[TrentLarr]

I'm a beneficiary of the "startup lottery". I am living the dream, and I state that in this anonymous forum to provide perspective to my own feelings about The Rich.

In your early thirties twenties, managed effectively, one million dollars is enough to retire on, and live care-free. Two million dollars is enough to live well. Six million dollars is enough to retire on extremely well. Ten million dollars is disgusting. Twenty is obscene. A hundred should be criminal.

Thirteen million dollars is excessive, for sure, but that's not the kind of awful, powerful wealth that is the root of problems in our society.

[tptacek]

The whole company was worth whatever it was worth (I don't remember). I was just the loudest partner there.

[busterarm]

I guess everyone who ever had the means to create an endowment for a school is a criminal, then.

A hundred million dollars is a very powerful tool in the right hands. To suggest that having such means should be criminalized is farcical.

[TrentLarr]

> I guess everyone who ever had the means to create an endowment for a school is a criminal, then.

Yes. That money should have been fairly balanced to the education system before it ever entered the robber baron's hands.