“Rapidly retired”, this system that shakes up Belgium

BENELUX LETTER

No extra intercourse, nonsense, jealousy and deceit, and even, extra trashy nonetheless, the jousting to acquire an organ donation, style medication or discover a younger migrant to deport. All these “feats” of Dutch actuality TV not appear to be in tune with the instances, even when there are nonetheless a couple of scraps right here and there with, in France for instance, the repetitive adventures of the Marseillais within the 4 corners of the world.

Is it the impact of the pandemic and the teachings they discovered from it? The authors now appear to favor “documentaries” on the social information of our post-Covid world. And one in every of these new applications strikes, in Flemish Belgium. The general public channel VRT is in truth arousing controversy by broadcasting FIRE – the acronym for monetary independence, early retirement, or monetary independence, early retirement. Abstract in Dutch, this offers Early retirement (Rapidly retire).

If the Covid-19 episode has, as sociologists have noticed, shaken up, amongst younger individuals specifically, the notion of labor and the significance that ought to be given to it, it’s undoubtedly the primary time that the phenomenon has been at this level illustrated by tv. With, not actors however seven younger witnesses who clarify their need to not work. And to do every little thing to retire as quickly as doable. In good well being and with full pockets, after all.

“There is no such thing as a restrict, you will get every little thing on this world with out doing a lot”, the founding father of the Belgian department of FIRE

FIRE, impressed by the writings of authors Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, who printed your cash or your life (Votre argent ou votre vie, 2008), is a motion that’s spreading from the USA and already has a number of thousand followers in Belgium. One in all its ideas is that it’s doable to retire as quickly as you accumulate twenty-five instances the quantity of your annual bills. And the younger Flemings who testify succeeded in doing so, after they had been solely of their thirties, even twenty years previous.

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One voluntarily lives on a really small foot, in Bulgaria, with some 800 euros per 30 days. One other works two hours a day on his laptop seeking worthwhile investments however favors studying and going out. A 3rd juggled with cryptocurrencies and settled in a villa in Thailand. The founding father of the Belgian department of the motion is 37 years previous and lives in Dubai, the place the place one other of the witnesses purchased a home. He was in a position to cease working at age 26 speculating on all cryptocurrencies. His philosophy: There is no such thing as a restrict, you will get every little thing on this world with out doing a lot”.

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