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gonna be totally honest with you and you can choose to not believe me but nope. For one I like the peace of mind of sticking to my principles more than money se

gonna be totally honest with you and you can choose to not believe me but nope. For one I like the peace of mind of sticking to my principles more than money secondly I already don't know what to do with my money and I make slightly less than 100k. most of my money is spent on books and the occasional dinner out with the spouse and fishing equipment, I genuinely can't make sense what I'd do differently with a million or quadrillion.

telesilla 5y ago
Offer other people the opportunity to enjoy the life you have the privilege to live.
- Barrin92 5y ago
  I don't think doing that through money is a good thing. I actually thought about that a lot when Tony Hsieh died, which probably a lot of people here are familiar with. He was incredibly generous, had the best intentions, but at the end of the day he created dependency relationships. 'Offering' other people a life well lived as if that should be my task and not theirs, and justifying things you otherwise wouldn't do has very big problems. Because you can always take it one step further, it never ends really.
  - necovek 5y ago
    You could start a business and hire people: offering others a chance is not necessarily about just donating money and letting others live as leeches. Basically, anyone who's got kids is trying (struggling?) to impart this very life lesson: it's easiest to just get your kids what they want, but that's not the best way to raise them.
  - fragmede 5y ago
    Sort of. Most relationships have dependencies of some sort, but Tony Hsieh's money allowed him to take it to the next level, and not in a good/healthy way. But there's money and then there's money. Or rather, there's being poor and there's poverty, and money fixes that. If someone is struggling and living paycheck to paycheck because they don't make enough money to live on (minimum wage hasn't been enough to live on for decades), enough money to dig them out of the hole can be literally lifesaving. You can't teach a man to fish if he's dead from starvation.
- EricE 5y ago
  The best way you can do that is by offering as level a playing field as possible, not giving crap away.
amyjess 5y ago
You'd buy long-term financial security with that kind of money. You'd never have to worry that a significant unplanned expense would ruin your life. You come down with a major medical condition and end up with years of major medical expenses? Some drunk driver T-bones you and totals your car? Lose your job and spend a year or two unemployed? House burns down and you still owe the majority of your mortgage? None of those will ever be a concern again if you hold that $100M job for even a year.
- cardanome 5y ago
  As a German these are securities that basically every working citizen here has. Medical expenses -> health insurance Some drunk driver T-bones you and totals your car -> liability insurance is compulsory Lose your job and spend a year or two unemployed -> unemployment insurance is compulsory, you get 60 percent of what you made for one year House burns down and you still owe the majority of your mortgage -> uhg, got us here, we can't afford houses but there is private insurance for that So even though I pay hefty taxes (or because I do), I still end up much richer than a developer in the US. In theory I don't even need to save up money for retirement, as the general pension fund has me covered (though with the current demographic development I don't fully trust that). So I probably don't have a good reason to give up my morality of more money. Have been never tempted though.
  - abfan1127 5y ago
    we have 3 of the 4 things you list here. "developer pay" is pretty broad, so its tough to generalize where you're paid more.
  - amyjess 5y ago
    So one thing people forget about serious illnesses is that it's not just about the cost of medical procedures. It's possible that the only doctors who know how to treat your particular condition are in another city, so there are travel expenses involved. Plus, if your health issues mean you can't work for a long period of time, that can also impact your finances. (for what it's worth, I currently work for a company that makes software offering various kinds of secondary insurance, and I've spent the last few months learning about the kinds of things "cancer insurance" and "accident insurance" are for, and it's been an eye-opener) And as for your car: yeah, liability insurance is compulsory in the US, but it's really painful to be hit by someone who's illegally uninsured. It actually happened to my mom a few years ago—she got lucky, her insurance was willing to pick up the tab, but she could've been on the hook for a lot of money if her insurance punted instead (to be fair, the damage to her car was entirely cosmetic, and her car was still operable, just with a car-sized dent in it).
marvin 5y ago
There’s principles and then there’s principles. Maybe you wouldn’t be willing to sacrifice humans to Kali, but you might still be okay with working in an open-plan office for two years.
brightball 5y ago
You sound like somebody I’d like to hang out with. Props for good life perspective.

telesilla 5y ago

Offer other people the opportunity to enjoy the life you have the privilege to live.

