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The gamble is that you either succeed or fail. If you try nothing you'll work until you die regardless. Current system: Work until you die. New system collaps
by romanovcode 4mo ago
The gamble is that you either succeed or fail. If you try nothing you'll work until you die regardless.
Current system: Work until you die.
New system collapses: Work until you die.
New system lucks out: Probably get returns (pension).
- rvba 4mo agoI doubt that a FAANG programmer from hacker news has to work till they die. You are doing something wrong. Current system isnt great but works. Just fear uncertainity doubt here.
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- dgellow 4mo agoNot everybody on HN is in a comfy FAANG role
- Normal_gaussian 4mo agoId go so far as to say that the majority are not.
- nervousvarun 4mo agoI'd go so far as to say the VAST majority are not. "back of the napkin" logic: ~2M FAANG employees (source: Gemini & this includes all types of employees...is your avg Amazon delivery driver regularly reading HN?) ~10M HN users (source: Gemini (via HN post :)) )
- rvba 4mo agoYou mean 22k unique visitors per day making 13k comments and tons of web scraping bots? Data from 2022, so if we multiply it by 2 I would say 26k real hacker news users. Wasnt the stat that for 1 creator there are 10 commenters and 1000 viewers?
- romanovcode 4mo ago[flagged]