> I suspect the jump from "Nazis might kill me" to "poor in America was roughly the same jump as "poor in America to working in technology" From personal expe

> I suspect the jump from "Nazis might kill me" to "poor in America was roughly the same jump as "poor in America to working in technology" From personal experience, the first was _far greater_. To quote my brother (who became quite successful as well), I'd rather clean streets in US than live in former USSR again. Being poor in America is by no means pleasant, but the change from being middle-class but 1) from a wrong ethnic group 2) (in my personal case) with a heavily individualistic orientation in former USSR was _far_ worse (one word: "conscription").