Barrin92 5y ago
I don't think doing that through money is a good thing. I actually thought about that a lot when Tony Hsieh died, which probably a lot of people here are familiar with. He was incredibly generous, had the best intentions, but at the end of the day he created dependency relationships. 'Offering' other people a life well lived as if that should be my task and not theirs, and justifying things you otherwise wouldn't do has very big problems. Because you can always take it one step further, it never ends really.
- necovek 5y ago
  You could start a business and hire people: offering others a chance is not necessarily about just donating money and letting others live as leeches. Basically, anyone who's got kids is trying (struggling?) to impart this very life lesson: it's easiest to just get your kids what they want, but that's not the best way to raise them.
- fragmede 5y ago
  Sort of. Most relationships have dependencies of some sort, but Tony Hsieh's money allowed him to take it to the next level, and not in a good/healthy way. But there's money and then there's money. Or rather, there's being poor and there's poverty, and money fixes that. If someone is struggling and living paycheck to paycheck because they don't make enough money to live on (minimum wage hasn't been enough to live on for decades), enough money to dig them out of the hole can be literally lifesaving. You can't teach a man to fish if he's dead from starvation.
EricE 5y ago
The best way you can do that is by offering as level a playing field as possible, not giving crap away.

amyjess 5y ago

You'd buy long-term financial security with that kind of money. You'd never have to worry that a significant unplanned expense would ruin your life. You come down with a major medical condition and end up with years of major medical expenses? Some drunk driver T-bones you and totals your car? Lose your job and spend a year or two unemployed? House burns down and you still owe the majority of your mortgage? None of those will ever be a concern again if you hold that $100M job for even a year.

cardanome 5y ago
As a German these are securities that basically every working citizen here has. Medical expenses -> health insurance Some drunk driver T-bones you and totals your car -> liability insurance is compulsory Lose your job and spend a year or two unemployed -> unemployment insurance is compulsory, you get 60 percent of what you made for one year House burns down and you still owe the majority of your mortgage -> uhg, got us here, we can't afford houses but there is private insurance for that So even though I pay hefty taxes (or because I do), I still end up much richer than a developer in the US. In theory I don't even need to save up money for retirement, as the general pension fund has me covered (though with the current demographic development I don't fully trust that). So I probably don't have a good reason to give up my morality of more money. Have been never tempted though.
- abfan1127 5y ago
  we have 3 of the 4 things you list here. "developer pay" is pretty broad, so its tough to generalize where you're paid more.
- amyjess 5y ago
  So one thing people forget about serious illnesses is that it's not just about the cost of medical procedures. It's possible that the only doctors who know how to treat your particular condition are in another city, so there are travel expenses involved. Plus, if your health issues mean you can't work for a long period of time, that can also impact your finances. (for what it's worth, I currently work for a company that makes software offering various kinds of secondary insurance, and I've spent the last few months learning about the kinds of things "cancer insurance" and "accident insurance" are for, and it's been an eye-opener) And as for your car: yeah, liability insurance is compulsory in the US, but it's really painful to be hit by someone who's illegally uninsured. It actually happened to my mom a few years ago—she got lucky, her insurance was willing to pick up the tab, but she could've been on the hook for a lot of money if her insurance punted instead (to be fair, the damage to her car was entirely cosmetic, and her car was still operable, just with a car-sized dent in it).

marvin 5y ago

There’s principles and then there’s principles. Maybe you wouldn’t be willing to sacrifice humans to Kali, but you might still be okay with working in an open-plan office for two years.

brightball 5y ago

You sound like somebody I’d like to hang out with. Props for good life perspective.