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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My brother is much dumber than me and quite rich (in sales). I got rich the smart way (law) and he’s definitely winning. [/quote]

Meh.

Getting rich the smart way is tech, not law.

I am not sure why lawyers think they are very smart.[/quote]

LOL! As a lawyer with tech clients, I assure you they're a bunch of dumb dumbs. Which is why so many lost their shirts (and others their freedom) in obvious scams like crypto and NFTs. [/quote]

No that’s the brogrammers — jocks and waspy crew who used to stream into IB and Wall Street. Tech is where the best rent-seeking is, but these are not smart people.

The actual techies, who design the algorithm that run ML, scale databases, etc are probably pretty smart but often didn’t prioritize income over working on cool tech and innovation — they congregate on Hacker News and ridicule crypto and NFTs constantly.

I was sorta smart techie, and I had no desire to be rich or have much money (I was a little bit of a minimalist hippie, going car free etc nonsense) until I got married and then HOLY F is money important esp with kids, but it’s harder to pivot when you are already knee deep in working on astronomy software for NASA. [/quote]

DH was a programmer then realized he needed more money for a family… now he’s a lawyer. [/quote]

BTW I was pretty stubborn in my bohemian ways — I imagined us living in apartment with the kids, learning to take the metro everywhere as urban kids, not even having a car.

Only once we had kids in elementary school did we realize how isolated that would be — all the families move out ti suburbs where they can afford a house or at least a townhouse. People don’t want to visit because parking is a pain (because they all drive), etc. and buying groceries for a family of 4 got exhausting by granny cart. If you don’t want to be outcast you need to earn enough to live well where you are, your kids will suffer if you are the “modest minimalist” bohemians. [/quote]

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