There are other things to optimize, and Less Wrong would cheerfully endorse your optimizing for some combination of:
Someone needs to do those things that the high-earning people are paying for, and if you don't think you'd be happy with an earnings-optimized career, you might be that person.
I've been wondering what effect joining lesswrong and reading the sequences has on people.
How has lesswrong changed your life?
What have you done differently?
What have you done?