> That's exactly why I said, "at least not any more unrealistic than any more traditional life plans".
And you're still wrong. Retiring early renders your financial situation much more fragile and susceptible to disruptive events. Sure, you can go bankrupt due to divorce or illness even when employed, but it's much more probable when you don't have an income stream and when your financial planning depends on not breaking up or not getting ill.
> gloating about how the author's plan failed, without looking at how plans that fit your worldview don't account for the same life events any better.
You're making a lot of unwarranted assumptions about my "worldview" and about how I'm "gloating" over the author's misfortune. Don't.
> Sure, you can go bankrupt due to divorce or illness even when employed, but it's much more probable when you don't have an income stream and when your financial planning depends on not breaking up or not getting ill.
This is exactly missing my point:
Just because you retire early, doesn't mean your financial planning depends on you not breaking up or not getting ill.
Just because you work out the rest of your existence, doesn't mean you've successfully accounted for breakups or illness.
> Retiring early renders your financial situation much more fragile and susceptible to disruptive events.
Why is that, exactly?
> You're making a lot of unwarranted assumptions about my "worldview" and about how I'm "gloating" over the author's misfortune.
What assumptions? Am I correct in saying that you believe "Retiring early renders your financial situation much more fragile and susceptible to disruptive events" is part of your worldview, and that you're taking the author's failure as a confirmation of that worldview?
And you're still wrong. Retiring early renders your financial situation much more fragile and susceptible to disruptive events. Sure, you can go bankrupt due to divorce or illness even when employed, but it's much more probable when you don't have an income stream and when your financial planning depends on not breaking up or not getting ill.
> gloating about how the author's plan failed, without looking at how plans that fit your worldview don't account for the same life events any better.
You're making a lot of unwarranted assumptions about my "worldview" and about how I'm "gloating" over the author's misfortune. Don't.