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by ssalenik 3837 days ago
> I'd rather be poor today than rich twenty years ago.

This makes it sound like rich people 20 years ago had it pretty bad... What did technology add to their lives aside from convenience?

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Nothing so drastic. I'm saying that if I had to be 30 and rich 20 years ago or 30 and poor today, I'd pick the latter.

Some days I feel like I've won the 'history lottery'. Right age at the right time in the right country.

I'm not certain I would choose the same thing twenty years from now. I think the essential reason why I would make that choice today isn't going to be all that much more compelling in the future, meaning the money is going to play a bigger role.

All-in-all, I think we vastly underestimate what the Internet has done for us. Like by a factor of millions.