The era of making 10's of billions is over. I never cared about that shit. I'm fine with financial mediocrity, defined as capturing a small percentage of the v

The era of making 10's of billions is over. I never cared about that shit. I'm fine with financial mediocrity, defined as capturing a small percentage of the value delivered to society. At some point, you have to call it enough. Once you can raise a family in good conditions (granted, in New York that's about $500-600k because of the insane cost of living and education) you are a bit nutty if you keep playing the money game. If you genuinely enjoy your job, that's different. But playing the money game beyond upper-middle-class is insane, because (a) the people get worse, and (b) returns diminish. Financial mediocrity is fine. It's really competitive to get into the true upper tier and, even though I'm smarter than the fuckers who are winning that game, they have a 30-year head start on account of being born ruthless assholes, whereas I'd have to learn it. I'm willing to let those assholes have their private jets. Enjoy. What I can't stand for, and never will, is being made to do mediocre work. If you're going to get $2 million out of me each year and pay me only 10% of what I deliver, then fine. We'll do it that way. I won't stand to be assigned mediocre work that is essentially evaluative. If you don't trust me already to do great work from the first day, then I don't trust or like you so get the fuck out of my way.