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Life changing is a moving goal post and it is contextual for the individual. Roughly 10 years ago when I first started in software development I was making ~$4
by ckdarby 6y ago
Life changing is a moving goal post and it is contextual for the individual.
Roughly 10 years ago when I first started in software development I was making ~$40k and thought I had made it and I'd be able to achieve everything I wanted on that amount assuming I just kept up with inflation.
Fast forward, I bought $500 of Basic Attention Tokens at $0.17 and after currency conversion it is over $5k. The money has 10x'ed but in the present I wouldn't describe it as life changing at all. The impact isn't notable at all to the point I'm like, either it goes to $0 or it goes to $50k to be "worthwhile".
It's all percentages. If the author's lifetime earnings were already going to be $5M than $200k might not seem like a life changing amount but anyone's who lifetime earnings are going to be $1M could see that as a life changing amount.
- bryanrasmussen 6y ago>anyone's who lifetime earnings are going to be $1M could see that as a life changing amount. I would define life changing as being able to have kids if you couldn't before, moving to a radically different environment than before, or being able to stop working if you were working before. So probably it needs to double what you were expected to make without it.