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You'll spend around 90,000 hours at work in your lifetime. Much of what you earn leaks straight back out.
Malthe Harslof · 18 July 2026

You'll spend around 90,000 hours at work in your lifetime. Much of what you earn in those hours leaks straight back out.
And if you're the type who actually pays attention to your finances, who reads, compares fees, thinks about tax, here's the uncomfortable part: it's leaking from your bucket too.
Through things no single person can track at once: tax that shifts by region and by year, fees buried three layers deep, reliefs you qualified for and never claimed, cash sitting idle, cover you pay for twice. In the mass-affluent households we see, that leak runs €3,000 to €6,000 a year, even for the people paying close attention.
And it compounds. A €6,000 annual leak, invested instead at long-run market returns, is close to €100,000 over a decade. 90,000 hours to earn it. €100,000 slipping out the bottom.
Even for financially literate households, the gap is visibility. Knowing the theory is one thing. Seeing and acting on your own numbers is another.
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