Sure, he's not Musk, Bezos or Zuckerberg levels of rich, but compared to average folk who need to work for a living till retirement, he's still very, VERY rich.
At the "probably safe FIRE rate", 4% interest: $2m -> $80,000 annually, while also preserving the $2m, accounting for inflation
Not if you live outside the US.
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I don't doubt he said that, especially when you're young, healthy and carefree you don't need much money. But being a millionaire doesn't hurt that feeling when you're no longer in your twenties and don't want to live with roommates anymore, since everyone can end up with unexpected illnesses or issues that can be made batter only by money.
I’m not sure this is true. I know plenty of miserable rich people. What is easy for someone who to look at a rich person and say “I’d certainly be happy if I had that money”.
Because those rich people are only driven by greed and don't know when to stop. They don't see money and and means to and end, but their life purpose is just being richer than the other rich people which is an exercise in futility, leading to misery. Kind of like the men who's life purpose is being an "alpha male".
Having more money doesn't make you more happy, but having a lack of money can definitely make you more unhappy.
Very few people get to that point and then choose happiness instead of ambition
- Daniel Tosh
So the etymology appears to be Skedaddle -> 23 Skidoo -> Ski-Doo -> Sea-Doo.
(Edit: I’m wrong! Wikipedia says the Ski-Doo was originally supposed to be called the “Ski-Dog”, but someone made a typo and they stuck with it! So much for my attempt to reconstruct a derivation!)
Jet Ski is also a trademark used by Kawasaki for their personal watercraft. It was designed by the same guy who designed the Sea-Doo for Bombardier.
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Water: The clear stuff that falls from the sky as rain. We drink it, wash with it, and it is in rivers, lakes, and the big blue parts of the world. It has no color, no taste, and no smell. Without it, people, animals, and plants cannot live.
Motorcycle: A road car that has two wheels instead of four. You sit on it, hold the handles, and move fast. It is smaller than a car and can go between other cars. You need to wear a hard head cover to stay safe.
Comedian: A person whose job is to make other people laugh by telling funny stories, jokes, or acting in a silly way. They often talk to groups of people and try to make them happy by being funny.
We have to remember that it is a choice.
The kind of money he has ruins the personal lives of so many people. I've heard him speak a few times and he's been happily married, happily taking care of his dogs, and just spreading joy and enthusiasm wherever he goes for years and years now. That doesn't require a lot of money at all.
I worked at Fusion-io and he was sort of an employee there early on. We opened a tiny office in San Jose and he sat there and basically worked as a receptionist at that office for a while, just happily greeting people as they came and went. He's just a chill dude without pretension.
How many people as percentage from the wealthy people are really unhappy and not just saying so because of (insert here guilt, peer pressure, fear of losing it all …)
How many people as percentage from the poor people are happy (and not just saying so because they are trying to cope mentally with their helplessness situation)
And I know that all this points to mindset.
So lets ask the real question: On average how easy (as in having time, access, …) is to fix your mindset (whatever that fix is) when you are healthy or poor?
In other words, he was a kind soul before the money and the success. The money and the success did not change him, but in fact, amplified his generosity and other good qualities. And to this day he remains a warm charismatic pioneer of Silicon Valley.
Jobs, on the other hand, boy that guy was selfish to the bone, and though he was not as money hungry as other CEOs, the success really amplified his ugliest traits that allowed him to treat people as disposable including his own friend Wozniak.
Worst thing he ever did, if you ask me, was deny his daughter Lisa even when he had the means to give her mother and his daughter a better life. He seemed spiteful in principle. I understand being skeptical at first about being alleged as the father of a kid, especially while you're trying to make it early on in your career, but after the paternity test proves you're the dad, and you have the means to provide, and you still don't then you are trash.
I think almost anyone would have ignored it, but he decided to at least try to fix it by filing a lawsuit on behalf of victims. I think the lawsuit ended up getting stuck since the scam relies on shady ads on YouTube. But I thought it was cool that at least he tried arguing that it is weird that scammers can make ads that impersonate others and it takes quite a while for them to get taken down.
Don't most young people start life this way?
It's the influences of time spent in the rat race and a society fighting for scraps that beats it out of us.
I find those who struck it rich early and still turned out assholes more noteworthy.
So sometimes it's the opposite, you start out needy and the 'rat race' actually brings you to a more abundant world-view :)
Being kind to others costs something, the wealthy can inherently afford it.
When they're still assholes it seems dysfunctional to me, like these folks are actively aspiring to be jerks.
What a strange path to choose, when you have so many options at your disposal.
“Whereas” can be used at the start of a sentence to introduce two contrasting clauses - in this case the first being his own statement, and the second being my rather more cynical money-based reasoning for his continuing wonderful personality.