Fuck-you money is 3 things: a part is just reward for your efforts, a part is hush money from The System, and the rest is the universe just paying you to go away because you're annoying. Reflect on the proportions in your case, ye rich
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bout $40MM what have i revealed about myself
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you grew up middle class, for one thing
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interesting! how’s it follow?
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well am I right?
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not very? it's complicated. as an actual child, i grew up variously living in trailers, with dad doing state prison time, and knowing what ketchup tastes like when it's been watered to stretch it. but one side of the family was solidly middle class, so maybe some osmosis?
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then after my nuclear family went thermonuclear, i was fostered with various people, the preponderance of whom were middle class. after what's supposed to be the formative years, but idk if you're keying in on things like financial knowledge base that more come later.
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i would guess, what, that my actual background would predict an answer of $1MM, and an upper class background would predict something closer to $300MM? me growing up was a long time ago, though, and i do more than most to discard cognitive habits.
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you picked an amount that is enough to live a single (non-intergenerational) extravagant lifestyle. it's an amount of money that seems like, very below critical mass to create intergenerational permanent archon caste fuck you money.
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That might have more to do with socioeconomic status than personality
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SES doesn't influence personality?
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I feel like changes in SES do. But anecdotally, people who are born in and stay in high & low SES seem similar. Differences are mainly in vocabulary/interests. Big 5 traits look similar afaict
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that's a really interesting perspective. I'll have to think on that for a bit.
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wonder if there are data about this maybe changing class requires a certain strong personality and offspring regress hard to the mean
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Yeah. Poor kid becomes a billionaire. Their kids are a little less rich, and so on. Maybe it stabilizes at upper middle class. Might be regression to mean combined with the children competing for money. You don't have 100 kids and give money to just the most competent.
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I'd love some research on this
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