Owen Raskovitch

So by starting with the emergency fund and building up from there, it gives you additional freedom in your life.

And I think there's an article I might have included in the show notes a while back, but it was about the F off fund.

So if you're in a terrible situation in work, in life, anywhere, you want a little bit of money aside that you can just leave.

F off.

Yeah.

yeah i like it great idea you always want to have a little bit aside that's just yours that you can just leave any scenario if you need to and that's a really good thing so this is kind of we talk about financial independence retire early it's pretty much financial freedom yeah and this is what we talk about your first step to getting to financial freedom is to have that emergency fund backing you up and we've talked about this many times it's

Sell some junk around your house or put $2,000 aside while you pay off your debt and then work that balance up to three to six months of living expenses.

It's a mission in itself.

It's like a mini Everest in front of the fire Everest, but it's step one for most people.

If you're new to the podcast, go back and listen to the Emergency Fund podcast episode because that's probably the single most important thing.

You can have it too, really.

Monopoly analogy, get out of jail free card.

That's what it is.

Okay, so...

Last one, radical idea, is debt the modern form of slavery?

This is from a fire movement blogger.

Debt does suck the life out of you.

And it is pretty much the thing that keeps people going back to work.

It keeps the suckers going back to work.

Um, that's at least the view of this blogger.