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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
Right! The thing is… that doesn't seem to make this all that impossible? We have a nice condo in SF; our mortgage is ~$3k/mo. But an annuity which would pay that mortgage would only cost ~$600k; one could readily set aside triple that in a few years as a senior eng…
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Travis Northcutt
@tnorthcutt
Wouldn’t it take ~9 years if you set aside all of your take home pay? Assuming net 50% total tax burden, and triple 600k is 1.8M So even if you set aside half of your take home, it’s 18 years, right?
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