If you accept a job that’s your market value. If you think you’re worth more, get a higher paying job. Or don’t and pretend that you were squeezed into working for under market value.
The guy employed people for 40 years. Not the worst thing in the world.
Not everybody values the same stuff. Some people like what other people call work. Some people don’t need friends.
> Is he a success just because he accumulated 3x the capital he set out to when he started his business at 20 years old?
If at 20 years old he said his goal was to accumulate 3x the capital before he dies, then I couldn’t argue that by his definition of success, he succeeded.
Hopefully he doesn’t care if I think he’s a success.
> Then dies suddenly alone
We all die suddenly and alone. We’re alive and then we’re dead. Nobody comes with us.
> Would that be a success by most people's standards?
Who cares what most people think?