>Because we forgot there’s anything else. Because someone convinced us that the score even matters.
Because we want homes near the offices we're required to work from in order to maintain those capitalism high scores, and those homes are a fundamentally zero sum resource.
https://www.investopedia.com/personal-finance/how-much-incom...
> I should move from New York City back to Montreal and then stop worrying about it forever. ... My numbers aren’t that different from the average Canadian or (especially) American software developer nowadays.
Yes, they are.
I'm not in the 1% - even if I was, splitting between my dependents we're not in the 1% again. If we get sick, we have to worry about money. If 2 of us get really sick, we're broke. I feel like the blogpost is blowing smoke from the start.
> [1] Beware of estimates of the “average income of the top 1%.” That average includes all the richest people in the world. You only need to earn the very bottom of the 1% bucket in order to be in the top 1%.
This doesn't seem remotely accurate, unless the sources I'm using are way off. It's reasonable to to point out that averages can be deceiving, so I'm using the median instead: at $133k/yr[1] the median software engineer in the U.S. is not even in the top 10% and would need to triple their income before becoming the lowest-earning 1%-er[2].
As an engineer who makes a bit less than the median I'm far from destitute, but the author and I are not in the same club.
[1] https://www.bls.gov/ooh/computer-and-information-technology/...
[2] https://dqydj.com/average-median-top-individual-income-perce...
PaulHoule•7mo ago
Zuckerberg with VR might be a better example. When it comes to his existing platforms he seems to be "careless", my take is that's he's even "careless" about the aspects in which his VR platform is already successful (a game store) because he's wishing for something else. (I get pinged with notifications on my phone about a game that's 50% off and I want to buy, but it doesn't drop me to a landing page for that game but rather to a disorganized home page which I find really tiring to engage with) You hear here and there he's got a boyish interest in Ancient Rome or UFC or something like that, but unlike Musk he doesn't seem to be whole-heartedly into anything and when shareholders slap his wrist over being distracted by AI he half-heartedly looks like he's pivoting into half-heartedness but boy he's got a genius for acquisitions to reinforce his monopolies or just plain acquisitions of monopolists (Luxotica) and he scares me about as much as the witch in that Narnia movie who looks more like a junkie than anything else.