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It's a real shame that spending your youth fixated on money and a nebulous future retirement doesn't have a price tag attached to it.

You can calculate the opportunity cost of a dollar spent vs a dollar invested, but you cannot so easily calculate the cost of squandering a chance to have a memorable experience while you're still young and unencumbered.

Balance.

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> you cannot so easily calculate the cost of squandering a chance to have a memorable experience while you're still young and unencumbered.

Do people who do the whole "frontload a big hedonistic experience before you start working/living as an adult" actually end up with memorable experiences that often?

It's def good to sprinkle in a few periods or jaunts where you go out there and have a good time. Go for a Euro-trip with some bar crawls, go through a techno rave phase, etc.

Otherwise I'm pretty sure 80%+ of those who don't do it end up being squares in their 30's married to some girl who missed out.

I do know that maybe 20% of people aren't really in to the big party hedonism thing, and that's fine.

> "frontload a big hedonistic experience before you start working/living as an adult"

Absolutely shameful straw man.

How else would you describe a year of hanging out and getting laid in SE Asia hostels then?

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