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[–] 2 points 15 hours ago* (1 child)

Saying that higher income leads to unhealthy lifestyles which results in earlier death is statistically incorrect and logically just completely bizarre. You need good money to be able to afford good food, hobbies, good medical care, etc, without having to worry about your budget.

Saying that higher income keeps you away from having a close, joyful family is similarly absurd and shockingly lacking in the ability to understand what it is to live as a person on low income. That means having to work extra hours all the time, having to work extra jobs just to make ends meet. You need higher income to be able to spend time with your family.

As for saying that not being broke will lead you to be an exploitative tyrant, I don't even know how to reply to that. Your whole post reads as extremely privileged and like you have never been poor.

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  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago

    Success I was talking about (also in the video) is not about floating above poverty. It's about breaking in higher middle class tier. I believe chasing this tier of income starting from poverty will do a number on you. In the process of getting to higher income you'll exchange your health, family and empathy for opportunity to earn progressively higher income


    For the context, I grew up in a hood, had quite limited social safety net, worked about a dozen jobs paying fraction of minimum wage before turning 18. I felt miserable most of the time -- in hindsight I realize I was often simply hungry & cold but at the time it felt like world simply hates me.

    I moved to local capital and had experience in success chasing game. I earned several times the average country average while working clean & prestigious office jobs. Yet despite the money, success chasing brought me to the lowest low of mental health until I couldn't go on. Therapy, medicine and vacation just weren't extreme enough to help me recover in some reasonable time frame. Experience of my peers shows similar story: while playing the success chasing game, everyone eventually breaks, get traumatized, get cynical or simply isolate away

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