A nice thing about working purely for money is that your net worth is actually a reasonable proxy for your actual worth to society. It’s sort of like a Markov process state that encodes all salient information about you. Nobody needs to know your whole history to know your worth.
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The opposite is someone whose visible worth is near zero unless you read their biography. A very non-markov process person. A life that can only be rolled out for others to mentally simulate/identify with via a story, but not rolled up to an instrumental measure.
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The ideal investor vs the ideal diarist. Sufficient statistic vs true random number.
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So like Bezos vs. Mozart? Or am I missing something here?


