I don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s an issue that he owns two rental properties. Of course he has investments of one kind or another, that&#x27;s his shtick. Save money, but income-yielding investments, retire. Whether you buy properties or live off the dividends of your XOM shares (or more sensibly, do both) is immaterial.<p>If your point is that it doesn&#x27;t scale because its literally impossible for everyone to have two investment properties -- well, yeah. Frugality doesn&#x27;t scale well. If everyone else stopped buying shit they don&#x27;t need and working more than they needed to, production would go down and yields of all investments would suffer. So it&#x27;s not actually a good idea to persuade everyone to quit buying shit they don&#x27;t need, but it&#x27;s advantageous for every individual to do so.