My friend Christopher Ng tried to scope the problem that Financial Independence is trying to solve.
Without a monster, there is no use for a powerful sword. So we need to find that monster.
And he framed the problem this way:
the emergence of the gig economy retrenchments are affecting younger workers compared to the past your salary will become lumpy as work becomes projectised you will come under pressure to retrain and it would be a fight for survival life gets better for a while, then it starts to suckI look at the problem and its not something that our previous generation have not faced before. His emphasis is that they happened younger, and each stable job cycle becomes shorter.
If I were to describe, it is as if that white collar workers are going to suffer from the job uncertainty that plague blue collar workers in the
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