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I was lucky enough to already have a partially remote job before the pandemic and it was already six figure paying. Now after the pandemic what few investments

I was lucky enough to already have a partially remote job before the pandemic and it was already six figure paying. Now after the pandemic what few investments I had all blew up into the 7 figure range. I told my boss at our last one on one that once we are required to be back I'm putting in my two week notice. It's not because I don't want to work. It's because I don't want to work in the city where he chose to locate our office. I grew up, went to college, and spent my early career on the east coast so when covid hit I realized I'd be stuck there forever if I didn't gtfo now. So I did. I moved to Hawaii and I've never been healthier or more fit in my life. Going back to the east coast just to get seasonal depression for 5-6 months a year is just off the table now. This whole thing has also shown me how working for a wage paycheck to paycheck even at six figures is basically slavery. You might get lucky and your 401k might grow in value but chances are you won't be able to retire till your 50s. It turns out that capital is everything. Covid has shown us all that you might still die young so why work instead of enjoying life?

atweiden 5y ago
> This whole thing has also shown me how working for a wage paycheck to paycheck even at six figures is basically slavery. I retired at 30 and have done nothing but travel the world developing open source software since then. I have little to no possessions, and nothing tying me to any geographic area aside from a preference for clean air and such. To your point, in my travels I’ve rarely come across anyone working a job out of anything other than financial necessity. Only a small fraction of people seem to do what they do out of genuine passion. Much more often, artistic, well-natured people are toiling away on menial tasks for money because that’s what it takes for them to survive. > It turns out that capital is everything. The gains from this are disproportionately accruing to billionaires while most people add almost nothing to the total output in exchange for cash and at the cost of much of their waking hours. These bullshit jobs are costing people time they’ll never get back, for dubious societal gains in many cases, while also depleting us of creative energy on an unbelievable scale. Meanwhile, because of the dog-eat-dog nature of our existence, it seems as if there are only two viable paths for most people to achieve “freedom”: either you can withdraw deep into the proverbial jungle, or exploit the underexploited. A staggering amount of what passes for “industry” today is essentially just strip mining our planet of its natural resources, and/or converting it to food in whichever way using as inhumane of a process as is allowed by our current legal systems. The remainder of profitable human activities are by and large facilitating the dominion’s continuity, or quaint distractions from our highly cancerous existence.
PascLeRasc 5y ago
Congratulations! Thanks for sharing.

atweiden 5y ago

> This whole thing has also shown me how working for a wage paycheck to paycheck even at six figures is basically slavery. I retired at 30 and have done nothing but travel the world developing open source software since then. I have little to no possessions, and nothing tying me to any geographic area aside from a preference for clean air and such. To your point, in my travels I’ve rarely come across anyone working a job out of anything other than financial necessity. Only a small fraction of people seem to do what they do out of genuine passion. Much more often, artistic, well-natured people are toiling away on menial tasks for money because that’s what it takes for them to survive. > It turns out that capital is everything. The gains from this are disproportionately accruing to billionaires while most people add almost nothing to the total output in exchange for cash and at the cost of much of their waking hours. These bullshit jobs are costing people time they’ll never get back, for dubious societal gains in many cases, while also depleting us of creative energy on an unbelievable scale. Meanwhile, because of the dog-eat-dog nature of our existence, it seems as if there are only two viable paths for most people to achieve “freedom”: either you can withdraw deep into the proverbial jungle, or exploit the underexploited. A staggering amount of what passes for “industry” today is essentially just strip mining our planet of its natural resources, and/or converting it to food in whichever way using as inhumane of a process as is allowed by our current legal systems. The remainder of profitable human activities are by and large facilitating the dominion’s continuity, or quaint distractions from our highly cancerous existence.

PascLeRasc 5y ago

Congratulations! Thanks for sharing.