Comment by mrandish
2 months ago
> One big piece of advice I have is to try to avoid letting others in your social network know exactly how successful you’ve been.
Having lived through this arc myself, this is excellent advice. While the most enlightened/mature people have no problem just being happy for you, this still leaves a lot people for who a significant disparity in wealth/success becomes a problem. It ends up impacting the nature of your relationship with them in subtle but significant ways and it can be very hard to get past. I've found it's just better to avoid the issue by being as stealth as possible about wealth (while still being honest and true to yourself).
Or, stop being friends with those people?
I'm good friends with some very rich people. Everyone knows they have money. They learned how to say no, and how to let go of people who just want to milk them for cash.
Or alternatively it can be the start of a feud/rivalry with the "envious" , and I mean not at the political level but at the human to human level.
Might seem counterproductive or even "toxic" but it's sure better than the nihlism that the author is expressing.
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