It sounds like you have easy access to money and have never been broke. Banks don't give "business loans" to poor people. The first question they ask is what kind of security or personal guarantee you can give and when the answer is "nothing", their answer is "no."

If you do manage to borrow money and things don't work out, you have to pay it back and that takes a long time when you're going back to the crappy income level you were trying to escape. It's not like Silicon Valley venture capital where you say sorry and get another bag of cash to try again.

> Also the cost per year is less relevant, if you earn more from selling domains every year. Only the difference is relevant (costs vs income).

Yeah, but the person with the money to start has 200+ domains and a (supposed) $1 million portfolio. The person who bought 1 domain using the same strategy might have a portfolio worth a few thousand dollars. They're not going to be writing a blog bragging about their portfolio or landing business deals because of the million dollar business they built.

The point I was trying to make is that if you take a rich person and a poor person with the exact same skill set and idea, the rich person will be viewed as being super successful (making a million dollars) while the poor person, although personally happy with the outcome, would be viewed as a loser if they make $10k and "waste" it on something like a reliable vehicle.

It's also a bit amusing to me that if a poor person wanted to start flipping domains using a 5 letter .com, like the person in the article, they'd have to buy the domain from a squatter.