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Idk if you need to be so cynical about motivation. It takes a lot of money to just quit young and do nothing but what you want. Buy a house, travel, have hobbie

by tayo42 5y ago

Idk if you need to be so cynical about motivation. It takes a lot of money to just quit young and do nothing but what you want. Buy a house, travel, have hobbies, family. You need millions in your back account to do these things. So we continue to work. How much money do you think people are making and how much do you think people need?

david_allison 5y ago
> It takes a lot of money to just quit young and do nothing but what you want No it doesn't. You can do so with very little money, but doing so requires sacrificing other aspects of your life
- tayo42 5y ago
  Expecting people do sacrifice everything kind of goes against this cynical take that people are only working to feed their egos
mym1990 5y ago
There is a large spectrum between quitting young and doing some of the things you want and quitting young and doing nothing but what you want. There are plenty of people that travel in extremely economical ways. People don't have to live in million dollar homes. Most hobbies don't require a 7 figure bank account to maintain over the course of their life. BUT...generally people will come to live at their means(and sometimes above with the abundance of credit in today's world). Ultimately it becomes difficult to back out of a lavish life and the paychecks become the only way to sustain it.
- tayo42 5y ago
  That's not sustainable. You need millions to retire today. That's why people are working. Not to feed their ego like the poster suggests.
  - mym1990 5y ago
    People don't work today so that they can save millions for retirement. Most households are lucky to scrape together thousands in a given year. Most people get to retirement and can barely even make that work. At the higher pay end of the spectrum I am sure SOME people work at FAANGS to say they work at FAANGS, this is just statistics. On a larger scale, I agree, people don't work to flaunt who they work for.

by tayo42 5y ago

david_allison 5y ago

> It takes a lot of money to just quit young and do nothing but what you want No it doesn't. You can do so with very little money, but doing so requires sacrificing other aspects of your life

tayo42 5y ago
Expecting people do sacrifice everything kind of goes against this cynical take that people are only working to feed their egos

mym1990 5y ago

There is a large spectrum between quitting young and doing some of the things you want and quitting young and doing nothing but what you want. There are plenty of people that travel in extremely economical ways. People don't have to live in million dollar homes. Most hobbies don't require a 7 figure bank account to maintain over the course of their life. BUT...generally people will come to live at their means(and sometimes above with the abundance of credit in today's world). Ultimately it becomes difficult to back out of a lavish life and the paychecks become the only way to sustain it.

tayo42 5y ago
That's not sustainable. You need millions to retire today. That's why people are working. Not to feed their ego like the poster suggests.
- mym1990 5y ago
  People don't work today so that they can save millions for retirement. Most households are lucky to scrape together thousands in a given year. Most people get to retirement and can barely even make that work. At the higher pay end of the spectrum I am sure SOME people work at FAANGS to say they work at FAANGS, this is just statistics. On a larger scale, I agree, people don't work to flaunt who they work for.