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Nice essay. I wonder where does helping family come into play here?

Let’s say your family is poor and could use extra help. It seems selfish to deliberately take a lower paying job when a higher paying job could help your loved ones.

Also what happens when you meet someone and want to start a family? Although the author may be ok with certain constraints in living, their spouse and children may have different preferences. In that situation it also seems selfish to pursue this low income life.

All in all the essay seems to work well for people who are okay with living alone and apart from their family and loved ones.

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Heh I think about this, I could have paid off my student loans but instead I helped my families the last two years and ongoing. It's like this tax but I just push myself to make more. It's a good cause I mean I literally got them a well one time in their village you know that sucks not having immediate access to water... but then it spreads ah man. You get over a hundred requests on FB all these people finding out who you are/asking you for money. Anyway I ended up deleting my FB account and just keeping in contact with my blood family on another account.

Side note Wise is the least PITA way to move money and no these people don't know how to use crypto.

thanks for a different perspective on this. I think the idea of "dropping out" is largely by and for "children of empire"--whatever their socioeconomic background

Yeah I'm unfortunately a nice guy/hard to say no. I sometimes wish I was more of an ahole just so I didn't burden myself. So yeah, I'm not trying to really say karma or whatever, even though I myself can't pull it off.

Can't save the entire world but can do something.

Just talked to them again (once a week on my dedicated FB phone for mental separation). I think it's worth it (supporting them every month), I mean it's definitely having a positive benefit on their lives. I would just buy another device/toy when they could get food/bills for a month kind of thing.

But yeah I battle that thing of "my money". Granted I still want to not be poor eventually. And buying something nice for yourself isn't a bad thing.

They are pulling bones out of a puffer fish [0]

[0] https://i.imgur.com/CQNevPP.png

> no these people don't know how to use crypto

I always wondered how non-computer-savvy people are supposed to use crypto in this situation. It's so complicated to explain, let alone actually use.

My employer sports betting property, gross income was cut to 1/3.

We heard sane for thr other 3 large competitors.

My guess, all thise gamblers moved to crypto for their fix when pandemic closed sports.

For them, typing the credit card in and shady exchange and betting on ABC is the same as typing their credit card and betting on sports team.

> Also what happens when you meet someone and want to start a family? Although the author may be ok with certain constraints in living, their spouse and children may have different preferences. In that situation it also seems selfish to pursue this low income life.

I'd expect lifestyle to be one of the things people take into account when considering starting a life together. So if the potential spouse had different, incompatible, preferences, I'd expect the couple to not get to the point of starting a family.

The question still stands for the kinds, though, but I'd expect this to always be the case. Kids practically never get a say in their parents' choices and have to make do.

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