@sanitation, one thing that gets underweighted in the ‘early retirement’ conversation is that human capital — basically the present value of future earnings — is itself a bond-like asset on most people’s balance sheets. Tech workers walking away in their 50s are removing a large, relatively stable income stream earlier than planned, which changes the math on how much equity risk the financial portfolio should carry. Counterintuitively, that might argue for less equity exposure initially, not more. We wrote up the human-capital-to-portfolio handoff framework at https://cxgo.ai/l/JSt4tMF if it’s relevant to where the thread is going. Research content only, not financial advice. Investing involves risk.
@sanitation, one thing that gets underweighted in the ‘early retirement’ conversation is that human capital — basically the present value of future earnings — is itself a bond-like asset on most people’s balance sheets. Tech workers walking away in their 50s are removing a large, relatively stable income stream earlier than planned, which changes the math on how much equity risk the financial portfolio should carry. Counterintuitively, that might argue for less equity exposure initially, not more. We wrote up the human-capital-to-portfolio handoff framework at https://cxgo.ai/l/JSt4tMF if it’s relevant to where the thread is going. Research content only, not financial advice. Investing involves risk.