{"id":7033889,"date":"2026-08-08T17:12:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/investing\/theres-a-fake-barefoot-investor-and-hes-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:12:34","slug":"theres-a-fake-barefoot-investor-and-hes-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7033889","title":{"rendered":"There&#039;s a fake Barefoot Investor. And he&#039;s everywhere."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\">My kid&#8217;s teacher pulled me up at school drop-off this week.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;What&#8217;s he done now?&#8221; I asked, bracing myself.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Turns out I was the one in trouble.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;I saw you on the internet advising people to sell everything because of the budget,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">I&#8217;m not even on social media. But there are hundreds of AI-generated posts claiming I am, complete with photos of me looking like a washed-up Blue Heelers extra who never made it out of the pilot episode.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"\n              sqs-block-image-figure\n              intrinsic\n            \"><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" data-stretch=\"false\" data-image=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5eb4889e5e47b4255c41009e\/f0012416-5b17-4331-8a48-c949655094e1\/Picture1.png\" data-image-dimensions=\"549x570\" data-image-focal-point=\"0.5,0.5\" alt=\"\" data-load=\"false\" data-sqsp-image-classic-block-image src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5eb4889e5e47b4255c41009e\/f0012416-5b17-4331-8a48-c949655094e1\/Picture1.png?format=1000w\" width=\"549\" height=\"570\" loading=\"lazy\" data-loader=\"sqs\"><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Honest, Miss!<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Then again, AI isn&#8217;t designed to tell you the truth \u2026 its sole aim is to keep you coming back.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">I know a couple who use ChatGPT as their relationship counsellor. After every fight, they each go to their own bot. And every single time, they&#8217;re told they&#8217;re completely right and their partner is the problem.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Separately, they&#8217;re thriving. Together, they&#8217;re cooked!<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">And we haven&#8217;t just invited AI into the bedroom, it&#8217;s now in our bank accounts. Today ChatGPT is the largest provider of financial advice in the world. More than 200 million people a month ask it for money advice, and last week OpenAI went further: US users can now hand it the keys to their actual accounts and get tailored financial advice. Australia won&#8217;t be far behind.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">My worry is that ChatGPT is like having your bestie do the job:&nbsp; it\u2019ll tell you what you want to hear.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Ask it to validate the hot stock tip your brother-in-law gave you. It&#8217;ll find reasons it could work. Ask it to explain why you deserve a boat. It&#8217;ll build you a spreadsheet. Ask it whether you really need to pay off your mortgage or whether you could just invest the difference in crypto. It will construct a beautifully logical argument for whichever answer you were hoping for.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">It&#8217;s a yes-man with a PhD.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Then again, let&#8217;s look at the alternative: seeing a real financial adviser will cost you five grand, minimum.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">And a lot of people walk out with a template of common sense, and a portfolio so complicated they have no hope of understanding it. Which is exactly the point. Complexity is their job security. That 1% annual fee quietly bleeds you of tens of thousands of dollars a year and almost guarantees you&#8217;ll underperform a simple index fund.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">So you&#8217;re stuck. A bot that flatters you, or an industry that confuses you on purpose.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Well, here&#8217;s the third option.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">After two decades of writing this column, I can tell you the one thing that separates people who build real wealth from everyone else: they made decisions that felt bad in the short term. They knuckled down and saved up for a deposit when the market was flying. They kept their boring low-cost super when crypto was mooning. They said no when every algorithm and influencer said yes.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Build your career. Boost your super. Pay off your home.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">And you don\u2019t need an AI to tell you that.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Tread Your Own Path!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"><strong>Your Questions &amp; Answers<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul data-rte-list=\"default\">\n<li>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"><strong>I will never, EVER read you again<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"><strong>I\u2019m addicted to spending money<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\"><strong>Vale Neale Daniher<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>I will never, EVER read you again<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Scott,<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>I have loyally read your column every week for 20 years. First the sudoku, then straight to you. I&#8217;ve clipped your articles and sent them to my kids and grandkids. Never again.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>You are a socialist. A cheerleader for a lying, thieving government elected on a false premise. This budget is drowning in waste, CGT grabs, attacks on negative gearing, small business owners crushed under red tape while politicians throw other people&#8217;s money around like confetti.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>I&#8217;m 74. I&#8217;ve seen first-hand what profligate politicians do to an economy. You have no idea what these policies will do to this country, or your own children&#8217;s future. You\u2019ve lost me, Scott, and judging by the comments under your article, a hell of a lot of your once loyal readers.