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Originally Posted by Atlantis1
I am not sure if I agree. Possibly his right-now EV is higher than his future EV, like many people. However, poker is a chance for a lot of people to earn a lot of money, so they won't have to work a normal job in the future/work less in the future. So all and all I think grinding full time for a few years in order to be semi-set for life, for those who have the ability to, is the best thing.
It's a complex issue.
You could have guys that really lose a lot of social skills and development by not doing anything other than working (whether it's poker or finance or anything else that can be quite isolating), and that could set them back far more than any money they gained over a few years.
There are also guys that have said this in online poker since 2005, "poker will only last a bit, so I better do nothing except play." Burnout can happen easily, other areas of your life can suffer.
That's not to say that your opinion is wrong, I would imagine that neither side is right or wrong, it's really not a question that can be answered in a certain manner when we're talking about a large group of people (it depends on the individual situations, so many variables that can go either way).