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Re:Open AI Announces $1.5M Bonus for Every Employee by lesuorac on Thursday August 07, 2025 @11:40AM (#44825938)
Don't know your specifics, but I generally make the argument to people that if they have the aptitude for something very high paying that they do that job and then do something they like as a hobby.
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Re:Open AI Announces $1.5M Bonus for Every Employee by dijit on Thursday August 07, 2025 @11:45AM (#44826022)
I disagree wholeheartedly.

I spend a very disproportionate amount of my mental energy on my job, and I think earning a lot of money would not properly compensate for that. Energy is finite and life has a way of being just about as expensive as the money you have.

So, maybe it's fine that it will take me 30 years to earn what these people will in 2.

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Re:Open AI Announces $1.5M Bonus for Every Employee by lesuorac on Thursday August 07, 2025 @01:27PM (#44827475)
Which would allow you to work for 2 years and then just do your hobby full time for 28.

Also allows you to do your hobby without other pressures placed on it.

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Re:Open AI Announces $1.5M Bonus for Every Employee by dijit on Thursday August 07, 2025 @01:30PM (#44827535)
No, due to the way taxes work, I'd have to:

A) Find a way to work in OpenAI before I knew there'd be a $1.5M bonus for working there for a couple years

B) Find a way to avoid taxes

C) Do this twice before I'd get my 28 years back

D) Ensure I don't let my expenses grow

The first is mostly luck, as Jim Carey said about his dad: You can fail at what you don't want to do.

https://youtu.be/zjhouhElXAI?t=118

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