members and their systems

190 in a 996 X-50 is child's play. It lacks the soul of the 993...
they simply are different creatures with some common dna...

i currently own neither, mostly because I believe in sampling...

like colors.. Zanzibar Red, Adventurine Green, Garnet, and ( of course ) Slate Grey...

every day is a car show......the dude abides.....

as an aside, Mclaren i see often parked on the street a few blocks away, low beach rambler, no driveway, no garage...i am sure the dude, who abides, does not have a cell phone....

also many a great struggling musical artist, support crews going thru hard times. Patreon is one place to find and help them.....

well social justice in 2020 and 2021 was helping out our local food banks.....
The virtue signaling snak  was aimed at aimed right at the bootstrap frugality sect, trigged just as i envisioned...

Porsche is a soulless German appliace, with corresponding reliability, ranking the last four i have owned in order from highest to lowest: Boxster S,  993, 911 SC, 996 TT w X-50, only the Boxster purchased new ( i did camp out at dealer until they met my $ offer, ordered a pizza, had it delivered to waiting lobby.... how’s that for a signal ? In our LiL condo parking garage, there are 3 F cars, a Bentley ( yes the stereo rocks ), some Bavarian and Modern Porsche...none of the F cars are Queens and i don’t see them leaving on tow trucks...

having said that a trailer tuna boat, 40 fishing days a year, and a tow rig makes audio look affordable.....

Job Optional is a good read,  ( Casey Weade ) and you can use the smartphone at your optional gig..... I have three: Trustee at two not for profits, and as a technical advisor to the board of a software startup....if you want to call solving problems on a quantum computer “ software “ 

I was blessed, took a lot of risks in my career, 7 zipcodes, some in foreign lands. Giving back and paying forward are part of our living life and estate plan.

My big passion of late is donating to causes that advance social justice, civil liberties....and clean coal ( just checking... )

and there is a lot more to a good plan than 1% ( really any % ) net worth people, but you can discover that on your own....

two hints; Liquidity and income....

tax planning goes without saying....

Jerry - well wishes and speedy healing for your foot. 

@ghasley should be a t shirt dude, so erudite. Ya commercial property asset values are due for turbulence....I see conversion to condo happening bigtime in constrained growth markets.like Boston.

i liked your thinking on 1% also @whart we need to chat again soon brother..

to the OP, your first question is deserving of a lot of focus. i know a lot of gear churners, i draft behind them....big king salmon eat the bait that wild Coho salmon wound...too busy slasshing and moving to eat.... so there is a lot of super gear out there....

have fun

what i think he said was go back to the gold standard, invest like he does, adopt virtue signaling frugality, and then have to work an additional 9 years to attain ( unverified ) 1% status.....

of course, i’m not really fully retired at 55, there are those pesky pay it forward positions, etc.....