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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by cowlevel on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:01AM (#50421613)
The airport was just an example. You simply can't do normal people things.

I might not like airport lines but I'd hate to be forbidden from going through that process. I also couldn't just walk down the street to get a pizza. Or go out dancing at night. Or to play board games. Or take a random walk or bike ride around the city. If I was rich and everyone knew it, I'd have to live in a bubble.

That's different from "comfortable rich" where you own your own home and a retirement fund and live mostly normally.

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by bathtub365 on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:06AM (#50421651)
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Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by gizajob on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:31AM (#50421845)
You reckon that if the Concorde was still in existence then all the tech billionaires would be avoiding it? I doubt it.
Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by hnfong on Monday November 09, 2026 @02:40AM (#50422352)
> I also couldn't just walk down the street to get a pizza.

Well, not necessarily. Jensen Huang was famous for going to random food stalls in Taiwan and eating street food.

It might be harder and riskier, and I get what you mean, but it's not like you actually can't do those things.

Also maybe it's not necessarily a billionaire thing, but more like a fame thing. Billionaires tend to get famous just due to being rich, but I'd imagine a random person wouldn't recognize 80+% of the people on the billionaire list if they saw the billionaire chomping down a pizza in the local pizza place.

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by bee_rider on Monday November 09, 2026 @10:53AM (#50427261)
I think he probably could do normal things outside of major tech hubs. He isn’t famous for his face, like an actor.

If asked he could say he works for a company that makes some computer part.

“Are they well known?”

“Kinda, but mostly datacenters buy them, you probably don’t own one.”

Re:Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair by NetMageSCW on Monday November 09, 2026 @01:57PM (#50429927)
Keanu Reeves famously rides the subway. You don’t have to isolate yourself.