you may not be aware but your comment came off as somewhat condescending, given that you don't really have any idea where parent poster is coming from or what their background is
yeah i don't agree with this. i live alone and spend about the same or a bit more as my friends who live with roommates. they have nicer apartments generally but it's a choice thing in our city (NYC). this is people in early-mid 20s working at faang/banking/consulting.
> It is absurd to suggest that anyone "knows" what a system as complex as the Earth will be like in the future. Many people believe that this is the most likely future, and I'm sure some of them don't care.
it's absurd to suggest radiative transfer and heat retention aren't well understood scientific phenomena.
> "We're trying to save these neanderthals and they're stupid/tricked by evil so they're going to end up killing us all."
this but unironically
> but do you really believe that all of them were fed that mantra by bad actors, and none of them are just lashing out at bullies?
ah yes, the guys with total political power are being bullied
> You want me to support your political campaign to regulate the gas that I exhale, because otherwise there will be a doomsday, and if I don't agree I'm either stupid or evil
I think household name internet companies that aren't FAANG per se will still offer competitive compensation and work life balance. I mean here places like Twitter, LinkedIn, Square etc. judging from my last job search and conversations with people in my network. Working at a large bank or non-tech f500 will probably be a different experience for an individual contributor.
I know there are some aggregators like comp.fyi if you want to take a closer look at some self-reported data.
I like Ben's writing a lot but I think he's not very familiar with just how much better FAANG is in expectation value for your typical engineer - i.e. at current compensation levels it would be possible to achieve financial independence by 35 or 40 for somebody joining out of college. I don't think Ben has a particularly steep utility curve for money so working at a mission-driven startup is probably great for him, but the landscape out there has changed since he was last looking for work.
> all of the fees and carry associated with the fund will be donated to non-profit organizations that enable African Americans to enter the technology industry.
if i were a founder, why wouldn't i be bothered by this? if i'm going to be working monomaniacally to make the a16z LPs rich, i want to be making the GPs rich too. if they're funding me out of the CLF, they won't be getting rich so they won't want to help out as much.
ultimately real work that produces actual goods and services has to get done. how does computing hashes "do all your work for you, leaving you to do whatever you want in life"
many universities offer private offices for technical staff, both for working on in-house administrative software or working in research groups. be warned that you might have to accept a lot less compensation than at a big tech company.