>If your earning value will only go up, why not borrow money now and get accustomed to the type of life you want to be living.
>If your earning value will only go up,
> If
Jobs phase out. You get soft, sick, or were never really good in the first place. Younger smarter people replace you.
Seems to me that in your case it wouldn't be too hard.
Second, you might have a point but the math become a double edged sword. It also depends how you weight different non monetary stats like education level and earning capacity.
X earning Rate ^ Y Earning Time. Transferring those to Q Spending Rate and R Spending time
You could argue that the minimal real savings of your shitty twenties will be counterbalanced by boosts in your later life.
However from a risk. perspective You risk a few things. Opportunity cost. You may never obtain the correct skills to save or your meager early savings form the foundation of your investments. The decisions of small hardship and meager sacrifice will help you make difficult decisions when the hardship is significant and the sacrifices truly painful.
The real question is why aren't you working hard now?
And what are you trading the money for, how are you coming out ahead? What timeframe does this alternative investment create returns in?
Frankly, your ideas about great wealth are likely small. Once you start thinking big. You realize how little time you have and that the consequences of your spending through the aeons are multiplied greatly. How long are your investment threshholds and how much do they cost now vs 200 or 500 years from now.
The way of the wealthy is measured. You must be able to react at all times to an ever changing world.
In this day and age everyone starts saving somewhere and likely at 0 or less.
Capitalists Require Capital to Capitalize on opportunity.
The decisions and number opportunities to save get harder as you grow older.
There is a wide gap between frugal and cheap.