Bakary

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by Bakary 4y ago
I'll walk back on the five years FAANG claim as I was venting a bit. But let's say you earn $200K (you'd start with less but end up with more at the 5 year mark), $135-165K take home, $105K if you save 70% of your salary. If
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I'll admit 5 years was hyperbolic and unrealistic, perhaps something reserved for the most promising workers at those FAANGs. But if you are 10 years into your FAANG career, you should be earning at minimum in the 300K net/210k ta
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If you are able to get a job at a FAANG, you should also be able to take a look at your expenditures and determine what you actually need in life. Maybe getting a smaller living place will be the stumbling block for most, but think of the f
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If you are paid these absurd 250K+ salaries that does not matter. And it's not like the stock is at zero either
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But there is no actual understanding. The person in question thinks it's a quaint little experience. The part about the food takeout illustrates this well: no comprehension about actually having to do this sort of labor your entire lif
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The lack of self-awareness is the disturbing part, or that the person interviewed failed to understand the actual lesson about the nature of working a shit job for your whole life like those presumed 60 year olds.
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I'm perhaps repeating myself from the other thread but this post angered me more than I expected it to. Other commenters have picked up on it too, but many others seem not to see it. This sort of poverty tourism is actually really twis
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I don't think guilt is helpful, but this logic has some issues. You obviously cannot have everyone be a coder. And becoming a coder takes many intervening steps of which choices are only one factor. Being born in a developed country (h
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The takeaway is more that one of the contributing reasons the world is so dystopian is that people at the top literally have no awareness or understanding or what life is like at the bottom.
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If you work in a FAANG (presumably as some sort of knowledge worker) you have a unique opportunity to never have to work again within just a few years of saving.
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He learned what a grueling job was for a few weeks. He did not learn what it means when that grueling job is your past, present, and/or future. The part about the takeout food seals that impression
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If you are an American SWE or have a corresponding salary, you pretty much only have to work for 10 or so years before retiring, assuming you learn how personal finance works and learn to live without a fancy car or any status-related posse
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I don't understand what you are referring to.
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The important distinction is the much larger financial and professional freedom of the person in question than the Office Space characters
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Perhaps a contributing factor is that when stuck at work you have a limited range of options that don't include passing out whereas at home you have fewer restraints and more competition from the easy solutions
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This is disturbing on a deep level. A person taking on such a job for self-discovery as if it were tourism. Most workers in that warehouse need those jobs, including those 60 year olds the ex-CEO felt sorry for. It reads like a parody of te
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This reminds me of a fairly insightful meme: Tired of looking at Bad screen, can't wait to get home to look at Good screen
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Instead of retire, let's say never having to do something you don't want to do (professionally) at which point you don't need productivity boosts. You just do things you'd do anyway. And if you don't do them, were y
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I'd be interested in hearing your take because you are actively involved in this field. From my perspective outside of it, it seems that it's going to be an absolute bloodbath in terms of opportunities for people to actually live
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Kids/pets are good example as it would make my argument a bit clearer. Today we have a sizeable portion of the population that has no dependents, made good choices (had an education, worked hard etc.) AND is still stuck financially and
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It makes more sense to think of routines as ways to optimize your boring time to make more room for the important things.
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What I don't understand is that with a $400K salary you should easily be able to retire altogether within a few short years, which should completely solve the productivity issue. You wouldn't even have to dial back your lifestyle
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This sort of approach sounds useful on paper. People should indeed make better choices. In reality, however, this solves nothing because we are looking at societal problems as varied and complex as climate change, obesity, rising house pric
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The takeaway here is that there is a middle ground between the 'blackpill' mindset we often hear about online and the reality. The reality is grim, but not grimdark.
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The incentives are all out of whack and there are too many people going into the academic world for the wrong reasons. Competition for funding and resources kills good science.
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The uglier truth is that the median paper doesn't matter and probably won't be cited or read except for other papers that don't matter either.
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Well it depends on the individual. A person might waste their entire life because all those blog posts convinced them that they should work on their "legacy" or some app. Or they might spend years stressing about their productivit
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To counteract this, I've come to realize that actual real-life experiences feel far more fulfilling than any browsing. Now this is of course blindingly obvious, but the not so obvious part is actively modifying your life and trying new
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The HN equivalent of info junk food is entrepreneurial or stoicism or byte-sized wisdom blog posts, Zettelkasten and other productivity methods, articles about specific parts of history that make more claims about these eras than needed, st
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A couple of ideas: - There's increased interest in more personalized or niche experiences and media i.e. small (in a relative sense or not) streamers, videographers, discord servers. The idea of a generational movie is gone. Seems like

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