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I go with the shorter workweek, no question about it.

How much money would it take for you to be conflicted about it? 40% raise? 100%?

I don't think there's really a monetary price that would make me conflicted about it. If I were struggling to survive, I'd likely think very differently, but I'm not. As long as my income is sufficient for me to live the life I prefer (which it is), money is not a very large motivator for me.

However, the time taken up by the need to work is a very large price to pay. I'd be fine taking a pay cut to have more time for living.

After you're stable there's just not that much to spend money on if you don't have a family. You might not be able to find a number that flips it for a lot of us. For me it would probably be above 500% and I'd still be conflicted there, especially if I had to commute.

Yeah I'm at that point now, too. I had a coworker lament to me the other day that his friends at [Big N tech company] make more money than him. Maybe he gets paid a lot less than me, but I don't really think there's much more money I'd take to go work for a Big N. Like if they offered me 20,000,000 a year, I'd be stupid not to work there for at least like 6 months, but obviously that's never gonna happen

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