[rover0]

Being in the team that created rust would look great on any CV. I think millionaire is reachable for many of them.

[varispeed]

Under the current framework, you cannot get wealthy off of salary. If you working a wage, then you are a corporate slave most of the time.

[seabrookmx]

I don't know what your definition of corporate slave is, but you can certainly become wealthy off a salary.

Just limiting to software engineering (there's other lucrative fields out there) you can easily make a six-figure income remotely. This gives you the freedom to live somewhere with very low cost of living. It's not hard to build wealth this way.

You could debate that getting the necessary skills to get a job like this is harder than it should be.. that corporations themselves are broken.. whatever your worldview is that's fine but "cannot get wealthy off salary" is just plain false.

[varispeed]

> This gives you the freedom to live somewhere with very low cost of living. It's not hard to build wealth this way.

This is quite contradictory and proves my point.

[staticassertion]

> Under the current framework, you cannot get wealthy off of salary.

You can make hundreds of thousands of dollars a year as an engineer, without even talking about stock. I'd call that wealthy. If you're an engineer of some stature, 7 figures TC yearly is not out of reach.

[rover0]

Agree, millionare is not wealthy.