Message from @La Fin du Monde
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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
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
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
Does your wife work?
All things to consider