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If Americans are temporarily embarrassed millionaires, then many of the good people on HN are temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires.
by joe463369 6y ago
If Americans are temporarily embarrassed millionaires, then many of the good people on HN are temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires.
- bradlys 6y agoSilicon Valley is full of millionaires who are temporarily embarrassed tech billionaires. Thus, why they come out in threads like this so wildly. Slow day at the home office - I guess. The amount of people I know with millions in assets but think they're poor and will someday be a billionaire is astounding. ("I just bought a nice vacation home in Lake Tahoe and a rental property in Santa Clara but I'm struggling with my little home in Palo Alto, you know? I barely have any money." - real example I've encountered multiple times) They're, of course, against wealth taxes. They are all convinced they're gonna be the next billionaire and that any taxes will absolutely destroy them in their path to ... whatever their destination is. (They don't even know - they all just want recognition)