Interview · moment 15 of 22
Security vs. Sacrifice and Deserving to Get Paid
from Heroism is a Solitary Thing · #85
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4 minGuest
Tim argues for balance between chasing a dream and eventually allowing yourself financial security, and insists that if you work hard and are good at comedy you deserve to be compensated, unlike people who bomb and waste people's time.
- 41:12Tim on people who live life only for security: they're missing it, but so are those who completely reject the idea of it.
- 42:01He has no problem with people treating themselves well if they work hard to make money, though he's not making a political statement about healthcare.
- 42:32Core principle: if you've worked your ass off to be good at something, you should get paid for it.
- 42:48Tim tells struggling comics in expensive cities to quit and do something else if comedy isn't working out, which makes some bitter people resent him.
- 43:24He rejects the idea that he only values comedy if it makes money—the real issue is that bad comics bombing waste people's time.
- 43:56The math: forty people watching a bad twenty-minute set equals eight hundred minutes of human time wasted by delusion.
- 44:08People accuse him of idolizing the rich, but he finds wealthy people interesting and talks about them—that's different from idolization.
- 44:27Tim's bottom line: if you're good at something, you should be compensated for it, whether or not you become a billionaire.
- 44:51Everyone who claims they don't like comfort or nice things is basically lying.