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Imagine trying to get ahead in the company when you're behind a 500 year old middle manager that isn't going to retire for another 999,500 years?

I'd think society would have a lot of trouble moving forward on issues when you don't have the great equalizer of the coffin to kill off old ideas.

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Just quit. Who cares. You're stuck in this mindset of eternity under management. You're immortal. Do the vanlife for a month, Live on an island, start a business. Chill.

This isn’t just about a work, think of the social implications when you don’t have a generational reset button, people’s minds can change and bad ideas can die out that way but more often than not they die out with the people themselves.

> Just quit. Who cares. You're stuck in this mindset of eternity under management. You're immortal. Do the vanlife for a month, Live on an island, start a business. Chill.

That's assuming that you're going to have the resources to live a life of leisure, just because you're immortal. I think that's likely a false assumption.

You're not immortal, you still need to eat and stay warm and get medical care. In fact if anything now the stakes are even higher to achieve a certain sustainable dollar amount so that you can 'retire' (i.e. live sustainably off passive income for a million years).

Stakes are lower. More time to achieve a certain net worth. Once I reach that threshold compounding growth takes over. Two centuries is more than enough to achieve this.

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