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Or maybe the smartest people have decided money isn’t everything?

by elliekelly 3y ago

ada1981 3y ago
People with the highest IQs tend to NOT be the highest income earners, likely for this reason.
- 1024core 3y ago
  That's how I console myself.... ;-D
mitthrowaway2 3y ago
Money isn't everything. Time is. For someone currently earning $225,000 this would save them a thousand years of hard work. A thousand years. You don't have to think money is everything to understand how earning $225 million in a short time will help you with all the things you do care about, whether it's retiring early, spending time with kids, supporting charity, pursuing hobbies, doing independent research, or taking care of aging parents.
- __pache__ 3y ago
  Lol, you can spend plenty of time on what you want without millions .. come on! Especially if you have a cozy 200k 40hr/wk 6 weeks of vacation blah blah blah gig
  - mitthrowaway2 3y ago
    I don't have a cozy 200k 40hr/wk 6 weeks of vacation gig. Would be nice! I'm at about a sixth of that myself, on much longer hours, but I don't work at Google. But even if I did, it wouldn't let me retire within 5 years and still have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of my life, work on whatever I feel like without ever worrying about making money from it, put my kids through university, buy a house next to my aging parents, with a nice garden space for my wife, have a garage, build a machine shop in the garage just to tinker on the things I've always wanted to, spend my weekday hours going on walks and reading books and camping in the countryside, being a stay-at-home dad, hire a tutor for myself, maybe run a high-risk hardware startup without spending my time pleading with investors or worrying about my family's future in the case of inevitable failure, hire people to help with tasks I struggle to do and pay them well to do it, and still have leftover change to maybe buy a new MRI machine for my local hospital or fund a homeless shelter. Even $200k would be awesome and get rid of a lot of major stresses and uncertainties like being able to afford my own place to live and a spare bedroom for the kid and worrying out about finding my next paying contract. It would give me "plenty" of time, but not all of my time, not even half of it. I'd still need to keep working most of my daylight hours for most of my healthy years. Honestly, with a $225 million compensation package, I don't see how someone like Sundar could have any long-term incentives whatsoever. He's set for life and won't be hungry for anything, regardless of how Google performs.
    - __pache__ 3y ago
      Err, I thought time was important? Now you're listing off all of this stuff you don't really need... Take it from a multi millionaire: it's not that cool. You already have everything you need and more, probably. Start appreciating it.. You sound jealous?
      - mitthrowaway2 3y ago
        >> You don't have to think money is everything to understand how earning $225 million in a short time will help you with all the things you do care about, whether it's [list of options]
        __pache__ 3y ago
        Well yeah? So will 225k as an engineer vs 25k as a bus boy. Life can still be great. How much money you make isn't really all that important, I'm happy to inform you. No need to be jealous, count your own blessings!
        mitthrowaway2 3y ago
        I'm very happy, because my wife is a wonderful person and I love my family, and that's what matters most. Wish we could provide our kids with their own bedroom, but still, life is good. But sorry, wait, that has nothing to do with what we are talking about. I was answering why money, despite not being everything, enables one to spend their time much more freely, and I would gladly invest a few years playing CEO of Alphabet to get back far more time than that over the remaining 40 years of my lifespan, and you are arguing in favour of... declining that job, because money isn't everything?
        __pache__ 3y ago
        For all intents and purposes you likely have more free time than the CEO. No one sane wants the responsibility: that's why it's so valuable. It's not evil. Glad you're counting you're blessings, now you can stop worrying about CEOs!

Or maybe the smartest people have decided money isn’t everything?

ada1981 3y ago

People with the highest IQs tend to NOT be the highest income earners, likely for this reason.

1024core 3y ago
That's how I console myself.... ;-D

mitthrowaway2 3y ago

Money isn't everything. Time is. For someone currently earning $225,000 this would save them a thousand years of hard work. A thousand years. You don't have to think money is everything to understand how earning $225 million in a short time will help you with all the things you do care about, whether it's retiring early, spending time with kids, supporting charity, pursuing hobbies, doing independent research, or taking care of aging parents.

__pache__ 3y ago
Lol, you can spend plenty of time on what you want without millions .. come on! Especially if you have a cozy 200k 40hr/wk 6 weeks of vacation blah blah blah gig
- mitthrowaway2 3y ago
  I don't have a cozy 200k 40hr/wk 6 weeks of vacation gig. Would be nice! I'm at about a sixth of that myself, on much longer hours, but I don't work at Google. But even if I did, it wouldn't let me retire within 5 years and still have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of my life, work on whatever I feel like without ever worrying about making money from it, put my kids through university, buy a house next to my aging parents, with a nice garden space for my wife, have a garage, build a machine shop in the garage just to tinker on the things I've always wanted to, spend my weekday hours going on walks and reading books and camping in the countryside, being a stay-at-home dad, hire a tutor for myself, maybe run a high-risk hardware startup without spending my time pleading with investors or worrying about my family's future in the case of inevitable failure, hire people to help with tasks I struggle to do and pay them well to do it, and still have leftover change to maybe buy a new MRI machine for my local hospital or fund a homeless shelter. Even $200k would be awesome and get rid of a lot of major stresses and uncertainties like being able to afford my own place to live and a spare bedroom for the kid and worrying out about finding my next paying contract. It would give me "plenty" of time, but not all of my time, not even half of it. I'd still need to keep working most of my daylight hours for most of my healthy years. Honestly, with a $225 million compensation package, I don't see how someone like Sundar could have any long-term incentives whatsoever. He's set for life and won't be hungry for anything, regardless of how Google performs.
  - __pache__ 3y ago
    Err, I thought time was important? Now you're listing off all of this stuff you don't really need... Take it from a multi millionaire: it's not that cool. You already have everything you need and more, probably. Start appreciating it.. You sound jealous?
    - mitthrowaway2 3y ago
      >> You don't have to think money is everything to understand how earning $225 million in a short time will help you with all the things you do care about, whether it's [list of options]
      - __pache__ 3y ago
        Well yeah? So will 225k as an engineer vs 25k as a bus boy. Life can still be great. How much money you make isn't really all that important, I'm happy to inform you. No need to be jealous, count your own blessings!
        mitthrowaway2 3y ago
        I'm very happy, because my wife is a wonderful person and I love my family, and that's what matters most. Wish we could provide our kids with their own bedroom, but still, life is good. But sorry, wait, that has nothing to do with what we are talking about. I was answering why money, despite not being everything, enables one to spend their time much more freely, and I would gladly invest a few years playing CEO of Alphabet to get back far more time than that over the remaining 40 years of my lifespan, and you are arguing in favour of... declining that job, because money isn't everything?
        __pache__ 3y ago
        For all intents and purposes you likely have more free time than the CEO. No one sane wants the responsibility: that's why it's so valuable. It's not evil. Glad you're counting you're blessings, now you can stop worrying about CEOs!