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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
This question's gauche, but: given the prevalence of $400k++ comp packages for ~30-year-olds in Big Tech, why aren't there lots more "gentle[wo]man scholars"? i.e. people quitting to do non-remunerative creative projects I can think of some, but shouldn't there be thousands?
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Andy Matuschak
@andy_matuschak
We're getting normative here, rather than descriptive, so let me just say that for a few specific individuals whose values I feel I understand, I think it's a failure of teleology. And, to a lesser extent, a failure of self-efficacy—difficulty imagining themselves doing more.
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