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Your answer makes sense for me only if your boss is Elon. For all the other companies fixing a bug has opportunity cost, they pick what to spend their resource

• godelski 18d ago
  > Your answer makes sense for me only if your boss is Elon. What about for everyone that works for a big tech company. The same still applies. I know I picked very big numbers, but let's be honest, a more "modest" $50m and you have everything you could ask for. Put that in a safe 5% earning account and you're making $2.5m/yr, sitting on your ass doing nothing. Good luck spending all that in a year, consistently. There's nearly nothing out of reach. There's far more people whose bosses are richer than that. But I think the problem is people don't understand what these levels of wealth actually mean. Money works differently at that level as it becomes harder to spend it faster than you earn it. Even those get in big tech jobs aren't living at those levels. Clearly these people are addicted to something other than money. No billionaire actually cares about money. The money is a proxy