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Jeff, a 38-year-old Seattle software engineer, called The Ramsey Show to ask whether buying a $25,000 sailboat to live aboard qualifies as a financial mistake.
He came to the question with about $800,000 invested in a brokerage account, $100,000 in cash, additional cryptocurrency holdings, and about $220,000 in software income earned last year.
Underneath the boat question sat a harder one: he believes artificial intelligence will eliminate his software job within five years.
The numbers behind the question Jeff sold his Seattle home in March after what he described as a difficult experience that cost him an estimated $85,000.
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