{"id":14611,"date":"2021-04-23T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=14611"},"modified":"2021-04-23T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T14:37:01","slug":"why-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/why-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Work?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I earn $100\/hr from work, making 1 gizmo\/hr.<\/div>\n
Govt takes $40.<\/div>\n
I invest $60 in a company.<\/div>\n
It doubles in 10 years (7% apy).<\/div>\n
I sell my stock for $120.<\/div>\n
I owe $24 cap gains.<\/div>\n
I have $96.<\/div>\n
I can only buy a $90 gizmo, 7% sales tax -> $96.<\/div>\n
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Why work?<\/div>\n

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Jeremy Ru\u00e2\u201c\u2018in<\/a><\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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I earn $100\/hr from work, making 1 gizmo\/hr.
Govt takes $40.
I invest $60 in a company.
It doubles in 10 years (7% apy).
I sell my stock for $120.
I owe $24 cap gains.
I have $96.
I can only buy a $90 gizmo, 7% sales tax -> $96.<\/p>\n

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Sent from my personal iPhone, 650-283-8008, <\/span>that Steve Jobs texted me on<\/p>\n
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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ejeIz4EhoJ0<\/span><\/p>\n
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Unedited by Larry Chiang I earn $100\/hr from work, making 1 gizmo\/hr. Govt takes $40. I invest $60 in a company. It doubles in 10 years (7% apy). I sell my stock for $120. I owe $24 cap gains. I have $96. I can only buy a $90 gizmo, 7% sales tax -> $96. Why […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}