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Bump it up to 10x, and then 100x. Of course, money is just a means to an end, so if the amount of money being offered is not going to achieve one’s goal, then it is useless. If that goal is increasing one’s quality of life by either earning so much that you can quit, or by hiring more people so that you do not get burned out, either way the answer is money.

However, the bedrock of our society has been a growing working age population that is OK with meager wages and quality of life at work, allowing us to lives more luxurious than otherwise could be. This dynamic should change once the working age population decreases relative to the old age population who need the services.



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