Being lectured by millionaires -

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11. Hatip to Petrus, he posted it in GD in a thread about the NYT article. :)

I read some of the comments on the Gawker blog, and the were split between the "you must be jealous of this guy's genius" (snarf) and ones by people who were grateful that someone had crafted a rejoinder to the fatuous bullshit.

Someone else pointed out that the NYTimes comments on the original article were split by class. The regular comments showed people saying "fuck this guy" while the comment promoted by the NYTimes had people agreeing and saying things like "oh yes, life became so much simpler when I moved my family to France."

My partner and I know a few folks like Graham Hill who have wealth from tech. Trying to have conversations with them is surreal. They just can't imagine having less than 10,000 a month--that's their floor amount. They seem to think that some of us decided to make much less out of some bohemian quirk.