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The problem: where are you getting literally any of this from? You’ve hopped up like 4 chains of unfounded assumptions.
by d23 3y ago
The problem: where are you getting literally any of this from? You’ve hopped up like 4 chains of unfounded assumptions.
- ivraatiems 3y agoThis sort of thing happens to people who get windfalls all the time: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lottery-winners-no-happy-ending_uk_5c2f6c40e4b08aaf7a98a41a https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/lottery-winners-no-ha... https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14723441 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna14723441 https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/03/sudden-wealth-can-come-with-serious-emotional-and-financial-challenges.html https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/03/sudden-wealth-can-come-with-... and it coming from a whistleblower award against people you previously worked with will only make it a dozen times worse. This reddit post is a great retelling of the perils that await people who get these kinds of monetary windfalls: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/chb38xf/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/24vo34/comment/c...
- fatfingerd 3y agoOTOH, it is generally the case that the outcome is unpredictable and we like to tell the stories where it is destructive even if in the average case it is overall beneficial. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35824058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35824058