Post number 3 is spot on. As a 45 year old every high paid tech person I’ve worked with has treated it like a license to burn through their income with a blowtorch.
Let’s buy two houses and take out an equity loan against the first home to fund my startup company investments and start my own micro brew business on the side and order every single meal through Uber eats rewards programs. #ImSoAwesomeImSmarterThanYouBro. Who doesn’t drive a $120,000 Tesla X and boast how much money they save driving it .....what a has been you are bro......
Too many wanna be tech bro elitist wannabes. We witnessed the generation before (mostly) run a full career to retirement and if they over spent well they could make it up in their next 15 years of earnings.
The biggest technology threat they had was the companies competitors and products. Now we have to worry about planet Amazon AWS. AmazonShippingGroceryInfotechDogWalkingGrassCuttIngClothingPr-scrip-ionAndReplaceYouWithOverseasWorkers Company.
Hold onto your money a little bit people don’t assume as American workers things only get bigger and brighter and fatter and richer - we may have witnessed the last decades of that and we thought it was normal.
100 years ago one of your immediate ancestors here in the USA was probably beat up in front of the company and not paid for two weeks because he worked a 15.5 hour day and not 16 hours. Seems our idea of work and wages is headed back to those dark ages.