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by avindroth 1639 days ago
This is why people don’t want to talk about money
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There is little point in discussing money and using yourself as an example when you are extremely well off.

Congrats to OP for having a lot of money in the bank, but there is nothing special or unique about their advice. It's the usual invest your money, don't spend too much, try to get into a top company, etc.

Even for someone in a similar situation, there is very little here that I haven't seen repeated elsewhere countless times.

I highly doubt this is just about quality of his advice. Look at all these comments, and the salt.

Remove a zero from his salaries, and the response would have been very different.

Remove a zero and the story becomes fiction. That's the point of pointing out the luck and privilege of their position.
The comments on this post in general, I completely agree. The top level comment in this thread doesn't seem salty though.