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He started his own consultancy.
Dozen or so years later he's pulling in mid 6 figures by himself working 40-60h a month at home.
Do the same. Have skills, learn to sell them.
My thought is that this virus will have passed through the world, one way or another, in 4-8 months. After that, the world reverts back to what it was doing. My point is that this is no underlying weakness in the global economy. It's more like a slow moving natural disaster. I'll admit I don't feel super confident that this is how things work. Happy to be corrected!
Sorry, I don't want to be too negative but I find your sentiment very naive and self-centred. If you're well off now you'll be fine. If you're decently off in a wealthy country you'll be fine too. If you're one of the precariously employed and healthcare-less workers in a country like the US you will suffer and might die. If you are a precariously employed person in a poor country you'll watch many friends and family…
But I was only trying to think about the economic consequences for the survivors, after whatever is to come is over.
I'd recommend learning about markets and economics. My suspicion is that states will continue to implement all steps necessary to contain the virus over the next 18 months and bail out all businesses and consumers in order to keep the productivity of the economy close to the level prior to the outbreak. Depending on how difficult it will be to contain the virus, this might require funds on an unprecedented scale in m…
Math and physics carried me through two recessions so far. I never got rich, but also never poor.
It's a bit of a tangent, but do you have any advice on how to self-learn math? I'd like to complete some CLEP classes so I can meet the prerequisites for a CS program, but it's tough to learn on my own.
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what is $10MMM? that doesn't exist
M is "thousand". MM is "thousand thousand", which is "million", and a fairly common shorthand. I haven't really seen it, but its pretty clear then that MMM is meant to be "thousand thousand thousand", i.e., billion.
Why didn't you write 500M cars as well? Could it be that it's a stupid convention?
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Add CS to Math and Physics, and you’ll go through the next one very rich
Could you expand on that? In which fields would you work with these skills to earn good money?
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Add CS to Math and Physics, and you’ll go through the next one very rich
Oddly enough I kinda bet on the wrong side of that, long ago. I graduated from high school in 1982. I had learned to program, and my mom was teaching intro CS at a nearby community college. She actually thought that math was too easy to spend 4 years in college learning it, and her students were getting jobs after a year of training in her course. So I majored in math, and added physics because the added course requi…
What kind of physics? Big banks on wall st hire(atleast used to) pure physics phds and train them to do quantitative analysis for finance
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Could you expand on that? In which fields would you work with these skills to earn good money?
Will add more in a bit, but mainly data scientist in Big Tech and Finance. At the right firms/teams your salary will grow much faster than linear in time
Thanks in advance
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This reads like someone unleashed GPT2 on a bunch of CNBC interviews with a bunch of hedge fund managers making the case for why their portfolio deserves a "fair share" of the bailout pie.
> This reads like someone unleashed GPT2 on a bunch of CNBC interviews with a bunch of hedge fund managers making the case for why their portfolio deserves a "fair share" of the bailout pie. I am struggling to see why you think that, since I don't watch CNBC and was not thinking of hedge funds or the stock market at all when I wrote the above post. I didn't get into what I think should happen, which is this: - immedi…
I also expect to see a change in perception in the US to thinking that any civilized society that wishes to keep running needs to have a comprehensive health care system, a social safety net for basic income and housing, and a trusted set of expert institutions.