Going to work is the fastest way to ruin a person.
The essence of employment is that you "wholesale" your life time to a company, and the company then "retails" the fruits of your labor to the market through its organizational structure.
This means you lose the most important wealth leverage.
Even if you work 24 hours a day, your returns are capped and only show linear growth.
But the marginal profits generated by your labor should show exponential returns, yet they all belong to those who control the means of production.
You're trading your most scarce asset—non-renewable time—for fiat currency that's constantly depreciating.
Going to work makes you seem busy every day, but you're actually just engaging in high-frequency muscle memory repetition in a low-dimensional space.
Moreover, your brain's computing power is depleted daily by countless meaningless meetings, carefully worded reports to your superiors, and managing interpersonal boundaries with colleagues.
The most direct consequence of this is:
When you drag your hollowed-out body home at 8 PM, you have no residual energy left for deep learning or starting a side business.
You can only scroll through short videos to generate cheap dopamine and passively numb yourself.
The result of three years of experience stretched over ten years is—it will completely ossify your cognitive boundaries and make you lose the ability to handle the complexity of the real world.
Going to work is the fastest way to ruin a person.
The essence of employment is that you "wholesale" your life time to a company, and the company then "retails" the fruits of your labor to the market through its organizational structure.
This means you lose the most important wealth leverage.
Even if you work 24 hours a day, your returns are capped and only show linear growth.
But the marginal profits generated by your labor should show exponential returns, yet they all belong to those who control the means of production.
You're trading your most scarce asset—non-renewable time—for fiat currency that's constantly depreciating.
Going to work makes you seem busy every day, but you're actually just engaging in high-frequency muscle memory repetition in a low-dimensional space.
Moreover, your brain's computing power is depleted daily by countless meaningless meetings, carefully worded reports to your superiors, and managing interpersonal boundaries with colleagues.
The most direct consequence of this is:
When you drag your hollowed-out body home at 8 PM, you have no residual energy left for deep learning or starting a side business.
You can only scroll through short videos to generate cheap dopamine and passively numb yourself.
The result of three years of experience stretched over ten years is—it will completely ossify your cognitive boundaries and make you lose the ability to handle the complexity of the real world.