Being fair, most people making $400k/year, specifically, probably work long hours at difficult work to earn it. So its not so much 'no matter what.' Its "so long as I keep slaving away at this job regardless of its effect on my psyche."
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right, and also "work long hours" implies other costs : nanny, cleaning service, etc.
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I was thinking about this as I fell asleep and it also occurred to me it might just be about what you can buy. If you live in New York you’re constantly hit in the face with homes that rent for 100k a month or cars that are 300k, so you feel poor since you can’t afford em
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Comparison is the thief of joy. That may be the ONE thing the Commies get right. High levels of wealth/income inequality that are highly visible seems to fuck with human hedonics. And this can manifest in very negative ways both psychologically and socially.
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I’ve been thinking about that lately also and one of the things that weirds me out about it is the whole “its fucked up that the rich are fat while workers starve thing” is totally true but also no one ever seemed to say “it’s fucked up that Stalin is fat while peasants starve.”
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I've been thinking about inequality a lot lately a distant family member totally ruined his life with bad decisions. Squandered life savings of $200k in the most retarded manner you can possibly imagine (
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where "rescue" means "spend $20k to apply metaphorical tourniquets and ensure that he's not homeless" but having done that, we're letting him survive on his own Social Security and pension, which ... is fine. Acceptable middle class life in a 1 bedroom apartment. HOWEVER >>>
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it really is something to contrast his SS annual income to our absolute-peak-earning-years-two-professionals-employed household income. It's like a 10:1 ratio. And the ratio of our net worth (even tho we're just middle class, not rich) is a divide-by-zero-error bc his = $0
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as a heartless ancap / gray tribe / blue hat autist, I am entirely comfortable with "I didn't inherit $1 ; I earned every single thing I own, and I deferred a !@# -ton of consumption to achieve this, so go !@# yourself" ...but there IS a human reaction too that thinks "unfair!"
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I am willing to accept the premise of "unfairness" but simple response is "not in any way I am morally obligated to remedy." i.e. my wealth wasn't stolen. But I'm open to workable solutions to reduce the unfairness without, you know, crashing this civilization with no surivors.
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>I am willing to accept the premise of "unfairness" but simple response is "not in any way I am morally obligated to remedy." i.e. my wealth wasn't stolen. exactly however, my suggestion is that we have two agents in our heads - the rational market one & a pre-rational tribal
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Agreed, but I think even my rational brain can accept "A % of my success is thanks to some luck in genetics (+ a little environment), geography, and 'accidental' opportunities" that others missed. Its the tribal brain that wants to only compare UPWARDS rather than downwards.
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