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Major_Act8033 t1_j8bfj46 wrote

Reply to [IMAGE] Don’t hustle yourself into an early grave. by tburns1469

This feels disingenuous. Only a tiny tiny tiny percentage of people who are hustling to get ahead financially are doing 'just because' they want more money or deeply love their hustles.

Mostly hustle culture is just a more socially acceptable form of working multiple jobs. Ya know, the exact same thing poor people have done for decades. But nobody wants to say 'My job cut my hours to avoid giving me any benefits and now I deliver food to people on the side' because it's depressing.

Especially in a place like the US where almost all aspects of our lives are predicated on having money. Yeah, I love spending time with my kids, but I also love taking them to the doctor and dentist. And things like preschool, quality daycare, sports/clubs/robot camp/tutors/act prep/etc etc etc. And all of the places around me that are actually affordable are high crime with subpar public schools.

Almost everyone would rather make $250k, work 20 hours per week and have time to coach my kids little league team...but if I'm working extra hours it's not because I've lost sight of what's really important in life.

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savagetruck t1_j8bbvu5 wrote

Reply to comment by aesu in [IMAGE] Don’t hustle yourself into an early grave. by tburns1469

This idea that the way most people contribute to the world is through their job is so myopic. It only exists because it’s easy to quantify.

I firmly believe that the biggest impact that 99.9% of people will have on the world is how they treat others, especially strangers.

I’ll give you a scenario: the lady in front of you at the grocery store is $20 short. You give her the $20. She doesn’t put back the breakfast supplies. Her kid gets a nice breakfast the next morning instead of nothing. Because of this, they’re not distracted and they get a good score on their placement exam that day, above the cutoff line for being in the gifted classes. They get more attention from teachers. They have more confidence in their abilities. They work harder in school, get good grades, get into college, get a good job, become successful.

Bad deeds work the same way. Say that instead of giving them $20, you steal $20 out of their purse in the checkout line. Now they don’t have the money for those breakfast supplies, their kid is below the cutoff line for gifted classes, and none of that stuff happens. They don’t do well in school, they don’t get into college, and they repeat the cycle of poverty they were born into.

I’m not saying that this happens every time you help someone with groceries, in fact it probably only happens 0.1% of the time, but it does happen. The problem is that we don’t see any of this, we don’t know what effect our actions have. But in reality, we all have a huge effect on the world around us.

Good and bad deeds also multiply. Say that woman is so grateful that she starts to do the same for others once her finances allow her to. The same thing happens to the people she helps, and the people they help, etc. Suddenly that single act is responsible for a thousand stories just like the one above, a thousand lives changed for the better. And that’s ONE single kind act. Multiply that over a lifetime, and you’ve affected millions of lives.

It won’t be on your tombstone, or in your eulogy, or in a Wikipedia article about your life, but this is your real legacy. This is your biggest impact on the world.

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myebubbles t1_j8b7oy6 wrote

Reply to comment by JaySocials671 in [IMAGE] Don’t hustle yourself into an early grave. by tburns1469

Be the expensive labor.

Learn to program.

Automate your own job.

Right now I automate 500k USD per year, compounding. I make $150k.

I'm considering to starting my own company and selling this service. I have a bit of experience in side businesses and my wife's company.

The only thing stopping me is the Victorian Dream of doing independent Science. Maybe I'll do that instead.

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