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Re:The darker side of being a doctor by bitexploder on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:47AM (#49816129)
I accounted for that when I modeled it. I explicitly added investment start and compounding. A thing to remember: a physician is delayed yes but their higher income lets them much more heavily invest as their income often exceeds life expenses by a lot more than median swe.
Re:The darker side of being a doctor by robocat on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:59PM (#49821663)
Maxxing your income is a foolish optimisation.

I still don't know what my own objective function is.

Re:The darker side of being a doctor by bitexploder on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:47PM (#49824738)
Whatever you want it to be. You can change it any time you want.
Re:The darker side of being a doctor by robocat on Thursday September 24, 2026 @11:38PM (#49839940)
Tautologically if you know what you want to change it to.