French economist scours spreadsheets to find secret offshore accounts

Re:French economist scours spreadsheets to find secret offsh... by herennow88 on Thursday May 23, 2019 @09:33PM (#19997716)

You’re ignoring the boring but more important human aspect for abstraction: he was capable of getting such a job once and was well connected to a couple dozen people that could toss $50k/each at him on a pipe dream.

If it failed, he would have had plenty of options relative to the average worker.

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Re:French economist scours spreadsheets to find secret offsh... by mrep on Thursday May 23, 2019 @11:13PM (#19998164)

And he lost out on hundreds of thousands of dollars of real income while pursuing said startup. In his case, the stock that he created ended up being worth way more but for 90% of companies, that stock will be worth nothing.

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