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[quote=Anonymous]FWIW, I have an elite educational background, both undergrad and Ivy professional school.  Moreover, I had a privileged upbringing.  In fact, I was so accustomed to money growing on trees that I didn't even recognize that it doesn't (I don't have a trust fund).  I now earn about $400k, and at this level, all I do is look around at the others with a similar top-tier educational background who are law firm partners or private equity or hedge fund financiers, or at least specialist physicians at top hospitals with excellent job security and pay, who I went to schools with, and wonder why I didn't try to do what they do.  They earn multiples of what I earn, and it bothers me, and it is my own doing.

But here is the thing.  Someone I know with a net worth of a half billion or so actually explained to me that the coveting never stops.  He was honestly explaining that there's always a tier above, and a tier above that, and you will want it, and at some point, somehow, you have to make peace with what you've done and where you are.  This guy felt powerfully that he still wanted more and hadn't earned enough, but to his credit recognized the pathology at work.
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