2025-12-27 09:21:27

A monthly salary is like slowly boiling water; the most dangerous thing is not the income itself, but the false sense of security it creates.

At the moment your salary arrives on time each month, your brain gradually adapts to certainty. Long-term immersion in this stability dulls your risk perception. You start to subconsciously avoid uncertainty, reject fluctuations, and shy away from opportunities that require taking a gamble. After staying in a completely controllable environment for a long time, even when facing market volatility, you instinctively withdraw.

The most frightening part of this psychological inertia is— it subtly weakens your risk tolerance.

Many people only wake up suddenly at age 35, feeling especially anxious. It's not that they earn less, but for the first time they truly realize: this stability is actually trapping them. When the world is changing and opportunities are emerging, they have already lost the courage to seize them. That anxiety is less a midlife crisis and more an awakening to being "tamed."

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DuckFluff

· 15h ago

The boiling frog has been saying this for so many years, and it really is like this. It's already too late to realize now.

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TokenAlchemist

· 15h ago

nah this is exactly why i got out of the 9-5 trap early... that risk atrophy thing? it's literally real, the data backs it up. once you're locked in the salary machine you lose the ability to spot inefficiency vectors in the market, can't even execute on asymmetric returns when they show up because your nervous system's been domesticated lol

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blockBoy

· 15h ago

Wow, that hits too close to home. Monthly salary really is like boiling a frog in warm water. By the time you realize you've been domesticated, it's already too late. That's why you need to shake things up—stability itself is the biggest risk.

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OPsychology

· 15h ago

That hit too close to home; the metaphor of boiling frogs in warm water is perfect. That's why I really regret staying in the comfort zone for too long now. Realizing this at 35 is a bit late; I need to start making moves early. A stable monthly salary = a security trap; this logic definitely holds up. Not making changes will really lead to stagnation, especially in a volatile field like Web3. I feel like I'm being gradually tamed, which is a bit terrifying.

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MysteryBoxBuster