Vicki Robin

American writer

Vicki Robin (born July 6, 1945) is an American writer and speaker. She is best known as the author of Your Money Or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence.

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"Opinion  Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following" (2022)

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"Opinion  Why this 1992 personal finance book still has a cult following" The Washington post (October 4, 2022)
  • Absent any social or political critique. But “Your Money or Your Life” was never supposed to be just a self-help guide to saving your own financial life.
  • There’s a lot of blather about meaningful work and purpose in life. It’s dangled out as a carrot, and I don’t know how many people actually get to do that.
  • Spending money is not an assertion of your freedom. It is the key to your next enslavement.
  • Nobility is one thing, but to die of frugality is another.
  • Things that should happen because of justice and environmental sustainability, but will also benefit the FIRE people in the FIRE movement.
  • A lot of people are stuck for their entire lives in jobs that do not agree with their souls because of college debt.
  • We need to look as a society at the system that says to succeed you need a college education, but you have to sell your future to get it.
  • I never saw it as a book that’s about giving up things.
  • I was selling outsmarting a system that’s trying to outsmart you.
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