful bits, which he has in spades.

and then there are all the business/self-employment gurus which i won't even mention because before embarking on moneymaking ventures one should put their house in order so things don't collapse under stress.

this is still the land of the free as long as you are free to decide on your own path instead of following the herd to slaughter. and i'm not talking about conspiracy theories and ridiculous nonsense but actually just having the ability to look at the assumptions under which you function and decide you might want to try something else.

i mean-- we're required to follow the law, not follow the herd. a lot of the things we do are simply optional.

so-- dr. elizabeth warren has a mild but effective cure for financial problems that doesn't require one to live "biblically" or practice "badassity" or be a secular lentil-eating monk or develop fantastical "muses". her book should be easy to digest for everyone in the mainstream--unless they're pathological (like a compulsive gambler or whatever). anyway my break is up i gotta go back to study. do the word count and post me the money. ;P