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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 reckon the implication is that the titles are different in a way that changes the flavor of the report substantially.

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.

It’s $5. Can you imagine it remaining supported in 5 years?