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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
this is the kind of thing that makes this whole topic hard to think about and relate to, for me. like i think i a little bit get it. it is obscene. not just a little obscene. really obscene. i could see someone reading this thread and fucking hating my guts
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@aburisotto
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what I’m saying is: if someone gave me $100,000 right now (age 31), it would change my life, and I am not “poor” by any reasonable definition. it’s a little obscene seeing someone treat that amount as having primarily emotional significance.
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
money is literally life and death and for me to just be like "uwu but i have feelings about my parents" is... i get it, okay, it's not uh. not ideal. but it's also the actual situation i'm in right now and nobody benefits from me pretending otherwise
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
it's incredibly fucked up that i could change the lives of like a dozen people if i gave this money away. someone posted a gofundme on here awhile back and i donated $400 anonymously and it maybe lowkey changed their lives and i didn't feel the loss at all. that's retarded
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Raj Thimmiah
@rajlearns
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@QiaochuYuan
in general: what do you care about/what are your values? if you're EA adjacent seems like the optimum would be to figure out how much you need to survive, and out of the remaining donate some consistent percentage
BAM ✈️ EVO/VEGAS
@BamOfThePpl
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@QiaochuYuan
I mean I feel like I often see you discussing a myriad of topics around self growth and discovery. Would love to see you build something of that nature via content or some brand that you could tie back into your altrustic goals. But yeah thats hard to relate to. 1/2
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BAM ✈️ EVO/VEGAS
@BamOfThePpl
However while I am not at the same scale; I recognize the opportunities Ive had in my life are uncommon. There is a burden of responsibility, but I feel you have to learn to break that down and creat for yourself a purpose you can fuel with what youve been given. 2/2
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Sashin 🖊️🌱🌌 (900/2000 kanji 🇯🇵)
@sashintweets
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@QiaochuYuan
I like what the effective altruists have to say about better and worse ways of giving money (although it would be good if they adopted falliblism as a general rule) Like throwing money at against malaria sounds like a very safe thing to do
JayS
@kureshii_
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@QiaochuYuan
Big lump sums of money definitely change your life! The bigger the sum the bigger the change. I'm remembering some reddit post about lottery winners, and how most of the big winners (10M and up) end up bankrupt because of forces unleashed beyond their means to control
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JayS
@kureshii_
Anyway I just wanted to say that what I recall learning from that thread is, if you come into a windfall like that you are absolutely sane to not want to give it away randomly, and to lock it up until you figure out what you want to do with it
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