HAH! This is so true. On entry into undergrad I think I would have predicted my wage at retirement as a bit more than my parents made (so, say, 60-80k) but not, like, 100k. By graduation I had realized I might make 100k by retirementhttps://twitter.com/patio11/status/1115786704432979969 …
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A huge portion of that exercise was “This number looks stupid high, higher than anyone in my extended family and anyone at school except the people working in or descended from finance.” The Internet is the best thing that ever happened, exhibit #58363.
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To spell out for peanut gallery the subtext to this conversation: Kevin and I were in a position of informational disadvantage early in career. I think that mechanisms like e.g. HN distribute accurate information much more widely than the silos that existed in 2004 did.
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That was also when I was doing that math; it felt like a pretty reasonable best case prediction
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