pink_surfer

Come on... the guy was getting 250k/year in passive income, but to “survive” in SF he “needs” over 300k a year to make ends meet so he must go back to work... good that he’s still relatively young and going back to work is an option but I wouldn’t call it a failure to retire at 34 on 250k passive income. If he moved virtually anywhere else than SF, his whole family could live like kings and not have to work another day. This article feels tone deaf.

The problem is that we cannot comprehend how fast things can shift. I just came across this video in another thread that I think illustrates the problem very well: https://youtu.be/kZA9Hnp3aV4

Basically, we can’t see something growing exponentially for the disaster they it will unleash until the last minute (literally)

For instance, if something doubles every hour, we don’t realize there is any problem until the very last moment: one hour before, half the resources were free, and the hour before, 3/4. But two hours later, it’s 0% and we never saw it coming.

The point is well illustrated in the talk, I highly recommend it.