> I’ve done this. I had lots of fun—everyone, from the CEO down, was crunching—and became financially independent after it. OK, but this doesn't seem relevant

> I’ve done this. I had lots of fun—everyone, from the CEO down, was crunching—and became financially independent after it. OK, but this doesn't seem relevant to the situations Twitter's (former, in many cases) employees are in at all. There's no quick path to financial independence working at Musk's Twitter--the company is losing money faster than it was when it was public, Musk is cutting costs everywhere, and there are well-documented instances of employees being shown the door after sleeping on the floor. In general, I'm pretty sure that in the vast majority of cases, people who sleep on the floor at the office do not end up financially independent for it.