Comment by pavel_lishin

2 days ago

Yes, yes, we're all temporarily-displaced millionaires.

You surely won't become one by griping about the unfairness of other people's success to a bunch of strangers.

500k new millionaires in 2023 in the US. Why can't you be one of them in a coming year?

  • > 500k new millionaires in 2023 in the US. Why can't you be one of them in a coming year?

    I know it's a rhetorical question, but the actual answer is "because I feel like it would require more work than it would be worth".

    Of course, all the millionaires I personally know got there through 95% luck, so who knows! Maybe I'll personally be cursed to follow their path.

  • That's about forty times my annual salary, ignoring expenses. Living like a miser for my entire working life, I could become a millionaire – though not a multimillionaire.