> I recently got an email from a hedge-fund trader who said that though he was making millions every year, he felt trapped and empty, but couldn’t summon the co

> I recently got an email from a hedge-fund trader who said that though he was making millions every year, he felt trapped and empty, but couldn’t summon the courage to leave... Maybe we can form a group and confront our addiction together... Let’s create a fund, where everyone agrees to put, say, 25 percent of their annual bonuses into it, and we’ll use that to help some of the people who actually need the money. On that thought, when I first stumbled upon it, I found real value in jefftk's [0] earning to give line of thinking [1]. Since it is Ramdan right now, most Muslims would voluntarily [2] and obligatorily [3] give away a portion of their wealth to the welfare of the others. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20829330 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20829330 [1] https://www.jefftk.com/p/the-privilege-of-earning-to-give https://www.jefftk.com/p/the-privilege-of-earning-to-give [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakat [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadaqah https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadaqah