I buy books constantly. For pleasure. For education. For belief correction. For stress relief. Yet, I can't bring myself to buy a book on 401(k)s, IRAs, SEPs, HSAs, et al. because the idea of spending a second of my attention on that shit feels gross.
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"But, it's responsible and you should." Yea. And I will. But everyone with disposable income sticking their cash into tax-sheltered accounts doesn't improve social resource allocation. It just binds political motivations to
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hard to care about the 'responsible' thing when it's so amoral and arguably a net-negative for society. This is why I've never optimized my career for earning potential. I'd rather work on interesting and positive things than make more money, because some things aren't fungible
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I never have before. I've spent my time learning about and trying to build interesting things. Now I live in San Jose and the trade-offs have become stark. Pretty easy to see how the path to fuckery isn't so much indifference but a society-scale treadmill that's hard to hop off.
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(stay tuned for a few more years to see if I'm a sellout.)
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everybody is. I admit it's easier for me to blase because when I was deciding betwen art and AI research back in 2000, both were equally quixotic unpaid, but since then... things have changed. Now I may have friends who are millionaires but I'll never exactly go hungry
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