Like they’re so shamelessly blatant about who their reader base is nowadays I just can’t
Here’s the article if you want to read it I can’t summon the energy 
https://web.archive.org/web/20240507210734/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/magazine/retire-early-saving.html
Allen Wong in his primary residence in Celebration, Fla.
Ewww, that sketchy gated community in Disneyworld? Jesus, Disney adults shouldn’t be allowed to have their own money. They would be much better off attending 90s kid daycare where they can watch The Lion King 1/2 on cassette tape and eat Dunkaroos.
savers
McLaren in background
All i need is my health, my solid gold house, and my rocket car
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with having healthy financial strategies, sometimes to the point of obsession, and aiming for FIRE especially given our fucked up government who doesn’t care about us, as the author herself says
But every single person I’ve met who does this is a reactionary neoliberal
Long story short, kid has a rough childhood, develops a police scanner app in the wild west app store days, people pay for it for some reason, he’s a multimillionaire. Not exactly a career path you can scale.
develops a police scanner app in the wild west app store days, people pay for it for some reason
is listening to the scanner not a common pastime where you live?
It’s been a while since I’ve seen one (I don’t go in other people’s houses much anymore, and presumably most people don’t have a dedicated machine anymore), but it used to be super common to go in an older person’s house and see an emergency & police scanner in the corner. It was great for getting the latest, juiciest gossip and keeping track of what the pigs were up to, if you had the patience to listen long enough to decipher what they were saying. (As an unmedicated AuDHD kid, I did not.)
One of the most popular local Twitter accounts just did scanner posting all day for years, it was awesome.
Most police/emergency radio systems are trunked now, requiring more complex hardware to listen in. It makes using these apps a more compelling option, even though they’re charging money for(or inserting ads into) what is essentially public information.
More and more police agencies are encrypting their radios, so this will all be gone soon enough.
They encrypted it in my city
