Interesting take but I’d frame it a bit differently.
It’s not that a 9-5 makes you immature. It’s that staying too comfortable in any system can limit how much of the real world you experience.
Corporate teaches structure, politics and execution.
Entrepreneurship teaches uncertainty, ownership and risk. Both are classrooms- just different ones.
The key isn’t escaping one world. It’s making sure you’re growing in whichever world you’re in.
It took me 10 years in corporate to realize this and I'll tell you in 30 seconds (from someone who walked away):
1. If you stay in the 9-5 world too long, you end up being immature about how the world works.
@livingdevops I actually brought this point up among friends and I don't have an answers. It's crystal clear that in the mad dash to get rich the only thought is wealth. What about society. We'll get to the point we won't be needed and millions will die. We can call it "The Great Culling"
I keep hearing this hype about AI taking over everything, and honestly I don’t get the endgame( I Don’t believe Elon musk universal high income statement )
Let’s say AI wins, all jobs are gone, and a few big tech companies own everything. Cool.
But then what?
In India, people live on salaries and EMIs.
No job means no money, no money means no spending.
No one is buying cars, no one is paying home loans, no one is ordering food every day or upgrading phones on EMI. Consumerism just dies.
And once spending stops, companies also start bleeding because they literally have no customers left.
Banks get stuck, real estate crashes, tax collection falls, and the same system that replaced humans with AI starts choking on itself.
This isn’t some futuristic theory either, most Indians already live paycheck to paycheck, one emergency and things fall apart.
So this idea that AI replaces everyone and somehow the economy keeps running feels completely disconnected from reality.
Automation makes sense, efficiency makes sense, but a world where people don’t earn and are still expected to consume just doesn’t add up.
What am I missing here?
What’s the bigger picture here that makes this AI-everywhere scenario sustainable?
P.S. Post taken from Reddit.
@sunburst16827@Matt_Pinner Will I understand your sentiment. It's not existence you're paying for, it's safety. You're not out hunting your own food or fighting marauders from taking your property. Your government protect you (if they are a good government). Safety. But like anything involving money...
My German friend just got promoted after 14 years at Siemens
From Software Engineer to Lead Software Engineer
His salary jump?
€36,000 to an astronomical €39,000 per year
As a good friend, I organized celebration drinks at our local biergarten
When I congratulated him, he seemed kind of sad
"What's wrong? Aren't you happy with such a big raise?" I said
"Eh, my colleague in the US office makes $220,000 doing the same job, and he works remotely"
I was shocked by his ungratefulness
"Maybe I should apply to American companies..." he mumbled
I couldn't believe what I was hearing
"You ungrateful little bitch" I slapped his face
"Siemens invested in you, built your pension. And you want to abandon them for Silicon Valley blood money?"
"I'm just exploring options" he whispered
I spat in his face, left €10 on the table and walked out
Some people simply don't deserve to live in Europe
@ElNecio_Cuba CCP is either using bots or paying dumb asses to post horse manure like this. Just like they're paying YouTube to travel there. Imagine your country sucks so hard that you have to pay YouTubers to make it look okay
SOCIALISMO CHINO 🇨🇳 Así son los apartamentos que entrega el Estado en China a las familias. NO HAY especulación inmobiliaria y la mayoría de la población tiene su casa propia.
@niccruzpatane You have to be some kind of idiot with a death. Wish to wanna get in a car with no steering wheel that you can grab in case the AI takes over or does something stupid
@eurofounder@grok is €41,000 one of the highest salaries in Germany for an engineer of 6 years that is described by his boss as "his best engineer". Or is it actually below entry level salary?
I had to fire my best engineer today
He came to me asking for a raise, said he's "underpaid"
"I work here for 6 years now and only make €41,000"
"Yes, one of the highest salaries in Germany, what's your point?" I was confused
He said an American company offered him €220,000, fully remote
I felt my blood boil
"If you want to prostitute yourself working for a failing American startup, go ahead"
"Oh the offer is from Goog-"
"Shut up, you're fired" I couldn't control myself
I don't need greedy traitors poisoning my company
Let him rot in his American cubicle counting his blood money
He'll crawl back begging for his job in six months
@eurofounder for 220k we can work one year to pay for the next 5 in germany. Even if he comes back in 6 months he will have enough money to take at least 2 years off before he needs to beg for a job haha
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@_LisanA1Gaib_@Nervana_1 Why? Before the jihad came to town, Iran was a secular monarchy. It’s been since 79 it’s dramatically been destroyed and turned into a Muslim dictatorship. Not for long though. The king wants his kingdom back. Google images of Iran prior to 1980
@joeycannoli9@Rainmaker1973 Did you know. Elon hasn’t built any of these things. His engineers do. Attributing everything Elon pays for to Elon is ignorance. As if he’s doing this all by himself, the science, the engineering, the late nights. There’s an army of engineers. Elon is a salesman
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@Timcast I think it’s legitimate to say that democracy has been dead for a while and this proves it. The elite will continue on their path to enslaving the rest of us. The peons finally found something to hold the elite accountable, so they killed it.
The Trump admin has failed massively on the Epstein files issue and people care.
I wouldn't call it a top issue for most people but it plays in the political space to an outsized degree