Some people, when you say “you know it’s possible to get by without a car”, take it as a personal affront. No amount of evidence is sufficient. Any evidence provided is disregarded as “sure maybe for you but real people can’t possibly live in such a weird way”.
The person you’re responding to is one of those people. Don’t waste your time.
I had a lucky exit and no longer need to work. I now only consider working on something if it could increase my net worth by an order of magnitude or so — because if it won’t make me a billionaire why bother working?
I’d rather do art or open source or go fishing.
(That’s not quite what you asked but I don’t know how many actual billionaires will read your comment so figured I’d chime in — to me it doesn’t seem unreasonable that calling wealth would change what people work on and how much they produce.)
> Cue articles like this one [1], which shows just how out of touch the wealthy can be
Cue comments like these that show just how out of touch people can be I guess.
These people are not meaningfully wealthy. They have no more power than the next 5% down the ladder. Even among the top 1%, 90% are not meaningfully wealthy in terms of the power they can exert.
The idea that some poor bozo with a mortgage on an $800k house is wealthy for any useful definition of the term is nonsense.
What part of the world? In the US at least this experience would only apply to a business owner that was getting absolutely fleeced by their processor.
The person you’re responding to is one of those people. Don’t waste your time.