>>13661537Mostly because I focused not on getting money (could easily do it, but I preferred not to ever have a job) but on solving actually interesting questions. Which gives me more pleasure than anything else (and unlike almost everything else this pleasure doesn't have a backlash) and can deliver you all the things you cannot buy for money. I tried to invest and successfully predicted the future a couple of times, but it just rebuilds a large chunk of my attention, which damages my scientific creativity, so fuck that shit, I'll do it some other way.
