Listen to Feng Tang talk about financial freedom.

"Standing at the midpoint of life and looking at the end of life, what is financial freedom?" Feng Tang asked himself.

In the term "financial freedom", the part about "finance" is the most confusing and controversial. How much does a person need to be financially free? In Feng Tang's view, "living like a human being" doesn't need that much money at all.

Feng Tang started with food, clothing, housing and transportation, trying to focus his desire on "meeting only basic needs". His clothes can last for decades; He likes to eat pancakes from a few yuan to ten yuan; He can follow the fashion to "light food", "fast food" and "light food"; He can choose to live in a small house and reduce all maintenance costs; He has few things and tries not to buy anything other than basic needs; Where he can walk, he can't ride a bike. Where he can ride a bike, he won't take a bus. Where he can't take a bus, he will consider whether it is necessary to go here in his life.

According to Feng Tang's calculation, if you live in a house that is not for rent, the heating cost of the property is 2,000 yuan a year, and you eat and drink 56 1000 a month. We seem to be close to Feng Tang's "financial freedom" of "reading, rolling around, sitting by the river and drinking a cold beer with my beloved". Insurance and travel, it's nothing to spend tens of thousands of dollars a year. Two adults with sound minds and consistent hands and feet can't earn tens of thousands of spare money a year?

However, even if I deeply agree with Feng Tang's calculation method and put it into action, it is inevitable that I will feel drumming in the dead of night, and a kind of "insecurity" still exists. Feng Tang and others live in their own houses and hold100000 in their hands (please forgive my limited imagination,100000 is what I think is "a lot of money"), so they can choose to consider only the basic needs, and this "choice" is the "freedom" part of "financial freedom". People who really have nothing and should focus on their basic needs can't focus on meeting their own basic needs at all. They didn't even bother to get "freedom"!

"In this way, financial freedom has nothing to do with finance to a great extent, but is inevitably intertwined with one's mental insight," Feng Tang concluded. This is also the power of invisible shackles-the shackles of human nature. Just as the netizen replied to Feng Tang's "I know everything, but I can't do it!" ! Even though we (at least in contemporary China) live in the richest, most peaceful, most stable and most developed era in history, we dare not even think about it.

Fascinated by the moon in the sky, I turned a blind eye to the sixpence under my feet. -The Times Literary Supplement's book review of Mao Mu's novel The Chains of Human Nature.

Feng Tang took sixpence on the ground and said, "Financial freedom has nothing to do with finance to a large extent"; You stare at the moon in the sky and sigh, "I know everything, but I can't do it."

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