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I live on $15k/year in silicon valley and consider at least 2/3 of my spending to be on luxury goods, so this is definitely possible. Why do I do it? Well, for one, I don't care to…

The cost of living analysis represents pampered first-world luxury living. Bare necessities are $5000/year per person. I live on 15k/year myself in the bay area, and I consider mys…

If you want an upper class lifestyle, say modest 3/2 1200 sq foot house in the peninsula, and want to support a wife that stays home with your kids, you'll likely never make enough…

it's nowhere close to 10x in practice. With no bureaucracy and complete control over your own work, perhaps the best are 3-5x better than the typical. In the bureaucratic bullshit …

the problem is that my satisfying activity would be beach sitting, margarita drinking, and orgy-having with hot women. Unfortunately, this life is far from income generating (quite…

Honestly the truth is that any startup that will pay you with options to compensate for a below market rate (either in salary or combined salary + cash bonus) is a scam and should …

The answer is simple. Read MMM and ERE. Save that big Silicon Valley paycheck and retire at 35 to spend the next 60 years doing whatever the fuck you want all day and laughing at t…

someone on HN believes in God? No judgments, I just thought hacker and atheist were deeply intertwined. Perhaps I just picked up the wrong impression from Reddit.