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The average boat owning idiot.
In "Wilbur Hubbard" writes:
wrote in message ... Net loss of 270K. You pay 27 thousand dollars a year to use your boat a dozen or so weekends a year. Stupid, just plain stupid! Think about it. Wilbur Hubbard Now Wilbur do the math if the idiot did not purchased a boat. Show with concrete evidence what happened to the 270K that what not spend buying and maintaining a boat. If that sum wasn't spent on something else stupid and useless as far as investment is concerned it could be invested in something that would give a reasonable return. Things like land, stocks, bonds, gold(in the last ten years), If you get a 10% return per anum your 270K will be worth 540K in ten years. In twenty years it makes you a millionaire. So you trade millionaire status for the privilege of owning a 100K boat? That's totally insane. . . Wilbur Hubbard I do not know what gives you the right to call someone with different preferences than you an idiot. Long time ago, I bought a small sailing boat, for some amount of money, my brother in law a financial wizard said: I would not but my money in boats, I get much better return in buing some stock from the market. I asked him: How can you sail with the stock? He told me, of course you do not sail with the stock, but after you sell them I have more money than you when you sell the boat. I was sailing the boat, enjoying the sea and the archipelago, even could take him on a ride, that he enjoyed a lot. Say, whatever you please, I might be stupid to invest the money in a boat, it does not only give me some days or weeks at the seas, it gives me dreams in the winter about future sailing trips and nice memories for the previous ones. Of course you might say that your dreams about getting more money to be invested in some more stock or gold are better dreams than mine or your fond memories of keeping the money in your hand or looking at the balance of your check account might be more beautifull than mine memories of the perfect sunset in the archipelago. You may keep your dreams of the $$$$$$, but for many sailors the dollars have any value only if they can be used to buy the memories of a perfect sailing trip. So you might feel you are a better human being as you have more dollars than me, but I was able to provide the brother in law an unforgettable experience in my sailing boat, that he could not do for me, as I did not get more kicks of looking at his bank statement than I wold get bu looking of my own. You may still call us idiots, but we are happy idiots, but I know many people thinking your way, and they are unhappy, as they are afraid that the value of their stock will just evaporate, but I know that my fond memories will be there for ever. When I die, I have at least had the experience and my children might come to **** on my grave for spending my money in a sailing boat and not leaving them piles of $$$$$. By the way, they are not sailors, but they have told that they give much value of the days they have spent on sea with me in my boat, and they do not need any money from me. - Lauri Tarkkonen |
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