What kind of mouths? Like kids?

But life is finite too

Wife and kids yeah

Aristippus of Cyrene, never said poor people where bad.
He said that you have to deserve your own good world.
If you make effort, then good things will come to good people.
You deserve, your karma.

Save up and invest, then quit your job

Live on half your salary

Thanks @Smoke

Expat to Uganda

I'm not talking about morality being inherent

Actually I'm saying the opposite in this case

Yeah the 4% rule. I follow a lot of the financial independence boards

what interests me.. is that Aristippus of Cyrene, was though
by Plato and all the anti-hedonistic stuff.
He was also a capitalist

Sure

I don't think your wife wants you to quit your job, @fuguer

What is the 4 percent rule

Can u send me these financial independece boards

...quit your job when you can afford it..
family is more important than money

What if I’m meant to get a Nobel prize and unravel the secrets of quantum gravity and I’m wasting my potential

Because the way you understand hedonism, it is logical and reasonable. But you have to also recognise that it could easily be used to justify malign and unjust acts and therefore it's only circumstantially applicable. Yes?

But do you have that potential?

Yes

How do you know?

And can you deal with the politics of academia? JF couldn't

I have more squandered potential than most

What's your IQ score?

Yeah you have a few options. 1. Take time off and reflect 2. Get a more chill job and take the pay cut, but keep your sanity and have more free time

I’d probably hate the politics of academia but work has politics too

You could consider moving too,..

Academia can shut out conservatives.

Maybe they can shut out you too.

I donno

Nah my job isn’t really bothering me too much. It is a little annoying each half you have to write u everything you did and justify why you should get a good rating

Can you quit your job and work part time as a consultant?

Do you have a PhD

?

Only an MS

Eh ya I could see that. I pretty much ignore everything but the actual productive work where I'm at

but I suppose I'm lucky in that regard. I hate jumping through hoops for management

Does your job give leaves of absence?

Mine does. No pay, but you get your job back eventually