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This is why people don’t want to talk about money

There is little point in discussing money and using yourself as an example when you are extremely well off.

Congrats to OP for having a lot of money in the bank, but there is nothing special or unique about their advice. It's the usual invest your money, don't spend too much, try to get into a top company, etc.

Even for someone in a similar situation, there is very little here that I haven't seen repeated elsewhere countless times.

I highly doubt this is just about quality of his advice. Look at all these comments, and the salt.

Remove a zero from his salaries, and the response would have been very different.

The comments on this post in general, I completely agree. The top level comment in this thread doesn't seem salty though.

Remove a zero and the story becomes fiction. That's the point of pointing out the luck and privilege of their position.

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