Quit Your Job
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Quit Your Job
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#2I wish I could, still paying student and car loans and rent and utilities bills, insurance, food
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#3I'm sure that's all awesome if you can afford to live without income, but what about everyone else?
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#4This is a very long article, and nowhere in it do I see how this guy supported himself after quitting his engineering job. He talks about a few vague references to situations that may be freelance paid gigs, but no specifics.
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#5I'm conflicted by this article. I'm sympathetic to it, but some things just really push past my BS meter. For example:
>This is related to why man became stunted with the dawn of agriculture. We traded a life limited by the occasional violent struggle over bountiful surplus for a more predictable life limited by grinding labor after barely sufficient nutrition.
Firstly, "man" or humanity did all of their greatest work after the dawn of agriculture. Before agriculture, life wasn't bountiful. It was short and harsh. It's easy to see something good and say "well we became complacent" - well, sure, we became complacent because life got better. There's a certain type of public intellectual in our society who says things that sort of intuitively feel like they should be right, but if you actually stop and think about the explanations, you soon realise they're talking rubbish. I don't even think the conclusion is necessarily wrong, I just think the parallel it is drawing is really bad.
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#6I'm sure that's all awesome if you can afford to live without income, but what about everyone else?
That's what I was thinking. Obviously I don't know the situation of this guy but from my experience a lot of people who preach this stuff (or minimalism) either have already made a lot of money or have parents who can support them when things don't work out. It's much harder to jump into the unknown if you know nobody will catch you.
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#7In 2022 who still uses the term "courting"?
I feel like it's a term used by somebody from the Edwardian era who needs a refill on their moustache wax.
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#8I thought this fairy tale died with Peter thiels quit college for $100k disaster.
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#9"Never code in any language except Assembly. You should never willingly give up any control over your computer" - Wolf Tivy, probably
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#10I'm sure that's all awesome if you can afford to live without income, but what about everyone else?
Just choose richer parents, duh.