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vittoria_ann's review
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I can sum up the useful advice in this book: invest early, trade infrequently.
That could have taken up one page and instead it was stretched onto 199 others as well. The rest of the book is pretty pointless unless you are an upper middle class man with hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest. They offer weirdly conflicting advice like the only careers worth pursuing are those that make a lot of money such as doctors, lawyers, and engineers, and any other education is worthless so don't bother with humanities, art, music, or teaching. But then they talk about retirement being a time to enjoy arts and volunteer more. What art will there be to enjoy? What nonprofits to volunteer at? Or are the rest of us who have been pursuing those fields all along just poor idiots who will continue our ways?
A happy life is more valuable than one with full accounts at the end, and for most of us that path doesn't come via those limited professions.
In the section of education advice they also suggest befriending your professors, which is something that usually only happens if the guy is the smartest in the class or a gal is a 'cutie-pie.' Are all professors straight males looking for inappropriate relationships? Can the top student not be a woman?
What could have been a marginally useful book on investing and planning for retirement was overshadowed by sexist and misguided personal advice hoping to create a society of clones in Brooks Brothers apparel.
That could have taken up one page and instead it was stretched onto 199 others as well. The rest of the book is pretty pointless unless you are an upper middle class man with hundreds of thousands of dollars to invest. They offer weirdly conflicting advice like the only careers worth pursuing are those that make a lot of money such as doctors, lawyers, and engineers, and any other education is worthless so don't bother with humanities, art, music, or teaching. But then they talk about retirement being a time to enjoy arts and volunteer more. What art will there be to enjoy? What nonprofits to volunteer at? Or are the rest of us who have been pursuing those fields all along just poor idiots who will continue our ways?
A happy life is more valuable than one with full accounts at the end, and for most of us that path doesn't come via those limited professions.
In the section of education advice they also suggest befriending your professors, which is something that usually only happens if the guy is the smartest in the class or a gal is a 'cutie-pie.' Are all professors straight males looking for inappropriate relationships? Can the top student not be a woman?
What could have been a marginally useful book on investing and planning for retirement was overshadowed by sexist and misguided personal advice hoping to create a society of clones in Brooks Brothers apparel.
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