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As an employee you have fairly little to lose if you play your cards right. That's the benefit of the employer-employee relationship and being compensated primarily in wages.

So my advice is to ride the bubble because the inflated salaries and other compensation are good for you, but be mindful of what might happen if the bubble pops. If it's bad enough, you might be left unemployed with very few job prospects for a period of time. Don't inflate your lifestyle, and use the opportunity to build up a large savings account. If the bubble pops, that'll tide you over for a long period of unemployment until the job market recovers or give you breathing room where you can pivot your career.

If all this talk about bubbles turns out to be just fear-mongering and it doesn't pop in the end, it's still money in your pocket you can use to bootstrap your own company or eventually retire on.

The worst things to do are to spend all the money you have, or invest it in bubbled assets that might evaporate.




It must be in the valley that there is 'inflated salaries'.

Around mid-atlantic salaries never recovered from the economic downturn, and they show no sign of ever doing so.


I'm giving advice for a scenario where salaries are inflated due to a bubble. For the record, I'm not in the valley either.




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