Apologies for the stark terms if it felt judgmental or degrading! I have a LOT of sympathy for people who temporarily or permanently aren’t a good fit for the corporate standards of common high-paying jobs. I’m lucky enough currently to be well-employed and providing enough value that I don’t feel bad being highly paid, but that wasn’t always the case and I recognize the that combination of talents and skills that work for me are pretty much pure luck for me to have. The ability to focus for many hours and work my ass off is mildly rare and incredibly lucky for me to have.
I don’t mean any blame in my recognition that resources are limited and it’s FAR easier for those lucky enough to be smart and conforming to get some of those resources. I recoil from the label “taker”—it’s an unhelpful model, more about social status than about understanding or problem-solving.
I do honestly believe that one of the biggest challenges for humanity’s moral and economic growth (which I see as correlated, if not causal) in the medium-term (next 2 generations, modulo singularity) is how to make more people’s contributions larger and more legible so it’s trivially obvious that we should give a much higher percentage of humanity more resources and status than we do today.
Apologies for the stark terms if it felt judgmental or degrading!
No worries! I mostly just wrote that comment for the lulz. And the rest was mostly so people wouldn’t think I was using humor to obliquely endorse social Darwinism.
Apologies for the stark terms if it felt judgmental or degrading! I have a LOT of sympathy for people who temporarily or permanently aren’t a good fit for the corporate standards of common high-paying jobs. I’m lucky enough currently to be well-employed and providing enough value that I don’t feel bad being highly paid, but that wasn’t always the case and I recognize the that combination of talents and skills that work for me are pretty much pure luck for me to have. The ability to focus for many hours and work my ass off is mildly rare and incredibly lucky for me to have.
I don’t mean any blame in my recognition that resources are limited and it’s FAR easier for those lucky enough to be smart and conforming to get some of those resources. I recoil from the label “taker”—it’s an unhelpful model, more about social status than about understanding or problem-solving.
I do honestly believe that one of the biggest challenges for humanity’s moral and economic growth (which I see as correlated, if not causal) in the medium-term (next 2 generations, modulo singularity) is how to make more people’s contributions larger and more legible so it’s trivially obvious that we should give a much higher percentage of humanity more resources and status than we do today.
No worries! I mostly just wrote that comment for the lulz. And the rest was mostly so people wouldn’t think I was using humor to obliquely endorse social Darwinism.