If "make $500k+/year" means $200k in cash and the rest in options, their cash flow situation might be more strained than their paper net worth suggests. Also, h

If "make $500k+/year" means $200k in cash and the rest in options, their cash flow situation might be more strained than their paper net worth suggests. Also, high income does not necessarily correlate with frugality. Or they may be spending it on private schools for two kids. And people complain about prices, but that does not necessarily mean that it really affects them, or even that they think it materially affects them. Being nickled and dimed for software all the time is just as annoying if you are Warren Buffet or just graduated, and both with kvetch about it. Warren could gift me 100 A-shares, and I'd still kvetch about subscription prices (while knowing full-well it would have no material effect).