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Re:Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @12:30PM (#35442220)
Your benchmark was Rich. Rich is a relative term, it means more money that everyone else.

If everyone owns 5 houses, to be rich you have to own 500

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Re:Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses by JamesBarney on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @07:27PM (#35447218)
The status is zero sum, wealth is not. We all live in bigger houses with more amenities and greater food security than our ancestors.
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Re:Entrepreneurs who regret starting businesses by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @03:09AM (#35450444)
If you compare to peasants who lived 100 years ago, sure. But go back two generations, and as inequality has risen swaths of people have fallen into property.
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