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> Warren Buffet still lives in the same smallish house he bought in the 60s.

50s, not 60s. And it's a bad counterexample. Warren Buffett is 93 years old. (Or to put it another way, Warren Buffett is old enough to have bought a house in the 50s. I'm discussing the differences between then and now: people who _might_ be 50, but definitely weren't alive in the 50s, let alone buying a house.)

There's certainly a cultural divide between industries, but I don't see frugality showing up in the discrepancies. I don't live in the Bay Area, and most people in my sphere of acquaintances who live on the middle-class+ plane aren't getting paid to write software (or trying to) let alone chasing VC money, and none of the people that I interact with most frequently are. (Anecdotally, the software people actually seem more willing to voice positions that align with frugality. Developers are notorious for not wanting to pay for tools, for example.)

> Tadao had somewhat of a reputation as a frugal man. He hated seeing things go to waste. And he couldn’t shake off the frustration of the coffee. “If only there was a way I could buy and carry my coffee with me…” he reasoned.¶ Fate couldn’t have chosen a better person for this encounter.¶ Tadao Ueshima was the CEO of UCC Coffee

Does this still exist? It seems like most people I know who break into even slightly high earnings and attain some level of affluence are in it primarily for the appearances associated with affluence—signalling that they're above thinking about stuff like this.

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