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• rufus_foreman 5y ago
  Still not getting it. I eat, I breathe and I work. If I stop eating, I die. If I stop breathing, I die. If I stop working...life goes on the same as before. I currently live off of 4% of my net worth per year. If I decide not to go back to work on Tuesday, I could live for another year, or another decade or another half century. How is that the same as eating and breathing?
  • coolgeek 5y ago
    > I currently live off of 4% of my net worth per year What percentage of the population do you think can do that? This thread is about WalMart and McDonalds employees. The vast majority of them can't go a month without an income source (a paycheck). Zero percent of them can live off 4% of their net worth per year
    • rufus_foreman 5y ago
      I was one of those type of employees, worked fast food jobs for years, did manual labor for half a decade. To go from that to where I am now is hard, but it is not "learn to live without food or air" type hard.
      • coolgeek 5y ago
        Some things you might want to look in to: - https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/typical-mind-fallacy https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/typical-mind-fallacy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
        • rufus_foreman 5y ago
          I can link to wikipedia pages too. This does not constitute an actual argument.