Re:Canada's Tech Firms Capitalize On Immigration Anxiety
by bogomipz on Monday June 12, 2017 @09:16PM
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>"And if someone offered any of those people 100 million dollars, to work at a job that they liked moderately less than their current job for a single year,"
Are you just trolling then?
The "what if someone offered you 100 million dollars?" game is a game that children play. Your insistence on repeatedly interjecting this bit of childishness is just bizarre. The context of the discussion and the OPs comment is working as a salaried employee.
There was was never any question of a job "liked moderately less." The OP said quite unequivocally that they "hate" living where they live. Hate is a pretty strong emotion, it does not describe a state of being moderately less happy.
It is not about trading happiness for money. It is about trading a small amount of happiness NOW for a large amount of happiness later or a large amount of ability to achieve your goals.
If you are a teacher/Journalist/artist who wants the world to be more educated, more informed, or more artistically enriched, you are universally better able to achieve those goals with 100 million dollars in the bank.
So yes. Everyone SHOULD have a price. Maybe that price is 100 million dollars. Maybe it is 10 thousand. But a price is a price.
But back to the actual question at hand. Yes, i do believe that tripling your salary could lead to you retiring 20 years earlier.
It is simple math, really. Even with the increase in taxes, you will have about double at least the total amount of take home pay. And if you have a ~40 year work life, but take home twice as much money after taxes, that means you only have to work ~20 years to make the same amount of after taxes income.
Call it 15 years to be more conservative. But the numbers are close.