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I think you made a colossal error in long-term judgement.

That's what work is. Making money to live on. Everyone has to figure out a way to earn their bread. If you can earn a large pile in a 2-10 year burst of effort, hopefully not at unsustainable, perpetual crash program-effort, that's great. If not, feel free to work as long as you can until you can't. There is no reward or award for hard work, only captured value of results.

I tried the whole "purity in obscurity" vanlife thing. You still need money to live, and living comfortably is much better than cutting off your nose to spite your face in obscene austerity.

I forfeited $6 megabucks and regret it because it only required enduring a thick-headed buffoon for a few years.