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Considering the average salary of a neurosurgeon in the US is $565,882 to $988,473, and he did that for 10 years, I’d say it’s safer to say that trading your life really quickly for lots and lots of money and then fucking off to the mountains with a couple mil in the bank beats “good and respectable” any day.
Yep sounds like a great “get overpaid then take early retirement” story.
Lots of bankers and other overpaid people can do this type of thing too.
This lifestyle doesn’t seem sustainable if scaled to any meaningful share of the current population.
3 days work, 4 days off is the sweet spot for me. Engage in wage slavery as little as you can get away with.
I only make enough to cover rent with 200-300€ left over each month to spend on food and other things, but I can keep myself entertained on very little.
Having more money wouldn’t be worth spending an extra day each week getting exploited.Theres a lot of psychology that goes into schedules like that that I feel goes (deliberately?) Underresearched/underrepresented or something.
When I was working 5 days 8 hour shifts with weekends off, I was phoning in sick every time I could afford it, and would refuse Saturday shifts every time unless I was desperate for the money.
When I was working 3 on 3 off 12 hour shifts, I often ended up working 21 days straight accepting all the overtime. The fact that the next “weekend” was never more than 3 days away really made the work tolerable.
Respectable and if you can live a happy and healthy life like that then I’m jealous. I’d give anything to quit this shit outside of killing myself (still too afraid to do it).
Homesteading is incredibly hard work, though.
“if you don’t want to work, then that becomes your job”
I genuinely enjoy working to directly better my situation. It’s completely different from being exploited to keep enough points in a bank account to survive
But I require currency for housing and nutrients.
Let’s all just get together and make our own housing and nutrients. And if anyone shows an interest in banking we flay them alive and burn their skin while they watch.
Instead I can just spend my time anxious and depressed because I can’t find a job so I’m worried about having enough money to keep living in my current home!
What savings for my mental health!
Then, at my age, I should have a lot more respect than I do
I respect you dude, whatever your age. Even the very young deserve respect,this isn’t age gated.
For every respect we must all carry our responsibilities… One’s responsibility for respect might depend on their own respect for such a responsibility, or rather, the respect that they may hold towards their own responsibilities which they may begin to recognize the existence thereof, but still lack the general appreciation for either the responsibilities themselves or the respect required to truly carry properly any such responsibilities which may come with such certain levels of respect that may be required in order to respect the responsibility of respecting the responsibility to show such a respect to others, responsibly.
“Responsibility begets respect”
This was my father‘s philosophy, and I must disagree with the inferred position that responsibility is necessary for respect.
“Respect” is commonly used in two wildly different ways. To some, it means being treated as an authority. To others, it means being treated as a person (aka common fucking courtesy). Then there’s the absolute shitstains who say “If you won’t respect me, then I won’t respect you,” and what they mean is “If you won’t treat me as an authority, I won’t treat you as a person.”
Being treated as a person is given. Being treated as an authority is earned. And if you don’t do anything to prove you’re capable of being an authority, you don’t deserve to be treated as such.
Then there are those who would gladly argue what it really means to be “treated like a person”
Speciesism is rampant in this world, and the fewer of us that are able to recognize on occasion the behaviors we share with other successful creatures with which we share this glorious domain, the more the general notion of (generally a specific subset of) our species being rightfully and certainly more separate from our ancestors and absurdly twisted histories than we may choose to feel can become. We all so desperately want to hold a complete picture in our minds, perhaps just so that we may be able to better share our perceptions with others and connect on a more fundamental level, having some steady image of our cosmic or metaphysical landscape to reference, over which we may form deeper bonds than through any other mode of communication.
