Yeah. I wanted to say that big salary can actually make you independent if you save and invest. But there will be a social pressure to not do this; sometimes a hard requirement.
(There seems to be some similarity between “as an employee, you can often spend half of your working time browsing web or socializing with your colleagues, but you are not allowed to leave work one hour earlier” and “as a well-paid employee, you are socially allowed to spend your extra money on expensive clothes, expensive cars, sometimes even blackjack and hookers, but saving the money and trying to retire early will be frowned upon”. Something like: we are giving you some perks, under condition that you will not optimize against our intended goals. We’d prefer to give you $2000 to waste and become more dependent, rather than $1000 to save and become less dependent. Or am I just imagining things?)
Yeah. I wanted to say that big salary can actually make you independent if you save and invest. But there will be a social pressure to not do this; sometimes a hard requirement.
(There seems to be some similarity between “as an employee, you can often spend half of your working time browsing web or socializing with your colleagues, but you are not allowed to leave work one hour earlier” and “as a well-paid employee, you are socially allowed to spend your extra money on expensive clothes, expensive cars, sometimes even blackjack and hookers, but saving the money and trying to retire early will be frowned upon”. Something like: we are giving you some perks, under condition that you will not optimize against our intended goals. We’d prefer to give you $2000 to waste and become more dependent, rather than $1000 to save and become less dependent. Or am I just imagining things?)
When an artist strikes it rich, it is the art dealer’s job to teach expensive habits.