Just don’t work bro! Problem solved!
Don't Waste the Good Days
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#122Or you just need to work because otherwise you will starve and/or become homeless.
A lot of the responses which suggest everyone needs "endless schedule free time as a right" miss this point - either they, or someone else, is supporting their need to eat, sleep, and provide.
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#123I feel like there is wisdom in "Make hay while the sun shines." When you're young and unencumbered by responsibility and family, when your cognitive abilities are at their peak, when your energy is endless, when your body is strong and healthy, when your knees work, and your fingers can type without arthritis: that's the optimal time to work and earn. Min-max that salary and stay healthy. Due to compounding interest,…
> Life isn't short--it's LONG
This was true until I was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
It's possible to over prepare and not see the fruits of your labour.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
How did you get the visa to stay in Bali for 8 years? Genuine question. What nationality are you?
You only need 1Bn IDR (~$70k USD) for an investor visa. I would hope if you're planning to take an entire year off - you have AT LEAST $70k net wealth...
Do you need to actually pay/invest or just show that you own your 70k?
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can everybody earn a year off after working hard? No, because this is privilege. To be born in a rich country. To have family structure to study and go to college, to have a stable job and a successful career after graduation. To be lucky enough to choose a career that is in demand. Or to open a business that is successful. People underestimate A LOT how much of a role luck plays in successful careers. Sure hard work…
I think “privilege” is just the excuse used by people who aren’t willing to work hard, aren’t willing to put the extra time into learning a new skill, or aren’t willing to acknowledge that they didn’t get blessed genetically. It’s easier to create some label and blame everything on that. “Oh, I’m not rich at age 30. Must be privilege.” “Oh, I got passed over for that promotion. Must be their privilege”. People need t…
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#126People look at me like I’m insane when I tell them I’m packing up and taking a year off. I’ve f’in had enough. And that’s me, the wife and our two kids- not quite school age. No I haven’t FIREd. No I’m probably passing up a raise and a promo (or maybe not). Super linear growth requires super linear decision making. You either follow the sheeple or decide enough is enough and make some drastic change. Im not getting t…
You are likely smart and skilled enough to not ever die of hunger. Have faith and take the leap. Things work out, like they always do.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can everybody earn a year off after working hard? No, because this is privilege. To be born in a rich country. To have family structure to study and go to college, to have a stable job and a successful career after graduation. To be lucky enough to choose a career that is in demand. Or to open a business that is successful. People underestimate A LOT how much of a role luck plays in successful careers. Sure hard work…
I think “privilege” is just the excuse used by people who aren’t willing to work hard, aren’t willing to put the extra time into learning a new skill, or aren’t willing to acknowledge that they didn’t get blessed genetically. It’s easier to create some label and blame everything on that. “Oh, I’m not rich at age 30. Must be privilege.” “Oh, I got passed over for that promotion. Must be their privilege”. People need t…
> Not everyone can take a year off, the world is unfair, and some people will live better lives than others.
This is literally what privilege means. It's not an insult.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
What you choose to be a fulfilling pursuit is what you should get to do. For some, that's surfing. For others, that's building a rocket to Mars. My point is that ideally we build a society where as many people as possible get to choose what they find fulfilling, and pursue it as much as they wish. The problem we have right now is that opportunity, training, and investment for many things are restricted to the very fe…
> My point is that ideally we build a society where as many people as possible get to choose what they find fulfilling, and pursue it as much as they wish. But then what of the work that nobody wishes to pursue, but is required? Like farming for food, generating electricity and water, and many of the modern comforts? I'm sure everybody wishes to pursue their own passion, regardless of the value of that passion to _so…
Automate that work as much as possible and richly reward those who pursue it.
One of the oddities of modern work is that the lowest paid jobs are mostly those nobody wants to do.
Sure, we're not at replicator level, but farming of many crops require far fewer people than many imagine.
Personally I find that many things that could be automated are not yet automated because humans are cheaper. Think cashier, waiter/waitress, and so on.
In white collar work land, an amazing number of jobs could be automated, but are not yet because it's cheaper to use humans. These are the people who essentially just move numbers from one computer to another with a small amount of work in between.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point of society shouldn't be that everyone is so hedonistic the highlight in their day is surfing. If you're a mother or a father, if you have a church to go to, if you have relatives, if you're part of a political organization or a community you can't just make your own schedule. This isn't bad, it means that you're an adult. If everyone lived this Peter Pan lifestyle we wouldn't have anything you'd call a civi…
> we'd just have a bunch of grown up kids. …and?
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> I'd have played fewer video games, traveled less, and relaxed on the beach less. This seems totally opposite of what old people say on their death bed. You sound so obsessed with money here. My guess is your probably very wealthy relative to the average peer and your too naive to realize it. You have to keep telling yourself this philosophy to justify not wind surfing in Bali. You think your gonna wind surf when yo…
Old people on their death bed are telling us what they want to do now, couched as what they would have wanted to do. But they made the decisions they did for reasons that seemed good at the time, and it might well be that they'd make the same ones. Wishing things were different is not the same as a plan to make them different. Or, as I've said about this before: why worry about what death-bed you wants? That person l…
That's funny, and a good point. Although I think the whole deathbed thing is more of a framework for figuring out what you want, now, without over-prioritizing preparing for the future