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Living below my means doesn't mean I live like my neighbors. My house is roughly the same as everyone around me. The contents of the house are not (and they are
by icelancer 9y ago
Living below my means doesn't mean I live like my neighbors. My house is roughly the same as everyone around me. The contents of the house are not (and they are private), and yet I still live well below my means. I have a semi-nice TV, and more importantly, expensive computers like pretty much everyone on HN to do my job.
- vilmosi 9y ago[deleted]
- tylersmith 9y agoTheir entire point is that publicizing their salary eliminates that privacy by telling people their income. It's a proxy measurement. Even if all they have in the house is a can of beans, publicly making more than their neighbors puts a target on them.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- cisanti 9y agoBecause robbers tend to rob wealthy people? You get looted or shot more likely, because the robbers don't know this guy lives a humble life. They think this guy must have cash and big TV.
- icelancer 9y agoIf my (relatively high) salary is published, they'll be able to make inferences - crucially, it doesn't matter if they are correct or not.