As you age, revenues and costs of life both go up. Amounts that seem life-changing at 18-22 seem like they'd barely cause a ripple at 40
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Just got email abt a $3k student scholarship from org I belonged to 13y ago. 3k summer thing=life changer at 19. Would take 300k for me now
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Your life inertia can be measured by the amount of money it would take now to steer it as decisively as 3k could, sophomore summer year.
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Loosely speaking. But I suppose other things might qualify. Like getting treatment for a serious condition.
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I think you kill yourself, and then it stabilizes at zero.
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Which is why if you could fix it, that would be as much a life changer as a conscious path change.
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. Not sure it's revenues and costs that create the inertia. Also a function of habit combined with fear. Change is emotionally harder
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buddy, buddy.....you haven't tasted the 1% of it....wait till kids enter the picture....
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This has a strong assumption of upper middle class + high levels of happiness. Miserables in mid-life crises could steer for nothing.



