If that same income was spread out amongst people in low paying jobs, they would be spending that money on rent, food utilities, and going out. There are a lot more of them so they will each have less to save which means the money is circulating more and stimulating a larger part of the economy.

Nah, you make the most progress fighting through frustrating parts.

You do need the dopamine checkpoints to stay motivated, but you really learn by banging your head against a wall for a week or a month, then you get the dopamine hit after when a skill that used to be difficult is suddenly second nature.

Skills or subjects?

Learning topics like math or history, just dive into things you may not be ready for and just take it slow, looking up things you don’t know as you encounter them.

For skills, it might help to get a teacher for more physical things, like athletics or music, so you don’t hurt yourself. For arts, unless you need a studio, just try it and follow YouTube tutorials as you go.

Independent learning will almost always be slower than a teacher, but at least you’ll make progress.

I never got a high from coding, now compiling and seeing your tests have a green [PASS] next to them is a different story.

I don’t really derive a sense of accomplishment from it, so I don’t get the dopamine hit. It’s more write a simple bash script to do X because I hate working in that syntax, or this library has terrible documentation, tell me how I’m supposed to use it.

You still need to read and understand everything it writes, but it’s easier to validate something is correct sometimes rather than figure out the correct way to do something.

Also the freaking essays it writes as comments burying the useful information in the equivalent of a recipe blog post when you really just need assumptions about input, and side effects.

Yeah, but we can still vent and post guillotine memes.

Nah, put them through the legal system and see how they last in our prison system, and not one of the white collar cushy ones. Maybe they’ll end up spending some of their money on improving our penal system then.