Re:What I gained, lost and learned while working for Microsoft
by jpatokal on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:19AM
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Lavish and impressive is also relative. Your original statement about "these things are all rather unimpressive to those that actually have them within reach" is tautological: having a yacht with a helipad is not going to be particularly impressive to anyone else docked next to me in St Tropez, even if it puts all of us in the global 0.01%.
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Re:What I gained, lost and learned while working for Microsoft
by hamburglar on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:25AM
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I think there's a subtlety in my point that you're missing. When you can just barely manage a yacht with a helipad, you're impressed with yourself for being that successful. When you can comfortably afford it, you cease to consider it something to boast about.
But yes, your point is valid: it's all relative.