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Sure you will lose a little bit, like 2 or 3% a year. But if you have nothing saved then what will you do in case of an emergency? such as losing a job?

29.99% interest credit cards.

So you're acknowledging the possibility that some might sink?

what?

My life wouldn't change at all if I suddenly started eating 50% less meat. wouldn't change a thing.

>Let me make a meta-point. It's natural to find yourself with a thought of this form: I don't get why so many think ___ is cool.

I don't get why so many think cigarettes are cool.

You're telling me they know something I don't about cigarettes?

Yes, actually.

* Cigarettes are stimulants and feel great when they first kick in, like a good cup of coffee.

* Smoking gives you a culturally-approved reason to take breaks throughout the day and go outside.

* Smoking is a social activity that provides an easy way to meet new people.

Of course, it is strongly chemically addictive too with serious negative health consequences, but the reason people smoke isn't only addiction or no one would ever start. I learned the above list by once genuinely asking someone why they smoke.

Many/most who have a lifelong cigarette addiction would not describe them as “cool”.

You forgot: work until you're 65 so you can enjoy your last 10 years with a broken body

Reminds me of this I heard/read somewhere:

When you're young, you have the energy and time, but no money.

When you're middle-aged, you have the energy and money, but no time.

When you're old, you have the time and money, but no energy.

There's a certain survivorship bias at work, but I see old people around with plenty of energy. I think many use lack of energy as a plausible excuse when they're really just lazy.

https://suereynolds.net/

I wouldn't say lazy. Many people who've been through the grind for 40-50 years just don't have the will to do anything outside of that any more.

It's even worse.

The previous generation can just put in 9-5, work in one company their whole lives. and rely on their retirement pension in old age.

Millennials today have no such luxury. They have to manage their careers and finances personally or they will be left penniless when they are old.

Very good point.

Somehow I reached the point in my life where I started to question all these things many years ago.

65? Good luck, those goal posts are moving. Someone has to support the growing base of retirees with a shrinking tax base.

>Separate Apps & Separate Databases

> Suitability: This is the best way to begin your SAAS platform, for product-market fitment until stability and growth.

Uh what? How is this even feasible when you get to 1000s of clients?

I guess it depends on your customer model, but surely the keyword there is "begin"?

It all depends on your customer/business model. If you're expecting to get to 1000s of clients quickly (i.e. within 12 months), then this will be an ops nightmare, unless you have really good automation.

AFAIK, historically that hasn't happened. Sales is shit hard. Getting every single client is an art in itself. You got to be a magician to get even 5-10 clients signed-up readily in one go, for a start-up. And by the time you are having "N" paying clients that matches your metric for product-market fitness, you start evolving your architecture to the next level. This is where Product and Engineering sit-together to take that strategic decision on the path forward.

>Nobody likes to be told that they're wasting their free time,

Wasting free time, a.k.a living? Capitalist propaganda is so godamn effective. People now believe that every minute you spend not working is wasted time.

Dear lord.

That's not what the original sentence says at all.

Every minute spent not working is free time, that's pretty much true no matter how much work you do.

And you can use that free time to actually live, i.e. have deep, meaningful experiences, or waste it by consuming cheap, addictive and mostly fake content on the social network du jour.

Anyone who has such depth either:

1-Is a genius and has no problem getting a job, therefore doesn't have to jump through these hoops

2- Or is probably on the autism spectrum and might be hard to work with

It's not a choice. It's a disease. No one chooses to be miserable.

Well, the article makes it look like striving for accomplishment necessarily makes you miserable, and makes the comparison to alcoholism. If so, it's a very deeply buried, unconscious misery: alcoholics wake up and go to sleep feeling horrible and will tell you out loud that they're miserable whenever they're sober and wish that they could stop feeling so awful. Pursuing excellence doesn't (in and of itself) ravage your body or destroy your sleep.

I'm fascinated by computers, and I like to spend time learning more about them. This doesn't make me miserable, it makes me happy (and, lucky for me, I can turn this into money too). It does make the people around me uncomfortable: they figure that if they were reading a book about programming computers, they would be miserable, so they try to talk me out of "punishing" myself.

Corollary to this, though: you can (with a lot of caveats) choose to be happy. Or, at least, commit to finding and pursuing the path(s) that will get you closer.

It can (and does) take a lot more work than sitting in the familiar rut of misery. Sometimes, this involves doctors and pharmaceuticals, but, either way, requires a lot of work on the part of the individual.

The process of starting this work when you are already overwhelmed is a big problem. Try to rig the game in your favor and be realistic about whether you can benefit from outside help.

Edit: formatting.