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Mick<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Hey Mick,<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Calm your bloody farm!<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">You&#8217;ve been with me 20 years and you&#8217;re calling me a socialist?<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">If you&#8217;ve read me that long, you know I&#8217;m an equal opportunity offender. I&#8217;ve never spruiked a political party in my life, and I&#8217;m not about to start now.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Here is the guts of what I actually said about the Budget:<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Negative gearing, the introduction of the 50% discount on Capital Gains Tax, and falling interest rates combined to price a generation out of the property market. We need to level the playing field.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">The government now wants to tax investment profits the same as workers&#8217; wages.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">And the reaction has bordered on hysteria.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Yet as I showed last week in my column, the changes aren\u2019t actually that radical, and in terms of the new proposal of indexing&nbsp; Capital Gains Tax to inflation, it may work out <em>better<\/em> for investors than the current 50% discount.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Again, I\u2019ve never voted for the Labor Party in my life. I am not in their pocket. It\u2019s just the facts.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Another fact is that these changes (especially the crackdown on distributing income via trusts), is going to mean I pay more tax going forward.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Yet I still think it&#8217;s the right call.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Still, we agree on more than you think, Mick: we both want less waste. Lower taxes. Fewer bureaucrats spending other people&#8217;s money like confetti.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">The question is which party gets us there?<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Well, that&#8217;s between you and the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Keep enjoying the sudoku Mick. Unlike me it&#8217;ll never turn commie on you.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>I\u2019m addicted to spending money<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Scott,<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>I&#8217;m addicted to spending money. Each week I read your replies to people who are married to someone who is reckless with money and you give them advice on how to protect themselves. But it&#8217;s me, I&#8217;m the problem, and my husband has gone to the effort of hiding money from me so I don&#8217;t spend it (thankfully, or we&#8217;d be broke). Is there an &#8220;AA&#8221; for reckless people like me who want to stop but can&#8217;t seem to do it? I\u2019m 37, with a good job (earning $140k). However, like any good addict I have all the best intentions (I&#8217;ve read your book countless times) and think &#8220;just this last purchase&#8221; and then it all slides. I want to stop but I can&#8217;t.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Ellen<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1780274315495_44218\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Hi Ellen,<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">We&#8217;re all addicted to something.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Online shopping, porn, booze, social media, gambling, political outrage. Or in Mick&#8217;s case, sudoku.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Yours is spending, and you&#8217;ve admitted it out loud without dressing it up. That&#8217;s the hardest part.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Here&#8217;s why willpower won&#8217;t fix this: you&#8217;re not weak, you&#8217;re chasing a feeling. The hit, the relief, the &#8220;just this once&#8221; that quietly overrides everything you really want to do. Trying harder doesn&#8217;t rewire that. A good psychologist does. Ask your GP for a referral, someone who works with compulsive or addictive behaviour. CBT is a good starting point.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">There&#8217;s a lot of shame in this kind of cycle. Most people carry it alone. It sounds like your husband is a good man. Let him walk with you.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1780274315495_41245\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Vale Neale Daniher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">There&#8217;s been a lot written about Neale this week. As there should be.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">In a world of mock outrage and fake influencers, Daniher was the real deal. He was the closest thing this country had to a modern-day stoic \u2014 a man who stared down motor neurone disease for more than a decade and chose, every day, to keep fighting.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s something you may not know. He spent his final year not only showing us what true courage looks like, but teaching us: he wrote his last book when his arms, legs and voice had all gone, using eye-gaze technology.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">This week I&#8217;ve been reading it to my sons.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Everyone talks about resilience these days, but Neale actually lived it. And in his final book, he shows you how you can do the same.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Buy a copy of <em>The Power of Choice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Share it with someone you love.<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n<p data-rte-preserve-empty=\"true\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><em>Scott.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My kid&#8217;s teacher pulled me up at school drop-off this week. &#8220;What&#8217;s he done now?&#8221; I asked, bracing myself. Turns out I was the one in trouble. &#8220;I saw you on the internet advising people to sell everything because of the budget,&#8221; she said. I&#8217;m not even on social media. 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