People with money have nice things. I don't think anybody is surprised by this. DHH is also someone that people want to follow, whether for Rails, or business, or whatever. It's not necessarily bragging. I don't know much of anything about DHH's personality, so maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

But come on, the dude is loaded. Is he supposed to move his desk to the other side of the room so that people don't carp on him for "bragging?"