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If you don’t solve interesting problems, boring problems will solve you. When a boring problem solves you, you turn into a walking cliche. Not a bad outcome. The consolation of a cliche existence is that is sustainable.
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If you solve interesting problems, you create boring problems that try to solve other people and make money for you by turning them into cliches. This will make them mad at you, so you will need a nice mansion to stay away from them in.
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I feel bad for poor people because genuine poverty seems like a truly hard boring problem. I don’t think I’d be able to solve it. Being born middle class and never really dipping below the line into true poverty is like being born a tachyon already moving faster than light.
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It’s genuinely depressing how much of “success culture” rests on formulas for commoditizing fellow humans in some way. I would like to brood over this over dilemma a fine scotch in the oak-paneled library of my future mansion.
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