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Cake day: April 11th, 2024

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  • I get everything I need from my current salary, so right now it would be infinity dollars. More money won’t make me happier and an eviler job would make me less happy.

    But if my family was in danger of becoming homeless, then I would do nearly anything to protect them. It’s easy to say now, but I’d probably value their lives at significantly more than the lives I’d take. Especially if I felt the victims were deserving somehow.

















  • Completely anecdotal and privileged: my desk job was so much less dense than child care that going to work felt like a break when we had babies. Not to imply anything bad about anybody! But the mental accounting isn’t just unhealthy, it’s impossible because you don’t know how hard someone else’s subjective experience is.

    The job wasn’t even good! It was galling and crushing. But at least I knew what was happening that day and could influence it somewhat.