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Having a comfortable, stable job for many years sounds like the worst version of hell one could possibly invent for people who live like I do. There are better
by sneak 3y ago
Having a comfortable, stable job for many years sounds like the worst version of hell one could possibly invent for people who live like I do.
There are better things to aspire to than predictability whilst making someone else rich.
- pjc50 3y agoThis view may change as you get older and "unpredictability" starts to mean more negative experiences.
- jebarker 3y agoPerhaps his aspirations had nothing to do with his day job?
- junon 3y agoOnly if you don't have other aspirations in life. My day job is solely to fund my personal projects that I actually enjoy. Not everyone is out to be insanely rich.
- sneak 3y agoIf you fairly profit from your direct efforts in a lifelong career as a productive programmer, you will merely become rich, not insanely so. You appear to have constructed a strawman. Making someone else rich is the objection.
- junon 3y agoNo, perhaps I was too subtle. My point is I don't care about the fact I might be making someone else rich. Life isn't about coming out ahead of everyone else you interact with. Some people simultaneously understand your point, and also don't care about it. Only within your own subjective opinion do you think they must.
- lawn 3y agoYour imagination is lacking. Having no job or income and having to worry about how to afford food or rent is surely much worse than "just" having a stable job. Or how about a super stressful job, like the Japanese salarymen who are literally killing themselves?