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** According to Long John, who got married and opened an inn, every other member of Flint's original crew did this. He gives advice to a new recruit on how not to.
* Candide in Voltaire's ''[[Candide]]'' gets fabulously rich at the midpoint of the story. He then proceeds to lose the money in various ways and has only the tiniest fraction left at the end, just enough to buy a farm and become an ordinary peasant.
* This was a common reason to get Jack Aubrey back to sea in the early [[Aubrey-Maturin]] books - he'd bring home prize money at the end of a book, and will have spent it all by the beginning of the next book. Once Aubrey's fortune was stable and secure, he tried to help his crews avert the same boom-bust cycle with mixed success.
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