Great comment. I was one of those people. I really don't know if I was filling some void or not. It started when my company was just a startup. I needed client

Great comment. I was one of those people. I really don't know if I was filling some void or not. It started when my company was just a startup. I needed clients, and most clients were bloody rich company owners. I had to fake I was one of them, after a lot of faking, I became one. I had to buy a new car every few months. I had boxes and boxes of clothes I used twice. I live 8 hours of flight away from NYC and I would travel there on weekends to buy clothes, cheesecakes of have lunch with "investors". Then the banking crisis came. We almost crashed, we managed to survive but the social pressure on us was so great that I burned out. I took some time off and went to Railsconf, going back to my programming roots. The last expensive car I have is actually being sold tomorrow. I was talking to my wife about living close to the office so I could just walk to work. After burning out I quit all managing roles in my company and I'm just a developer there. Thank god. PS: My sennheiser cost 59 bucks at best buy, this is not expensive at all. There are some 2k+ headphones around.