How I got wealthy without working too hard

The feeling I get from reading the article is that the author felt the need to apologize because of the current social climate, and not for some real reason.

He wasn't born into a rich family and inherited wealth, he simply studied, worked, spent less than he made and invested the difference.

The apology basically boils down to being born in a relatively okay country and being smart.

> Preamble: I'm extremely lucky. ... So what you're going to read is 99% luck and 1% planets alignment.

We are all extremely lucky. We are just too cowards to move to Nigeria or South Africa or Ethiopia or El Salvador to cash out on this super luck that we had.

Reasons are health infrastructure, being far from parents and family, fear of violence, fear of diseases.

They are all valid. But by the same token there is an element of cowardness about looking at prices of stuff in foreign countries on Numbeo.com, calculate the churn rate and never actually act upon such thought.

Arrange your affairs to be a big fish in a small pond, if we don't make the mental leap we will never do it, because no matter how much you have there's always gonna be a bigger pond or a largest challenge.

It's a form of mental rumination I think, looking at people like Gates and Bezos...they have it in full swing.

They could own the universe and there is once in a billion chance of multiverses and they'd keep working to make sure they take on the new challanges that those multiverses represent

> "Meetings are the mind-killer"

Could not agree more. They're big-corp specific and if you can avoid them - that would be a big plus for you. I can't. They lack value while being a complete waste of time. You may think it's no biggie - "but I'm getting paid for the meetig time".

True, however - they can wear you down in time, if three-four times a day... and you are still expected to deliver, regardless the time spent in meetings.

That's only my oppinion, I know some folks are fine with long meetings. My view on this is - I am not an entertainer (aka meetings "super-star"), I would like to keep it short & to the point.

Regarding the article, there is some good stuff in there, that may or may not apply to everyone (especially if you have kids).

This sounds like it's specific to a particular market (and that market is the USA). My experience has been that being an employee (in the UK) resulted in significantly more taxes than being self-employed. Europeans almost never have comparable healthcare costs to the USA, so that part isn't universally true either.

You can't get struck by lightning unless you out walking in the thunderstorm