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>stay-poor scheme Poor? Really? We make a great living, none of us are poor. We are very well off and you don't need a winning lotto ticket to grow your wealth

>stay-poor scheme Poor? Really? We make a great living, none of us are poor. We are very well off and you don't need a winning lotto ticket to grow your wealth outside of your salary.

intellectronica 8y ago
You are absolutely right, "poor" only relatively. If you have a job hacking software you are probably not poor in any objective sense.
chii 8y ago
Poor is where you must work to maintain your lifestyle. Rich is where your money makes you enough money to a point where you need not work to maintain your lifestyle (but can choose to).
- travem 8y ago
  That's not a common definition of poor. This is one that would be more in line with typical use: > Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society. From https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/poor https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/poor
- EpicEng 8y ago
  >Poor is where you must work to maintain your lifestyle. Said no one ever. That's almost insulting to people who have actual financial problems.
- dasil003 8y ago
  This is the most Silicon Valley thing I’ve ever read and it makes me sad how far we’ve come from the pure joy of hacking.
nickrivadeneira 8y ago
> We make a great living Assuming "we" are all engineers. There's no reference to role in the article or comment you're replying to, so I don't think that can be assumed. There are plenty of low wage jobs at startups.
- EpicEng 8y ago
  In the article, sure. I assume that because we're by a large a bunch of engineers, many of whom work at startups. If the frame of reference is "anyone" then I still don't get the argument. What percentage of jobs out there are lottery tickets? A tiny, tiny fraction. So what's the advice from the GP; everyone should try to work in some unicorn startup in hopes of getting rich?

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>stay-poor scheme Poor? Really? We make a great living, none of us are poor. We are very well off and you don't need a winning lotto ticket to grow your wealth

by EpicEng 8y ago

>stay-poor scheme Poor? Really? We make a great living, none of us are poor. We are very well off and you don't need a winning lotto ticket to grow your wealth outside of your salary.

intellectronica 8y ago
You are absolutely right, "poor" only relatively. If you have a job hacking software you are probably not poor in any objective sense.
chii 8y ago
Poor is where you must work to maintain your lifestyle. Rich is where your money makes you enough money to a point where you need not work to maintain your lifestyle (but can choose to).
- travem 8y ago
  That's not a common definition of poor. This is one that would be more in line with typical use: > Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society. From https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/poor https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/poor
- EpicEng 8y ago
  >Poor is where you must work to maintain your lifestyle. Said no one ever. That's almost insulting to people who have actual financial problems.
- dasil003 8y ago
  This is the most Silicon Valley thing I’ve ever read and it makes me sad how far we’ve come from the pure joy of hacking.
nickrivadeneira 8y ago
> We make a great living Assuming "we" are all engineers. There's no reference to role in the article or comment you're replying to, so I don't think that can be assumed. There are plenty of low wage jobs at startups.
- EpicEng 8y ago
  In the article, sure. I assume that because we're by a large a bunch of engineers, many of whom work at startups. If the frame of reference is "anyone" then I still don't get the argument. What percentage of jobs out there are lottery tickets? A tiny, tiny fraction. So what's the advice from the GP; everyone should try to work in some unicorn startup in hopes of getting rich?