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Richard Meadows
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Richard Meadows writes Deep Dish, a personal blog at thedeepdish.org about philosophy and economics. Since 2018, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “The Joy of Fuck-You Money (2018)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Richard Meadows' blog for its 'fuck-you money' post and his itemized yearly spending breakdowns, which commenters cite when discussing frugal living costs.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
All Life is an Experiment — essays on optionality, money, freedom, and the good life by Richard Meadows.
Most-linked posts?
- /2017-spending/4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-09-22
- The Joy of Fuck-You Money (2018)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-03-11
What Hacker News says?
The joy of FU money https://thedeepdish.org/fuck-you-money/
Comment linking /fuck-you-money/
on “Why Lichess will always be free”Submitted The Joy of Fuck-You Money (2018) as a story · 143 points
HN discussionThis is also known as "Fuck-you money" https://thedeepdish.org/fuck-you-money/
Comment linking /fuck-you-money/
on “The Ponzi Career”Submitted Kindly Stop Saying the Efficient Market Hypothesis Is Dead as a story · 61 points
HN discussionThe "eating out" line here ( https://thedeepdish.org/2017-spending/ ) implies the blog author is (or was, as of Sep 19, 2018) living in India. It is likely easier to live on 10k/year in India than in the US.
Comment linking /2017-spending/
on “The Joy of Fuck-You Money (2018)”Submitted Why I Am No Longer an AI Doomer as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIt doesn't look like he's paying for health insurance based on this itemized list: https://thedeepdish.org/2017-spending/
Comment linking /2017-spending/
on “The Joy of Fuck-You Money (2018)”Submitted Minimalist Fitness: The Lost Art of Calisthenics as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI'm amazed by the author's $10-15k/year spending [1]. I subscribe to the FI portion of FIRE and am very frugal 99% of the time but wow, some of these bloggers are spending an impossibly small amount of money per year by geographical arbitrage. I wonder how many people that subscribe to FIRE are in the US, especially VHCOL or HCOL places where incomes are likely to be high. My conservative 2bd rent exceeds the author…
Comment linking /2017-spending/
on “The Joy of Fuck-You Money (2018)”Submitted Brave New World of Wireheading as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOh right, yes that's very possible in many parts of the world. One of the most frugal people I know lived on slightly less than $10,000 per year [1] while traveling around the world. That sounded extremely low to me, but you have to remember that the worldwide median income is about $10,000 [2]. [1] https://thedeepdish.org/2017-spending/ [2] https://news.gallup.com/poll/166211/worldwide-median-househo...
Comment linking /2017-spending/
on “What Could You Build with $10k?”Submitted Constraints That Liberate: Better to Reign in Hell Than Serve in Heaven as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Happiness is a Greased Pig Chase (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Modern Commonplace Book: How to Get Compound Interest on Your Ideas (2020) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optional Value and Life as a story · 1 points
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