Ben Stein still doesn’t think it’s a good idea for you to “run out of money before you run out of breath,” but assuming you have a little extra, he highly recommends you use it to buy stuff—now. Life is short, he writes in Fortune, and “if we want to have the things we have always wanted, maybe we should get them now, while we still have enough life and vitality to enjoy them.”
The once overly-frugal Stein learned the art of saving from his parents—who left the US Treasury “a meaningful windfall when they passed into economists’ heaven,” leading Stein to wonder, “is it prudent to deny oneself joy in this very short and scarce thing called life?” If there's a good chance that "spending money now will reduce you to cat food (the most revolting of all smells) when you are old," stop reading now. If not, know that “the Cobalt or Corvette you have when you are able to feel the wind rushing through your hair without a nurse's aide sitting next to you is worth quite a lot.”
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