> is a bunch of hollow "cope" that people in the middle tell each other in order to not be so envious of the people who made it big I’m not sure how it’s a cop

> is a bunch of hollow "cope" that people in the middle tell each other in order to not be so envious of the people who made it big I’m not sure how it’s a cope. I like my job, I get to play with cool tech. I have an awesome 2m dollar house, decent car. My family is great, i’ve got a million bucks in the bank. Would I be happier if I had a four million dollar house and a GT3? Maybe marginally, and I can imagine a world in which I was an L7 at FAANG instead of a top of band L5. But I wouldn’t trade more money for just any job for sure. I have a close friend who was making 7 figures as an exec at a F500, and he hated it. He quit before 2 years. Now he already had a few mill in the bank from a startup exit, but more money and prestige wasn’t worth misery.