Thought and The Problem of Livelihood
I read a quote somewhere recently which went along the lines of "Smart people get paid to do what they like". It reminded me of something I'd read (probably in the Almanack of Naval Ravikant) about how having competition itself indicates a kind of inefficiency when compared to authenticity(he probably mentioned it in more succinct terms or caveated it but that's how I remember it). The basic idea here is that authentic creativity which flows from the individual is something that no one can be better than that individual at. I thought a bit along those lines and this is what I ended up with. In our society, we're basically compensated with money proportional to how much we change the world around us. The percentage of money out of this which we keep for ourselves is dependent on our own needs or desires. This seemed well and good prima facie without deliberating about it but then I realized that it doesn't quite cover all scenarios. Many (probably in fact most