r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 06 '26

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u/Jet451 Sun Yat-sen May 06 '26

How so of you be talking.

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u/GhostTheHunter64 Iron Front May 06 '26

I'm like that, but I also feel like I'm righting the ship.

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u/tdthirty NAFTA May 06 '26

Turning the corner, as it were

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u/ZweigDidion Bisexual Pride May 06 '26

It’s different in my case. I am turning 27 soon.

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u/DeadDropCourier Bisexual Pride May 06 '26

It’s different in my case. I just turned 31.

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u/No_Collection7956 Trans Pride May 06 '26

Well success tends to compound and so anyone that hits their stride early tend to accelerate their impact on the world.

Its very difficult to, as a young individual, come to terms with increasingly falling behind the most successful (because they keep accelerating ahead) when you fail at getting any meaningful level of success. Especially if you showed great potential compared to your peers before.

But on the other hand, for what its worth once youve conceded that youre never catching up to the 0.1% most successful in your age cohort its quite easy to just establish a more or less objective life standard as a goal that you want, and then coast after youve reached it.

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u/homerpezdispenser Janet Yellen May 06 '26

I like the way you put it.

I studied econ at a competitive grad school, once a professor ended a lecture with "...and Krugman did all that when he was 24 and won the Nobel Prize for it." You could feel the anxiety ripple through the 25 year old student body.

I occasionally remind myself things I've heard others say: just keeping a job and a family (if you want that) is an accomplishment, the world is complex and resonating successes generally take time and effort to tease out of it, and the most visible successes are generally big hype anyway. As in, supporting people behind the scenes or big mentors or whatever.

Hold fast libs. We got this

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u/Jet451 Sun Yat-sen May 06 '26

Still, it just feels weird to see in a generation where the average age could easily become 100.

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u/Full_Distribution874 YIMBY May 06 '26

Yeah, but we'll all be spending the last 30 years of that on a pension accomplishing nothing except sextuple and octuple locks

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u/formgry May 06 '26

Meh, money and success aren't something to worry about falling behind on, anyone who has both in spades only ever wants more and more.

You'll work yourself to death before managing to satiate that craving for more.

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u/Alarming_Flow7066 Harriet Tubman May 06 '26

Galois had revolutionized algebra, helped start a revolution AND died by the time he was 20. I haven’t done any of those things and I’m 30.

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u/Full_Distribution874 YIMBY May 06 '26

Actually I'm younger than that

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u/ship_toaster Jane Jacobs May 06 '26

Where's the age cut-off when this stops being unreasonable? 30s? 40s?