It's becoming ever harder to be a serious person. Most can't afford and/or don't want 3 signs of serious-personhood: house, retirement, kids
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Ironically, it seems the other 3 are more stable script elements than the job that powers them.
When somebody pays me to research the thesis beyond tweetstorm level? :)
Yeah, I'm considering Patreon-based model for stuff that is more demanding than blog posts, less than full research project.
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kids, house are choices, "retirement" is a reward fewer can expect today for making wise choices. Compressed tweet ambiguity.
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I for example, estimate current odds of being able to meaningfully "retire" at < 50%. Odds are, I'll be scrambling to last yard
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yup, and we can also combat obesity by eating less and exercising more :)
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point is, trading space of vars is becoming too treacherous for a big fraction to tackle. Takes more smarts than most have.
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