I mean, it’s not strictly necessary. Some people are just into hyper optimization or being extremely frugal, it’s like a hobby. For example I’ve heard a lot of the old (almost all Chinese) ladies who pick up depositable recyclables in the Bay Area are pretty wealthy or solidly middle class. They just do it because it gives them something to do and is cash flow positive.
There are also people making >$200k/yr who live in cars and get all their food/showers at their tech employer. Sure you could write an article about them regarding how they’re doing it to save up enough for a down payment. But it’s really just a way to save slightly more money; they could live in a studio and buy their own food, it would just maybe reduce their saving rate by $3k/mo
I feel like this is hard to explain, but to demonstrate that some people (also me, but I’m not that hardcore) are just into this, there are tons of video games where a main part of the gameplay is “min maxing” like this. For example people will spend dozens of hours figuring out how to increase xp or money per hour, then hundreds of hours grinding out their new method, just for fun. The people like the guy from the article doing this are just doing the real-life version of min maxing.
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I mean, it’s not strictly necessary. Some people are just into hyper optimization or being extremely frugal, it’s like a hobby. For example I’ve heard a lot of the old (almost all Chinese) ladies who pick up depositable recyclables in the Bay Area are pretty wealthy or solidly middle class. They just do it because it gives them something to do and is cash flow positive.
There are also people making >$200k/yr who live in cars and get all their food/showers at their tech employer. Sure you could write an article about them regarding how they’re doing it to save up enough for a down payment. But it’s really just a way to save slightly more money; they could live in a studio and buy their own food, it would just maybe reduce their saving rate by $3k/mo
I feel like this is hard to explain, but to demonstrate that some people (also me, but I’m not that hardcore) are just into this, there are tons of video games where a main part of the gameplay is “min maxing” like this. For example people will spend dozens of hours figuring out how to increase xp or money per hour, then hundreds of hours grinding out their new method, just for fun. The people like the guy from the article doing this are just doing the real-life version of min maxing.